He has also taught studio courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), and Monmouth College. His scholarly interests include landscape design, cultural studies and collective memory in America. His dissertation provides a genealogy of the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, exploring the lasting effects of the commemoration process on the struggle of urban redevelopment. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, his M.L.A. from the University of Virginia and his BA in philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. E-mail: mjholla@clemson.edu