Ethel Goodstein-Murphree Professor B.S., City College, City University of New York B.Arch., City College, City University of New York M.A., Cornell University Ph.D., University of Michigan egoodste@uark.edu 479/575-3805

A specialist in North American and British architecture and cultural studies, Ethel Goodstein-Murphree has been engaged in architectural education and practice for more than three decades.  Following her professional training and architectural practice in New York City, she earned graduate degrees in the history of architecture and historic preservation planning at Cornell University, culminating in an interdisciplinary doctorate in architecture and American cultural studies, earned at the University of Michigan.  Before joining the University of Arkansas faculty in 1992, she worked for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  Since 2002, she has been a partner in studio m², an alternative design firm. 

Dr. Goodstein-Murphree’s research and teaching focus on two complementary areas.  As a scholar, she has published and presented papers on diverse topics ranging from the Arts and Crafts churches of Victorian England to the truck stops of the contemporary American roadside (bibliography available upon request).  In recent years, her scholarship has focused on the architecture of Edward Durell Stone and its preservation, and the image and representation of New Orleans, a body of work she is revisiting to reflect the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the identity of the city. As an advocate of sustaining balance between the past and the present in the built environment, she remains active in the historic preservation field.  Currently, she serves as Chair of the Fayetteville Historic District Commission, on the Board of Directors of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas, and on the Steering Committee for the development of a Campus Preservation Master Plan for the University of Arkansas, funded by the Getty Foundation.

Recognition of Dr. Goodstein-Murphree’s accomplishments include teaching awards from the Department of Architecture and the University of Arkansas Teaching Academy; the American Institute of Architects Education Honors Awards; the American Review of Canadian Studies Award for Distinguished Articles; and the Louisiana Preservation Alliance Award for Excellence in Preservation Education. Her record of funded research includes support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, and the Government of Canada.  In service to the profession, she has been Southwest Region Director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, President of the Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, a member of the AIA/ACSA Research Council and editor of Arris, the Journal of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians.