Dell Upton

Dell Upton is Distinguished Research Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on architectural history, the Black cultural landscape, and stat-ues and monuments since antiquity. He is the author, most recently, of What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale, 2015) and American Architecture: A Thematic History (Oxford, 2019). Upton has been a Resident of the American Academy in Rome...See more

Dell Upton is Distinguished Research Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on architectural history, the Black cultural landscape, and stat-ues and monuments since antiquity. He is the author, most recently, of What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale, 2015) and American Architecture: A Thematic History (Oxford, 2019). Upton has been a Resident of the American Academy in Rome and Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. See less