PO Box 93, Free Union, Virginia, 22940

Born: Lake Forest, Illinois, 17 January 1952

    Petra October 2008      Turkey, September 2008  

      At home 2005                On the Terrace, Summer 2005

    Avallon 1998                   Machu Pichu 1994          Oaxaca 1993                                                    

Deerfield Academy, Graduate [1966-1970]

University of Virginia, BA Religious Studies 1975

University of Virginia, MA History 1990, directed by William B. Taylor.

Thesis Title: "Constructing a Matrix for the Miraculous: A Study of Christianization and The Transformation of the Sacramental Imagination In Sixteenth-Century Mexico."

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Ph.D Environmental Design & Planning 1996

College of Architecture and Urban Studies, 1990-96.

Directed by Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni

Dissertation Title: "Architectural Fusion and Indigenous Ideology In Early Colonial Mexico A Case Study of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, 1535-1580, Demonstrating Cultural Transmission and Transformation Through Negotiation and Consent in Planning a New Urban Environment." http://www.analesiie.unam.mx/pdf/66_45-84.pdf

Dissertation Fellowship: Social Science Research Council, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation.

1972 -             Owner of Jericho Rock Works, Ltd. an artisanal masonry contracting enterprise specializing in custom masonry installation  and restoration, in stone, marble and brick.

1978-80         Restoration/adaptive re-use projects in Provence

1982-87         Owner of Jericho World Imports. Imported architectural antiques into the United States from France, Spain and Irelan

1988-1995    Owner of Jericho World Images, a photo stock agency specializing in architectural images for research libraries, featuring topics in Spanish and Latin American     Architectural History, as well as other world wide area collections. Collection acquired by  Inter-American Institute, 1995.

1995-              Founder and Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History,  founded to promote and publish research on Ibero-American topics.

1995                 Cultural Transmission and Transformation in the Ibero-American World, 1200 -1800, a Conference at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University organized and sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History October 21 & 22, 1995

 2002 April       “The Great Andean Epidemic of 1524-5: Smallpox or Bartonellosis?” (Co-authored with John S. Marr, M.D., M.P.H.) presented at Disease and Disaster in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America, a conference organized and sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History,   2002, Navy Memorial Auditorium, Washington DC

2002 October  "Marching to Disaster: The Catastrophic Convergence of Inca Imperial Policy, Sand Flies, and El Nino in the 1524 Andean Epidemic" (Co-authored with John S. Marr, M.D., M.P.H.)  presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposium, subsequently published by the Trustees for Harvard University, see below.

2004               “A Case of Mistaken Identity! Leprosy, Measles, or Smallpox? Old World Names for a New World Disease: Bartonellosis”  A paper presented at the 118th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association 9 January 2004, Washington DC

2006                Morocco, Tunisia, photographic field work for collection supporting Islamic cultural studies

2007               Turkey, photographic field work for collection supporting Islamic cultural studies

2008               Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Syria, Jerusalem, Jordan, photographic field work for collection supporting Islamic cultural studies.

2009                Rome, Sicily, France: photographic field work for collection supporting Islamic cultural studies in documenting Aram-Norman Architecture in Sicily, Documentation of Doric architecture in Sicily, Roman imperial art and architecture in Rome, and Gothic architecture in France.

2010                France, Algeria, Libya: photographic field work for collection supporting Islamic cultural studies in Algeria at Tlemcen and elsewhere, and Libya in Tripoli and elsewhere, documentation of Roman imperial and Ancient Greek Colonial architecture and art in Libya, traditional architecture of the Southwest of France, Romanesque and Gothic architecture in southern and northern France.

2011                France and Arabian Peninsula: photographic field work for collection supporting Islamic cultural studies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, and Oman, documenting traditional and modern architecture and art, Gothic architecture in France.