Three UVA School of Architecture alumnae, Victoria M. Young (UVA, MArH and PhD), Ann C. Huppert (UVA, MArH and PhD) and Thaisa Way (UVA, MArH) recently helped to bring together over 1,000 participants for the Society of Architectural Historians 2020 Virtual Conference held on April 30 - May 1.

The annual conference, chaired this year by Victoria Young, Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of St. Thomas and SAH's current President, serves as one of the most important events for architectural historians and scholars. As as a result of this year's conference being held virtually, SAH saw increased participation and was able to expand their platform by sharing many of the speakers' talks online for a month.

Serving as the conference's local co-chairs, Ann C. Huppert is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, and Thaisa Way is a Professor at the University of Washington and the Resident Program Director for Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

The University of Virginia's architectural history community was also represented at the conference by Marie A. Frank (UVA, PhD), Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who presented her research on Fiske Kimball; Christine Madrid French (UVA, MArH), Director Development for the California Preservation Foundation, who hosted a conference webinar; Bryan Clark Green (UVA, MArH and PhD) of Commonwealth Architects in Richmond, the session chair for Preserving the Postmodern Past; and Mabel O. Wilson (UVA, BSArch), Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University — Wilson was the 2020 Eduard F. Selker Keynote Speaker, presenting "Home of the Oppressed": Democracy, Slavery and Civic Architecture.

View SAH Annual Conference keynote talks here

Victoria M. Young has been a member of SAH since 1994 and has served on and chaired many committees since 2011.  She has served as 2nd Vice President, 1st Vice President and now serves as President of SAH.

Ann C. Huppert joined SAH in 1993 and has served as a JSAH Book Review Editor, a Session Chair at the 2018 Annual Conference.

Thaisa Way became an SAH member in 2001, and has served on numerous committees, as a Session Chair for 2019 and 2015 Annual conferences, Landscapes Coordinator for SAH-Archipedia, and on the MacDougal Book Award Committee for 2014.  She has also led the SAH Landscape Chapter.