Donald W. Linebaugh

Dr. Donald W. Linebaugh is professor of Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland College Park. He has served as Director of the graduate preservation program (2004-2018), Dean (2018-2021), and Associate Dean (2014-2018). Before joining the Maryland faculty, Dr. Linebaugh served as the Director of the Program for Archaeological Research (PAR) and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky (1997-2004), and prior to Kentucky as the Co-Director of College of William and Mary’s Archaeological Research (WMCAR).  

Dr. Linebaugh’s research interests include: the archaeology of early urban centers; the history of archaeology and historic preservation; historic landscapes and cultural environment; plantation culture in the Chesapeake; industry and craft/trade sites; ethnic studies of Pennsylvania German culture in the Valley of Virginia and Norwegian settlement in Minnesota and Texas; New England town studies; and, most recently, the evolution of gas lighting. 

Linebaugh’s several book's include The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland Wells Robbins and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America (Univ. Press of New England, 2005), The Springfield Gas Machine: Illuminating Industry and Leisure, 1860s-1920s (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2011), and with co-editor William Griswold, Saugus Iron Works: The Roland W. Robbins Excavations 1948-1953 (National Park Service, 2011) and The Saratoga Campaign: Uncovering an Embattled Landscape (University Press of New England, 2016). Dr. Linebaugh has also published numerous journal articles and reviews in national journals, and has chapters in edited books on preservation, archaeology, history, and cultural resource management.