Historic Preservation Faculty Profiles

Historic Preservation Faculty Profiles

Kathryn Auerbach	Part-Time Faculty BA, College of William & Mary; Preservation Institute; Royal Oak Foundation of England National Trust Office: TYL PUB Phone: (215) 968-8286 Email: auerbach@bucks.edu
Kathryn has been an instructor in the HP program at Bucks SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1991. A native of Bucks County, she has her undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary in 1976 with interdisciplinary curricula she specially designed in American Studies. She continued her studies at W& M with architectural design and in 1977 in historic preservation with the Preservation Institute; Nantucket, sponsored by the University of Florida. Additional master’s level studies were undertaken through the Royal Oak Foundation of England’s National Trust during a five-week Country House Seminar. Since 1976 Ms. Auerback has been employed in the field of Historic Preservation, first working for the Virginia Research Center for Archaeology, under Dr. William Kelso. In 1977 she initiated work in Bucks County designing and conducting detailed historic sites surveys, historical research reports and National Register nominations. In 1986 she expanded to consulting work in other regions including New York, Vermont, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland as well as Pennsylvania. She specialized in detailed historical research, documentation and evaluation of building construction chronology. Additionally, Ms. Auerbach has offered insightful plans for village growth while preserving the character of the surrounding open space, has been a strong preservation advocate for saving historical bridges and has been involved with all aspects of local Historical, Architectural and Review Boards as well a revitalization projects utilizing the Historical Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program. Clients include private property owners, municipalities and the National Park Service. She continues to be a strong advocate for preservation, serving on several local and county committees. Ms. Auerbach has taught a number of courses at Bucks including History of American Architecture, Methodology and Documentation in Historic Preservation, Fundamentals of Historic American Building Survey and the HABS Summer workshop. She has lead numerous teams of students on HABS documentation projects in Bucks County, as well as in Virginia and Maryland and has been recognized four times with the Charles E. Peterson Prize (a national competition sponsored by the AIA, NPS and Athenaeum), most recently in 2008 with First Place.

Patricia Fisher-Olsen	Coordinator, historic preservation MS Historic Preservation, Pratt Institute, New York Office: TYL PUB Phone: (215) 968-8286 Email: fisherol@bucks.edu
Patricia J Fisher-Olsen, serves as the coordinator of the Historic Preservation Certificate Program where she oversees the Internships and teaches classes in Funding for Preservation Projects, History and Theory of Historic Preservation and American History. As a practicing consultant and alumni of the program, she brings insight to the challenges facing preservationist today and the role education plays in finding solutions. As a former Associate Partner at Accenture, she has carried her multifaceted business experience into her work as a consultant in historic preservation projects. She has adapted best practices of large scale project management disciplines to diverse historic preservation projects, including grant writing for procurement of federal, state, and private monies. Pat is a dedicated preservationist who has leveraged her business expertise and disciplines to the business side of historic preservation. Pat’s preservation work includes national, regional, county, and municipal agencies and private parties. In the metro area she serves as a visiting professor in the Historic Preservation Program at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, New York City, NY. She serves as Chair of the Historic Preservation Commission in her local community in New Jersey and devotes time to the restoration committee of the Tyler Mansion at Bucks County College, Newtown, Pennsylvania. She has worked on four projects for the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) housed in the Library of Congress and is a recipient of the Charles E. Peterson Prize in 2005 and 2008 for recordings at the Monacacy National Battlefield in Frederick, MD. Pat earned her Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation, with highest honors, from the Pratt Institute.

Hilary Krueger-Jebitsch	Part-Time Faculty BA, History and Anthropology , Indiana University of Pennsylvannia; MA, Museum Studies, Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York Office: PENN 301 Phone: 215-968-8270 Email: jebitsch@bucks.edu
My interest in History and Museums began when I was four years old and fell in love with the Mercer Museum/Bucks County Historical Society. My passion for the field has never waned since! I have a B.A. is History and Anthropology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program/State University of New York at Oneonta. The last 13 years have found me employed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as a Regional Curator, a Site Curator, and finally as the Historic Site Administrator at Washington Crossing Historic Park. I have also worked as a Museum Consultant, specializing in collections care and exhibit related projects. Whatever the task, I always enjoy learning something new.

Roberta Mayer	Associate Professor, Visual Area Head BS, MS, BA, Rutgers University; MA, PhD, University of Delaware Office: HICKS 201 Phone: (215) 504-8676 Email: mayerr@bucks.edu
Roberta Mayer completed her Ph.D. at the University of Delaware in 2000 with a specialty in American Art History and a minor in decorative arts. She has published articles on various aspects of the decorative arts in Winterthur Portfolio, 19th Century, Studies in the Decorative Arts, and Journal of Modern Craft. She contributed an essay to Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors (2003) and authored Stella Elkins Tyler: A Legacy Born of Bronze (2004). Her most recent book, Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2008.

