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Room 121 Richardson Memorial Hall Richard Campanella , , 70118 Geographer / Senior Professor of Practice 504-862-8453 [email protected] Tulane School of Architecture richcampanella.com

Prof. Richard Campanella, geographer and associate dean for research with the Tulane School of Architecture, is the author of eleven books and over 220 articles on New Orleans-area geography, history, urbanism, and related topics. His research, which integrates mapping and spatial analyses with architecture, social science and the humanities, has been praised in the New York Review of Books, Journal of Southern History, Urban History, Places, Louisiana History, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, and Bloomsbury Review. The only two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Campanella has also received the Louisiana Literary Award, the Williams Prize for Louisiana History, the Malcolm Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Scholarship in the Public Interest, and the Tulane Honors Professor of the Year Award. In 2016, the Government of France named Campanella as Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms), and in 2019, the State of Louisiana awarded him the 20th annual Louisiana Writer Award.

Experience Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000-present Geographer/Senior Professor of Practice and Associate Dean for Research, Tulane School of Architecture, 2012- present; previously research professor at Tulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2000-2011; NASA Stennis Space Center, , 1994-2000: Senior Scientist in Remote Sensing/GIS, Lockheed-Martin/ITD; Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1993-1994: GIS Project Assistant; Department of Geography and Anthropology, LSU-Baton Rouge, 1992-1993: Manager, Computer Mapping Laboratory; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992: Economic Analyst of electrical utilities; Peace Corps Honduras, Central America, 1988-1990: Agroforestry/Wildlands Extension Agent; United States Forest Service, Utah and , 1984-1987 (summers): Wilderness ranger/public contact specialist.

Publications Peer-Reviewed Books Campanella, R. The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: A Historical Geography, Louisiana State U. Press, May 2020. Campanella, R. Cityscapes of New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. Campanella, R. The Photojournalism of Del Hall: New Orleans and Beyond, 1950s-2000s. Louisiana State U. Press, 2015. Campanella, R. : A History. Louisiana State University Press, 2014, winner of the LLA Louisiana Literary Award and selected as first of Top Five Local Books by the Times-Picayune. Campanella, R. Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History. University of Louisiana Press, 2010; winner of the HNOC Williams Prize for Louisiana History. Campanella, R. Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans. University of Louisiana Press, 2008; winner of Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award and used as college textbook. Campanella, R. Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm. University of Louisiana Press, 2006; winner of Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award.

Other Books Campanella, R. Lost New Orleans. Pavilion Books Company, London, England, April 2015. Campanella, R. Delta Urbanism: New Orleans. American Planning Association, Chicago, , 2010; one award. Campanella, R. Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day. Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, Louisiana, 2002; two awards. Campanella, R. and M. Campanella. New Orleans Then and Now. Pelican Publishing, Gretna, Louisiana, 1999; one award.

Chapters in Books (Mostly Peer-Reviewed) Campanella, R. “Urbanism Comes to La Nueva Orleans,” in Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean, edited by Alfred E. Lemmon (New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection), forthcoming October 2020. Campanella, R. “Preface,” in Gateway to New Orleans: St. John, 1708-2018, edited by Mary Louise Christovich, Florence M. Jumonville, and Heather Veneziano, University of Louisiana Press, Lafayette, 2018. Campanella, R. “‘Seeing the Elephant’ in New Orleans’ Interstitial Spaces: A Look Behind Modern-Day Bourbon Street to the Origins of Civic Repute,” in Sweet Spots: In-Between Spaces in New Orleans, edited by Teresa A. Toulouse and Barbara C. Ewell, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson. Campanella, R. “Settlement Shifts in the Wake of Catastrophe,” in Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resilience, edited by Michael Zakour and Nancy Mock, Elsevier Press, 2018. Campanella, R. “‘The Land Is of Peculiar Formation:’ How the Created New Orleans’ Dynamic Deltaic Environment,” in New Orleans & The World: The Tricentennial Anthology, edited by Nancy Dixon, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2017. Campanella, R. “‘A Graceful Curve of the River:’ Urbanism, Architecture, and the Emergence of a Distinctive Metropolitan Character,” in New Orleans & The World: The Tricentennial Anthology, edited by Nancy Dixon. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2017. Campanella, R. “The Deltaic Metropolis: Geography and Environment during New Orleans’ Third Century,” in New Orleans: The First 300 Years. Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, Louisiana, 2017. Campanella, R., “An Architectural Geography of New Orleans’ .” Chapter in Cities as Multiple Landscapes: Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans, eds. Christina von Antenhofer, Günter Bischof, Robert L. Dupont, and Ulrich Leitner. Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung, 2016. Campanella, R., “A Katrina Lexicon.” Chapter in The Katrina Effect: On the Nature of Catastrophe, eds. M. Levine, W. M. Taylor, O. Rooksby, J.-K. Sobott, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015. Campanella, R. “‘When You Leave Town, I’ll Leave Town:’ Insights from a Civically Engaged Researcher in Postdiluvian New Orleans.” Chapter in Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement: Walking a Fine Line, ed. Amy E. Lesen, Ashgate Publishers, Surrey UK, 2014. Campanella, R. “Two Centuries of Paradox:” The Geography of New Orleans’ African-American Population, from Antebellum to Postdiluvian Times.” Chapter in in Transatlantic Perspective, eds. Romain Huret and Randy J. Sparks, Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Campanella, R. “Mississippi River Delta, USA,” in Urbanized Deltas in Transition, eds. Han Meyer and Steffen Nijhuis, Delft University of Technology, 2014. Campanella, R. “The Geography of Urbanization and the Evolution of Risk: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.” Risk and Planet Earth, eds. A. Dölemeyer, J. Zimmer, and G. Tetzlaff; E. Schweizerbart Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany, 2010. Campanella, R. “Urban Transformation in the .” In Architecture in Times of Need, Make It Right Foundation, 2009. Campanella, R. “‘Bring Your Own Chairs:’ Civic Engagement in Postdiluvian New Orleans.” In Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina, edited by Amy Koritz and George Sanchez, University of Press, 2009. Campanella, R., Etheridge, D., and Meffert, D. “Sustainability, Survivability, and the Paradox of New Orleans.” In Urban Biosphere and Society: Partnership of Cities, edited by C. Alfsen-Norodom, New York Academy of Sciences, 2004.

