Research Interests/Teaching Fields
Architectural history, historic preservation, material culture, and
18th and 19th century social history.
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.
Courses (Present)
HIS 2010: History of the United States
to 1877
HIS 4920: Historic Preservation in the United States
HIS 5050: History of American Architecture
