Historic Preservation Faculty

Dr. Donna M. DeBlasio, Director, Center for Historic Preservation also directs the Oral History Program.  Dr. DeBlasio has worked in preservation and public history for most of her professional career.

Dr. Thomas E. Leary, Department of History teaches historic preservation courses and labor history.  He has many years of experience with his own cultural resource management firm, as well as in other public history and preservation organizations.

Dr. Martha Pallante, Chair, Department of History
Material culture, US cultural and social history, research methods, colonial and 19th century US

Dr. Frederick Blue, Department of History
Ohio history, American frontier history, 19th century US, history of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley

Dr. Fred Viehe, Department of History
Urban history, history of education, 19th and 20th century US

Dr. William Jenkins, Department of History
20th century US, immigration, business history, history of planning and housing

Dr. David Stephens, Department of Geography
Vernacular settlement, barns & rural architecture, cultural geography, historic district design review

Dr. John White, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Historical and industrial sites archeology, cultural resource management, contract archeology

Dr. Louis Zona, Director, Butler Institute of American Art
Museum studies
 
 
 
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