Lyle Rosenberger	Professor Emeritus BS, Millersville State University; MA, Lehigh University Office: TYL PUB Phone: (215)504.8500 Email: rosenbel@bucks.edu
Lyle L. Rosenberger is Professor Emeritus at Bucks County Community College where he founded the Historic Preservation Certificate program in 1991 and continued as its Coordinator until 2005. He earned an MA in History from Lehigh University and has studied at the University of Illinois and the University of Virginia. Professor Rosenberger is a passionate promoter of preservation and continues to teach preservation theory and archaeology at Bucks. Currently, he is actively pursuing preservation research in projects dealing with Tyler Hall and its formal gardens on campus. Recent awards: In 2006, the James Marston Fitch Preservation Education Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Council for Preservation Education, and in 2008, the James Biddle Award for Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation

Ellen Schultz	Part-Time Faculty BA, History, Vassar College; MS, Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania Office: Phone: Email: Schultze@bucks.edu
Ellen Freedman Schultz is a historic preservationist with extensive experience in historic research and education. Since March 2004, she has been an Education Consultant with the Philadelphia Water Department developing and teaching environmental education programs at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center in Philadelphia. She has developed pre-K through 12 hands-on programs at the Water Works, classroom/community-based partnership programs related to watershed management education as well as advocacy and education programs related to the global water crisis. Schultz is an adjunct faculty member of Bucks County Community College. In 2001, she launched the first of two new Distance Learning Courses in the Historic Preservation Program at the College and teaches “History and Theory of Historic Preservation,” “History of American Architecture” and “US History II” online. In 2003, her consulting firm Preservation Partners completed a two-year statewide Women's Heritage Trail project for New Jersey in which they surveyed women’s historic sites and published a guide. They recently completed a survey of a state by state assessment of historic markers’ programs as well as a context study of the history of Women's Clubs in New Jersey. Formerly, as the Director of the Education at the Foundation for Architecture in Philadelphia, she administered the internationally acclaimed K-12 built environment education program "Architecture in Education". She received a M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in History from Vassar College.

Ray Tschoepe	Part-Time Faculty MS, University of Pennsylvannia, Historic Preservation Program Office: TYL PUB Phone: (215) 968-8286 Email: tschoepe@bucks.edu
Ray grew up in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate. After spending a number of years in medicine as both a researcher and scientific illustrator, he returned to Penn and was graduated from the Master’s program in Historic Preservation. Ray worked for almost 10 years as an independent restoration contractor before joining the staff of the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust in the summer of 2000. As the Director of Conservation there, he works with a small talented staff to conserve about 20 18th and 19th century buildings and dozens of sculptural pieces scattered throughout the 9000 acre park. At around the same time, he joined the adjunct faculty of the historic preservation program of Bucks Co. Community College where he teaches a core course in Building Conservation. He lectures at conferences and workshops throughout the east and was recently appointed to the position of contributing editor for the Old House Journal.

Constance Walsh	Part-Time Faculty BA, Penn State; MA, Historic Preservation, University of Delaware, Department of Urban Affairs and Public Policy Office: PENN Phone: (215) 504-8500 Email: walshcon@bucks.edu
Connie is a 2005 graduate of Historic Preservation program. Her undergraduate degree was from Penn State University in 1980. She obtained a M.A. in Historic Preservation from the University of Delaware through the Department of Urban Affairs and Public Policy where she worked as a graduate research assistant from 2004 through 2006. Regional oral history, cultural ethnography and changing landscapes are continuing interests. She co-authored a National Register Nomination for Greenville Country Club in Greenville, Delaware in 2009. Memberships include the Vernacular Architecture Forum, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Oral History of the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR), and the Bucks County Historical Society. Connie is a b docent at Peter Wentz Farmstead in Worcester, Pa. For bread labor, she works for PennDOT as a consultant with Dawood Engineering. Her scholar-heros are Henry Glassie, William Cronon and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. She taught History 204 Oral History in Preservation, Spring 2009.

Jeremy Wells	Instructor MS, Historic Preservation, Advanced Certificate, Architectural Conservation, University of Pennsylvania; BS, Historic Preservation, Southeast Missouri State University Office: PENN Phone: (215) 968-8270 Email: wellsj@bucks.edu
Jeremy Wells is a doctoral candidate in Clemson University’s Planning, Design, and Built Environment program and has ten years of experience working in the field of historic preservation. His dissertation research focuses on environmental and behavior factors that are important in catalyzing attachment to neotraditional and historic neighborhoods in order to understand the relationship between the physical age of environments and place attachment. Wells has also conducted research on how Latino communities value historic built environments, the history and use of building materials, the history and theory of historic preservation, and international conservation practice. His research has been published in the APT Bulletin, the Journal of Construction History, and City and Time. Wells’ practice experience includes architectural materials conservation, preservation tax credits, cultural resource surveys, National Register nominations, and Section 106 reviews. He has also worked in preservation-based Main Street and Elm Street downtown revitalization programs across the country. Wells enjoys the advocacy component of historic preservation and has served on the boards and committees of a number of national and international preservation organizations including ICOMOS and the Environmental Design Research Association. • Ph.D. candidate, Planning, Design and the Built Environment, Clemson University • M.S. Historic Preservation and Advanced Certificate in Architectural Conservation, University of Pennsylvania B.S. Historic Preservation, Southeast Missouri State University