Ethan Carr

Amherst, MA
Ethan Carr is the Associate Editor of Volume 8 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. He is a landscape historian and preservationist specializing in the public landscapes of the United States. Ethan worked for the Central Park Conservancy and served as the New York City park historian before becoming a National Park Service historical landscape architect. He was an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches courses in heritage landscape research, management, and interpretation.

Ethan has written two books on the history of American park planning and design: Wilderness by Design (1998), winner of an ASLA Honor Award, and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma (2007), which has won the 2007 J. B. Jackson Book Award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies, and the 2009 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Prize for landscape history from the Society of Architectural Historians. Ethan was awarded his Master's in Art History from Columbia, his Master's in Landscape Architecture from Harvard, and his PhD from the Edinburgh College of Art.