Stanford University, PhD, 1995
A native of Portland, Keith Eggener received his PhD in art history from Stanford University. Before joining the University of Oregon in 2013, he taught modern architecture and American art at Carleton College, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and the University of Missouri. He is the author of two books, Luis Barragán's Gardens of El Pedregal and Cemeteries (part of a series from the US Library of Congress), and numerous articles and book chapters on Mexican and U.S. art, architecture, landscape, urban design, and material culture. He also edited the collection American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader and has been on the editorial staffs of the 60-volume Buildings of the United States series, AMSJ: American Studies Journal, and the online journal Places, for which he is a columnist. Currently, he is editor-in-chief for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Ongoing projects include a monograph on the early 20th century Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss and a collection of essays on built environments of the American Midwest.
Publications
CemeteriesNorton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design and Engineering.
New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2010
American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader
London: Routledge, 2004
Selected Courses Taught
ARH 300 ARH 315 ARH 399 ARH 399 ARH 399 ARH 4|510 ARH 4|562 ARH 4|510 ARH 464|564 ARH 465|565 ARH 466|566 ARH 607|609 ARH 607 | Critical Approaches to Art History History of World Architecture II: 1400 to Now American Art in the 19th Century Cities in the Western Imagination Art, Architecture, and Identity in 20th C. Latin America 19th Century Architecture 20th Century Architecture: Architecture and Modernity Contemporary World Architecture (1960 to present) American Architecture I (16th-18th Centuries) American Architecture II (19th Century) American Architecture III (20th Century) Memory and Forgetting Truths and Lies |
