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Georgia Harrison Hall is an Associate Professor at the College of Environment and Design. She holds an MLA degree from the University of Virginia and joined the CED in 2003 after teaching at Clemson University for three years. Prior to teaching, she worked in private practice for 16 years in Charlotte, NC, Nashville, TN, and in rural Upstate South Carolina, and is a registered landscape architect.

Her MLA thesis topic at the University of Virginia considered the historical relevance of the Shenandoah National Park’s Skyline Drive. In practice, she was a team member and co-author of the Warner Park Master Plan, a historically significant site within Metropolitan Nashville / Davidson Co.; project manager for the TN State Capitol Hill Restoration; and designer of the Charleston Renaissance Gallery Garden in the historic district of Charleston, SC.

Harrison Hall teaches the MLA introductory design studio and urban design in the BLA program. She has also enjoyed the opportunity to teach at the beautiful UGA campuses in Cortona, Italy and San Luis, Costa Rica.

Her scholarship focuses on the work of the twentieth century American landscape architect Robert Marvin. Harrison Hall has made numerous national conference presentations on the subject of Mr. Marvin, and was an invited speaker in the 2010 Pioneers Regional Symposia, sponsored by the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In 2013, she was interviewed as an expert on Robert Marvin by South Carolina ETV in a video production for the South Carolina Hall of Fame. She served as a cultural resource consultant to the design team working on the rehabilitation of Robert Marvin’s design for Finlay Park in Columbia, SC. Other research interests include cultural landscapes and the national parks. In 2009-10, she was on the design team for the CED Master Plan for Wormsloe State Historic Site in Savannah.