Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Ronn M. Daniel is an assistant professor of design at James Madison University. He earned a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Duke University (Summa Cum Laude, 1991) and a Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1994). He is the principal of his own design firm in Harrisonburg, Virginia and editor of a forthcoming book series exploring theoretical practices in contemporary interior design. Talinn Grigor is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism section of the School of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. She is completing her dissertation, entitled "Cultivated Modernity: the Society for National Heritage and Propaganda Architecture in zoth Century Iran," which is focused on the politics of space and constructs of taste within the political context of the modern Middle East. She received a Master's of Architecture from MIT in 1998 and a Bachelor's of Architecture from USC in 1996. Currently, she is the zoo3-2005 Ittleson Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery ofArt, Washington, D.C. She has recently published "reCultivating 'Good Taste': the early Pahlavi Modernists and their Society for National Heritage," in the journal ofIranian Studies (March 2004); and "Of Metamorphosis: Meaning on Iranian Terms," in Third Text. (2003). Delos D. Hughes 1s Professor of Politics (Emeritus) at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. M. Ruth Little is an architectural historian who is principal of Longleaf Historic Resources, a consulting firm in Raleigh, North Carolina established in 1990. She received her M.A. in art history from Brown University and Ph.D. in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches a summer field school in historic building documentation at the University ofNorth Carolina at Greensboro. Her books include Sticks and Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers (Chapel Hill, 1998) and Coastal Plain and Fancy: The Historic Architecture of Lenoir County and Kinston (Kinston, 1998). She has also published a number of scholarly articles and essays. She is currently writing a book on the Tidewater cottages of North and South Carolina. Paul Sprague is retired from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he was Professor of Architectural History. He now lives near Melbourne, Florida, which state he represents on the SESAH board of directors. His interest in the architecture and life of Louis Sullivan goes back to his graduate school days at Princeton in the early 196os when he wrote a thesis about Louis Sullivan's architectural ornament. Along the way he was distracted by unanticipated opportunities-a survey of the historic structures of Illinois, historic preservation, balloon framing, the mystery of the center post in the Japanese pagoda and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin. More recently in the book about the Charnley housenow the SAH headquarters in Chicago-he returned to his work on Sullivan to consider the question of who actually designed the house, Louis Sullivan or Frank Lloyd Wright. In ARRIS 13 he wrote about Sullivan's wife and their previously unknown child. ARRIS ...