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Associate Professor Janet Ore |
Education:
Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Utah, 1993, Minor field: vernacular
architectural history.
M.A., U.S. and Public History, Washington State University, 1987
B.A., History,Carroll College, 1980
Specializing in: American Architectural History and Modern America
Current Research Interests:
"The Toxic House": My current project focuses on post-World War II popular housing. During this period of rapid growth, residential building technology, materials, and labor changed markedly. My research documents the dramatic rise in the use of synthetic materials, prefabricated components, and modern chemicals that created dwellings that harmed workers, the environment, and potentially inhabitants. I link the domestic landscape of the 1950s and 1960s , so noted for its image of security and refuge, with the reality of poisonous landscapes in which building industry laborers lived and worked. this book falls into the historiographies of post-World War II social, environmental, technological, and vernacular architectural history. As well, it will explain a vast section of the built envidronment that is now coming under scrutiny and restoration within the field of historic preservation.
Courses to be taught in the next two years:
HIST151: U.S. History since 1876
HIST377: U.S. History since 1945
HIST443: American Architectural History
HIST492: Senior Capstone Seminar
HIST503: Graduate Methods Seminar: Historic Preservation
Major Publications :
The Seattle Bungalow: Ordinary People and Houses, 1900-1940.
(University of Washington Press, 2006)
"Pagoda in Paradise: Clancey Lewis's Craftsman Bungalow in Beaux
Arts Village, Washington" in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
92 (Summer 2001): 115 - 126
"Jud Yoho, 'the Bungalow Craftsman,' and the Development of Seattle Suburbs" in Shaping Communities: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VI Edited by Carter Hudgins and Elizabeth Cromley (University of Tennessee Press, 1997)
Fellowships/Major Grants:
Fellowship at the Summer Institute in the Materials Science of Material
Culture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 6-17 June 2005