James Bartholomay Kiracofe
PO Box 93, Free Union, Virginia, 22940
Born: Lake Forest, Illinois, 17 January 1952
EDUCATION:
Deerfield Academy, Graduate [1966-1970]
University of Virginia, BA Religious Studies 1975
University of Virginia, MA History 1990, directed by William B. Taylor.
Thesis Title: "Constructing a Matrix for the Miraculous: A Study of Christianization and The Transformation of the Sacramental Imagination In Sixteenth-Century Mexico."
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Ph.D Environmental Design & Planning 1996
College of Architecture and Urban Studies, 1990-96.
Directed by Humberto Rodriguez-Camilloni
Dissertation Title: "Architectural Fusion and Indigenous Ideology In Early Colonial Mexico A Case Study of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, 1535-1580, Demonstrating Cultural Transmission and Transformation Through Negotiation and Consent in Planning a New Urban Environment."
http://www.arch.vt.edu/CAUS/ED/kira.htm
Dissertation Fellowship: Social Science Research Council, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1972 - Owner of Jericho Rock Works, Ltd. an artisanal masonry contracting enterprise specializing in custom rock work and restorations
1978-80 Restoration/adaptive re-use projects in Provence
1982-87 Owner of Jericho World Imports. Imported architectural antiques into the United States from France, Spain and Ireland
1988- Owner of Jericho World Images, a photo stock agency specializing in architectural images for research libraries, featuring topics in Spanish and Latin American Architectural History, as well as other world wide area collections. Collection sold to Inter-American Institute, 1995.
1995- Founder and Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History, an organization founded to promote and publish research on Ibero-American topics.
PUBLICATIONS
1992 Mar. "A Structure for the Ages" [note on Casa de la Cacica with photographs] published in Américas magazine of the OAS.
1995 Jan. "Architectural Fusion and Indigenous Ideology in Early Colonial Teposcolula" in Anales 66, of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, Mexico, pp. 45-84.
http://www.esteticas.unam.mx/anavol17.html
1997 Dec. "Sobrevivencia de la arquitectura de los establecimientos españoles en los Estados Unidos," in Arquitectura Colonial Iberoamericana, Caracas: Armitano Editores, 1997, pp. 463-492.
1999 Mar. "Was the Huey Cocoliztli a Hemorrhagic Fever?" (Co-authored with John S. Marr, M.D., M.P.H.) In Medical History, 2000, 44: 341-362. London: Wellcome Trust.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubhommedissvol44.html