Peer-Reviewed Articles A. Peterson, M. B. Ghersi, R. Campanella, C. Riegeld, J. Lewis, and M. Blum, “Rodents [in] Socioecological Mosaics of Counterurbanization in Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans,” Landscape and Urban Planning 195 (2020) 103710. Campanella, R. “Straight Streets in a Curvaceous Crescent: Colonial Urban Planning and Its Impact on Modern New Orleans,” Journal of Planning History, October 1, 2018. Campanella, R. “Three Hundred Years of Human Geography in New Orleans” and “Native Americans in Prehistoric New Orleans,” The New Orleans Prosperity Index: Tricentennial Collection. The Data Center, New Orleans, April 2018. Gotham, K., R. Campanella, K. Lauve-Moon, and B. Powers, “Hazard Experience, Geophysical Vulnerability, and Flood Risk Perceptions in a Postdisaster City,” Journal of Risk Analysis, June 2017 Campanella, R. “Disaster and Response in an Experiment Called New Orleans, 1700s–2000s,” Natural Hazard Science: Oxford Research Encyclopedias, March 2016. Campanella, R. “Pleasure Atlas,” LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Fall 2015, pp. 126-129. Campanella, R. “Gulf Souths, Gulf Streams, and Their Dispersions: A Geographer’s Take,” The Southern Literary Journal, Volume XLVI, No. 2, Spring 2014. Campanella, R. “Rigidity, Fluidity, and Consequence: A Comparative Historical Geography of the Mississippi and Senegal River Deltas,” Built Environment, Volume 40, Number 2, 2014, pp. 184-200. Campanella, R. “Geography of a Food, or Geography of a Word? The Curious Cultural Diffusion of Sagamité,” Louisiana History, Fall 2013. Gotham, K., M. Blum, and R. Campanella. “Toward a New Normal: Trauma, Diversity, and Urban Long-Term Research.” Cities and the Environment, Vol 7, Issue 1, Article 4, Digital Commons-Loyola Marymount, March 2014. Gotham, K and R. Campanella. “Constructions of Resilience: Ethnoracial Diversity, Inequality, and Post-Katrina Recovery, the Case of New Orleans.” Social Sciences. 2013; 2(4):298-317. Herman, M. P., R. Campanella, R., and S. Martin-Schild. “Is There a "Stroke Hotspot" In New Orleans? A Preliminary Analysis of Human Geography,” Stroke, Volume 44, Issue 2 (Supplement of Meeting Abstracts), February 2013. Lam N., Arenas H., Pace K., LeSage J., and R. Campanella. “Predictors of Business Return in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina,” PLoS ONE October 2012, 7(10): e47935. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047935 Campanella, R. “The Lexicon of Place: Deconstructing New Orleans’ Names, Nicknames, and Slogans,” Southern Journal of Linguistics: Journal of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2012. Gotham, K. and R. Campanella. “Coupled Vulnerability and Resilience: the Dynamics of Cross-Scale Interactions in Post- Katrina New Orleans,” Ecology and Society 2011, 16 (3): 12. LeSage, J. P., Pace, R. K., Lam, N., R. Campanella, and Xingjian L., “New Orleans Business Recovery in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics and Society), 2011. LeSage, J. P., Pace, R. K., Lam, N. and R. Campanella, “Space-Time Modeling of Natural Disaster Impacts,” Social Science Research Network, May 19, 2011. Gotham, K. and R. Campanella. “Toward a Research Agenda on Transformative Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Post-Trauma Urban Ecosystems.” Critical Planning Journal, Summer 2010, pp 9-23. Campanella, R. “Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: Before, During, and After.” Places Journal, March-April 2010. Campanella, R. “Mapping and Interpreting the Human Geography of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.” Le Monde des Cartes: Journée Histoire: Cartographie Et Société Urbaine, No. 204, June 2010, pp29-42. Lam, N., Pace, K., and R. Campanella, LeSage, J., and Arenas, H., “Business Return in New Orleans: Decision Making Amid Post-Katrina Uncertainty,” PLoS ONE, 2009. Frickel, S., R. Campanella, and Vincent, M. B., “Mapping Knowledge Investments in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: A New Approach for Assessing Responses to Environmental Disaster.” Environmental Science & Policy, January 2009. Campanella, R. and H. W. Mielke. "Human Geography of New Orleans' High-Lead Geochemical Setting,” Environmental Geochemistry and Health, June 2008. Campanella, R. "An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans,” Journal of American History, Vol. 94, No. 3, Dec 2007, 704-716. Campanella, R. “Geography, Philosophy, and the Build/No-Build Line.” Technology in Society, 29 (2007), 169–172. Campanella, R. "A Proposed Reconstruction Methodology for New Orleans." Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 60, Issue 1, September 2006. Nittrouer, J.A., M.A. Allison, and R. Campanella, “Bedform Transport Rates for the Lowermost Mississippi River.” Journal of Geophysical Research 113(f3): F03004 (2008). Galler, J., T. Bianchi, M. Allison, L. Wysocki, and R. Campanella. “Biochemical Implications of Confinement in the Mississippi River,” EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 84, 44, November 2003, pp. 474-475. Campanella, R. “Testing Components Toward a Remote Sensing-Based Decision Support System for Production.” Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 66, No. 10, October 2000, pp. 1219-1227.

Peer-Edited Journal Articles, Research Essays, Reports, and Conference Proceedings (most posted here) Campanella, R. ”How Humans Sank New Orleans: Engineering Put the Crescent City Below Sea Level; Now, Its Future Is At Risk.” The Atlantic, February 6, 2018. Campanella, R., “People-Mapping Through Google Street View: A New Orleans Experiment,” Places Journal, November 2017. Campanella, R., Book Review, Defining the Delta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta, in Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 376-378. Campanella, R. "Lincoln's First Flatboat Trip to New Orleans: Resolving an Mystery," Lincoln Lore, No. 1914, Spring 2017, pp. 22-27. Campanella, R. with Cassidy Rosen, “14 to 1: Post-Katrina Architecture by the Numbers,” Places Journal, July 2016. Campanella, R. and Virginia Hanusik, “Backwater,” Places Journal, March 2016. Campanella, R. “Catalyzing Entrepreneurship: Assets, Gaps, and Interventions for Areas Beyond the New Orleans Renaissance,” Forward Cities National Learning Collaborative, 2016. Campanella, R. “A Katrina Lexicon” [excerpt], Places Journal, July 2015. Campanella, R. “The Laissez Faire New Orleans Rebuilding Strategy Was Exactly That,” New Geography Journal, 2015 Campanella, R. “How Bourbon Street Degenerated,” Southern Glossary, June 2014. Campanella, R. “Chronicle of the 2014 Preservation Matters III Symposium,” Tulane School of Architecture Campanella, R. “Replicating Bourbon Street: Linguistic Diffusion” [excerpt] New Geography Journal, April 2014. Campanella, R. “Hating Bourbon Street” [excerpt], Places Journal: The Design Observer Group, March 2014. Campanella, R. “Gentrification and Its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans,” New Geography, March 1, 2013. Campanella, R. “Beneficial Use: Toward Balancing America's (Sediment) Budget,” Places Journal, January 2013, Campanella, R. “What the Nation’s Best-Educated Amateur Planners Learned from Hurricane Isaac. And Gustav. And Rita and Katrina. And Cindy, Ivan, Lili, Isidore, and Georges.” Places Journal, October 2012. Campanella, R. “New Orleans: Economic History Timeline.” New Opportunities, New Orleans Business Alliance, July 2012. J. LeSage, K. Pace, R. Campanella, N. Lam, and X. Liu. “Do What the Neighbours Do:” Reopening Businesses After Hurricane Katrina,” Significance: Statistics Making Sense, December 2011, Volume 8, Issue 4, pages 160-163. K. Gotham, R. Campanella, J. Lewis, F. Gifford, E. Nance, and