Bernard L. Herman

Bernard L. Herman is the George B. Tindall Professor of American Studies and Folklore at the University of North Carolina. He also serves on the faculty of the Department of Art in Art History program. His books include Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 7100-1900 (1987), The Stolen House (1992), and Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the early American City, 1778-1830 (2005), all winners of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award for the best published work on North American Vernacular architecture. Other books include A Land and Life Remembered: American Liberian Folk Architecture (1989) with Svend Holsoe and Max Belcher, Everyday Architecture of the Mid Atlantic (1997) with Gabrielle M. Lanier, and the forthcoming Town House. Recognized for Excellence in Teaching, he offers courses in traditional architecture and landscapes, historic preservation, and folk and outsider arts.