Hannah Cameron

Education

(Candidate) PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and Design, University of Maryland
Master of Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University

Biography

Hannah Cameron is the Project Manager at the Center for Cultural Landscapes (CCL) at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. In this role, she supports the Outsider Preservation Initiative (OPI) and broader CCL work. 

Hannah is a doctoral student in the Urban and Regional Planning and Design program at the University of Maryland where she has served as a graduate assistant to the Historic Preservation Program Director and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in historic preservation and planning history and theory. Her research interests and ongoing work examines discourses of monumentality and the ways in which social and spatial constructs intersect with past and present commemoration and memorialization in public spaces of cities.

Hannah received her Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University where her thesis was titled Contesting the Commemorative Narrative: Planning for Richmond’s Cultural Landscape. In addition to examining contested commemorative monuments and spaces, her research studies historic Black cemeteries and sacred spaces. She is a recent co-author of the article, "Why Are We Asking for a Seat at the Table That Our Ancestors Created for Us?: The Importance of Cultural Landscapes and Power in Urban Planning” published in the Journal of Urban Affairs.

She is a student member of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and Urban Affairs Association (UAA).