Max Page

Department of Art
University of Massachusetts, 151 Presidents Dr., Office 1, Amherst, MA 01003-9330

413-545-6952 office
mpage@art.umass.edu

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Academic Positions

  • Guggenheim Fellow ; 2003-04

  • Associate Professor of Architecture and History, University of Sept. 2001 - Massachusetts at Amherst. Tenured in 2003.

  • Visiting Professor, Department of History, Yale University    1999 - 2001  

  • Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor, University of Nottingham, 1998-1999

  • School of American and Canadian Studies   

  • Assistant Professor of History and Director, Heritage Preservation Program, Georgia State University  1996-1999  

  • Lecturer, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania 1995-96   

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in History   1995

Dissertation: "The Creative Destruction of New York City: Landscape,

Memory, and the Politics of Place, 1900-1930."  

Dissertation Committee:   Professor Michael Katz (History), primary adviser; Professor Bruce Kuklick (History); Professor Anne Spirn (Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning); Professor David De Long (Architecture and Historic Preservation)

Yale University   May 1988

B.A. magna cum laude   in History with distinction in the major. Senior essay, under the direction of Professor William Cronon, examined the design of public parks in late nineteenth-century Minneapolis and St. Louis.

Harvard University Summer 1991  

Graduate School of Design, summer architectural design program.  

HONORS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship   2003

  • Graham Foundation Publication Grant 2002

  • Healey Faculty Research Award, University of Massachusetts 2002-03

  • The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship 2002

  • Spiro Kostof Award, Society of Architectural Historians 2001

  • Delmas Fellowship, New-York Historical Society   2001

  • Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship, University of Nottingham 1998-99

  • Furthermore/Kaplan Fund , Publishing Grants 1998 and 2002

  • Georgia State University, Research Initiation Grant 1997-98

  • Urban History Association Best Dissertation Prize for 1995   1997

  • History Undergraduate Advisory Board Teaching Prize, University of Pennsylvania  1996

  • Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship 1994-95

  • Oral Examination passed with Distinction, University of Pennsylvania  1993

  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Pennsylvania  1992

  • New York City Urban Fellows Program 1988-1989 Fellowship with New York City government.   Served as assistant to the director of homeless shelters for single adults.   Developed programs to assist homeless clients, including: workshops on tenants' rights for clients leaving shelters for permanent housing, study of single room occupancy hotels, aid in reunification of mothers with children in foster care.

  • Yale Club of Princeton Prize, Yale University Summer 1987 Prize funded travel to West Berlin to study the International Building Exhibition, a model low-income housing program.

  • Richter Summer Traveling Fellowship, Yale University   Summer 1988   Fellowship supported travel to New York City, Phoenix, and Minneapolis to research the use of the mutual housing association model as a method of developing low-income housing.

  • John Nicholas Prize for Scholarship and Character, Yale University May 1988


EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC HISTORY WORK

  • New-York Historical Society June 2003 -
    Curator, Times Square Centennial Exhibition, due to open December 2004

  • Amherst Historical Commission 2001 - present
    Member of town commission with the duty to protect the town’s historic
    resources, including monitoring development in the town’s nine historic districts.

  • People’s Light and Theater Company, Malvern, PA 2002 -2003
    Historical consultant to professional theater company, as part of a
    Pennsylvania Humanities grant to support a season of American plays.

  • American History Workshop, Brooklyn, NY 1993-present
    Historical research and consultation on several projects, including the design and development of the Underground Railroad Freedom Center, to be built in Cincinnati, and the research and writing of audio tours for the New-York Historical Society's Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture.

  • Big Onion Walking Tours, New York, NY 1994-2000
    Led historical walking tours of Ellis Island and the Lower East Side.

  • Endangered Species: Historic Worcester Properties Nov. 1997
    Exhibit produced by Iguana Photo, a company I co-founded with Paul Johansen, at the Worcester Public Library, supported in part by a grant from the Worcester Cultural Commission , a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

  • Forms of Punishment: Photographs of Eastern State 1995-96
    Penitentiary and Chestnut Street Jail
    Took photographs and wrote accompanying historical text for Iguana Photo exhibit exploring two important nineteenth-century prisons. Shown at the Massachusetts General Hospital, June 1995, and Massachusetts State House, November 1995, and Eastern State Penitentiary, supported by a Massachusetts Arts Lottery grant.

  • Philadelphia City Hall Summer 1992
    Wrote and produced, with staff of Atwater Kent Museum, permanent
    exhibit on the history of Philadelphia City Hall, housed in the City Hall Tower.

  • Passages: Photographs of Worcester State Mental Hospital Sept. 1992
    Took photographs and wrote accompanying historical text for Iguana
    Photo exhibit displayed at University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

 

You may see a list of writings (with links to some publications) here.