Dell Thayer Upton (born Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1949)[1] is an architectural historian.
Upton studied history and English as a Phi Beta Kappa undergraduate at Colgate University from 1965 to 1970.
[5][6] His dissertation concerned seventeenth- and eighteenth-century domestic architecture in Tidewater Virginia, written under the supervision of James Deetz.
Upton has written extensively on vernacular landscapes of the American built environment.
[10][11] He examined histories of civic memorials in What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale University Press, 2015).