Anat Geva appointed to head Southern historical society

Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture, has been appointed president of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians, which promotes scholarship on architecture and related subjects.

A nonprofit organization, SESAH serves as a forum for ideas among architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and others involved in professions related to the built environment. The group also publishes a newsletter three times a year and an annual scholarly journal, [ARRIS] (http://polytekton.com/sesah/sesah/Publications.html) .

Additionally, SESAH presents annual [awards] (http://polytekton.com/sesah/sesah/Awards.html) honoring outstanding scholarship about architecture in the South or by authors who reside in one of SESAH’s 12 member states, including the "Best of the South" preservation award, honoring a project that preserves or restores a historic building or complex of buildings in an outstanding manner and that demonstrates excellence in research, technique and documentation.

Geva’s scholarship is focused on architectural design in an international, historic and environmental context, historic preservation, sacred architecture and the history of building technology. She is a faculty fellow of the [Center for Heritage Conservation] (http://archone.tamu.edu/chc/) and in Religious Studies at the [Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research] (http://glasscock.tamu.edu/) .

Her recently completed [book] (http://one.arch.tamu.edu/news/2011/11/1/geva-pens-book/) provides the first comprehensive study of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sacred architecture.