Dr. Tara Dudley will be giving the 2024 James. P. Jones Distinguished Lecture in American History on Thursday, March 7th at 4pm Eastern. Her talk is entitled “Building the Nation: Enslaved and Free Architects, Builders, and Artisans,” and you can register for the zoom here: https://bit.ly/DudleyatFSU .
Dr. Dudley is an architectural historian and assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her recent book, Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence is the winner of the Association of American Publishers 2022 Prose Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, the 2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction from the Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast), the 2022 Best Book Prize Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), and the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning 2022 On the Brinck Award.
