People

• MLA, University of Georgia (1999)
• BA, Russian Language and Literature, Indiana University (1985)
• Area Certificate, Soviet Studies, Indiana University Russian & East European Institute (1985)

Prof. Cannady’s research focuses on imprints in the landscape brought about by societal responses to conflict and social upheaval. Study sites include Russia / former USSR, Japan, and WW II Japanese-American incarceration sites in North America. Professional and pedagogical interests include non-traditional design influences, resilient plant communities, edible and medicinal plantings, landscape in the arts and pop culture, Japanese aesthetics, agritourism, and agricultural landscapes (esp. vineyard and equestrian.)

• Professor of the Year, Georgia Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (2019, 2012, 2009)
• UGA Superior Teaching Award for the College of Environment and Design (2013, 2012)
• College of Environment and Design Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching (2012)
• University of Georgia Writing Fellow (2008-09)
• Military (1988-96): Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, National Defense Medal

• Cannady, Shelley. “Conflict, Incarceration, and Decay: the American concentration camps of WWII.” Landscapes of Conflict. European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), Ghent, Belgium, September 2018, pp. 396-404.
• Cannady, Shelley. “Tule Lake Today: complex legacies of internment.” Boom: A Journal of California, 3:1 Spring 2013, pp. 17-33. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press.
• Cannady, Shelley and Bertram de Rooij. “Russian Lieux de Memoires: is the Future the Past?” Landscape Legacy: Landscape Architecture and Planning Between Art and Science.  Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) / International Study Group on Multiple Uses of Land (ISOMUL), Maastricht, Netherlands; People / Environment, pp. 1-12.
• Cannady, Shelley. “Leningrad in the Gloaming of the Soviet Era: Edifice, Silence, Survivors, and the Narrative of Public Space.” Historical Landscapes in the Modern Era, St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy, IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects), ALACIS (Association of Landscape Architects of the Commonwealth of Independent States), and Lincoln University, New Zealand. Publishing House of Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, June 2009, pp. 82-85.