Other Projects


In May 2010, I participated in a symposium marking the centennial of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.

The National Building Museum has posted a videorecording of my lecture:

Power, Architecture, and Politics: Session 5 “Rather Strong Advisory:” The 1960s and the Challenge of the FBI Building from National Building Museum on Vimeo.

A revised version of the talk appears as “‘Rather Strong Advisory’: William Walton’s Commission and the Challenge of the FBI Building,” in Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, edited by Thomas Luebke. University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.


In November 2017, I submitted comments on the proposed shared-use trails portion of the I-66 expansion. Not exactly a scholarly project, but inspired by some of the highway protestors I studied.