#  John Stilgoe 

Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape

Emeritus

 

 

 



   ![John Stilgoe](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/ves/files/john_stilgoe.jpg?itok=Vhp_g1Tj) 

 



 

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 laptop\_windows [John Stilgoe's website](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~stilgoe/) 

 

 



 

A 2015-16 Harvard William Channing Cabot Fellow and most recently author of *Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape* (UVA Press, 2014) and *What Is Landscape?* (MIT Press, 2016), Stilgoe has written many books, among them *Train Time: Railroads and Imminent Landscape Change* (UVA Press, 2007), *Landscape and Images* (UVA Press, 2005), *Lifeboat: A History of Courage, Cravenness, and Survival at Sea* (UVA Press, 2003), and *Alongshore* (Yale Univ. Press, 1994). He has won the Francis Parkman, George Hilton, and Bradford William Medals, the AIA award for collaborative research, the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for art-history research, and the Signet Society Medal. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians, has taught in VES since 1977, and carries a Rolleiflex fitted for both 120 and 35mm film--often to sea.

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Image: "The Morning the Red Line Died." © John R. Stilgoe.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Curricular Area
    
     [Environmental Studies](/area-specialization/environmental-studies)
- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)