M. Avula. “Reconsidering the New Normal: Vulnerability and Resilience in Three New Orleans Neighborhoods. Global Horizons, Volume 4, Issue 2, Fall 2011. Campanella, R. “New Fuel for an Old Narrative: Notes from the BP Oil Disaster.” Places Journal, September 2010, A. Plyer and R. Campanella. “Coastal Employment before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster,” GNOCDC, 2010 A. Plyer and R. Campanella. “Job Sprawl in Metro New Orleans,” GNOCDC, 2010 Campanella, R. “Delta Urbanism: Lessons from New Orleans.” Planning: American Planning Association, January 2010 Campanella, R. "Above-Sea-Level New Orleans: The Residential Capacity of Orleans Parish’s Higher Ground,” featured on front page of Times-Picayune, April 21, 2007 Campanella, R. "Street Survey of Business Reopenings in Post-Katrina New Orleans," CBR Whitepaper funded by National Science Foundation Award 0554937, May 2006 and January 2007. Campanella, R., contributing author, “District 3 Recovery Plan” and “District 3 Recovery Plan,” Unified New Orleans Plan, 2007, http://unifiedneworleansplan.com/ J. D. Stanfield (editor), R. Campanella, et al. “The Challenges of Sudden Natural Disasters for Land Administration and Management,” United Nations / Terra Institute report, April 2008. Watanabe, K. H; Campanella, R.; Meffert, D.; Short, J. “A GIS-Based Tool to Visualize Environmental Contamination and Biota Prevalence.” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. Vol. 91, pp. 69-70, 2004. Campanella, R., Anthony Fontenot, and Robert Tannen. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. For Shrinking Cities exhibition, German Federal Cultural Foundation, Bauhaus Foundation, and Arch Magazine, Berlin. Kravitz, A. R., R. Campanella, L. Schiavinato, and Aquatic Invasive Species Task Force. State Management Plan for Aquatic Invasive Species in Louisiana. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, July 2005. Kravitz, A.R., and R. Campanella. “Public Perceptions of Invasive Species: Media Trends in Newspaper Articles, 1992- 2002.” Proceedings of Third International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, La Jolla, , March 2003. Campanella, R., Michael R. Seal, and Kelly Dupont. “Patterns Among Seeding Rates, NDVI, and Yield on a Mississippi Cotton Farm,” ERIM International Conference, January 2000; Beltwide Cotton Conference Papers, January 2000. Campanella, R., M. R. Seal, and J. K. Dupont. “Variable-Rate Seeding,” PrecisionAg Illustrated, July-August 1998 Walters, D., B A. Davis, R. K. Witcher, D. H. Stone and R. Campanella. “NASA Clark Satellite: Platform, Sensors, Imagery, Techniques, and Applications,” International Symposium of Spectral Sensing Research Proceedings, 1995 Campanella, R. “The Role of GIS in Evaluating Contour-Based Limits of Cloud Forest Reserves in Honduras,” Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: International Symposium Proceedings (1994) and ACSM / ASPRS Technical Papers, 1993

Newspaper and Magazine Columns, Articles, and Editorials (all posted here as PDFs) Campanella, R. “Of Storm, Fire and Fish: The Shaping of Salaville,” Preservation in Print, September 2020. Campanella, R. “Origins of Bourbon Street’s Enduring Pedestrian Parade,” Picayune-Advocate, August 2, 2020. Campanella, R. “Cajun Culture Thrived Near N.O. in Westwego,” Picayune-Advocate, July 5, 2020. Campanella, R. “Solving Took Years of International Collaboration,” Picayune-Advocate, June 22, 2020. Campanella, R. “Right Bank, Best Bank, West Bank,” Preservation in Print, June 2020. Campanella, R. “Katrina Era Offers Clues to COVID Reopening,” Picayune-Advocate, May 4, 2020. Campanella, R. “Ellicott’s Line,” 64 Parishes, Summer 2020. Campanella, R. “Forces Behind the Foot Traffic,” Preservation in Print, May 2020. Campanella, R. “Lessons Learned During Yellow Fever,” Picayune-Advocate, April 6, 2020. Campanella, R. “COVID: Notes from New Orleans,” 64 Parishes, March 2020, special quarantine edition. Campanella, R. “New Orleans Prisons: A Geographical Exploration,” 64 Parishes, Spring 2020. Campanella, R. “Third System Forts May Not See Third Century,” Picayune-Advocate, March 1, 2020. Campanella, R. “Bucktown and the Lost of East Jefferson,” Picayune-Advocate, February 3, 2020. Campanella, R. “The Unremembered Central Congregational Church,” Preservation in Print, February 2020. Campanella, R. “Lost Coastal Communities of Eastern New Orleans,” Picayune-Advocate, January 5, 2020. Campanella, R. “One Night in Louisiana: Abe Lincoln’s Bloody Melee,” 64 Parishes, Winter 2020. Campanella, R. “The Multiple Narratives of the Belle Chasse Plantation House,” Preservation in Print, December 2019. Campanella, R. “‘Fiery Calamity in an Era of Change: The Old French Opera House,” Picayune-Advocate, Dec 1, 2019. Campanella, R. “‘West End: “The Coney Island of New Orleans,” Picayune-Advocate, November 3, 2019. Campanella, R. “‘Where I’ll Do as I D__n Please: A Historical Geography of ,” Picayune-Advocate, Oct 6, 2019. Campanella, R. “The Fiery Birth and Demise of the Verandah Hotel,” Preservation in Print, October 2019. Campanella, R. “‘From French Colonists to the Beginnings of Jazz,’ Spanish Fort Traces Its History Across Three Centuries,” Picayune-Advocate, September 9, 2019. Campanella, R. “Sullivan’s Station,” Preservation in Print, September 2019. Campanella, R. “Hydrology at War: Bailey’s Dam at the Red River Rapids,” 64 Parishes, Fall 2019. Campanella, R. “Shuddering at the New Orleans That Might Have Been,” Picayune-Advocate, August 12, 2019. Campanella, R. “Local Newspaper Scene Returns to Downtown Roots,” New Orleans Picayune-Advocate, July 7, 2019. Campanella, R. “Fragmented Front Street: Intermittent Relic of St. Mary Batture,” New Orleans Advocate, June 9, 2019. Campanella, R. “Fiery Catalysts,” Preservation in Print, June 2019. Campanella, R. “Putting the ‘64’ in 64 Parishes: A Self-Assessment,” 64 Parishes, Summer 2019. Campanella, R. “The Contingencies of History: Imagining the New Orleans That Might Have Been,” New Orleans Advocate, May 5, 2019. Campanella, R. “The Three Sisters of Rampart Street,” Preservation in Print, May 2019. Campanella, R. “A Year After Foundation, New Orleans’ First Flood—and ,” New Orleans Advocate, April 7, 2019. Campanella, R. “Castles of the Crescent City,” Preservation in Print, April 2019. Campanella, R. ““Algiers at 300: The Early Years,” New Orleans Advocate, March 10, 2019. Campanella, R. ““ Purchase,” 200 Years Ago This Month, Gave Louisiana Its Distinctive Boot Shape,” New Orleans Advocate, February 10, 2019. Campanella, R. “The Speed of Culture: Traveling the Mississippi 200 Years Ago,” 64 Parishes, Spring 2019. Campanella, R. “Strength of a Fortress:” Algiers’ Duverjé House, 1812-1895, Preservation in Print, February 2019. Campanella, R. “Bourbon Street’s 300 Block: The History of French Quarter Land Use, in One Streetscape,” New Orleans Advocate, January 6, 2019. Campanella, R. “Good Bones: Now a Mainstay, Iron-Lace Galleries Were a Long Time Coming to New Orleans,” New Orleans Advocate, December 9, 2018. Campanella, R. "Tour Row: Street Catalyst of the 1850s,” Preservation in Print, December 2018. Campanella, R. “Gretna’s Mechanickham: A Possible Origin of Its Name,” 64 Parishes, Winter 2018. Campanella, R. "From Landmark to Parking Lot: Temple Sinai Endured 105 Years,” Preservation in Print, October 2018. Campanella, R. “Spanning the Possibilities: Siting of River Bridges Had Lasting Effects on Region’s Urban Geography,” New Orleans Advocate, November 12, 2018. Campanella, R. “Walking in New Orleans: Online Tools Find More Residents Outdoors,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 23, 2018. Campanella, R. “Is