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MacDougal Portrait

Bonnie G. MacDougall

title

Associate Professor

department

Architecture

address

117 Rand Hall

phone

(607) 255-5290

fax

(607) 255-0291

email

bgm1@cornell.edu

Bonnie G MacDougall, Ph.D. 1973, is a cultural and architectural historian in the Department of Architecture who has been a member of the faculty since 1980. She teaches cross cultural graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department's architecture, culture and society curriculum as well as specialized courses on the architectures of South Asia. She recently launched a digital collection of written works and images on South Asian architecture and landscape experience through University Libraries under grants from the offices of the President and the Provost —
beyondthetaj.library.cornell.edu. She is a former Fulbright scholar, the former director of the Cornell South Asian Language and Area Center and a recipient of the Martin Dominguez Distinguished Teaching Award in AAP.

education

  • A.B. Cornell University
  • M.A. Cornell University
  • Ph.D. Cornell University

publications

  • The Sinhala house: landscape experience and domestic order in Kandyan, Sri Lanka, in Ronald Knapp (ed) Asia's "Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience and Change". Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 71-90.
  • "Jantar Mantar", in the Cornell Journal of Architecture, 1996.

research

  • Architecture
  • Culture
  • Society

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