Title: Professor Emeritus
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Address: 72 Chestnut Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
Email: glassberg@history.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-1330
Research Interests: Heritage Conservation, Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Managed Relocation, Landscape and Memory (interrelation of environmental and historical consciousness)
Biographical Sketch:
David Glassberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he regularly taught courses in U.S. cultural, public, and environmental history. During 2021-22, he co-edited the “Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency” series for the NCPH blog History@Work. (https://ncph.org/history-at-work/tag/climate-emergency-series/). Among his publications are American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century (1990); Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (2001); "The Changing Cape: Using History to Engage Coastal Residents in Community Conversations About Climate Change” (2017) (http://www.georgewright.org/343glassberg.pdf); “Place, Memory, and Climate Change,” (2014) (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1525/tph.2014.36.3.17.pdf); and “Witnessing Climate Change: Toward a Network of Environmental Sites of Conscience,” in Public History in a Changing Climate (2014) (https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PHCC-2014.pdf). He has collaborated with a number of museums and national parks, including the Minnesota Historical Society, Boston Children’s Museum, Pinelands (N.J.) National Reserve, Statue of Liberty National Monument, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Springfield Armory National Historic Site, and Cape Cod National Seashore.