Louisiana in the South? The Lexicon of Regional Identity,” 64 Parishes (formerly Louisiana Cultural Vistas), Fall 2018. Campanella, R. “The Rise, Razing, and Revival of the Orue-Pontalba House,” Preservation in Print, September 2018. Campanella, R. “Drainage Shapes the City’s Past, Future: New Orleans' 300-Year-Long Drainage Drama,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 19, 2018. Campanella, R. “A River Ran Through It: How the Watery St. Mary Batture Evolved Into Convention Center Boulevard,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 22, 2018. Campanella, R. “Electric Avenue: Our Own Champs-Élysées [Elysian Fields] Was Once Extraordinary—and Could Be Again,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 10, 2018. Campanella, R. “Grandeur on Government Street: Baroque Urban Planning in Louisiana’s Capital,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2018. Campanella, R. “Sleuthing an 1890 French Quarter Streetscape,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 11, 2018. Campanella, R. “Preservation’s ‘Second Wave,’ and the Losses That Impelled It,” Preservation in Print, May 2018. Campanella, R. “A Curiosity on Carondelet at Canal: The Pickwick Turret, 1884–1948,” Preservation in Print, May 2018. Campanella, R. “Pushing Back : The Lakefront Improvement Project, 1926-1934,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 13, 2018. Campanella, R. “‘Fourteenth-Century Gothic’ on St. Charles Avenue: James Freret’s Old Masonic Temple,” Preservation in Print, April 2018. Campanella, R. “New Orleans Is Celebrating Its 300th Birthday, But It Almost Didn’t Make It to Its Fifth.” New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 8, 2018. Campanella, R. “Four Acres Lost: Motivating Demolitions of the Early 1900s,” Preservation in Print, March 2018. Campanella, R. “Little-Known Gormley Canal Once Brought Cypress Logs into Today’s Central City,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 9, 2018. Campanella, R. “Location, Location, Location: Geographical, Economic and Political Factors Led to Siting of Louisiana Cities,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spring 2018. Campanella, R. “The Louisiana Sugar and Rice Exchange, 1884-1963,” Preservation in Print, February 2018. Campanella, R. “The View from Krewe du Vieux,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, January 26, 2018. Campanella, R. “The at 100,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, January 12, 2018. Campanella, R. “Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day; Neither Was New Orleans,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, Jan 3, 2018. Campanella, R. “The in Louisiana and Quebec: A Cross-Cultural Conversation,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 2018. Campanella, R. “185-Year-Old Continues to Affect Thousands of New Orleanians,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, December 8, 2017. Campanella, R. “Bywater before Bywater: Olivier Plantation House, 1820s-1949,” Preservation in Print, December 2017. Campanella, R. “Today’s Was Spanish New Orleans’ .” New Orleans Times- Picayune, November 17, 2017. Campanella, R. “The What-If’s of History—and Geography: A Municipal Comparison of New Orleans and St. Louis.” New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 13, 2017. Campanella, R. A “French Chateau Style of Architecture:” Thomas Sully’s Long-Forgotten Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Building,” Preservation in Print, October 2017. Campanella, R. “An Idea is Born: La Nouvelle Orleans,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 10, 2017. Campanella, R. “The Annexation of Carrollton,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 8, 2017. Campanella, R. “Odyssey of the Greek Slave: Case Study in the Geography of Art,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Fall 2017. Campanella, R. “‘Before Foodies, There Was Solari’s,” Preservation in Print, September 2017. Campanella, R. “The Annexation of Algiers,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 11, 2017. Campanella, R. “August Exodus: Summertime Flight from Yellow Fever,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 4, 2017. Campanella, R. “How New Orleans Took Uptown from Jefferson Parish,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 14, 2017 Campanella, R. “When Lafayette City Became New Orleans,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 9, 2017 Campanella, R. “'Fort-Prints': Relics of New Orleans’ Fortified Past,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 12, 2017 Campanella, R. “A Louisiana Forte: Mapping Elevation in Flat Places,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2017. Campanella, R. “‘The Aesthetic of Luxury:’ Italianate Architecture in New Orleans,” Preservation in Print, June 2017. Campanella, R. “King Cotton’s Crescent City Throne: New Orleans Cotton Exchange,” Preservation in Print, May 2017. Campanella, R. “Like Geological Strata, History Lies Beneath Bourbon St,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 10, 2017. Campanella, R. “Robb’s Folly: Lost Palazzo of the Garden District,” Preservation in Print, April 2017. Campanella, R. “A Mysterious Switch: Louisiana’s Change from Counties to Parishes,” La. Cultural Vistas, Spring 2017. Campanella, R. “The Flow and Ebb of Bayou Metairie,” Times-Picayune, March 10, 2017. Campanella, R. “A ‘Weird and Ghostly Appearance:” New Orleans’ Light Towers,” Times-Picayune, February 10, 2017. Campanella, R. “If Algiers Had to Burn, It Picked a Good Time,” Preservation in Print, March 2017. Campanella, R. “Reconsidering the Christopher Inn: A Site History,” Preservation in Print, February 2017. Campanella, R. “From Palmetto Huts to Creole Cottages: Five Chapters in the Geography of New Orleans Architecture,” Times-Picayune, January 13, 2017. Campanella, R. “Beneath New Orleans, A Coastal Barrier Island,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 2017. Campanella, R. “Tracking Bourbon Street’s Pedestrian Parade,” Times-Picayune, December 20, 2016. Campanella, R. “The Past as Inspiration—or Solace? Postmodernism and Neotraditionalism in New Orleans,” Times- Picayune, December 9, 2016. Campanella, R. “From the Poydras Market to ‘South Market:” Food Retail in New Orleans’ Central Business District,” Preservation in Print, December 2016. Campanella, R. “When New Orleans Embraced Modernism,” Times-Picayune, November 11, 2016. Campanella, R. “California, Here It Came: Mission Style Arrives to New Orleans,” Times-Picayune, October 7, 2016. Campanella, R. “Daniel Burnham in New Orleans,” Preservation in Print, October 2016. Campanella, R. “’Ornaments to the City’: New Orleans’ Victorian Architecture,” Times-Picayune, September 9, 2016. Campanella, R. “Lugger Culture: Distinctive Sailboats Once Defined Coastal Louisiana's Oyster Trade,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Autumn 2016. Campanella, R. “A Storied Gem Lost to Pyromania: Gallier and Dakin’s Merchants’ Exchange,” Preservation in Print, September 2016. Campanella, R. “Touro’s Will: Ill-Fated Almshouse Would Have Been a Gothic Landmark in Today’s Bywater.” Times- Picayune, August 12, 2016. Campanella, R. “Louisiana Topography: Third Lowest, Third Flattest—and Most Interesting,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2016. Campanella, R. “A Louisiana Native Brought Romanesque Architecture to America,” Times-Picayune, July 8, 2016. Campanella, R. “The Origins of Italianate Architecture,” Times-Picayune, June 10, 2016. Campanella, R. “A Clubby Sort of Town: Chess, Checkers, and Whist, 1880-1935,” Preservation in Print, May 2016. Campanella, R. “The Rise of Greek Revival Architecture,” Times-Picayune, May 