Paul Kapp

Biography

Paul Hardin Kapp is Associate Professor of Architecture and teaches historic preservation in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Director of the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a historic preservation architect and his work has earned awards from the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects, the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (Preservation Virginia), and the Association of General Contractors of East Tennessee. Prior to coming to Illinois, he was the Historic Architect and Campus Historic Preservation Manager for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also taught historic preservation in the Department of City and Regional Planning as a lecturer. He has served on the National Register advisory boards in Virginia and Illinois; chair of the National Council for Preservation Education; and editor of Preservation Education and Research. He is a Franklin Fellow, US Department of State; a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow; a two-time Fulbright Scholar; a CY Residence Fellow at CY Paris University; and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is also a James Marston Fitch Fellow and a Charles Peterson Fellow. His edited book, SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City (University of Illinois Press, 2012) won the 2013 Historic Preservation Award from the Center for Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington and was a Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Title. He recently published Heritage and Hoop Skirts: How Natchez Created the Old South, (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), which won the 2023 J.B. Jackson Book Prize, the 2023 Historic Preservation Book Award from the Center for Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington, the 2023 Fred B. Kniffen Award from the International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture, and the 2023 Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical Association.