About this speaker
Sean H. McPherson, teaches courses in global art and architectural history, with a focus upon the material and visual culture of Asia. His research explores Japanese popular religious art and architecture of the Edo through modern periods, Asian-American vernacular cultural landscapes, first-generation and working-class access to higher education, and issues of class, gender and racial-ethnic diversity within the architectural profession. He is the founder of the Gen. One (formerly I Am First!) student group at Bridgewater State University, and a founding member of the student, faculty and staff group Class Beyond the Classroom (CBtC). Dr. McPherson is a Fulbright DDRA grantee, recipient of a Gateways Grant from the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education for globalizing introductory Art History surveys, a Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative Grant to create an integrated history of East Asian Architecture, and a Korea Foundation grant for the introduction of Korean Language Studies at Bridgewater State University. He is a member of the Class Cultures Caucus of the Working Class Studies Association (WCSA), for which he has also served as a judge for the Studs Terkel and C.L.R. James Book Awards. He is the founder and Co-Chair of the Asian American & Diaporic Architectural History Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians, where he is also an Executive Board member, and a founding member of the SAH IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accountability, and Sustainability) Committee.
