Annmarie Adams

At McGill she teaches courses in architectural history and research methods. She is the inaugural holder of the Stevenson Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science, including Medicine. She is a former board member of the Society of Architectural Historians and former board member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

Annmarie Adams studied at University of California, Berkeley and McGill University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is history of architecture, health care and gender. Employment is recorded with McGill University. Distinctions recorded are Jason A. Hannah Medal and Women of Distinction Awards.

• Name — Annmarie Adams • Born — 1960 • Birthplace — London, Ontario • Field — Architectural History History of Medicine Women's Studies • Workplaces — McGill University • Education — University of California, Berkeley, MArch and PhD McGill University, BA • Doctoral Advisor — Dell Upton • Awards — John K. Branner Travelling Fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley, 1985-86

Adams focused on domestic architecture in the 1990s and turned to hospital environments about 2000. A paper exploring the intentions and experience of women and children in suburban California established research questions to which Adams would return repeatedly. How do buildings express behavioral expectations and do users of houses simply do what they are told? She followed this up with studies of wartime housing in Canada; privacy and girlhood in 19th-century Quebec; and sick children and maternal care. She and colleagues contributed to an award-winning website, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History, by showcasing the role of a Montreal house in an unsolved double murder. Her more recent works examine Art Deco architecture and hospitals; and the architecture of the Montreal Neurological Institute and neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield. She is currently writing a biography of museum curator and physician Maude Abbott. Adams has received numerous awards for her academic work including the President's Medal for Media in Architecture (2017) from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Hilda Neatby Prize (1994) from the Canadian Historical Association (CHA), the Jason Hannah Medal (1999) from the Royal Society of Canada (RSA), and a Woman of Distinction award (2002) from the Montreal YWCA. In 2023, Adams was declared as one of the Fellows of the Society of Architectual Historians. She has served in administrative roles including as Curator of the Osler Library and Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University in 2010-11.

Annmarie Adams is recorded as having received Jason A. Annmarie Adams is recorded as historian, architect and university teacher.