6, 2016. Campanella, R. “Ominous”: New Orleans’ Criminal Courts Building and a Brief History of Penal Architecture,” Preservation in Print, April 2016. Campanella, R. “The Evolution of Creole Architecture,” Times-Picayune, April 8, 2016. Campanella, R. “Arpents, Ligas, Acres: Cultural Fingerprints on Louisiana’s Landscape,” La. Cultural Vistas, Spring 2016. Campanella, R. “Ethnic Rivalry and New Orleans’ Messy Municipality Era,” Times-Picayune, March 11, 2016. Campanella, R. “City Has History of Rebirth from Ashes,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, January 31, 2016, front page. Campanella, R. “A Legacy of Luxury Lodging: The Original Cosmopolitan Hotel,” Preservation in Print, February 2016. Campanella, R. “Monorail Derailed,” Times-Picayune, February 12, 2016. Campanella, R. “Bourbon Street's First Nightclub Ushered in a Glitzy Era,” Times-Picayune, January 8, 2016. Campanella, R. “Louisiana Radio Stations’ (Inconvenient) Local Music Lacuna,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 2016. Campanella, R. “The Widening of ,” Times-Picayune, December 11, 2015. Campanella, R. “Ursuline Nuns’ Lost Landmark on the Mississippi, 1824-1912,” Preservation in Print, December 2015. Campanella, R. “Great Fire of 1895 Transformed Algiers,” Times-Picayune, Nov 13, 2015. Campanella, R. “Lessons Learned from Loss of the Delord-Sarpy House, 1814-1957,” Preservation in Print, Nov 2015. Campanella, R. “Gentilly’s Accidental Forest,” Times-Picayune, October 9, 2015. Campanella, R. “Neutral Ground: Political Geography of Imperialism,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Autumn 2015. Campanella, R. “Once and Future Katrinas,” Tulane Magazine, September 2015. Campanella, R. “As Marshes Erode, How Many Coastal Communities Can We Save?,” Times-Picayune, Sept 27, 2015. Campanella, R. “Before Storyville: Vice Districts in Antebellum New Orleans, Parts I and II,” Preservation in Print, September and October 2015. Campanella, R. “Wind Event: Wetlands Protected New Orleans from 1915 Hurricane,” Times-Picayune, Sept 11, 2015. Campanella, R. “When Disasters ‘Wipe the Slate Clean’—and When They Do Not,” Times-Picayune, August 7, 2015. Campanella, R. “Is Tiger Stadium the Center of Louisiana?,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2015. Campanella, R. “Ozone Belt: How St. Tammany Turned Ecology into Business,” Times-Picayune, July 10, 2015. Campanella, R. “New Orleans’ Third First Presbyterian Church,” Preservation in Print, June 2015. Campanella, R. “Motor City in the Crescent City: Albert Kahn’s Ford Plant in Old Arabi,” Preservation in Print, May 2015 Campanella, R. “Court Decisions: How Neighborhood Rivalry Sited Two Courthouses,” Times-Picayune, June 12, 2015 Campanella, R. “Louisiana Cities and the Rank-Size Rule,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spring 2015 Campanella, R. “The Great Footprint Debate, Updated,” Times-Picayune, May 31, 2015 Campanella, R. “Before Tulane, Before Loyola, There Was Leland University,” May 8, 2015 Campanella, R. “Odd Angles Tell Interesting Tales,” Times-Picayune, April 11, 2015 Campanella, R. “The Khaki Parade Down Bourbon Street,” America in WWII Magazine, April 2015 Campanella, R. “St. Louis and St. Charles: New Orleans’ Legacy of Showcase Hotels,” Preservation in Print, April 2015 Campanella, R. “Fazendeville and Three Oaks: Reflecting on Two Cultural Losses,” Preservation in Print, March 2015 Campanella, R. “The Crescent City’s Two Chinatowns,” Times-Picayune, March 6, 2015 Campanella, R. “New Orleans Was Once Above Sea Level…,” Times-Picayune, February 19, 2015 Campanella, R. “Townhouse Collapse Elicits Question on Lifespan of Bricks,” Preservation in Print, February 2015 Campanella, R. “A Brief History of French Quarter Flooding,” Times-Picayune, February 14, 2015 Campanella, R. “Losses at Chalmette Battlefield, 150 Years After ,” Times-Picayune, Jan 9, 2015 Campanella, R. “A Desire for Collective Dignity and Order: Greek Revival in Louisiana,” Preservation in Print, Dec 2014 Campanella, R. “If Saints Lose, Don’t Blame ,” Times-Picayune, December 13, 2014 Campanella, R. “How ‘Forward Thrust’ Reshaped Southern Geography,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 2015 Campanella, R. “Three Exhibition Halls, Three Fates,” Preservation in Print, November 2014 Campanella, R. “When St. Bernard Made Cars: Motor City in the Crescent City,” Times-Picayune, November 8, 2014 Campanella, R. “Tunnel Vision: Downtown Tunnel is Relic of Riverfront Expressway,” Times-Picayune, October 11, 2014 Campanella, R. “Subject to Our Choices: Preservationism’s Mitigated Successes,” Preservation in Print, October 2014 Campanella, R. “Making Peace with Conflict: Noise and Neighbors, Redux,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Autumn 2014 Campanella, R. “Polymnia Street Goes to War,” Times-Picayune, September 12, 2014 Campanella, R. “Preservation = Jobs: Notes from Preservation Matters III,” Preservation in Print, September 2014 Campanella, R. “The Seduction of Exceptionalism,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2014 Campanella, R. “When Bubonic Plague Came to Town,” Times-Picayune, August 8, 2014 Campanella, R. “Monkey Hill and the Geography of Childhood,” Times-Picayune, July 9, 2014 Campanella, R. “Bourbon Street: A History” [excerpt] Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2014 Campanella, R. “Glorious Mess: Perceptual Neighborhoods,” New Orleans Magazine, June 2014 Campanella, R. “Window-Hawking, Go-Cups, and the Geography of Drinking,” Times-Picayune, June 20, 2014 Campanella, R. “The Katrina of the 1800s Was Called Sauve’s Crevasse,” Times-Picayune, June 11, 2014 Campanella, R. “‘A Forest of Masts:’ The of New Orleans in Antebellum Times,” Preservation in Print, June 2014 Campanella, R. “Pauger’s Savvy Move: New Orleans Repositioned on Higher Ground,” Preservation in Print, May 2014 Campanella, R. “New Orleans’ Greek Geography, from Bayou Road to Bayou St. John,” Times-Picayune, May 9, 2014 Campanella, R. “Bourbon Street: A History” [excerpt] Preservation in Print, April 2014 Campanella, R. “The Rise and Fall of the Old Shot Tower,” Times-Picayune, April 11, 2014 Campanella, R. “Mapping the Geography of Cool,” Times-Picayune, March 14, 2014 Campanella, R. “The Curious Story of Sagamite,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spring 2014 Campanella, R. “If Walls Could Talk, New Starbucks Would Speak of Lincoln,” Preservation in Print, March 2014 Campanella, R. “In LeBeau House's Ashes, a Lesson in Carpe Diem,” Preservation in Print, February 2014 Campanella, R. “Shotgun Geography,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 14, 2014 Campanella, R. “Behind Your House Number Lies Urban History,” Times-Picayune, January 10, 2014 Campanella, R. “Preparing for 2018 by Revisiting 1968,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 2013-2014 Campanella, R. “Addressing ’s Core Problem,” Times-Picayune December 13, 2013 Campanella, R. “What Does It Mean To Be a New Orleanian?” Times-Picayune/The Lens, December 8, 2013 Campanella, R. “Early Aerial Photography in New Orleans,” Preservation in Print, December 2013 Campanella, R. “In LeBeau House’s Ashes, a Lesson in Carpe Diem,” Times-Picayune, November 29, 2013 Campanella, R. “Chinatown, New Orleans,” Preservation in Print, November 2013 Campanella, R. “Uptown Serendipity: How Inaction Created Space for Eden,” Times-Picayune, November 8, 2013 Campanella, R. “Seven Municipal Districts—and Two Hundred Years of History,” Times-Picayune, October 11, 2013 Campanella, R. “Why Prytania Jogs at Joseph,” Preservation in Print, October 2013 Campanella, R. “A Look Back at New Orleans’ Anniversary