Preservation Education & Research Bi-Yearly Report
August 2015
DRAFT
Co-editors: Jeremy Wells and Rebecca Sheppard
PUBLICATION UPDATES
Volume 7 (2014) summary
Volume 7 was successfully published and mailed prior to the National Trust for Historic Preservation
conference in November. All NCPE members had the journal in hand prior to the annual NCPE meeting.
Volume 7 contents
Double-blind peer reviewed articles
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Jessica Goldsmith, “Preservation Education Practice: Why the Designers of Tomorrow Need Studio
Practice in Historic Structures”
Dawn E. Jourdan and Stephanie Zeier Pilat, “Preserving Public Housing: Federal, State, and Local
Efforts to Preserve the Social and Architectural Forms Associated with Housing for the Poor”
Brian D. Rich, “The Principles of Future-Proofing: A Broader Understanding of Resiliency in the
Historic Built Environment”
Invited student papers (from the NCPE student session at the Trust conference)
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Helen Nicola Blackmore, “A Shared Purpose: How Collaboration Can Enable a Wide Reaching
Community Preservation Ethic”
Brittany Wickham Walker, “Norman Foster’s Glass Canopy That Revitalized an American Cultural
Landmark”
Book reviews
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Weiming Lu, The Tao of Urban Rejuvenation. Building a Livable Creative Urban Village (reviewed by
Michael A. Tomlan)
John H. Sprinkle, Jr., Crafting Preservation Criteria: The National Register of Historic Places and
American Historic Preservation. (Reviewed by Greg Donofrio)
Thomas C. Hubka, Houses Without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of
America’s Common Houses. (Reviewed by Chad Randl)
Robert A. Young, Stewardship of the Built Environment: Sustainability, Preservation and Reuse.
(Reviewed by Weiming Lu)
Volume 7 costs
Actual
Difference
Copy editing:
Approved at July
2014 EC
$950.00
$473.00
$477.00
Graphic design:
$1,200.00
$2,000.00
($800.00)
Printing (Cayuga Press):
$8,000.00
$5,720.00
$2,280.00
Total shipping costs:
$389.99
$389.99
$0.00
Total:
$10,539.99
$8,582.99
$1,957.00
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Volume 8 (2015) status as of August 3, 2015
Content
Double-blind peer review articles
The main purpose of volume 8 (approved by the EC) is to publish the proceedings from the “Learning from
the Reservation” conference. See attached flyer for details on the conference, held in April of this year.
All speakers were invited to submit a paper for publication in PER. To date, we have received the following
manuscripts:
Paper
No.
Date
received
1-15
1/21/15
2-15
1/30/15
4-15
2/2/15
8-15
2/16/15
9-15
2/17/15
11-15
3/10/15
13-15
5/20/15
Manuscript title
SanO, The Birthplace of the California Surf Culture
Folkloristic Perspectives on Traditional Cultural Properties:
The AFS Working Group’s Pilot Project and the Nomination of
Casita Rincón Criollo
The Tarpon Springs Greektown Traditional Cultural District:
The National Register Nomination and Local Culture Wars
The Beach Seiners of Cape Hatteras:
Tradition, Culture, and Politics in a Contested Landscape
Historic Preservation, Self-Determination, and the Resiliency of
Traditional Pueblo Villages: Traditional Cultural Place as an
Enabler of Change
Traditional Cultural Landscapes, Consultation, and the Hualapai
Cultural Atlas
The Green River Drift: A Case Study in Preserving the Intangible
Heritage of an Occupational Culture
Corresponding
author
Milford Wayne
Donaldson
Virginia Siegel
Tina Bucuvalas
Barbara GarrityBlake
Shawn Evans
Peter Bungart
Elizabeth C. King
We did not receive manuscripts from:
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Gail Dubrow, “Identifying and Interpreting Japanese American Resources from a TCP Perspective”
Allan Jabbour and Karen Singer Jabbour, “The North Shore Cemetery Decoration Project: Assessing
Long-term Impacts of a TCP Project in the Great Smoky Mountains”
Catherine Roberts, “Living under the Jim Crow Laws: The Reservation Experience”
Glenne McElhinney, “Report from San Francisco: Saving AND Losing Historic LGBT Cultural Spaces”
As of August 1, the following manuscripts have been accepted for publication in vol. 8:
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Shawn Evans , “Historic Preservation, Self-Determination, and the Resiliency of Traditional Pueblo
Villages:
Barbara Garrity-Blake, “The Beach Seiners of Cape Hatteras: Tradition, Culture, and Politics in a
Contested Landscape”
