Alison K. (Kim) Hoagland, an architectural historian,
was previously the senior historian of the Historic American Buildings
Survey of the National Park Service, where she worked for fifteen
years. She has published a book an Alaskan architecture ("Buildings
of Alaska", Oxford University Press, 1993) and has recently
completed a manuscript on U.S. army forts in Wyoming. Her longstanding
interest in workers' housing is gradually focusing on the Copper
Country, with the help of MTU students who have been documenting
company-built houses. She is active in the Vernacular Architecture
Forum, for which she is co-editor of the next two volumes of "Perspectives
in Vernacular Architecture". She received her B.A. from Brown
University and her M.A. from George Washington University in American
Studies, with a concentration in historic preservation.
