Developing curricula for historic preservation degree programs (bachelor's and master's) can be a frustrating experience because we lack useful data on the job market (e.g., what employers want from graduates)…
Recently, I was reading a post on LinkedIn where a World Heritage expert was attempting to define cultural heritage for the twenty-first century. Many people have tried to do this,…
If you teach in an historic preservation or built heritage conservation program in a college or university, you may be aware that there are very few publications that directly address…
A few weeks ago, I attended the 7th National Forum on Preservation Practice hosted by Goucher College, which focused on the next 50 years of practice. One thing I’ve always…
The argument that historic preservation (or, if you’re outside of the United States, architectural conservation or built heritage conservation) is or is not a unique discipline still comes up on…
One of the common perceptions of the social sciences—e.g., perspectives from anthropology, sociology, and psychology—is that that they are too academic, too erudite, and not sufficiently applied to have direct…
One of the researchers that is helping me with my work here in Brazil recently emailed me a course announcement from ANPUH (The National Association of History in Brazil). The…
In the United States, several people have had an unusually large impact on the practice of historic preservation. James Marston Fitch created the first historic preservation degree program; Charles Peterson…
In the early 1990s, when I was following the techno music scene closely, I came across a track called "Spice" by EON, which I really liked. (It borrowed sound bites,…
This evening I finally completed my "IRB" (Institutional Review Board) application which specifies how I will be protecting my human "subjects" from potential harm for my proposed research project. Ostensibly,…