We are waiting on (overdue) revised submissions from:
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Virginia Siegel and Michael Ann Williams , “Folkloristic Perspectives on Traditional Cultural
Properties: The AFS Working Group’s Pilot Project and the Nomination of Casita Rincón Criollo”
(originally due on 6/11/15)
Peter Bungart, “Traditional Cultural Landscapes, Consultation, and the Hualapai Cultural Atlas”
(originally due 7/13/15)
We are waiting on (overdue) reviews on the following manuscripts. Finding qualified reviewers has been a
challenge as the manuscripts from the conference are not the usual “historic preservation” papers that appear
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in PER. Qualified reviewers need a background in TCPs, anthropology, and/or folklore, which have never
before been included in PER:
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Milford Wayne Donaldson, “SanO, The Birthplace of the California Surf Culture” (12 qualified people
asked to review, starting on March 13, 2015; 2 reviewers finally agreed to review; review #1 is 3
weeks late and review #2 is 3 months late)
Tina Bucuvalas, “The Tarpon Springs Greektown Traditional Cultural District: The National Register
Nomination and Local Culture Wars” (3 qualified people asked to review; review #1 received on April
5, 2015; reviewer #2 agreed to review on March 26 and has asked for continued extensions; reviewer
#3 agreed to help out on August 4.)
Elizabeth C. King, “The Green River Drift: A Case Study in Preserving the Intangible Heritage of an
Occupational Culture” (3 qualified people asked to review; review #1 received on July 30; a second
option for reviewer #2 is currently being solicited)
Possible (?) additional peer-reviewed papers that could be included in volume 8 with permission of the HPEF
In addition to the conference submissions, we also received 5 unsolicited manuscripts:
Paper
No.
Date
received
11-14
7/10/14
5-15
2/6/15
6-15
2/11/15
7-15
2/15/15
10-15
2/16/15
Manuscript title
Beyond Rust & Rockefeller: Preserving Cleveland’s
African American Heritage
Traditional vs. Modern: Mount Vernon and
Fallingwater as Models of Preservation Practice
and Philosophy
Synergies of Historic Housing and Sustainable
Rehab in
Low Income Neighborhoods
Corresponding author)
The Documentation Course: Beyond Drawing
Historic Significance and Preservation of an Urban
Historic District
Amalia Leifeste
Stephanie Ryberg-Webster
Justin Gunther
Jonathan Spodek
You Kyong Ahn
Funding for the publication of volume 8 is mostly from the Historic Preservation Education Foundation
(HPEF). HPEF has only sanctioned funding for the publication of 1) manuscripts from the Learning from the
Reservation conference and 2) normal, non-peer reviewed content that is contained in PER: student papers
and book reviews. Permission would need to be sought for publication of any of these papers in volume 8
from HPEF. Otherwise, these would be published in volume 9.
To date, we have accepted the following non-conference related manuscripts for publication in either volume
8 or 9 of PER:
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Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, “Beyond Rust & Rockefeller: Preserving Cleveland’s African American
Heritage”
Amalia Leifeste, “The Documentation Course: Beyond Drawing”
We are waiting on revised manuscripts from the other 3 authors. (All 5 submissions have gone through the
peer-review process.)
Student papers:
All students who participated in last year’s NCPE-sponsored student session at the National Trust conference
were invited to submit a paper to PER. To date, we received two papers:
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Sabrinna L Cox, “The Use of Mobile Device Applications in Historic Preservation”
Urmila Srinivasan, "The Boomer Skyline in “Boomtown” Texas: Renovating Mid-century Modern Highrises (MMH) in Houston"
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Both student papers have been reviewed and feedback provided. Only Sabrinna Cox has submitted a revised
paper, which is very close to publication-ready.
Book reviews
Greg Donofrio will have 6-8 book reviews ready by November 1.
Schedule
Due to the unusual nature of the bulk of the material in PER being related to the Learning from the
Reservation Conference and the late submittal of some of the manuscripts from this conference’s authors, the
NCPE Editorial Board and the EC have approved a maximum of a two-month delay to publish PER volume 8.