Commemorations,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Autumn 2013 Campanella, R. “The Great Storm of 1915: Tragedy in the Rigolets,” Preservation in Print, September 2013 Campanella, R. “Cityscapes: A Geographer's View of New Orleans,” Times-Picayune, September 13, 2013 Campanella, R., “While King Dreamed, Plaquemine Fought,” Times-Picayune, September 1, 2013 Campanella, R. “’The Idea Is an Absurd One’: Steaming Against the Current,” Preservation in Print, June 2013 Campanella, R. “A Night on the Town in circa-1930 New Orleans,” Preservation in Print, May 2013 Campanella, R. “On the Structural Basis of Social Memory: Cityscapes of the New Orleans Slave Trade,” Parts I and II, Preservation in Print, March and April 2013 Campanella, R. “Remembering the Old French Opera House: The Bourbon Street Landmark (1859-1919) Testifies to the Cultural Power of Old Buildings, and the Significance of Their Loss,” Preservation in Print, February 2013 Campanella, R. “So Unsavory a Smell: Managing Municipal Services in Historic New Orleans, Part I: The Colonial Era, Preservation in Print, November 2012, and Part II: The America Era, Preservation in Print, December 2012 Campanella, R., “Democracy and Geography: Reflections on the Toll Referendum,” Times-Picayune, November 25, 2012 Campanella, R. “Addressing Urban Order,” Preservation in Print, October 2012 Campanella, R. “Newspaper Row, New Orleans’ Original Media District,” Preservation in Print, September 2012. Campanella, R., “Lots of Meanings in a Local Sports Team’s Name,” Times-Picayune, May 9, 2012 Campanella, R. “Lincoln in Louisiana.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spring 2011 Campanella, R., “Chance to Turn Twin Spans into Public Pier Slipping Away,” Times-Picayune, June 11, 2010 Campanella, R. “The Lexicon of Place: Deconstructing New Orleans’ Names, Nicknames, and Slogans.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 2009-2010 Campanella, R., “Defying Adversity, Wherever We Are,” Times-Picayune, January 30, 2010 Campanella, R., “Where Y’at in New Orleans is Shifting Around Post-Katrina,” Times-Picayune, August 27, 2009 J. P. Klingman and R. Campanella, “City Hall Not Just a Place, But a Statement,” Times-Picayune, June 29, 2009 Campanella, R. “Bienville’s Dilemma,” The Newcomb-Tulane Collegian & Review, Summer 2009 Campanella, R., “A Chance for City to Celebrate, Educate,” Times-Picayune, May 13, 2009 Campanella, R., “Analyzing New Orleans’ New Footprint,” Times-Picayune, August 29, 2007 Campanella, R., “Category 3-5-5: A Better Storm Label?,” Times-Picayune, August 15, 2008 Campanella, R. “Chinatown, New Orleans.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Autumn 2007 Campanella, R. “Reperceiving Place.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2006 Campanella, R. “A Solvable Problem: Geographical History and Future of New Orleans.” Cultural Vistas, Spring 2006 Campanella, R. “Abandon? Maintain? Concede? Rebuilding Philosophy’s Camps,” Times-Picayune, April 20, 2006 Campanella, R. “Meth-od-ol-o-gy n. A Body of Practices, Procedures, and Rules Used in Inquiry; A Set of Working Methods - Finding a Way Out of Devastation,” Times-Picayune, November 13, 2005. Campanella, R., and M. Campanella. “New Orleans Then and Now.” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Winter 1999-2000 Campanella, R, Davis, and L. Occi. “RS/GIS for Transmission Encroachment,” Pipe Line & Gas Industry, May 1996 Campanella, R. “High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Business,” Business Geographics, March 1996 Campanella, R., B. Davis, and L. Occi. “Transmission Corridor Encroachment Mapping,” Earth Observation, August 1995 Campanella, R., B. Davis, and G. Gutherie. “Coffee Crop Detection from Space,” Earth Observation, October 1994

Education M.S., Geography/ Mapping Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1992 to 1993. Thesis: Mapping and Measuring the Cloud Forests of Honduras for Effective Delimitation as Nature Reserves B.S., Economics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1984 to 1988

Awards and Honors Louisiana Writer Award, State of Louisiana, 2019. Awardee, Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program ($8000), May 2019. Malcolm Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching, Tulane School of Architecture, 2018. Faculty Fellow-Mellon Graduate Program in Community Engagement, 2018-2019 Selected as King of Krewe du Vieux Carnival Parade, New Orleans, 2018 Tricentennial. Named as Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms) by the Government of France, 2016. Co-Awardee, ByWater Institute Faculty Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Collaboration, 2018 Co-Awardee, Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program, 2017, to design and co-teach interdisciplinary 360 course Awardee, Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program ($7200), June 2016. Press Club of New Orleans—Excellence in Journalism, 2017, First Place for “Geographer’s Space” LEH Digital Videos Honors Professor of the Year Medal, Tulane University, 2016. Awardee, Tulane University Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program ($7200), June 2016. Louisiana Library Association Louisiana Literary Award for Bourbon Street: A History, 2015 Hannah Arendt Prize for Scholarship in the Public Interest, Bard Early College, 2014 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection, 2010, for Lincoln in New Orleans Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year, 2009 for Bienville’s Dilemma Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year, 2007 for Geographies of New Orleans Monroe Fellowship, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University, 2011-Present. Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2010, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University Neighborhood Champion Award, St. Paul Marigny, New Orleans, 2015 Voted Gambit Weekly’s Y@Speak Award for Most Informative Twitter Account, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award, bronze medal in regional science, 2011 (for Delta Urbanism: New Orleans) American Institute of Architects-Louisiana, Honor Award for Unified New Orleans Plan, 2008 New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year, 2007 for Geographies of New Orleans New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year, 2002 for Time and Place in New Orleans National Science Foundation funding as collaborating principal investigator, “Decision-Making Among Businesses in Post- Catastrophe Uncertainty” (2005-2007) and “Modeling Business Return in New Orleans after Katrina” (2007-2009) Neighborhood Award, Marianite Bywater Project, for Geographies of New Orleans, 2007 Best Books selection, Times-Picayune, for Bienville’s Dilemma (2008), Geographies of New Orleans (2006), Time and Place in New Orleans (2002), and New Orleans Then and Now (1999) Interdisciplinary collaboration recognized through award from Tulane University Health Sciences Center, 2003-2004 Lockheed-Martin Employee of the Year for 1995 and Lockheed-Martin Employee of the Month, July 1995 Best Student Paper, Department of Geography and Anthropology, 1993 Full Graduate Assistantship, Louisiana State University, 1992 Presidential Scholarship, Alfred University, 1984 and Regents Scholarship, New York, 1984

Credited Classes Taught New Orleans Geography/GIS for Architects, Dilemmas of New Orleans Honors Colloquium, Urban Geography: New Orleans Case Study, Musical Cultures of the Gulf South (co-taught), Making New Orleans, Historical Geography of New Orleans, Before/After Katrina, Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing, plus independent study classes and workshops in GIS.

