Nathaniel Quincy Belcher BIO – Short Curriculum Vitae Nathaniel Quincy Belcher is Professor of Architecture and the Director of the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Graham Foundation, and other notable foundations and research entities. He was educated at Virginia Tech and Harvard University and holds both bachelors and masters degrees in architecture. His work has been exhibited and published on many publications including Sites of Memory from Princeton Architectural Press, HarlemWorlds: Metropolis as metaphor exhibition/ publication through the Studio Museum in New York City and most recently in the Archilab exhibition in Orleans France. Belcher’s research and teaching specialization includes Brazilian architecture and modernism; avant-garde practices in diverse cultures; and African American architecture, urbanism, artifacts and culture. He has done field research and presented lectures throughout the United States and in Cuba, Brazil, Lisbon, London, Panama, France and other international locations. Belcher’s work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions. He was one of 11 prominent artists, architects and landscape architects whose work was included in the Dresser Trunk Project, a traveling exhibition in 2007–09. Curator and architect William Williams will feature Belcher’s project in a book on the exhibition. He has worked to establish an independent, research-based program dedicated to the development of critical theoretical ideas and the production/ documentation of objects/ environments that recognize marginalized influences on architecture and its related disciplines. He has a special interest in influences of modernism on "emerging context" and visa versa. He is a licensed architect and a licensed interior designer.