Specialization • Heritage
Region • Americas
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Professor Ammon is a cultural historian of 20th century cities and the built environment whose research focuses on the history of urban renewal and revitalization, visual culture, and urban digital humanities.

Specialization • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas • Global
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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At Penn, I teach about monuments, maps, cities, and art and justice initiatives. Outside of Penn, I am Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab, a public art and history studio that cultivates conversations on the past, present, and future of monuments.

Specialization • Conservation • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Pacific
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Kecia Fong is a heritage conservation educator and practicing professional who specializes in heritage conservation theory, history, and practice with a research focus on the technical and socio-political dimensions of conservation work in postcolonial societies and the global heritage arena particularly as they intersect issues of civil society, governance, and development.

Specialization • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Pacific
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Diagnostic thinking and sustainable environmental management for preventive conservation of fixed and movable cultural heritage.

Specialization • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas • Global
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Not until Black American contributions in our national history are revered and protected, will our nation revere and protect Black lives and Black humanity. We must elevate and preserve the remarkable stories and places that evoke centuries of BIPOC activism, achievement, and community.

Specialization • Heritage
Region • Americas
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Sarah Lopez is a built environment historian of 20th century Mexico and the United States whose research focuses on material histories of migration, remittance development and landscapes, and migrant incarceration.

Specialization • Heritage
Region • Global
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Questions concerning who has the right to speak are productive in that they ask us to think about the motives behind the construction of categories such as “the community” or “American values.” Such questions are also productive in that they shift the question of who speaks for American art and culture to the question of who is and who is not being listened to.

Specialization • Conservation • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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I explore how and why heritage and preservation function in contemporary society — through work that spans history, theory and practice.

Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Heritage
Region • Americas • Europe • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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One definition of Preservation is it is the sum total of the ways in which the present maintains living contact with the past. To do that it must be both a physical and a social act. But we should remember it is also a ‘critical act’ in that observation, experience, reflection, and reasoning are essential to its practice.

Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum • Weitzman School of Design
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I’ve always been drawn to social and political issues, whether in the past or indeed how the past comes to matter in the present. As famously said, the past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Specialization • Heritage
Region • Americas • Global
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design

My research, teaching and professional practice focuses on the governance of the urban heritage preservation process linking the analytical and operational methodologies of historic preservation and urban development planning. My objective is to better understand the social, economic and physical factors contributing to successful urban preservation experiences.

Specialization • Heritage
Region • Global
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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Specialization • Heritage
Region • Americas
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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I study poverty and inequality, especially as they relate to financial issues and services.

Specialization • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Weitzman School of Design
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Domenic Vitiello is a historian and urban planner whose research, teaching, and practice focus on migrant communities, sanctuary, community development, urban agriculture and community food systems.

Specialization • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas • Global
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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My research interests center on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities – architecture as a literal and figural structure of power. I focus on the ways local and national bodies have made the claim for the dominating narrative and collective memory of cities and examines how preservation and public history contribute to the creation and maintenance of the identity and sense of place of a city.

Specialization • Heritage
Region • Americas
Affiliation • Weitzman School of Design
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The integrity standard, by default, becomes a standard whereby buildings built by people on the margins aren’t worth saving. If you’re going to take that heritage seriously in the built environment, you may have to reexamine the integrity argument and recalibrate it for what you’re actually trying to preserve.