Dr. Gabriel Cherem teaches the heritage interpretation courses, and for many years published Interp Central, the clearing-house newsletter for interpreters in the United States and Canada. He served as vice-president of Heritage Interpretation International from 1989 to 1991. Cherem headed the EMU executive committee for the organization of the Hawaii Congress. Concepts he has developed, such as community interpretation and appropriate tourism, are receiving attention in current travel and tourism textbooks and academic journals.

Dr. Chris Mayda, a cultural geographer, joined the Department in the Fall of 1999 and teaches the geography-based courses for the program, including Settlement Geography and American Cultural Landscapes.

Dr. Andrew Nazzaro, program co-founder, still is active in the program and teaches the Interpreting Cultural Landscape course. He has also served on the Washtenaw County Historic District Commission, and successfully led a group of preservation students in the effort to save EMU's oldest campus building, Welch Hall in the 1980s.

Dr. Norman Tyler, director of EMU's Urban and Regional Planning programs and a registered architect and certified planner, joined the department full time in 1990 after teaching as an adjunct professor in the historic preservation program for several years. Tyler is past president of the Ann Arbor Historic District Commission, is a former member of the Ann Arbor Landmarks Study Committee, and is a board member of the Ann Arbor Historical Street Exhibit Program. In 2000, he had published a popular textbook for historic preservation, Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles and Practice (W.W. Norton and Company, New York). Besides teaching our Downtown Revitalization course, he has responsibility for many planning courses and introduced the urban design studio.

Other full-time Department staff include Dr. Robert Ward who is concerned with preservation graphics, rural conservation and the rural-urban fringe. Dr. Ellen Schwartz, Art Department, teaches the introductory architectural history component. From the History Department, Dr. JoEllen Vineyard teaches courses in state and local history and historic methods.

Adjunct faculty include Nancy Bryk, head curator at Greenfield Village & Henry Ford Museum, who teaches American Material Culture, Introduction to Museology & Curatorship, Decorative Arts, and Interpreting the Period Room; Ilene Tyler, FAIA teaches Preservation Technology, and a principal with the nationally-recognized preservation/architectural firm of Quinn-Evans Architects, and Jeff Green, Historic Preservation, City of Monroe.