Annmarie Adams | |
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 Annmarie Adams speaking at an IGSF event in February 2013 | |
| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley,MArch andPhD McGill University,BA |
| Awards | John K. Branner Travelling Fellowship from theUniversity of California at Berkeley, 1985-86 E. McClung Fleming Fellowship in American Cultural, Social, and Intellectual History from theWinterthur Museum in 1991-92 Jason Hannah Medal from theRoyal Society of Canada, 1999 William Dawson ScholarMcGill University, 2000 Woman of Distinction Award from theYWCA, category Science and Technology, 2002 William C. Macdonald chairMcGill University, 2005 Arcus Endowment Scholar-in-Residence Award from theCollege of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, 2008 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Architectural History History of Medicine Women's Studies |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Doctoral advisor | Dell Upton |
Annmarie Adams (born 1960) is anarchitectural historian and university professor. She is the former Chair of theDepartment of Social Studies of Medicine and is the former Director of theSchool of Architecture atMcGill University. Adams specializes in healthcare architecture and gendered space. At McGill she teaches courses in architectural history andresearch methods.[1] She is the inaugural holder of theStevenson Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science, including Medicine. She is a board member of the Society of Architectural Historians and former board member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Adams focused on domestic architecture in the 1990s and turned to hospital environments about 2000. A paper exploring the intentions and experience of women and children in suburban California established research questions to which Adams would return repeatedly.[2] How do buildings express behavioral expectations and do users of houses simply do what they are told? She followed this up with studies of wartime housing in Canada;[3] privacy and girlhood in 19th-century Quebec;[4] and sick children and maternal care.[5] She and colleagues contributed to an award-winning website, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History, by showcasing the role of a Montreal house in an unsolved double murder.[6] Her more recent works examine Art Deco architecture and hospitals;[7] and the architecture of the Montreal Neurological Institute and neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield.[8] She is currently writing a biography of museum curator and physician Maude Abbott.
Adams has received numerous awards for her academic work including the President's Medal for Media in Architecture (2017) from theRoyal Architectural Institute of Canada, theHilda Neatby Prize (1994) from theCanadian Historical Association (CHA), the Jason Hannah Medal (1999) from theRoyal Society of Canada (RSA), and a Woman of Distinction award (2002) from the MontrealYWCA.[9][10]
She has served in administrative roles including as Curator of theOsler Library and Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University in 2010-11.[11]
Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900. 1996. McGill-Queen's University Press.ISBN 9780773513860
"Designing Women": Gender and the Architectural Profession. (co-written with Peta Tancred) 2000. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 9780802082190
Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943. 2008. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.ISBN 9780816651146
