William Chapman
William Chapman is Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Educated at Columbia (M.S. in Historic Preservation, 1978) and at Oxford University in England (D.Phil. in Anthropology, 1982), he specializes in architectural recording, the history of historic preservation, and materials conservation. He has traveled extensively throughout the Pacific and Asia and has served as a lecturer at Silpakorn, Kasetsart, and Chulalongkorn Universities in Thailand and at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Widely published in scholarly journals, he has also written on subjects ranging from the historic Volcano House Hotel in Hawai‘i to the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. His most recent publication is Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia: A Traveler’s Guide through History, Ruins, and Landscapes (Bangkok: River Books, 2018). In 2011, he received the Frank Haines Award for Lifetime Contributions to Historic Preservation from the Historic Hawai‘i Foundation. In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York in recognition of his many projects abroad.