The UGA Cultural Landscape Laboratory is a collaborative enterprise. While the lab’s research activities are coordinated by faculty and graduate students in the UGA College of Environment and Design, our work depends on contributions from a wide range of people and institutions. Our partners include scholars and students in other UGA departments, private-sector professionals, and members of the communities where we work.
Faculty Researchers
Marianne Cramer
Associate Professor
Jackson Street Building, Office 150
285 South Jackson Street
Athens, GA 30602
R. Alfred “Alfie” Vick
Georgia Power Professor in Environmental Ethics and Director of Environmental Ethics Certificate Program
Previous CLL Research Assistants
- Tim Barrett, MHP 2011
- Stephanie Bryan, MLA 2011
- Carrie Landers, MLA 2011
- Judson Abbott, MLA 2012
- Theresa Owen, MEPD 2012
- Katie Pigott, MLA 2012
- Sean Dunlap, MHP 2013
- Tom Jones, MHP 2013
- Fielding Link, MLA 2013
- Milton Perry, MHP 2013
- Wes Ryals, MLA 2013
- Laura Schuetz, MHP 2013
- Leanne Dickerson, MHP 2014
- Megan Turner, MLA 2014
- Katie Twomey, MHP 2014
- Daniel Weldon, MHP 2014
- Paul Cady, MLA 2015
- Vineet Date, MHP 2015
- Jarrad Holbrook, MHP 2015
- Nathan Dittman, MLA 2016
- Genna Mason, MLA 2016
- Rebecca McManus, 2016
- Natasha Burr, BLA 2017
- Rishika Chaudhury, MEPD 2017
- Braden Meadows, BLA 2020
UGA Research Partners
Center for Geospatial Research
Thomas R. Jordan
Marguerite Madden
The UGA Department of Geography’s Center for Remote-Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) and the Cultural Landscape Laboratory are working together to explore how Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote-sensing and other digital technologies may contribute to the stewardship of cultural landscapes. Marguerite Madden, Director of CRMS, and Thomas R. Jordan, Associate Director of CRMS, provide lab faculty and students with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) equipment, and collaborate with lab researchers on the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the lab’s research sites.
Department of History
Paul Sutter
Drew Swanson
The UGA Cultural Landscape Laboratory’s work at Wormsloe Plantation draws heavily from the research of environmental historians Paul Sutter and Drew Swanson. Sutter, formerly Associate Professor in the UGA Department of History (now Professor of History at the University of Colorado), and former UGA graduate student Swanson, have researched the history of human use of the land at Wormsloe Plantation. Both scholars continue to assist faculty and students of the UGA Cultural Landscape Laboratory with our work at this site.
David Berle
Professor David Berle and his graduate students provide the UGA Cultural Landscape Laboratory with equipment and technical expertise for collecting GPS data at our research sites.
Institute of Native American Studies
Private Research Partners
Cherokee Nation Enterprises
Dale Jaeger
Keyes Williamson
The UGA Cultural Landscape Laboratory is assisting The Jaeger Company with the preparation of a cultural landscape inventory for Stratford Hall Plantation. Keyes Williamson, a UGA-CED graduate and landscape architect for The Jaeger Company, is coordinating the inventory. It will provide baseline data on landscape features, and support an initial assessment of the landscape’s condition, historic significance, and historic integrity.
National Trail of Tears Association
Produce, Inc.
