Marian Scott Moffett Papers
This collection contains the personal papers, photographs, and academic papers of Marian Scott Moffett. Documenting both her personal and professional life, the collection includes journals, correspondence, academic course files, and photographs of architecture.
The material is arranged into five series:
Series I, Personal Materials (1949-2004), includes items of a biographical nature which provide detail on several periods of her life. The materials begin with her childhood and largely document her own education. This series includes forms of identification, portraits, awards, grade reports, test scores, graduate school admission materials, curricula vitae, correspondence, news clippings, writings, and church leadership materials.
Series II, Academic and Professional Material (1883-2004), documents Moffett's academic and professional career. This series is further broken down into six topics categories. Sub-Series A, Teaching, illustrates her teaching career and contains academic course files, syllabi, and more. Sub-Series B, Research, documents her work on architectural education, TVA architecture, church buildings, cantilever barns, and planned towns. Sub-Series C, Writings and Publications, contains drafts and finalized versions of Moffett's published works including in articles, theses, and textbooks. Sub-Series D, Conferences and Professional Organizations, includes material from activity in service organizations, particularly the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH). Sub-Series D, Personnel Records, includes annual reports, faculty material, and evaluations. Lastly, Sub-Series E, Administration and University Service, contains files from her time with the School of Architecture, Faculty Senate, Academic Affairs, and other administrative activities at UT.
Series III, Photographs, Contact Sheets, and Negatives (1972-2004), contains photographs, many of them taken by Moffett for various architectural research projects, as well as negatives and contact sheets. Topics include cantilever barns, TVA dams, European architecture, and UT colleagues. Some of the pictured locations are East Tennessee, various other places in the United States, England, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine. This series also includes files of photographs intended for her textbooks.
Series IV, Appointment Books (1974-2003) includes Moffett's appointment books which contain the details of her daily schedule during her years at UT.
Series V, Oversize Prints and Drawings (1958-2004), contains all large format items from the collection.
Dates
- 1883-2004
- Majority of material found within 1949-2004
Conditions Governing Access
Collections are stored offsite and must be requested in advance. See www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Conditions Governing Use
The UT Libraries claims only physical ownership of most material in the collections. Persons wishing to broadcast or publish this material must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants on www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Extent
12 Linear Feet (15 boxes [8 record, 4 half, 3 flat])
Abstract
The Marian Scott Moffett Papers contain the personal papers, photographs, and academic papers belonging to Marian Scott Moffet. The materials include journals, correspondence, education records, and photographs of architecture.
Biographical / Historical
Marian Scott Moffett was born on June 6, 1949, to Ronald and Raiford Scott in Johnson City, Tennessee and later lived in Greensboro, North Carolina. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from North Carolina State University in 1971 and married Kenneth Moffett in the same year. Moffett then entered graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she earned a Master of Architecture degree in Advanced Studies in 1973. She continued with interdisciplinary studies in architectural education, earning a PhD in 1975. Her dissertation was a comparative study of first level design teaching in architecture and engineering programs. The couple's daughter and only child, Alison, was born in 1979.
She began teaching in the School of Architecture at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1975 as Assistant Professor, earned promotion to Associate Professor in 1980, and became a full Professor in 1989. Besides her dedication to instruction, Moffett served the university in various administrative capacities, including Coordinator of Assessment Services from 1992 to 1993, Associate to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs from 1994 to 1999, Interim Dean of Admissions and Records from 1998 to 1999, Associate Provost from 2000 to 2001, and Associate Dean in the College of Architecture and Design from 2003 to 2004. Moffett was involved in the Faculty Senate from 1982 to 2002, including her service as President from 1985 to 1986, and she served on the Undergraduate Council from 1976 to 1993.
Additionally, Moffett was active in a variety of professional service capacities. She actively participated on numerous committees at UT, including the Task Force for Revision of the Faculty Handbook of which she was chair from 2001 to 2003, as well as the Friends of the Library Executive Committee from 1994 to 1999. Moffett received many awards and recognitions, including the Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Service to the University in 1989. Moffett was a prominent member of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), of which she was a past president and founding co-editor of the society's journal Arris.
Moffett's research interests ranged from Tennessee Valley Authority public architecture to the East Tennessee cantilever barns to Eastern European wooden architecture. Moffett published books on these topics, as well as two textbooks on the history of architecture.
Moffett passed away in 2004 and is buried in Knox County.
Arrangement
This collection is in 15 boxes. The material is arranged into five series:
- Series I: Personal Materials
- Series II: Academic and Professional Materials
- Sub-Series A: Teaching
- Sub-Series B: Research
- Sub-Series C: Writing and Publications
- Sub-Series D: Conferences and Professional Organizations
- Sub-Series E: Personnel Records
- Sub-Series F: Administration and University Service
- Series III: Photographs, Contact Sheets, and Negatives
- Series IV: Appointment Books
- Series V: Oversize Prints and Drawings
Previous Citation
Portions of this collection were previously listed as MS.3519.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Special Collections received these papers in 2008.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository