Dr. Nora Pat Small npsmall@eiu.edu Research Interests/Teaching Fields Architectural history, historic preservation, material culture, and 18th and 19th century social history. Courses (Present) HIS 2010: History of the United States to 1877 HIS 5060: Historic Preservation in the United States HIS 5050: History of American Architecture

Current Projects
As an architectural historian, Dr. Small focuses on the vernacular built environment. Her book, Beauty and Convenience: Architecture and Order in the Early Republic examined the transformation of the rural landscape in southeastern Massachusetts in the generation following the Revolutionary War. She is currently working on an architectural history of lighthouses of the early republic that examines the intersections of technology, aesthetics, iconography, and politics in these evokative structures. She has published articles in William and Mary Quarterly and in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, and book reviews in several venues.