Society of Architectural Historians Names the 2014 SAH Fellows

Naomi Miller
Naomi Miller is Professor Emerita of the History of Art & Architecture at Boston University, where she was the first woman to receive tenure in the department. She has published widely and served as one of the lead authors for Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, a volume in the Society’s Buildings of the United States series. Miller’s scholarship on the history of architecture and landscape architecture has been recognized with awards from Dumbarton Oaks, I Tatti, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.  

Robert B. Rettig
In addition to a long and distinguished career as a scholar and historic preservationist, Robert B. Rettig has been a valuable member of the architectural history community through is dedicated service to nonprofit cultural organizations like the Society of Architectural Historians. He served as a director and a treasurer of SAH and was the founding president of the New England Chapter of SAH in 1972. Rettig has held elected positions at eight other nonprofits throughout his career, including the Cambridge Historical Society and the Victorian Society in America.

Dell Upton
Professor Dell Upton teaches at UCLA and is known as a pioneer in the field of vernacular architecture and an early advocate for global histories of architecture. His publications have garnered many notable awards, including SAH’s Alice Davis Hitchcock and Spiro Kostof Book Awards, the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Award, the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s  Abbott Lowell Cummings Award and the Louisiana Literary Award.

Patricia Waddy
Patricia Waddy is Distinguished Professor of Architecture Emerita at Syracuse University and the author of Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan. Her study elevated the art of space planning to a new level of appreciation, emphasizing the role of the designer’s artistry in the creation of a plan. As a past president of SAH, Waddy was instrumental in moving the organization’s headquarters from Philadelphia to Chicago, where it now occupies the historic Charnley-Persky House.