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

Petra Munro Hendry & Jay D. Edwards. 2008. Old South Baton Rouge: A Community Portrait. Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies (forthcoming)

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

2006: Creole Architecture: A Comparative Analysis of Upper and Lower Louisiana and Saint Domingue. In Elizabeth Scott (guest Editor),

Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Archaeology 10 (3)

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

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

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)

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