Andrea Roberts

About Andrea Roberts

Dr. Andrea Roberts is a planning historian, theorist, public humanities scholar, place preservationist and educator. Roberts trains future planners and preservationists to move marginalized communities’ histories, ontologies of place, methods, and agendas from the edge to the center of practice and policymaking. Roberts is also Director of the School’s Center for Cultural Landscapes, an interdisciplinary center that produces research on and creates new models of innovative cultural landscape stewardship and critical perspectives on placemaking.

Selected Publications

• Andrea Roberts (2020). “Preservation without Representation: Making CLG Programs Vehicles for Inclusive Leadership, Historic Preservation, and Engagement.”
• Andrea Roberts (2020). “The End of Bootstraps and Good Masters: Fostering Social Inclusion through Counternarrative Creation.”
• Andrea Roberts. (2020). “Haunting As Agency.”

Recent Courses Taught

• PLAN 5816: Rural Planning, Preservation and Practice
• PLAN 6070: Planning Theory and Practice