Professional Experience

Professor Emeritus, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia

1. Department of Historic Preservation

a. Prince B. Woodard Chair of Historic Preservation, July 1995 to  June 2008..

b. Chair, Department of Historic Preservation, July 1992 to June 1995.

c. Professor, July 1999 to June, 2008. 

d. Associate Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, July 1992 to June 1999.

e. Assistant Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, July 1986 to July 1992.

f. Coordinator of International Programs, Center for Historic Preservation, 1989 to 2008

g. Lecturer, Department of Historic. Preservation, August to December 1985.

2. Teaching Related Activities

a. Adjunct Professor

Columbia University,  Graduate School of Architecture, Planning nd Historic  Preservation, New York, 1979 to 1980.

b. Visiting Lecturer  

Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996.

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 1987.

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985.

ICCROM, Rome, Italy, 1980.

New York University, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts,

New York, 1980.

University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978.

George Washington University, Historic Preservation Graduate

Program, Washington, D.C., 1977.

University of Vermont, Historic Preservation Graduate Curriculum,

Burlington, Vermont, 1977.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976.

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1974.

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1974.

National Museum Conservation Laboratory, New Delhi, India, 1972.

3.  Historic Preservation Consultant

Provide full range of consultant services to international organizations, member states of UNESCO, and to national, state and local governments, institutions, corporations and individuals, 1978 to present. 

4.  Prior Historic Preservation Experience

a. Departmental Consultant for Historic Architecture, United States Department of the Interior, and Chief, Technical Preservation Services Division, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. (GS-15).  Managed the national technical historic preservation programs of the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and other federal legislation, 1975-78.

1) Administered the national historic preservation grants-in-aid project review program for all 56 states and territories and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

2) Developed the policy and Federal design standards for the rehabilitation of historic properties under the provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 and initiated the national program for project review.

3) Administered the Department of the Interior's program responsibilities for the transfer of surplus Federal property for historic monuments purposes.  This involved, for example, developing the policies and design criteria for the transfer of the Boston Naval Shipyard to the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

4) Developed and implemented the national research and publication program to provide technical historic preservation information and preservation design and planning guidelines to all Federal agencies, all State Historic Preservation Offices and the public.

5) Managed a staff of 40 architects, archaeologists, historians and other technical and clerical personnel with an annual operating staffing budget of approximately one million dollars.
 

b. Staff Architect, ICCROM, Rome, Italy.  Assigned to the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) for a three-year tour of duty by the U.S. Department of the Interior, 1971-75.

1) Designed the rehabilitation program for ICCROM's permanent headquarters in the 17th century Ospizio di San Michele.

2) Developed and delivered lectures and fieldwork seminars for the Architectural Conservation Course.

3) Carried out international conservation missions for ICCROM and UNESCO to Vietnam, Nepal, Turkey, and Indonesia.

c. Architect, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior, 1967-71. 

1) Served as Principal Architect, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).  Organized and managed the nation wide HABS summer teams to prepare measured drawings, architectural photographs and architectural data of historic buildings, landscapes and districts.

2) Architect, National Historic Landmark Program. Carried out the theme study for 19th century American architecture.

d. Architect in the office of Jean-Pierre Paquet, Architecte-en-Chef, Service des Monuments Historiques, Hotel des Invalides, Paris, France, 1964-66.

1) Participated in the urban design program for the safeguarding of the historic district of Besançon.

2) Participated in the rehabilitation program for the Hotel de Lamoignan in the Marais district of Paris and the Hotel des Invalides.

5. International Missions

Public Lecture: The Effect of the Venice Charter in the United States” for the Venice Charter Revisited Conference, International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism [INTBAU] Venice, November 2006.

Architectural Conservation Lecture Series: International Resources Group, Cyprus, May 2006.

Public lecture, “The Politics of Cultural Property.”  presented at Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, as part of the Canada Research Chair in Global Studies and Political Science Lecture Series, October 2004.

