Faculty Profile

Bonnie G. MacDougall, a faculty member since 1980, is a cultural and architectural historian. She teaches cross-cultural graduate and undergraduate courses on architecture, culture, and society 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 — Beyond the Taj. She is a former Fulbright scholar, the former director of the Cornell South Asian Language and Area Center, and a recipient of the AAP Martin Dominguez Distinguished Teaching Award. She received her Ph.D. in 1973.

• ARCH 3402 / 5402 Architecture as a Cultural System
• ARCH 3816  Indian Architecture and its Interpretation
• ARCH 6819  East Meets West:  Theorizing the Vernacular
• ARCH 6819 Architourism (with D. Medina Lasansky)

• Beyond the Taj, An ARTstor Collection of Digital Images on South Asia (2010)
• Text Into Form: Dwelling, Cosmos, and Design Theory in Traditional South Asia (2008)
• “The Sinhala House: Landscape Experience and Domestic Order in Kandyan Sri Lanka,” Asia’s Old Dwellings: Tradition. Resilience and Change (Cultural Heritage in Asia Series), ed. Ronald Knapp (2003)

• Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award, Cornell (2006–08)
• Faculty Grant for Digital Library Collections, Cornell (2004-06)
• Martin Dominguez Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching, AAP, Cornell  (1998)
• Cornell Dean of Students Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching, Office of the Dean of Students, Sorority and Fraternities Council (1998)
• Senior Fulbright Hays Award (lecturing), University of Sri Lanka, Department of Sociology (Anthropology) (1979)

• University Libraries South Asia Digital Collection