Chair (since 2017)

Kate N. Ogden

Art Historian

Associate Professor of Art History at Richard Stockton University. Ogden teaches American art, modern art, and the history of photography. Her website Art & Architecture of New Jersey, currently offline for repairs, contains a growing wealth of publicly accessible information about resources in the Garden State.

Vice-Chair

Gregory Lattanzi

Archeologist/Historic and pre-historic

State Archaeologist in the Bureau of Archaeology and Ethnology at the New Jersey State Museum. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University. He has written scholarly articles on a variety of topics related to Native American archaeology, and has extensive experience as a principal investigator on archaeological projects in the middle-Atlantic states.

David Abramson

Architectural Historian/Architect

The longest-serving member in the Board’s history, having first joined the Board in 1976. He has been a historic preservation architect in practice in New Jersey since 1980 and possesses extensive experience in the restoration and rehabilitation of historic buildings. He holds a M.S. degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University.

Michael Chiarappa

Architectural Historian/Historian

An associate professor of history at Quinnipiac University. His areas of specialization have included the folklife of southern New Jersey. He has been a historian of fishing, among other subjects, and is in progress on a book about oystering in the Delaware Bay. He is a historian of vernacular architecture and a co-editor of the journal Buildings and Landscapes, published by the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

Janet Foster

Architectural Historian

A long-time preservation consultant in New Jersey. She was Assistant Director of the Historic Preservation program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 2002 to 2012, where she also served as an adjunct instructor. Her most recent book is The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular (2006). She also co-authored Building by the Book: Pattern Book Architecture in New Jersey (1992).

John Gomez

Architectural Historian/Historian

Resides in Jersey City, where he was the founder of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy, which he led for several years. He holds an M.S. degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and he currently serves on the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission.

Kathleen John-Alder

Landscape Architect

An associate professor in the Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture. She is both a landscape architect and a historian of landscape design. John-Alder holds degrees in both environmental design and botany. She has undertaken numerous New Jersey-related projects and studies.

Michael J. Mills

Architect/Planner

A registered architect and licensed professional planner, and one of New Jersey’s most accomplished historic preservation architects. His long career has featured many New Jersey projects. He holds a B.A. degree in Architecture from Princeton University, a M.S. degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and he studied at the International Center for the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Anthony Puniello

Archeologist/Historic and pre-historic

Worked for DEP for over 30 years, where he developed and managed a cultural resource team that reviews projects funded under the federal Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act for their potential to affect historic properties, including archaeological sites, buildings, and landscapes. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University.

Michael A. Siegel

Cartographer/Historic Geographer

The Staff Cartographer for the Rutgers University Department of Geography since 1987. He has been the Cartographic Editor for the Journal of Maps since 2007. From 2004 to 2009 he was the cartographer for the Rutgers University Press atlas, Mapping New Jersey. He holds a Master’s degree in Library Science from Rutgers.

Hettie V. Williams

Historian

An assistant professor of History in the Monmouth University History Department. She holds a Ph.D. from Drew University and has taught various subjects. She specializes, however, in 20th-century American and African American history. Among her current projects is an article about Sarah Spencer Washington, who founded the Apex Beauty Products Company in Atlantic City and became an important figure in the civil rights movement.