Inquiry via Action. Action via Inquiry

 

academic SCHOLARSHIP

My scholarship is written and published for both academic and public audiences. I conduct community-based, participatory and applied research on public financing models, private investment practices and philanthropic aid programs that preserve the built environment. This work draws on various techniques and technology—including public history, GIS and data mining—to measure and map governmental and grassroots approaches to heritage vulnerability and resilience. My academic and public scholarship include contributions to the Journal of Environmental Studies & Science (2021), Preservation and Social Inclusion (2020), Metropole (2020), Future Anterior (2022), Spatializing Politics (2015) and several forthcoming edited volumes: Change over Time: Heritage Preservation as Resistance, Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Management, and Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy and Environment.

Employing a mixed-methods approach that includes archival research, participant-observation and spatial statistics, I undertake and advise case studies and comparative studies of:

  • public-private-philanthropic partnerships in disaster preparedness and recovery, esp. neighborhood and commercial revitalization

  • the design of community adaptation and preservation programs, e.g. legacy businesses and legacy homeowners

  • the role of historic preservation in the revitalization of disinvested neighborhoods and commercial corridors, including communities of color

  • the right to historic preservation in special hazard areas, specifically the effect of preservation regulations and review processes that control the elevation, appearance, condition or use of the built environment

  • the regulation of hazards mitigation in historic districts and heritage areas

  • the privatization of public asset preservation, including but not limited to the roles and responsibilities of “friends groups” for industrial heritage and infrastructural resources

  • community and corporate philanthropy in preservation planning, policy, and practice

  • the agency of preservation trusts and advocates in urban design and development

  • public-private partnership in historic and cultural preservation 

Some of my scholarship can be “followed” on Google Scholar and Academia.edu as well.

For the up-to-date lists and links to publications, past and forthcoming: