Ethan Carr

B.A., History of Art and Archaeology, Columbia College;
M.A., Art History and Archaeology, Columbia Univ.;
M.L.A., Harvard Univ.;
Ph.D. Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art

Rainey Associate Professor

Associate Professor Ethan Carr, Phd, FASLA is a landscape historian and preservationist with over twenty years of experience in the field. He specializes in the history, interpretation, management, and design of public landscapes and has published two books on the history of American national parks, Wilderness by Design (1998) and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma (2007). Carr received his master?s in landscape architecture from Harvard University in 1991 earned his PhD from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2006. He has both bachelor?s and master?s degrees in art history from Columbia University. Carr teaches a required survey of modern landscape design history for both architects and landscape architects. His other survey and seminar courses treat the management of cultural landscapes and other topics in the history of landscape design and technology. Before entering academia, Carr worked for eight years for the National Park Service as a historian and historical landscape architect in Washington and Denver. He also worked for other public agencies and private offices. He has retained a strong interest in municipal as well as national park history and serves as a trustee of the National Association for Olmsted Parks, as well as the Library of American Landscape History and the Shenandoah National Park Trust. He is currently editing the eighth volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, covering the 1880s, the decade during which Olmsted and his partners established their Brookline office and completed hundreds of commissions.