About
Vincent L. Michael, PhD, Executive Director of the Conservation Society of San Antonio, is Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where he was Vice Chair of the Preservation and Sites Committee and the Diversity Task Force. His 37 year career in heritage conservation includes senior positions such as Chair of the National Council for Preservation Education and John Bryan Chair of Historic Preservation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he taught historic preservation for 16 years. A prominent keynote speaker and widely read writer, Vincent has also worked on heritage projects in Asia, South America and Europe.
Education
Ph.D. Art History University of Illinois at Chicago 2007
M.A. Social Sciences University of Chicago 1982
B.A. American History, with honors University of Chicago 1982Publications
“Reform the National Register of Historic Places” chapter in Historic Preservation: The Next Fifty Years, Wagner and Patterson, Eds., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
“St. Thomas Apostle Church” in Art Deco Chicago, Bruegmann, Robert, Ed. Yale University Press, 2017
Afterword: “A Lost Rest”, in The Last Stop: Vanishing Rest Stops of the American Roadside, by Ryann Ford (Introduction by Joanna Dowling, Foreword by Joe Ely), powerHouse Books, 2016
Partnership Planning in Guizhou villages. Traditional Chinese Village Bulletin, September 2015
Diversity in Preservation: Rethinking Standards and Practices, forum journal, Spring 2014 Vol. 28. No. 3
The Architecture of Barry Byrne: Taking the Prairie School to Europe, University of Illinois Press, June 2013
