Professor Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

Biography/ Background

Professor Nancy Pollock-Ellwand is a landscape architect with an international reputation in the study of cultural landscapes - their history and conservation. Her work has taken her from the rugged Canadian north to the rice terraces of Japan, from the streets of New York to the great expanse of the Australian outback. She has a distinguished cross-disciplinary background and considerable management and leadership experience in the tertiary sector. As Head and Chair, she provides the stage for students and staff alike to strive for excellence. This passion is fuelled by a commitment to the creativity that supports research and teaching alike.

Teaching Interests

Prof Pollock-Ellwand's teaching interests have included:

• leading design studios in landscape architecture - foundational to final year design theses;
• the development of an on-line landscape history course where students, no matter where they are located in the world, are presented the opportunity and tools to interact in a virtual environment;
• provide supervision at a Masters and Doctoral level with a focus to qualitative methodologies.

Professor Pollock-Ellwand teaches landscape architecture to students in the Bachelor of Design Studies who are considering future studies in the landscape profession.

Professional Associations

AICA

American Association of Landscape Architects International Member.

Canada's Representative to ICOMOS - IFLA, Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscape Committee (2000-2006).

ICOMOS-IFLA Sub-committee on World Heritage policies directing missions considering nomination of landscapes to World Heritage Status.

PIA Associated Member

RAIA Academic Member

Qualifications

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Masters of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Ph.D. (Planning), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Research Interests

Prof Pollock-Ellwand has achieved many awards and received various research contracts which include:

• University of Tokyo, visiting Scholar (2006);
• Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, National Citation, Landscape Legacies CDRom;
• Canadian Foundation, Landscape Legacies CDRom;
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant, Olmsted Firm in Canada;
• Varga Foundation, GARLAND Cultural landscape Initiative (University of York, UK and University of Guelph, Canada);
• Nunavut Territorial Parks Department, Kekerten Whaling Station, Uvajuq Territorial Park Interpretation and Trail Design, and Cultural landscape policy development;
• Canadian Park Service, Buxton Settlement Cultural Landscape Study;
• Canadian Institute of Planners Award of Excellence, Community-Based Information Systems;
• Mapconnections, Research Grant.

