Andrew Hurley, PhD, will be the keynote speaker at lunch on Wednesday, November 12th. His topic will be “Putting the History Back Into Historic Preservation.”
Dr. Hurley is a Professor of History at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he teaches Twentieth-Century United States History, urban history, environmental history, public history, and consumer culture.
His most recent book, Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner-Cities, was given the National Council on Public History Best Book Award in 2010. He has authored Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture, and Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana 1945-1980.
Dr. Hurley has lectured nationally and internationally, and participated in urban development and outreach such as “The Virtual City Project” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
See the full conference schedule HERE.
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