historic preservation (history, theory, and practice); public history; modern United States history and cultural geography; vernacular architecture; urban renewal; local history; rhetoric; environmental history and regulation; wildfire and architecture; political ecology
Shelby Kendrick is a public historian and doctoral student of architecture at UC Berkeley with degree emphasis in history, theory, and society. Her doctoral research focuses on the historic preservation movement and adaptive preservation techniques in the United States. Prior to moving to Berkeley in 2021, she worked in historical and environmental consulting preparing environmental documents for diverse development, planning, land use, and mining reclamation projects throughout California. Shelby is originally from Louisiana, but she has lived in northern California since 2014.
Shelby Kendrick served as co-editor-in-chief for Issue 11 (Sediment) of Room One Thousand, UC Berkeley's architecture journal. Sediment won the Douglas Haskell Award for Architecture Student Journals in 2023. In 2022 through 2023, she was a graduate student researcher for Future History Lab and Arts+Design's A Year on Angel Island: Immigration Histories and Futures project. Her role included organizing the Angel Island Townsend Working Group/Site Project, which culminated in a series of site-specific performances at the Angel Island Immigration Station during the California Preservation Foundation Annual Conference. Finally, Shelby is the architecture PhD representative on the CED Graduate Student Council.
AMERSTD 10, Introduction to American Studies: House and Home in America, spring 2024, Graduate Student Instructor
ARCH 170A, Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism: Ancient - 1400, fall 2023, Graduate Student Instructor
AMERSTD 10, Introduction to American Studies: New Orleans Culture, summer 2023, Graduate Student Instructor
ARCH 170B, Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism: 1400 - Present, spring 2023, Graduate Student Instructor
Moody Research Grant, LBJ Foundation, 2023
NOCA Docomomo National Symposium Travel Grant Recipient 2022
Two Berkeley Neighborhoods Project, PI: Margaretta Lovell, History of Art department, Graduate Student Researcher, summer 2023 – Present
A Year on Angel Island, PI: Susan Moffat, Future Histories Lab, Graduate Student Researcher, spring 2021-summer 2023
November 2023, “From the Ashes: The Demise and Rise of North Berkeley in 1923” with Steven Finacom for Archaeological Research Facility
September 2023, “Learn from Fire: How the 1923 Fire Changed Berkeley’s Architecture,” for Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association
February 2023, “Sedimented in Place: A Conversation on Embedded Values in Architecture with Donna Graves and Chris Cornelius,” Moderator