I would like to share the work of one of my students, Jamesha Gibson, who recently graduated with a Masters in Historic Preservation and a Master of Community Planning from the University of Maryland. She just published “From Engagement to Empowerment: How Heritage Professionals Can Incorporate Participatory Methods in Disaster...
My students’ work
How do you teach environment-behavior research for the historic environment?
In 2012, my colleague, Eleftherios Pavlides, who teaches environmental design research in the architecture program at Roger Williams University helped spearhead the creation of the Environmental Design Research Education Knowledge Network at the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). While environment-behavior research has foundations going back to the 1960s, this...
Visual Harmony in Relation to Camp Santanoni
Students in many graduate programs are faced with what is, at times, a daunting challenge of researching and writing a thesis. This is especially true when the thesis is empirical–in other words, the student has to employ a particular research methodology to collect, analyze, and then interpret data to...
Cutler House listed on the National Register
At Roger Williams University, where I teach in the historic preservation program, we give our masters’ students the opportunity to complete an empirical (research) thesis or a capstone project. While many thesis students use social science methods to address historic preservation/heritage conservation topics, others choose to focus on a...