RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ted Ligibel is an Advisor Emeritus to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, having serverd nine years as the Advisor from the state of Ohio. In January 1992 he was invited to Little Rock, Arkansas, as a participant in one of President Clinton's "Roundtables", which focused on Neighborhood Revitalization, Historic Preservation, and the Arts. He returned to Washington, D.C. for a second "roundtable" in May, 1992. He brought seventeen years of preservation practice, including several years with the Ohio SHPO, to the EMU program.
Ligibel teaches core courses in historic preservation, preservation planning, survey techniques, adaptive use, and preservation and cultural tourism. Shortly before joining the Department, he was a primary organizer of a national conference on cultural heritage corridors held in Toledo, Ohio, sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Ohio Historical Society, and is currently working with the National Park Service toward the establishment of a Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor.