10 October 2006
About Me
- Name: Kenneth Kolson
- Location: Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Fresh out of graduate school in 1970, Kenneth Kolson taught at Hiram College in Ohio for the next fifteen years. In 1985, he joined the staff of the National Endowment for the Humanities, where he worked for the next 22+ years. In 2001, he published Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design (Johns Hopkins). In 2006, he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Oulu in Finland. In 2007, he undertook a special project while detailed to the U.S. Department of State. He retired from the federal service in 2007. In 2008, he went to work for The Ohio State University as director of the Washington Office of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. During the spring semester of 2014, he is serving as a Fulbright scholar at Siauliai University, Lithuania. The opinions expressed on Baltic Avenue are the author's alone and should under no circumstances be attributed to the Glenn School, the Fulbright program, or the Department of State.
Links
- Interactive Map of Finland
- Speak Finnish Like a Pro
- Oulu CHAFF
- European Association for Urban History
- University of Oulu
- Fulbright Center Helsinki
- Fulbright Scholars Program
- Historic Pittsburgh Project
- IAQs
Course Materials
- North American City Syllabus
- North American City Bibliography
- Pittsburgh Syllabus
- Pittsburgh Bibliography
Previous Posts
- Signing Off
- Granite Igloo
- Darkness at Noon (with apologies to Arthur Koestler)
- Rovaniemi and Hagerstown
- Ho! Ho! Ho!
- Star Boys
- The Mysterious Rites of Sauna, part three
- Tornio-Haparanda Site Visit
- O would some power the giftie gie us to see oursel...
- Blood Language
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