Publications

• Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Preston, S. Landscape Legacies. Toronto: U of T Press, 2006.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘The critical divide: Landscape Policy and Its Implementation’. Ed. John Weins and Michael Moss. Issues in Landscape Ecology. Second edition. England: Cambridge UP, 2006. 281-95.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘New York City: Concrete and Clay, A Book Review’. . Landscape Research (2006).
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Correcting The Record: Considering The Olmsted Firm In Canada’. Planning Perspectives (2006).
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘From Inventory to Policy: Buxton N.H.S.’ Journal of Heritage Studies (2006).
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Out of America: The Olmsted Firm in Canada’. IFLA Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25th –July 1st, 2005.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Cultural Landscape Conservation in Canada’. ICOMOS/IFLA Meeting. Brussels, Belgium. February 12th – 14th 2005.
• Pollock-Ellwand in panel at Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Session on Distance Education in Landscape Architecture. September, 25th, 2005. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia.
• D. Leal, B. Brown and Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Micro-climatic Design and Cultural landscapes: Case Study, Bari, Italy’. Landscape and urban Planning (2005).
• Pollock-Ellwand and Matt Wilcox. ‘Creating Cultural Landscapes: A Comparison of 19th Century British colonial Landscapes in Ontario and New Zealand’. The Landscape Journal (2005).
• Pollock-Ellwand and Kimberly Voisin. ‘Post-Occupancy Evaluation of a New Urbanist Community in Markham, Ontario’. Journal of American Planning Association (2005).
• B. Ellis, B. Brown and Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Pesticide Use and Landscape Preferences’. Landscape and Urban Planning (2005).
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Canadian Trends in cultural Landscape Conservation’. ICOMOS/IFLA Meeting. Berlin, Germany. October 3rd 2004.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Douglass, D. ‘Collaborative Education of Practitioners: Landscape Architects and Planners’. OPPI/OALA Conference. Deerhurst Resort, Gravenhurst. September 9th – 12th 2004.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N., Limousin, M. and Gosselin, H. ‘The Rabbits Sit Beside The foxes Here’. IFLA World Congress, Calgary, Alberta. May 26th 2004.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘LA Title Acts and LARE: Do They Have to Go Together?’ CSLA Awards Symposium, March 1st. Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, 2003.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Buxton N.H.S.: A Landscape Perspective on the Underground Railway’. Black History Month Workshop, February 21st. Toronto, New York University, 2003.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. Heritage Day Celebrations Wrap-Up Address, February 14th, 2003 Guelph Youth Music Centre.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘The Path of the Promised Land: A Terminus to the Underground Railway’. ICOMOS Canadian Momentum 2002 – Cultural Routes: A Heritage to Rediscover. 75-85.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Capital Design: Searching For The 21st Century Landscape of Ottawa’. CSLA 2002 Award symposium. February 23rd. Winnipeg, University of Manitoba.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Cassidy, J. ‘History of Cultural Form Course Manual: LARC*1950DE’ (Reader and Website as well for this Distance Course), Office of Open Learning, University of Guelph.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Gréber’s Plan and the ‘Washington of the North’: Finding A Canadian Capital In The Face of Republican Dreams’. Landscape Journal. 20(1): 48-61.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. Community Based Landscape Inventory. Parks, Canada, Ontario Region, Cornwall, ON. March 20th, 2001.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Landscape Policy and Planning Practice: The Gap in Understanding, Ontario’. Landscape Research. 26(2):(2001) 99-118.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. (editor). Borderlands: 1999 Conference Proceedings of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. US National Park Service and the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘The Hunter’s Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth Century America.’ Book Review, Landscape Research. 25(3):(2000) 215-217.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Student Reaction to 9/11’. Letter to the Editor. Landscape Architecture. 1(January):(2000) 7.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. Buxton National Historic Cultural Landscape Inventory: Phase One- Data Assembly. Parks Canada, Ontario Region, Cornwall. ON. March 30th, 2000.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Intergenerational Learning at the Terminus of the Underground Railroad: Using Landscape-based High School Curriculum’. CELA 2000 Proceedings. University of Guelph. August 4th -6th.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Community-Based Heritage Data Collection: Incorporation into High School Curriculum’. Proceedings of Caring for Our Land and Water: Stewardship and Conservation in Canada. Guelph, ON, 2000.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. 1999 proceedings, Parks Research Forum of Ontario: Challenges to Parks and Protected Areas in Ontario. Waterloo, ON: Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. et al (Part of International team that authored report to cross-sectoral Island organisation on Countryside Sustainability). Isle of Wight Countryside Exchange Report. Cold Spring, NY Countryside Exchange, 1999.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N., Van Osch, K, and Nelson, J.G. (eds.) with Beechey, T., Stephenson, W. and Marsh, J. Parks and protected Areas in Ontario. Proceedings of the Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PFRO), Annual General Meeting. Waterloo, ON: Heritage Resources Centre. April 22nd -23rd 1999.