Angel David Nieves, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Historic Preservation

Office: 1205    |    Phone: 301-405-0753    |    Email

Faculty Fellow, MITH ('06-'08)
Program Faculty, U.S. Latina/o Studies ('07-'08)

Angel David Nieves, B.Arch., M.A., Ph.D is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park.  In Fall 2006 he began his new role as Director of Graduate Research and Training at the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) and as a Resident Fellow at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), 2006-2008.  He is an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of American Studies, Women’s Studies, African American Studies, and Anthropology.  He is also an affiliate member of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies and the Program in LGBT Studies.  He completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana studies at Cornell University in 2001.  He was Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and Geography in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 2001-2003.  His book manuscript, ‘We Gave Our Hearts and Lives To It:’ Black Women and Nation-Building in the New South, is currently being revised for publication with Duke University Press.  He is also the co-editor (w/Leslie Alexander) of a forthcoming volume, ‘We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S., with the University Press of Colorado (due Spring 2008).  He has published essays in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, the Journal of Planning History, Historic Environment, Planning History Studies, ARRIS, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and in several edited collections – most recently in Black Geographies and the Politics of Place on Africadian (Afro-Canadian) forced removals.  His digital research and scholarship have also been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek Magazine.  In the spring of 2007 he was honored with the Lionel Cantu Memorial Colloquium Award from the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSD). 

His scholarly work and community-based activism critically engages with issues of memory, heritage preservation, gender, and nationalism at the intersections of race and the built environment in the Global South.

For academic year 2007-2008 he will work to launch the first U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, helping fill both faculty and administrative posts during the program’s inaugural year.

Selected Publications:

Bonnie Thornton Dill, Amy McLaughlin, and Angel David Nieves, “Future Directions of Feminist Research: Intersectionality,” in Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, ed. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Sage Publications, with  (2007), 629-637.

Angel David Nieves, “‘Until the lions have their historians, tales of history will always glorify the hunter’: Heritage Conservation, Tourism and Cultural Sustainability at the Langa Pass Court Building Museum, South Africa,” Historic Environment 19, no. 1 (2006): 33-37.

Angel David Nieves, “’To Erect Above the Ruined Auction-Block … Institutions of Learning:’ ‘Race-Women,’ Industrial Education, and the Artifacts of Nation-Making in the Jim Crow South," Black Women’s Politics/Cultural Expression—Special Issue, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 1, no. 3  (Oct./Nov. 2005): 277-293.