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Faculty Profile

Michael Tomlan

Title

Professor
Historic Preservation Planning Director

Department

City & Regional Planning

Address

207 W. Sibley Hall

Phone

(607) 255-7261

Email

mat4@cornell.edu
Michael Tomlan is a historic preservation educator who teaches the history of urban development, documentation techniques, problems in contemporary preservation planning practice, and museum planning and development. Tomlan directs the graduate program in Historic Preservation Planning and Cornell’s Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies. He assists students in archaeology, architecture, engineering, history, hotel administration, landscape architecture, public affairs, real estate, and urban studies.

 

He also serves as Chair of the Senior Board of Advisers to the Global Heritage Fund (Palo Alto, CA), and reviews the nominations for and the management of conservation projects in Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America. He has consulted on projects for the World Monuments Fund, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and rehabilitation and restoration projects in Arizona, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Tennessee, New York, and Pennsylvania.

 

Tomlan received his B.Arch. from the University of Tennessee, his M.S.H.P. from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from Cornell.

Courses (selected)

  • CRP 5600 Documentation for Preservation
  • CRP 5620 Perspectives on Preservation
  • CRP 5640 Building Materials Conservation
  • CRP 5660 Fieldwork/Workshop in Historic Preservation
  • CRP 3610 / 6610 Seminar in Urban History

Publications (selected)

  • Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy, with David Listokin (under contract), John Wiley & Sons (2009)
  • Preservation of What, For Whom?  National Council for Preservation Education (1997)

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (selected)

  • Elected to the College of Fellows for the Association for Preservation Technology International (2005)

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