Kathleen Conti
As a public historian and preservation professional, Dr. Kathleen Powers Conti consults on projects across the US and is an assistant professor at Florida State University. Her research spans across the Americas and the former Soviet Union, focusing on how to preserve and interpret places of “difficult heritage”—sites of trauma, contested history, or atrocities. She’s published several book chapters, including in Revisiting the Past in Museums and Historic Sites and Architectures of Slavery: Ruins & Reconstructions.
She is currently writing her first book, “Tell It Like It Was”: Race, Memory, and Historic Preservation in the American South. Through an in-depth architectural and historical analysis of plantations and other historic sites, her monograph interrogates how historic preservation, in both policy and practice, can be used to perpetuate racial inequality in public spaces. Kathleen’s research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Park Service, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Association for Preservation Technology, the Society for Architectural Historians, Dumbarton Oaks, PEO International, and the Mellon Urban Initiative.
She frequently consults for the National Park Service, such as developing new treatment options to protect cultural landscapes at risk of disasters resulting from climate change or developing new interpretation for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. In light of her work, the President of the National Council on Public History appointed her as Co-Chair for their Consultants Committee to develop guidelines for “Best Practices for Consulting Historians.”
Address: Austin, Texas
She is currently writing her first book, “Tell It Like It Was”: Race, Memory, and Historic Preservation in the American South. Through an in-depth architectural and historical analysis of plantations and other historic sites, her monograph interrogates how historic preservation, in both policy and practice, can be used to perpetuate racial inequality in public spaces. Kathleen’s research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Park Service, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Association for Preservation Technology, the Society for Architectural Historians, Dumbarton Oaks, PEO International, and the Mellon Urban Initiative.
She frequently consults for the National Park Service, such as developing new treatment options to protect cultural landscapes at risk of disasters resulting from climate change or developing new interpretation for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. In light of her work, the President of the National Council on Public History appointed her as Co-Chair for their Consultants Committee to develop guidelines for “Best Practices for Consulting Historians.”
Address: Austin, Texas
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In this design guideline book, I argue that a successful plan forward must thoroughly take into account the park’s rich history, the importance of preserving the cultural landscape of Cedar Pass, and the need to improve the visitor experience. Our design emphasizes the Mission 66 mandate of conservation and preservation through education while planning for the future. Our interventions include a permanent paleontology lab, museum displays that reflect its rich history, and interactive and accessible learning exhibits for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. We have reestablished many of the connections between the built and the natural environment, such as exposing the porch and reopening the original windows improves visitor experience by linking educational displays with the outdoors. This rehabilitation will also serve as an interpretive opportunity to show guests the importance of preservation and sustainability.
This chapter provides the historical background for the literary criticism that makes up the rest of Russia's Golden Age, an edited volume designed for undergraduates.
Books by Kathleen Conti
In this design guideline book, I argue that a successful plan forward must thoroughly take into account the park’s rich history, the importance of preserving the cultural landscape of Cedar Pass, and the need to improve the visitor experience. Our design emphasizes the Mission 66 mandate of conservation and preservation through education while planning for the future. Our interventions include a permanent paleontology lab, museum displays that reflect its rich history, and interactive and accessible learning exhibits for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. We have reestablished many of the connections between the built and the natural environment, such as exposing the porch and reopening the original windows improves visitor experience by linking educational displays with the outdoors. This rehabilitation will also serve as an interpretive opportunity to show guests the importance of preservation and sustainability.
This chapter provides the historical background for the literary criticism that makes up the rest of Russia's Golden Age, an edited volume designed for undergraduates.