Angela Wheeler

At Johns Hopkins, Angela Wheeler is a lecturer in the MA in Cultural Heritage Management program.

Since 2010, Wheeler has worked and researched in the cultural heritage sector, both in the United States and internationally. She has surveyed mid-century public housing in Hawaii, documented Ottoman mosques in the Republic of Georgia, conserved archaeological artifacts at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and consulted with indigenous communities about the impact of fracking on Siberian landscapes. She enjoys introducing students to these experiences to show them the breadth of professions within cultural heritage. As an academic, her research explores how different countries did (or did not) incorporate historic neighborhoods into urban plans, a process that often reflected whose homes, communities, and cultures were considered deserving of value.

Wheeler has previously lectured at Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she developed and taught courses on historic preservation, urban studies, and architectural history. Her goal as an educator is to provide students with not only technical skills but the theoretical, historical, and ethical contexts they need to interrogate the value systems underlying cultural heritage practice. Wheeler’s research and teaching have focused on the cultural heritage of marginalized communities, preservation approaches to historic neighborhoods, and the role of states and international organizations in shaping heritage priorities.

She holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and a BA in Cultural and Historic Preservation from Salve Regina University.