Jay D. Edwards

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Professor and Director of the Fred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Lab
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-2566 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: gaedwa@lsu.edu


EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Tulane University, 1970.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Architectural Anthropology
Vernacular Architecture & Material Culture
Folk Cultures
Oral Literature
Structuralism
Semiotics
Culture Theory & Culture History

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Edwards, Jay D. and Nicolas Kariouk, 2003. A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Edwards, Jay D. 2002. "Vernacular Vision: The Gallery and Our Africanized Architectural Landscape," in John Michael Vlach, ed., Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans, pp. 61-95. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art.

Edwards, Jay D., editor. 2001. Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859. Principal author, Marcel Boyer. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, distributed by Louisiana State University Press.

Edwards, Jay D. 2001. "Architectural Creolization: The Meaning of Colonial Architecture," in Mari-Jose Amerlinck, ed., Architectural Anthropology, pp. 86-120. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

Edwards, Jay D. 1999. "What Louisiana's Architecture owes to Hispañola, and What it Does Not," Louisiana Cultural Vistas 10.

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2002. Organizer, Raised to the Trade - a two-day national conference on the museum exhibit of the same name. New Orleans Museum of Art, Nov. 20, 21.

2002. Invited Public Lecture: "New Perspectives on the Architectural History of New Orleans." The Jean Lafitte National Park and Preserve, Founder's Day Celebration. Aug. 23.

2001. Invited Public Lecture: "Historic Architectural Creolization in the Caribbean and Louisiana." Havana, Cuba. Conference on Architectural Preservation and Urbanization, June 17.

2001. Organizer and Cultural Team Leader, "A Cultural Charrette" Day-long seminar for the Louisiana Atchafalaya Trace Commission and the CRM firm of Mary Means and Associates, Oct. 20, as part of a contract to provide interpretative materials for the Atchafalaya Trace Heritage Area Management Plan (2002).

COURSES TAUGHT

Vernacular Architecture and Material Culture
Seminar on Louisiana and the Caribbean
Advanced Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology
Rotating Interdisciplinary Seminar on New Orleans
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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