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Nelson, J.G. ‘Land Use History, Landscape Change and the Role of Parks and Protected Areas’. Keynote Presentation. Challenges to Parks and Protected Areas In Ontario: Parks and Protected Areas Research In Ontario. Annual Meeting. Guelph, ON., April 22nd and 23rd, Waterloo, ON: PFRO, 1999.11-22.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N., Van Osch, K. and Nelson, J.G. ‘Introduction to Special Sessions On Parks and Protected Areas In Southern Ontario’. Challenges to Parks and Protected Areas In Ontario: Parks and Protected Areas Research In Ontario. Annual Meeting of Parks and Protected Areas In Ontario. Guelph, ON., April 22nd and 23rd, Waterloo, ON: PFRO, 1999. 1-2.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Borderlands – Introduction’ Conference organiser of International conference on the Shared Experience of Landscape Between Americans and Canadians. Niagara-on-the-Lake, May, 1999.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Notes from the Plenary Chair’. What works?: Heritage Day Workshop. Cambridge, Ontario: Grand River Conservation Authority, 1999. 97-99.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Borderlands: The US/Canadian Shared Experience of Landscape’. Alliance of Historic Landscape Preservation, Grey Towers (Gifford Pinchot Estate, Pennsylvania). June, 1998.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Gréber and the ‘Washington of the North’’. CSLA Conference, Universite de Montreal. March, 1998.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Building Community and Conserving Cultural Landscapes’. Parks and Protected Areas In The Canadian Shield: Information and Research Needs. Annual Meeting of Parks and Protected Areas in Ontario. Peterborough, ON, February 5th -6th. Waterloo, ON: PFRO, 1998. 326-329.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘The Boulevard That Ate Ottawa’. Globe and Mail, Op Ed, June 12th, 1998.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Planning for the Landscape Idea’. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Waterloo. Defence August 1997.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Building Community through Cultural Landscape Identification’. CELA Conference, University of North Carolina. September 10th -13th, 1997.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Community-based Data Collection”. Community Heritage Ontario Conference: ‘Continuity with Change’. Penetanguishene, Ontario. September 26th -28th, 1997.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘The Need for Holism: A Landscape and Pluralist Perspective’. Ed. Gordon Nelson and John Marsh .Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 24(1):(1996) 94-96.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Blair Cultural Landscape CD-Rom and community Heritage Data Collection’. Alliance of historic Landscape Preservation Annual Conference. Burlington, Vermont, 1996.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘A Homestead Restored’ (1987 reprint). Ed. Edwinna von Baeyer, and Pleasance Crawford. Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing. Toronto: Random House Canada, 1995. 122-126.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Ontario’s Landscape Legacies: A model for a Province-wide Inventory’. Ed. John Marsh and Janice Fialkowski . Linking Cultural and Natural Heritage. (Proceedings of a Conference at Trent University). Peterborough: The Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage Development. 1995. 91-116.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Dakin, S. ‘‘Landscape’: From Concept to Practice’. Ed. J.G. Nelson, N.D. Pollock-Ellwand, and T. Stround. Landscape Planning: Implications of the Proposed New Ontario Heritage Act. Occasional Paper #25. University of Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre. 1995. 13-18.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N., Nelson, J.G, and Stroud T. Landscape Planning: Implications of the Proposed New Ontario Heritage Act. Occasional Paper #25. University of Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre, 1995.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N., and Nelson J.G. ‘Introduction: Landscape Planning, Implications of the proposed New Heritage Act’. In J.G. Nelson, N.D. Pollock-Ellwand, and T. Stroud (eds.) Landscape Planning: Implications of the Proposed New Ontario Heritage Act. Occasional Paper #25. University of Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre. 1995.1-2.
• Work on the Restoration of Motherwell Homestead included in an exhibition, Interpretations of Nature, held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Ethics: The Case of Puslinch Township’s Historic Roadside Trees’. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 7(2): (1995) 189-203.
• Publications listed in the “Cultural Landscape section of Edwinna von Baeyer’s A Selected Bibliography for Garden History in Canada. (Revised Edition) Ottawa: Parks Canada, Canadian Heritage, 1994.14.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Heritage Advocacy in the Cultural Landscape’. APT Journal. (3-4):(1992) 71-77.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Discovering the Hidden Resource: Historic Landscapes’. (Proceedings of the Travel and Tourism Association – Canadian Conference). In, Laurel Reid (ed.). Tourism – Environment – Sustainable Development: An Agent for Research. Ottawa: Environment Canada and Statistics Canada. 1991. 43-54.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Southwestern Ontario Heritage Landscape Inventory: A Method of Data collection, Storage and Dissemination’. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Proceedings. Volume III. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan: Landscape Architecture Foundation, Landscape Architecture Program, 118-31.
• Pollock-Ellwand, N. ‘Southwestern Ontario Heritage Landscape: An Inventory with a Difference’. Land and History (1991) 1-4.

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