Keynote speaker at first international conference on The Conservation and Regeneration of Traditional Urban Centers in the Middle East, “Learning from Regional Experiences & Building Partnerships.”.

Keynote speech/paper: Fresh Thinking: Exploring a New Paradigm for the Conservation and Regeneration of Traditional Urban Centers, Amman, Jordan, January 19-25, 2002

Architectural conservation mission to the Franciscan Archaeological Institute, Custody of the Holy Land, Memorial of Moses, Mount Nebo, Jordan, to develop conservation recommendations for Mount Nebo.  August, 2001.

UNESCO-ICOMOS International Millennium Congress; Archi2000, Bethlehem, Palestine,

January 22-25, 2001 [postponed for security reasons.] Scientific Committee papers published in absentia by UNESCO see http://www.unesco.org/archi2000/pdf/morton.pdf

UNESCO Lecturer, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Specialized Course on the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Historic Districts, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996.

American Research Center in Egypt, Egyptian Antiquities Project, August 1995 to May, 1996.

UNESCO meeting to evaluate the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil,

specialized Course on the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Historic Districts.  Meeting held Brasilia, Brazil, 1995.
3rd International meeting of experts for the evaluation of the Borobudur project, Indonesia, 1995. 

United States Information Agency, Academic Specialist Program, historic preservation mission to RIWAQ, Centre for Vernacular Architecture, Ramallah, West Bank, via Israel.  1993.

2nd International meeting of experts for the evaluation of the Borobudur project, Indonesia, 1989. 

Evaluation of World Heritage sites in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, 1989.

Preliminary mission to the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil to develop a cooperative research program with Mary Washington College, Center for Historic Preservation, 1989.

1st International meeting of experts for the evaluation of the Borobudur project, Indonesia, 1986.

Member, Consultative Committee for the Safeguarding of Borobudur, Indonesia, 1976-83.

National Geographic Magazine assignment, Borobudur, Indonesia, 1982.

Member, National Committee on United States- China Relations, Urban Planning and Historic Preservation Study Team, Peoples' Republic of China, 1982.

Member, US/ICOMOS delegation to the 6th General Assembly of ICOMOS, Rome, Italy, 1981.

Speaker, International Symposium on Chandi Borobudur, Kyoto, Japan, 1980.

UNESCO Consultant Contract, Nepal, to prepare the World Heritage List nomination for the Kathmandu Valley, 1979.
President, US/ICOMOS delegation to the 5th General Assembly of ICOMOS, Moscow and Suzdal, USSR, 1978.

UNESCO Consultant Contract, Nepal, concerning the implementation of the "Master Plan for the Conservation of the Cultural Heritage in the Kathmandu Valley", 1978.

Nominated by the Government of Indonesia to the Consultative Committee for the Safeguarding of Borobudur, 1976.

UNESCO Consultant Contract, Vietnam, to implement project for the conservation of the historic monuments of the imperial city of Hué, 1975.

Participant, ICCROM/Advisory Council field study team of the historic sites and buildings of Poland, 1974.

ICCROM teaching mission to Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1974.

UNESCO Consultant Contract, Vietnam, to prepare recommendations for the conservation of the historic monuments of Hué, 1973.

ICCROM delegate to the Third Extraordinary Session of the General Conference of UNESCO, Paris, 1973.

UNESCO Consultant Contract, Nepal, Member, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Tourism Projects Department Field Team, 1972.

UNESCO Consultant Contract, Vietnam, to survey war damage to the historic monuments of Hué and to develop recommendations for emergency stabilization, 1971.

Detailed by the United States Department of the Interior to the staff of the International Centre for the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Rome, Italy, 1971.

1966, Diplomé Etudes Supérieures de l'Histoire, de la Construction, et de la Conservation des Monuments Anciens, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Service des Monuments Historiques, Paris.

1961, Bachelor of Architectural History, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

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