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Robin Karson is the founder and executive director of LALH. She holds a B. G. S. and an M. A. in the History of Art and Museum Practice from the University of Michigan. Following an internship at the Mount Holyoke Museum of Art, she became a columnist for the Springfield Sunday Republican. She subsequently served as contributing editor to Garden Design and Landscape Architecture, and wrote frequently for those magazines on a wide range of topics.
Karson is the author of more than one hundred articles about American landscape history. Her books include Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect; The Muses of Gwinn; Pioneers of American Landscape Design (as co-editor);and A Genius for Place (University of Massachusetts Press in association with LALH). She has organized several touring exhibitions for LALH on topics relating to American landscape history.
Karson is the recipient of three Honor Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects and in 2004 was named a distinguished member of the Honor Society of Sigma Lambda Alpha for her “continued high-quality contribution to the scholarship of landscape architecture and the literature of landscape architecture history.” She serves on several local and national boards.
Neil Brigham joined the LALH staff as the administrative and research assistant in 2005. In this role he performs administrative duties and assists with production tasks associated with LALH book projects. Prior to this, Brigham gained more than ten years of administrative and managerial experience while working as the assistant director of the University of Massachusetts Child Care Program.
In 1983 Brigham earned a B. S. in psychology from the University of Massachusetts and more recently earned an M. A. in illustration from Syracuse University. In addition to his work at LALH, he pursues his interest in art and illustration. In 2005 Brigham’s artwork was selected to be a part of the 48th Annual Society of Illustrators Exhibition in New York City.
Jane Roy Brown is director of educational outreach at LALH, where she works to build the readership for LALH books and greater awareness of the LALH mission. She is also a freelance writer and editor. Her writing has appeared in Architectural Record, the Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Garden Design, Harvard Magazine, Preservation, Landscape Architecture, and other publications. Brown received a 2008 Gold award from the Society of American Travel Writers’ Foundation and has been a contributing editor at Landscape Architecture since 2005.
Brown earned a B. A. from Middlebury College in 1975 and a certificate in landscape-design history from Radcliffe Seminars (now the Landscape Institute at Boston Architectural College) in 2001. Her final project documented the summer estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford in Seal Harbor, Maine, designed by Jens Jensen in the 1920s.
Mackenzie Greer joined the LALH staff as Warren H. Manning Research Project coordinator in August. Greer, a native of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, brings a passion for heritage landscapes to the national survey project. She is working on a dual-Master's degree in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on the intersections of preservation, sustainability, and community revitalization.
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