Board Members
Archaeologists
- Rachel Bragg is the Zoning Administrator for Dekalb County, promoting vibrant communities through zoning and historic preservation. With a background as a Senior Preservation Planner and extensive experience in Cultural Resource Management, Exhibit Development, and Archaeology, she works to align preservation guidelines with new developments and renovations. Rachel holds a B.A. in Anthropology and an M.A. in Historic Preservation from Georgia State University.
- Kara Bridgman Sweeney, PhD (Savannah) is a Lecturer of Anthropology at Georgia Southern University, and Director of the Digging Savannah public outreach initiative for archaeology. She received her PhD in Anthropology from University of Florida. Her experience is in community archaeology and cultural heritage management, and she is a member of the Archaeology Task Force for the City of Savannah.
Architects
- Céline H. Gladwin, AIA (Valdosta) is a registered architect and urban designer, Gladwin has a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami. Gladwin heads Gladwin Vaughn Architecture in Valdosta. Her work spans various project typologies including historic rehabilitation, adaptive reuse and new construction. She also has provided urban design consulting with public forums and design charrettes nationwide. Gladwin believes in a collaborative team approach with hands-on involvement, especially in the planning stages of a project, with the goal of creating design that is responsive to clients’ needs and to positively impacting the buildings’ users while minimizing the negative impact of construction on the environment. In addition to the Georgia National Register Review Board, Gladwin currently serves on the Georgia Alliance for Historic Preservation Commissions, the City of Valdosta Historic Preservation Commission, and is a former member of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission. She maintains memberships in the American Institute of Architects, the Congress of New Urbanism, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Georgia and Florida Historic Trusts.
- Jack Pyburn, FAIA (Atlanta) is a historic preservation architect with over 40 years’ experience and a principal with Lord Aeck Sargent in Atlanta. He has directed the rehabilitation and restoration of a number of national register and national landmark properties including projects for the State of Georgia and National Park Service and projects participating in the state and federal historic preservation tax credit programs. Jack has served on the board of directors of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and Docomomo/US. He served as chair of the American Institute of Architects Historic Resources Committee and is currently President of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for 20th Century Heritage.
Architectural Historian
- E.G. Daves Rossell, PhD, teaches American architecture and urbanism, vernacular architecture and cultural landscape as Professor of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Rossell received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
At-Large
- Leslie Canaan is the Senior Manager of Preserving Black Churches for the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History from Clark Atlanta University and a Master of Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University. She considers herself a community centered preservationist, uplifting and centering communities through the preservation of sites, stories, spaces, events, and traditions.
- Sean Dunlap (Athens) is a cultural landscape historian and preservation planner at WLA Studio. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of West Georgia, and Masters degrees in Historic Preservation and Environmental Planning and Design from the University of Georgia. He specializes in cultural landscape methodologies for historic site assessment and management, often related to National Park Service sites throughout the southeastern United States.
- Tommy Jones (Atlanta) Atlanta native, eighth-generation Georgian, life-long student of Southern, state, and local history and a specialist in vernacular architecture. Retired from Southeast Regional Office of the National Park Service with wide range of experience in documentation, preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historic and prehistoric structures in Georgia and across the Southeast. Intimate knowledge of philosophy and standards in historic preservation, especially in terms of the National Register of Historic Places as well as compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
Historians
- Craig Pascoe, Ph.D., is a Professor of History at Georgia College in Milledgeville. He received a M.A. in American History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Ph.D., with a focus on the culture and traditions of the modern American South, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Pascoe has lived in historic homes in places like the French Quarter in New Orleans and the historic district of Eatonton, Georgia where he worked to preserve an 1855 Greek Revival cottage. Through his research on the American South he has developed a strong interest in helping to preserve the region’s past by saving its built environment.
- Jackie Tyson, MHP, is Associate Director of History at New South Associates, based in Stone Mountain, Georgia. She received her Master of Historic Preservation degree from the University of Kentucky and Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from Georgia State University. While managing a diverse array of projects at New South Associates, she is particularly interested in public history and community engagement, and how everyday historic buildings can tell important stories about our past.
