Gabrielle M. Lanier, Associate Professor of History, received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, her M.A. from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. She presently teaches public history, U.S. history, material culture, and a graduate writing and research seminar, and also directs the Center for Valley and Regional Studies.
      She is the author of The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity (Johns Hopkins, 2005), and Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (Johns Hopkins, 1997 and 2002, co-authored with Bernard L. Herman), which won the Fred Kniffen Prize for the best book in material culture for 1999. She has published or presented papers on topics including architectural pattern books, the building process in the early republic, legend and regional identity in the early American landscape, the development of the Valley Road of Virginia, the Pennsylvania German landscape, architectural documentation and historic preservation, the 1798 Federal Direct Tax, and interpretation issues at museums and historic sites. Her fieldwork, which has mostly ranged from southern Maine to coastal South Carolina and central Kentucky, has tended to concentrate on the architectural and cultural landscapes of the mid-Atlantic region.

Gabrielle Milan Lanier
(Full-time faculty)
History Department
JACK 226
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 3615
e-mail: laniergm@jmu.edu