An associate professor at the University of Massachusetts was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Argentina for spring 2009.
Max Page, of the architecture and history department at UMass, will travel to Buenos Aires next year to lecture about historic preservation in the United States. To help with his book about the history and politics of historic preservation, he will study the politics of preservation in Argentina.
“I learned about receiving the fellowship just a couple of weeks ago,” said Page. “When I applied, it was aimed toward teaching in a specific country, and to help with my new book.”
Page’s award also includes his plan to develop an exchange program between his department and El Centro de Estudios de Arquitectura Contempor’aacute;nea at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, the site where he will be living during the fellowship.
Last April, Page received a $25,000 grant from the Howard Foundation to support his book project, “Priceless: The History and Politics of Historic Preservation.”
He was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.
An associate professor, Page teaches urban, architectural and public history. He is also the author of “The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940,” which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians for the best book on architecture and urbanism.
Page is also the co-editor of “Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Environment,” with Steven Conn, and “Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States,” with Randall Mason.
The Fulbright fellowship was founded by J. William Fulbright, a well-known and influential longtime member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. The grant aims to “bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason and a little more compassion into world affairs, and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship,” according to its Web site.
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