Edward Eigen
Assistant Professor, History and Theory
B.A., University of Virginia
M.Arch., Columbia University
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward Eigen is an architectural historian and scholar whose work focuses on intersections of the human and natural sciences with architecture in the 19th century. He is currently preparing to publish the book An Anomalous Plan which discusses a system of novel sites, instruments, and institutions for researching the natural environment. In the Fall 2009 he organized a conference entitled "On Accident," which will appear as an edited volume. His recent publications include: "Instruire/DŽtruire: Mary Stuart, Catholic Modernism, and the Breton Cult of Monuments," Perspecta 43 (2010); "On the Perils of Historical Geography: On a Pretended Lost Map to a Legendary Sunken Forest," AD (2010); "On the Plagiarism of the Heathers Detected: John Wood on the Translation of Architecture and Empire" Journal of the History of Ideas (2009); "Rain and Rainfall—Great Britain—Periodicity—Periodicals," Cabinet 32 (Spring 2009); "The Disappearance of Charles Perrault: A Cautionary Tale," Perspecta 40 (Fall 2008); and "On the Record: J.M.W. Turner's Studies for the Burning of the Houses of Parliament and Other Uncertain Bequests to History," Grey Room 31 (Spring 2008). On campus, he participated in the Gilburne faculty seminar, in which he delivered a paper on the Garden of Eden and the errors of history. He was named an Old Dominion Faculty Fellow at Princeton University, 2003–2005, and was awarded the 2005 Graduate Mentoring Award by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and the Graduate School of Princeton University. This annual award honors Princeton faculty members who are exemplary in supporting the development of their graduate students as teachers, scholars, and professionals. He was also named to the Executive Committee for the Program in Architecture and Engineering, 2006–2010.