Speaking Engagements/Invited Papers • Speaker, New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, New Orleans, March 5, 2020 • Monroe Fellow Annual Lecture, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South-Freeman Auditorium, December 2, 2019 • Panel Moderator, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, November 9, 2019 • Speaker, New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, New Orleans, November 7, 2019 • Louisiana Writer Award Acceptance Speech, Louisiana Capitol, November 2, 2019 • Speaker, New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, Baton Rouge, September 18, 2019 • Speaker, New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, Baton Rouge, May 8, 2019 • Plenary Panelist, Tulane Engineering Forum, New Orleans, April 12, 2019 • Speaker, New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute, New Orleans, March 28, 2019 • Speaker, 23rd Annual Williams Research Center Symposium, The Historic New Orleans Collection, January 19, 2019 • Luncheon Speaker, IAEE Meeting, New Orleans, December 10, 2018 • Lecturer, CFF/YPO Annual Meeting, New Orleans, December 9, 2018 • Lecturer, Louisiana Land Title Association Conference, New Orleans, December 7, 2018 • Monroe Fellow Annual Lecture, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South-Freeman Auditorium, November 26, 2018 • Keynote Speaker, National Humanities Conference, New Orleans, November 8, 2018 • Opening Speaker, Preservation Matters Symposium, New Orleans, October 5, 2018 • Plenary Speaker, American Institute of Architects, Louisiana Chapter Conference, New Orleans, September 27, 2018 • Luncheon Speaker, Louisiana Civil Engineering Conference, Kenner, Louisiana, September 27, 2018 • Speaker, Nobel Prize Forum: Paradox of Water, Augsberg University, Minneapolis, MN, September 13-15, 2018 • Lecturer, Louisiana in World War II Symposium, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, April 19, 2018 • Speaker, Manuscripts Society, hosted by The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, April 19, 2018 • Annual Lecturer, American Geographical Society/Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, April 13, 2018 • Presenter, Indigenous Spaces—French Expectations Symposium, New Orleans, March 14, 2018 • Presenter, Making New Orleans Home Tricentennial Symposium, New Orleans, March 11, 2018 • Luncheon Speaker, New Orleans Geological Society, New Orleans, March 5, 2018 • Luncheon Speaker, Southern Living Home Summit, New Orleans, March 2, 2018 • Luncheon Speaker, Tulane Admiralty Law Institute, New Orleans, February 28, 2018 • Keynote Speaker, Social Coast Forum, Charleston, South Carolina, February 6, 2018. • Speaker, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Tricentennial Lecture, February 1, 2018 • Speaker, Bank of Montreal executive visit to New Orleans, January 13, 2018 • Guest Lecturer, The World, vessel, Bahamas to New Orleans, January 2-5, 2018 • Monroe Fellow Annual Lecture, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South-Freeman Auditorium, November 27, 2017 • Panelist, New Orleans Book Festival, November 11, 2017 • Speaker, CEO New Orleans Arts Seminar, New Orleans, November 7, 2017 • Speaker, Tulane Homecoming, New Orleans, November 3, 2017 • Panelist and Presenter, Louisiana Book Festival, October 28, 2017 • Panelist, Bleu Orleans: Celebrating Black Creole Culture at , New Orleans, October 11, 2017 • Speaker, Louisiana Landmarks Society, New Orleans, October 5, 2017 • Panelist, Ponderosa Stomp Musical Conference, New Orleans, October 5, 2017 • Speaker, Gehl Group Symposium, New Orleans, September 28, 2017 • Speaker, American Institute of Architects Mississippi Chapter Conference, New Orleans, June 24, 2017. • Panelist, Public Space in New Orleans-Urban Orders Symposium, Tulane Small City Center, April 10, 2017 • Speaker, Washington University Graduate History Association Conference, St. Louis, March 31, 2017 • Panelist, Tennessee Williams Festival Conference, March 26, 2017 • Speaker, The New Bienville Society, New Orleans, March 23, 2017 • Luncheon Lecturer, Tulane Board of Administrators, March 15, 2017 • Evening Lecturer at President’s House for Tulane University-Audubon Place event, January 12, 2017. • Speaker, Emergency and Disaster Management Program, Georgetown University, New Orleans, December 12, 2016 • Monroe Fellow Annual Lecture, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South-Freeman Auditorium, 2016 • Speaker, Seaside Pienza Institute Symposium, New Orleans, October 7, 2016 • Opening Speaker, Southeast Chapter of Society of Architectural Historians Conference, New Orleans, Sept 29, 2016 • Speaker, Surdna Foundation Board Meeting, New Orleans, September 11, 2016 • Speaker, American Institute of Architects Mississippi Chapter Conference, New Orleans, July 30, 2016 • Presenter, 2018 Tricentennial Forum, 504ward and 2018 NOLA Foundation, New Orleans, June 27/August 2, 2016 • Lecturer, Friday Nights at NOMA (New Orleans Museum of Art), June 17, 2016 • Presenter, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Public Policy Program, New Orleans, May 12, 2016 • Presenter, Symposium on the History and Typology of French-Based Creole Buildings, New Orleans, April 16, 2016 • Panelist, Tennessee Williams Festival Conference, April 2, 2016 • Lecturer, SAGE Series, McNeese State University, March 31, 2016 • Keynote Speaker, Center for Natural Resource Economics & Policy Conference, New Orleans, March 21, 2016 • Speaker, The New Bienville Society, New Orleans, March 17, 2016 • Speaker, American College of Trial Lawyers Meeting, New Orleans, January 22, 2016 • Speaker, Harvard Environmental Health Fellows Program Workshop, New Orleans, January 7, 2016 • Speaker, Emergency and Disaster Management Program, Georgetown University, New Orleans, December 7, 2015 • Speaker, National Geographic Society Council of State Social Studies Supervisors, New Orleans, November 10, 2015 • Lecturer, Morris Bart Sr. Lecture Series at the Jewish Community Center, New Orleans, November 9, 2015 • Speaker, Future of New Orleans Symposium: Will New Orleans Survive Its Prosperity? November 6, 2015 • Lecturer, Big Easy Author Night, New Orleans , New Orleans, September 23, 2015 • Panelist, Association of State Dam Safety Officials, “Flood Risk Management,” New Orleans, September 15, 2015 • Panelist, American Institute of Architects panel on “The Next 10 Years,” New Orleans, August 27, 2015 • Featured Interview, Arts and Letters Program at the New Orleans Museum of Art, August 21, 2015 • Speaker, American Institute of Architects Mississippi Chapter Conference, New Orleans, July 25, 2015 • Plenary Panelist, Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado, July 20-23, 2015 • Speaker, City and Landscapes Symposium, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 24-27, 2015 • Speaker, Preservation Resource Center—New Orleans, June 13, 2015 • Speaker, Tulane Alumni Association—San Francisco, May 27, 2015 • Speaker, Centennial Celebration of the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, May 3, 2015 • Panelist, “Katrina: Before, During, After,” Loyola University, April 16, 2015 • Lecturer, SAGE Series, McNeese State University, March 23, 2015 • TEDXTU Speaker, Tulane University, February 5, 2015 • Monroe Fellow Annual Lecture, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South-Freeman Auditorium, November 18, 2014 • Speaker, International Irish Famine Commemoration, New Orleans, November 6-8, 2014 • Presenter, Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, November 1, 2014 • Speaker, Stein Lecture Series, Cornell University Architecture/Planning, Ithaca, New York, October 7, 2014 • Panelist, Society for Environmental Journalism Annual Conference, September 7, 2014, New Orleans • Speaker, Urbanized Deltas in Transition, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, June 13, 2014 • Panelist, Environmental Design Research Association Plenary on Communicating Change, May 30, 2014, New Orleans • Tennessee Williams Festival, panelist, New Orleans, March 23, 2014 • Speaker, The New Bienville Society, New Orleans, March 2014 • Panelist, “Sustaining Prosperity for Greater New Orleans, Greater New Orleans, Inc., February 14, 2014 • Keynote Speaker, National Park Service, Lincoln Boyhood Home National Memorial, Indiana, February 9, 2014 • Keynote Speaker, “After Katrina: Transnational Perspectives on the Futures of the Gulf South,” November 15, 2013 • Banquet Speaker, Olmsted Legacy Dinner, J. C. Olmsted Society for Audubon Park, New Orleans, October 10, 2013 • Speaker, World Presidents’ Organization, “Challenges of Mississippi Delta Life,” New Orleans, September 20, 2013 • Panelist, Conference on Artists and Neighborhood Change / Gentrification, Baltimore, Maryland, June 20-21, 2013 • Panelist, Tulane University Hillel Center “Big Issues” Series, June 6, 2013 • Presenter, Colloque International: Saint-Louis di Sénégal et La Nouvelle-Orléans, April 22-26, 2013 • Speaker, LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology “Friday Forum,” Baton