Willie Granston is a graduate of Trinity College, earned his M.A. from the University of Delaware, where he studied in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and completed his doctorate at Boston University. His dissertation, “‘As if it had Growed There’: Resort Architecture and the New England Landscape, 1875-1915,” reconsidered Northeastern resort buildings and the relationships between these buildings, their sites, and widely-held anxieties surrounding the changing New England landscape.

Professor Granston’s classes interrogate objects of all types - from furniture to paintings to buildings - as pieces of evidence capable of providing insight into the values and beliefs of those responsible for their creation, use, and preservation. Studying historical trajectories through architecture, art, and material culture, Professor Granston encourages students to consider the social, political, and historical influences that shape the objects with which we interact and the built environments that we inhabit.

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