The historic preservation field finds itself in a moment of intense introspection, critique, and change. While the traditional preservation methods of listing, legal protection, architectural history, and restoration still have their place, other, emergent methods of interpretation, management, storytelling, community engagement and adaptive reuse are urgently being explored.
Jean B. Boebel Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation in the University of New Orleans
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History, University of Pennsylvania
Founding Director of the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium (AAACRHSC)
Department Head, Assistant Professor Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science, Tuskegee University
Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University
Associate Professor, Ohio State University
Senior Advisor
National Park Service Supervisory Historian and acting Federal Preservation Officer
Senior Fellow
Director of Partnerships
Director of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project™ and an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, and co-founder of the African American Digital Humanities Working Group at Texas A&M University