Rouge, April 19, 2013 • Jazz and Heritage Foundation Tom Dent Congo Square Symposium, panelist, New Orleans, April 4, 2013 • Tennessee Williams Festival, panelist, New Orleans, March 23, 2013 • Cornell University, Department of Landscape Architecture Speaker Series, Ithaca, March 14, 2013 • Speaker, 200th Anniversary of the Louisiana Supreme Court Ceremony, New Orleans, March 1, 2013 • Plenary Speaker, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Conference, February 17, 2013 • Commentator, Panel on Ethnic Entrepreneurship, American Historical Association Conference, January 3, 2013 • Plenary, “New Orleans: Challenges and Issues,” Economic Analysis Research Network, December 10, 2012 • TED-British American Project, New Orleans, November 10, 2012 • Presenter, Colloque International: Saint-Louis di Sénégal et La Nouvelle-Orléans, St. Louis, Senegal, June 4-7, 2012 (paper presented in absentia due to family emergency) • Panelist, “Tracking Louisiana’s Legal Heritage: 200 Years of the Federal Courts in Louisiana,” April 13, 2012 • Keynote Speaker, Trust for Public Lands Conference, New Orleans, April 18, 2012 • Panelist, “Detailing a Moment in History,” Tennessee Williams Festival, New Orleans, March 24, 2012 • Panelist, 2012 Steamboat Bicentennial Celebration, New Orleans, January 28, 2012 • Guest Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; January 2012, September 2010, and September 2009 • Moderator, “Fighting Blight Right” Panel, National Trust for Historic Preservation et al, New Orleans, October 4, 2011 • Keynote Speaker, The Claiborne Society National Meeting, October 1, 2011 • Guest Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Architecture, September 2, 2011 • Keynote Speaker, Rising Tide Conference, New Orleans, August 27, 2011 • Panelist, PEN World Literary Festival, , April 28-May 1, 2011 • Presenter, American Phoenix Conference, Université Lyon II, France, March-April 2011 • Presenter, Réponses Sociétales aux Vulnérabilités Environnementales, Aix en Provence, France, March 2011 • Guest Lecturer, Abraham Lincoln Bookshop / Virtual Book Signing, Chicago, February 19, 2011 • Guest Lecturer, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, February 14, 2011 • Presenter, “From American Sodom to American Phoenix” Conference, New Orleans, October 21-22, 2010 • TEDxNOLA, New Orleans, August 27, 2010 • Plenary Speaker, American Planning Association Delta Urbanism Conference, New Orleans, April 12, 2010 • Presenter, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, March 30, 2010 • Guest Lecturer, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, February 9, 2010 • Presenter, Macalester College Civic Engagement Forum, New Orleans, January 15, 2010 • Guest Lecturer, Cartographie et Société Urbaine, Université Paris 12 - Val de Marne, France, December 4, 2009 • Presenter, Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, October 2009 • Panelist, Loyola University, Center for the Study of New Orleans, October 21, 2009 • Guest Lecturer, Louisiana State Museum History Series, July 9, 2009 • Guest Lecturer, Loyola University Jesuit Summer Institute, New Orleans, June 1, 2009 • Guest Lecturer, University of New Orleans Department of Geography Forum, New Orleans, April 16, 2009 • Luncheon Speaker, Southern Group on Educational Affairs / Association of American Medical Colleges, April 3, 2009 • Presenter, Delta Urbanism Symposium, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, March 27, 2009 • Presenter, Risk and Planet Earth Symposium, Leipzig, Germany, March 3, 2009 • Speaker, Kellogg Foundation Executive Meeting, New Orleans, October 14, 2008 • Speaker, Dutch Dialogues, New Orleans, October 10 and March 6, 2008 • Panelist, American Society of Landscape Architects, , October 6, 2008 • Speaker, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Symposium, New Orleans, June 2008, July 2009, July 2010 • Luncheon Speaker, International Legislative and Drafting Institute, New Orleans, June 10, 2008 • Keynote Speaker, Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Sciences (MYRES), New Orleans, May 22, 2008 • Luncheon Speaker, Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Pensacola, Florida, May 15, 2008 • Plenary Speaker, Louisiana Remote Sensing / GIS Conference, New Orleans, April 7-11, 2008 • Presenter, USA-France Workshop on Urban Ecology, Fontainebleau, France, January 10-11, 2008 • Keynote Speaker, Lambda Alpha International Honorary Society for Land Economics, Chicago, November 15, 2007 • Keynote Speaker, Trust for Public Land Fundraiser for , Chicago, November 14, 2007 • Keynote Speaker, Traditional Building Conference, New Orleans, October 2007 • Presenter, US State Department “Sustainable Dialogues” Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, June 2007 • Speaker, Trust for Public Land Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana June 2007 • Speaker, Perkins + Will (Architectural Firm) Principals Retreat, April 24-25, 2007 • Speaker, Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, lectures and keynote speech, April 3, 2007 • Panelist, Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, New Orleans, March 30-April 1, 2007 • Presenter, Journal of American History / University of South Katrina Symposium, March 2007 • Lecturer, Tulane School of Architecture / AIA- New Orleans, February 2007 • Lecturer, Institut Supérieur d'Ingénierie et de Gestion de l'Environnement, Ecole des Mines, February 2007 • Presenter, Tanner Humanities Center Katrina Conference, University of Utah, January 2007 • Lecturer, Louisiana Landmarks Society, New Orleans, June and December 2006 • Panelist, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, December 7, 2006 • Presenter, Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, October 28, 2006 • Lecturer and Keynote Speaker, Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, April 17, 2006 • Presenter, State University Geography Convention, April 7, 2006 • Lecturer, UC-Berkeley Department of City and Regional Planning, March 9, 2006 • Presenter, Princeton University Department of Architecture Symposium, March 4, 2006 • Lecturer, Ball State University Department of Geography, February 17, 2006 • Lecturer, University of Southern California School of Policy and Planning, February 14, 2006 • Panelist, Loyola University, New Orleans, February 9, 2006 • Design review panelist, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, December 17, 2005 • Presenter, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design symposium, October 27, 2005 • Lecturer, Tulane School of Architecture, March 2004 • Lecturer, Louisiana Historical Society, November 2003 • Lecturer, The Orleans Club, Le Petit Salon, and Round Table Club, various dates 1999-2020

Committees, Review Boards, Visiting Faculty Appointments, and Other Services Member, Tulane Research Council, 2019-2020 Exhibit, “Mapping the Crescent,” featured 3D dynamic map display at the /Louisiana State Museum, 2019. Guest Curator, Where Y’Art Tricentennial Gallery Exhibit, White Linen Night/Dirty Linen Night, 2018 Appointed Associate Dean for Research, Tulane School of Architecture, October 2018 Member, Research Task Force, Tulane School of Architecture, 2018 Member, Preservation Task Force, Tulane School of Architecture, 2018 Member, Senate Library Committee, Tulane University, 2018 Lectures Committee, Tulane School of Architecture, 2018 Member and Chief Writer, Decanal Review Committee, 2018 Appointed to Mayor’s Advisory Committee for New Orleans 2018 Tricentennial Commission Member, New Orleans Business Alliance Advisory Board—Long-Term Planning Subcommittee, 2017 Member, Press Club of New Orleans Critical reviewer for manuscripts submitted to University of Nevada-Las Vegas Press, University of Chicago Press, Princeton Architectural Press, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Louisiana State University Press, University of Louisiana Press, University Press of Mississippi, Louisiana History, Journal of Historical Geography; and Coasts; Disasters Journal; Places Journal, and others. Member, Tulane School of Architecture Events and Speakers Committee, 2013-Present Monroe Fellow and Advisory Committee, Tulane University New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Advisory Team, New Orleans Redevelopment Authority “Future Ground” competition Served on Louisiana Landmarks Society “New Orleans Nine” committee, 2011-2012 Evaluator for proposals to the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2010-2011 Evaluation Panelist-National Science Foundation, 2006-2009 Contributor to Louisiana State Museum’s “Katrina and Beyond” Exhibit Appointee to Working Group advising New Orleans Master Plan and Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, 2008-2009 Tulane Partnership for the Transformation of the Urban Community, Executive Committee, 2006-2007 Bring New Orleans Back Commission, Sustainability Subcommittee 2005-2006 and Unified New Orleans Plan, 2006-2007 Evaluator of proposals to NASA Earth Observations Commercial Applications Program, 1994-1996