Kevin D. Murphy
Professor of 19th- and 20th-Century European and
American Architecture and Theory

PhD, Northwestern University, 1992

kmurphy@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Kevin D. Murphy has written on historicism in the United States and France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as on American material culture. His work has considered the variety of expressions of historicism in historic preservation projects, in the representation of medieval architecture in modernist painting, and in architectural historiography. He has written on French architect and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, on the Colonial Revival in the United States, and on the historiography of early American architecture. He is currently researching a book that will use the figure of Lafayette as a starting point for a consideration of memorializing republics in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Professor Murphy also taught in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He has held Fulbright, Chateaubriand, and National Gallery of Art fellowships, a Graham Foundation grant, and has been Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Publications:

Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture and Community on the Eastern Frontier. Amherst: UMass Press, 2010.

The Houses of Greenwich Village. New York: Abrams, 2008.

The American Townhouse. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

Colonial Revival Maine. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.

Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay. University Park: Penn State Press, 2000.

Edited with Sarah Giffen. A Noble and Dignified Stream: The Piscataqua Region in the Colonial Revival, 1860-1930. York, Maine:Old York Historical Society, 1992. Winner of the Ruth Emery Award for Nineteenth-Century Studies.

"The Historic Building in the Modernized City: The Cathedrals of Paris and Rouen in the Nineteenth Century." Journal of Urban History (forthcoming).

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