Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes
By William D. Moore.  The Universtiy of Tennessee Press
http://utpress.org/a/searchdetails.php?jobno=T01073&authorsm=Moore,%20William%20D.

"Interpreting the Shakers: Opening the Villages to the Public, 1955-1965"
By William D. Moore, The Journal of Heritage Stewardship
http://crmjournal.cr.nps.gov/04_article_sub.cfm?issue=Volume%203%20Number%201%20Winter%202006&page=1&seq=2

Dr. Moore’s research focuses upon deriving historical interpretation from architecture and material culture.  Much of his work has examined the interaction between built forms and systems of belief within American society. He also lectures and writes about representations of the past in museums and historic sites.  Dr. Moore holds a Ph.D. from the American and New England Studies Program at Boston University and an A.B. from Harvard in Folklore and Mythology.

   Before coming to UNCW, Dr. Moore pursued a career as a historian outside of an academic setting.  He served as the Executive Director of the Enfield Shaker Museum, in Enfield, New Hampshire, and as the director of the Livingston Masonic Library and Museum in New York City.  Dr. Moore has also worked, as a consultant, guest curator, oral history interviewer, or intern, for the Essex Institute, Strawbery Banke, Nor’lands Living History Center, the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Historical Society, the Museum of American Textile History, the Museum of Our National Heritage, and Horne Creek Farm.

   Dr. Moore currently teaches classes in History and Public History, including Introduction to Public History (HST 470/570) and Historic Preservation in the U.S. (HST 477/577).  Dr. Moore is currently pursuing research on Shriners’ mosques, American Masonic ritual paintings, early twentieth-century representations of the Shakers, and Spiritualist camp meetings.

   Moore is a member of the board of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

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