Jay D. Edwards

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Professor
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.

INTERESTS

Culture Theory (particularly Material Culture)
Culture History of the Circum-Caribbean, the Gulf South and the Atlantic World
Vernacular Architecture

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Jay D. Edwards. 2011. Creolization Theory and Odyssey of the Atlantic LInear Cottage.
Etnofoor 23 (1):53-85.

Jay D. Edwards. 2011. Upper Louisiana's French Vernacular Architecture in the Greater Atlantic World.
Atlantic Studies. 8(4): 411-445.

Jay D. Edwards. 2010. New Orleans Shotgun: an Historic Cultural Geography.  M. B.
Hackler, ed. Culture in the Wake: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf
Coast. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Jay D. Edwards. 2009.  Shotgun: The Most Contested House in America. Buildings and Landscapes 16.

Jay D. Edwards. 2008. Unheralded Contributions across the Atlantic.  Atlantic
Studies 5(2):161-201.

Hendry, Petra Munro and Jay D. Edwards (principal authors). 2009. Old South Baton Rouge: The Roots of Hope. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana at Lafayette press, Center for Louisiana Studies.

Jay D. Edwards and Nicholas Kariouk. 2004. A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People.  Baton Rouge: LSU Press. (Louisiana’s historic Creole vocabulary)

Jay D. Edwards (Editor). 2002. Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859 (In French and English). Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications and LSU Press

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2008 “Order of the Palmetto,” The James Williams Rivers Prize for
excellence in Louisiana Publishing and Research for Jay D. Edwards and
the Fred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Laboratory Monograph Series: by
the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

2007: Co-winner of the 2007 Charter Award from the Congress for New Urbanism for the Louisiana Speaks Pattern Book (2006). (rebuilding Louisiana post-Katrina)

2007: Atlas Award from the State of Louisiana Board of Regents for 2007-08 Academic Year (one of 12 recipients)

2003: Preservationist of the Year award, Foundation for Historic Louisiana

2003: Best Book in the Humanities Award: Plantations by the River. Louisiana

Endowment for the Humanities

RESEARCH

The History of the New Orleans Creole Cottage

Creole Architecture—An Anthropological View of America’s Architecture

Rethinking the Shotgun House in the Atlantic World
(Atlantic Studies Program)

The Detached Kitchen in the Gulf South and Beyond

COURSES TAUGHT

Multidisciplinary Interdepartmental Seminar on New Orleans (4 participating departments)
Vernacular Architecture
Readings in Caribbean Culture
Seminar on Creolization (2008)
Seminar on Culture Theory (2009)

Spring 2012
ANTH 4440, Vernacular Architecture and Material Culture. 6:30 - 9:30 Mondays, H/R E212. 
ANTH 7909 Sec. 3. The New Orleans Seminar. 6:30 - 9:30, Wednesdays, H/R E212.

Click here for the Fred B. Kniffen Cultural Resources Laboratory website.

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