David Brownlee has been named a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians. Brownlee was inducted into the SAH at its 68th Annual International Conference Awards Ceremony in Chicago on April 16. He is the the Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art and chair of the Graduate Group in the History of Art Department in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

A non-profit membership organization that fosters the study, interpretation and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes and urbanism worldwide, the Society recognized Brownlee’s lifelong devotion to this industry by selected him as one of four fellows for the 2015 society induction. Brownlee has previously won publication prizes from the Society for his work as a historian of modern architecture. His publications have been awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians and the Society of Historians of Great Britain.

Brownlee served as director of SAH in 1989-92, editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians in 2007-11 and president and vice president of the Philadelphia Chapter. In 2010, as editor of the Journal, he helped the Society launch one of the first multimedia publishing platforms for scholarly journals, with the release of JSAH Online.