Anne T. Sullivan

Anne T. Sullivan is an Associate Professor and the John H. Bryan Chair in Historic Preservation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She has been with SAIC since 1993, starting as an instructor when the Historic Preservation program was founded, and became full-time faculty in 2010. She concurrently serves as Program Director for the M.S. Historic Preservation program and Principal of Sullivan|Preservation.

Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Art History (1985) and Bachelor of Science in Architecture (1986) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation (1990) from Columbia University with a concentration in building material conservation.

Professor Sullivan specializes in historic building materials, building pathology, and sustainable preservation practices with over 25 years of professional experience as a registered architect in Illinois. Her research emphasizes material conservation, building condition assessment, and preservation of modern heritage structures through fieldwork and laboratory analysis.

She has received significant recognition including the Francis J. Plym Fellow, Plym Travelling Fellowship, Nathan Clifford Ricker Award for teaching excellence, and dual fellowships from the American Institute of Architects and Association for Preservation Technology International.

Her professional practice includes major restoration projects at Glessner House Museum, Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago), Adlai Stevenson Home, and Governor Duncan House. She served as President of the Association for Preservation Technology International (2009-2011) and contributed to key publications including Twentieth Century Building Materials and Repairing Old and Historic Windows.