The normal publication schedule is as follows:
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September 1 — Final accepted articles go to copy editor
October 1 — Copy edited articles sent to authors for approval/revisions
October 14 — Deadline for authors to submit revisions
October 15 — Copy edited articles go to a paid graphic design for final layout
End of October — Graphic designer returns print ready art; page proofs sent to authors for final
approval
November 1 – final art sent to printer
November 15 – printing finished and journals mailed
End of November – members receive journal
In a worst-case scenario, the publication schedule for vol. 8 would therefore be:
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November 1 — Final accepted articles go to copy editor
December 1 — Copy edited articles sent to authors for approval/revisions
December 14 — Deadline for authors to submit revisions
December 15 — Copy edited articles go to a paid graphic design for final layout
End of December — Graphic designer returns print ready art; page proofs sent to authors for final
approval
January 1 – final art sent to printer
January 15 – printing finished and journals mailed
End of January – members receive journal
Estimated budget for volume 8
Note: A typical PER journal with 4-6 peer-reviewed articles is about 100 pages. 150 pages should consist of
about 6 to 8 peer-reviewed articles.
Pages:
100
150
Copy editing:
Graphic design:
Printing (Cayuga Press):
Total shipping costs:
Total:
Income
RWU grant
NCPE funds
HPEF grant
$600.00
$2,000.00
$6,100.00
$389.99
$9,089.99
$900.00
$3,000.00
$6,734.00
$455.13
$11,089.13
Costs
$4,000.00
$0.00
$5,500.00
$4,000.00
$1,500.00 Previously approved by EC
$5,500.00
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Remainder
$410.01
-$89.13
EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING
The PER Editorial Board met at the 2014 National Trust meeting in Savannah, GA. Board members in
attendance were: Paul Hardin Kapp, Carter Hudgins, Ted Ligibel, Andréa Livi Smith, Steven Hoffman, Robert
Young. Also present were Greg Donofrio (PER book review editor), Jeremy Wells (PER co-editor), Rebecca
Sheppard (PER co-editor), and Lauren Weiss Bricker. See more details at PER Editorial Board meeting
in November
PER archive at the EMU Archives
Ted Ligibel will be leading the effort to create a PER archive at Eastern Michigan U. and volunteered to create
a “master policy document”. Andi suggested creating a private upload area on the NCPE web site to upload
PER documents to for archiving; an archivist at EMU would then access this upload area to download the files.
There was also a discussion about an “embargo” for accessing files to avoid a potential issue where the blind
peer review process could be compromised.
Formation of sub-committees
By-laws subcommittee
Bob, Paul, Jeremy, and Becky will work on creating a “PER Editorial Board bylaws” document that contains:
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Board composition, selection, terms, and responsibilities
Editor(s) selection, terms, and responsibilities
When the editorial board should meet
Difference in roles/authority between the Editorial Board and Executive Committee
Other elements, as deemed necessary
Funding responsibilities of editors
Development subcommittee
Greg, Ted, Carter, and Becky will work on creating a sustainable funding source for PER.
PER needs a sustainable funding source, but foundations/publishing houses are not interested because PER
looks too much like a member-only benefit:
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About two-thirds of the publication costs for PER are to print the journal, which mostly benefits NCPE
members. Subscribers receive 298 copies of print versions of PER; of this number, 285 copies go to 57
NCPE members. In comparison, since November 2012, more than 14,000 PER articles have been
downloaded from the NCPE web site.
PER is content is embargoed for one year; only subscribers (equivalent to NCPE members) can see
current content.
Although individuals can subscribe to the print version of PER, there have only been 13-15 individual
subscriptions (mostly through the EBSCO library service) since 2007. This seems unlikely to increase
any time soon.
This subcommittee will consider:
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Making PER online only and re-envision as an “open access” journal; drop print version and save
approx. $6,000 per volume.
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Regardless of the decision on the print-version of the journal, consider removing embargo on current
PER volume; everyone sees the current volume at the same time, regardless of format.
Promoting the journal (to increase submissions/readership) subcommittee
Lauren, Andi, Steve, and Jeremy will address:
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With more than 14,000 article downloads since November of 2012, there are only a handful of
citations. Why isn’t PER being cited more frequently?
How can board members help to promote the journal?
OTHER
Jeremy will be on leave as PER co-editor starting on August 3, 2015 so that he can focus on his Fulbrightfunded research in Brazil. During this time, Becky will assume the primary lead of editorship of the journal.
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