Advisory Board - National Association for Olmsted Parks

Daniel B. Botkin

Professor of Environmental Studies emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of numerous books and articles including Dissonant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century

Jane Turner Censer

Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia. Editor of volume 4 and co-editor of volume 6 of the Olmsted Papers, and author of North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800–1860

Kenneth T. Jackson

Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, author of numerous books including Cities in American History and Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

Francis R. Kowsky

SUNY Distinguished Professor emeritus at Buffalo State College, author of Country, Park and City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux

Elizabeth Meyer

Director of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, author of “The Post Earth Day Conundrum: Translating Environmental Values into Landscape Design,” in Michel Conan, ed., Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture, and “The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture” in George Thompson and Frederick Steiner, eds., Ecological Design and Planning

Keith N. Morgan

Professor of American and European Architectural History, Boston University, author of The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt, and editor of a new edition of Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect

Laurie D. Olin

Senior partner of Olin Partnership, practice professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes

Victoria Post Ranney

Victoria Post Ranney was for many years an Associate Editor of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. She edited Volume V: The California Frontier, 1863-65 (1990). Earlier she had written Olmsted in Chicago (1972). Currently she is President of Prairie Holdings Corporation, which has developed Prairie Crossing, one of the country’s first green communities. Its nearly 400 energy-efficient homes are clustered so that more than half of the 667–acre site is preserved as open land: native prairies and wetlands, lakes, trails and an organic farm. Located in Grayslake, IL, where two rail lines cross, it offers easy commuting to Chicago and a small Station Square with shops and
a restaurant.

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. A native of San Antonio, TX, Ms. Rogers earned a BA degree from Wellesley College and an MA in city planning from Yale University. In 1979, she was appointed Central Park administrator, and she was instrumental in founding the Central Park Conservancy in 1981. She led the Conservancy as president until 1996, when she founded the Cityscape Institute. In 2002, she created the Garden History and Landscape Studies curriculum at the Bard Graduate Center.

David Schuyler

Principal Editor, Volume 9
David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, where he has taught since 1979. A native of Newburgh, NY, Schuyler received the Ph. D. in history from Columbia University, where his dissertation was awarded the Richard B. Morris Prize. David was co-editor of Volumes 2, 3 and 6 of the Olmsted Papers, and is the author of The New Urban Landscape and Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing. He is the editor of Volume 9 of the Olmsted Papers, commencing in July 2011.

Frederick R. Steiner

Professor and dean of the school of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, author of several books including Human Ecology, and editor of numerous books, including To Heal the Earth: Selected Writings of
Ian L. McHarg

Robert D. Yaro

President of the Regional Plan Association, New York City, professor of practice in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, and co-author of A Region at Risk: The Third Regional Plan for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Region

The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project Advisory Board