UVM History Department Blog

The University of Vermont History Department and Historic Preservation Program are pleased to announce the appointments of Nora Mitchell and Rolf Diamant as Adjunct Associate Professors. Nora Mitchell is internationally known for her leadership in cultural landscape preservation efforts and scholarship. As the founding director of the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as through her leadership with the Stewardship Institute and the Conservation Study institute at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and as a board member of US/ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites), Nora brings a wealth of experience in testing new methodologies for preserving cultural landscapes. Rolf Diamant has worked in historic preservation through his 37-year career with the National Park Service, serving as superintendent of several national historical parks and sites including Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and Olmsted Archives, Lowell National Historical Park, Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site and Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. The UVM Historic Preservation Program looks forward to the opportunity to engage with Nora Mitchell and Rolf Diamant through a broad range of potential collaborations, research and public service networking endeavors that could be of great value to our students, faculty and the University of Vermont, as well as to the field of cultural landscape studies, nationally and internationally.