_Curriculum Vitae. (A Alanen) docx
Arnold R. Alanen, currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, taught courses in landscape history and cultural resource preservation from 1974-2009. He continues to publish on numerous topics, primarily cultural landscapes; the history of landscape architecture, company towns and planned communities; rural and immigrant settlements, and vernacular architecture. The majority of his publications focus on North America, although some have been based in Finland, Norway, Australia, Japan, and Columbia. His books include The Scenic Route: Building Minnesota’s North Shore (2025); Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town (2007); Finns in Minnesota (2012); and a co-edited volume, Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (2000). A co-authored book, Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin (1987), was republished in 2012, and again in 2023 upon the 75th anniversary of the community. He also served as the co-editor of a two-volume field guide, prepared in 2012 for the Madison-based conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Dr. Alanen, along with his colleague, Darrel Morrison, helped to found Landscape Journal during the early 1980s, served as co-editor until 1991, and as a consulting editor until 2000. He also founded and edited the Wisconsin Land & Life series of books, published by the University of Wisconsin Press from 2005 to 2016. As an advisor to the National Park Service, he and his graduate students documented cultural landscapes in Alaska and the Midwest throughout the 1990s. Dr. Alanen has received seven national research and communication awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects and was named an Honorary Member of ASLA in 2008. The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) recognized him five times, naming him the recipient of its Outstanding Educator Award in 2001, and electing him to its first Academy of Fellows in 2007. He also has been selected as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow, a W.K Kellogg Foundation National Fellow; a visiting research professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland; and the Finlandia Foundation National Lecturer of the Year. Prof. Alanen served as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture from 1985-88, and 2001-03.