Associate Professor; American Material Culture, HAA Diversity & Inclusion Committee
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| moorewd@bu.edu | Tues 2:00 – 3:30PM and Thurs 10:30AM – 12:00PM (in person) and by appointment, with notice (zoom) |
William D. Moore holds a joint appointment between the Department of History of Art & 体系结构 and the American & New England Studies Program. An interdisciplinary American Studies scholar, he has specialties in material culture, the built environment, and cultural history.
He holds an A.B. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the American & New England Studies Program at Boston University. He researches, lectures, and publishes on vernacular architecture, folk art, American fraternalism, public history, the interpretation of historic sites, and the history of surfing. He is the author of Shaker Fever: America’s Twentieth Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) and Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual 体系结构, and Masculine Archetypes (University of Tennessee Press, 2006). He has contributed numerous articles to exhibition catalogs, books, and scholarly journals. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Winterthur Portfolio and Buildings & Landscapes.
He is currently working on a book on the architecture of Cape Cod and its adjacent islands which will be published by the University of Virginia Press as part of the Society of Architectural Historians’ “Buildings of the United States” series.
Selected Publications
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Shaker Fever: America’s 20th Century Fascination with a Communitarian, Celibate Sect. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020 |
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“Solomon’s Temple in America: Masonic 体系结构, Popular Culture, and Biblical Imagery, 1865-1930,” |
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Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual 体系结构, and Masculine Archetypes. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Paperback edition released 2014. |