Dr. Antoinette J. Lee
Assistant Associate Director, Historical Documentation Programs, National Park Service   
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Lee has worked as a historian with the cultural resources programs of the National Park Service since 1989.  Presently, she is Assistant Associate Director, Historical Documentation Programs and oversees the National Register of Historic Places, National Historic Landmarks, Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, among other programs. Previously, she established new National Park Service programs that accelerate the process by which the historic preservation/cultural resource field reflects the full diversity of the nation.  Information on the Cultural Resources Diversity Program is available at www.cr.nps.gov/crdi. She is the founding editor of the National Park Service periodical, CRM:  The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, which is published by the National Park Service to expand the intellectual foundation of cultural resource management.  

Other positions with the National Park Service include six years as a historian with the National Register of Historic Places, during which she was responsible for the National Register's publications program, including the National Register bulletin series on the identification, documentation, evaluation, and registration of historic properties. For four years, she worked as a historian with the Heritage Preservation Services division and served as Acting Chief, Preservation Initiatives Branch and managed three programs:  the Historic Preservation Planning Program, National Historic Landmarks Assistance Initiative, and Historic Landscape Initiative.

From 1982 to 1989, she worked as a private consultant in architectural and urban history and historic preservation.  She researched and wrote major reports and manuscripts, conducted surveys of historic properties, prepared nominations for designation of historic properties, prepared grant and contract proposals, and administered projects. Clients included the District of Columbia Public Schools, Waterford Foundation, U.S. Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, National Park Service, and the Architectural League (New York).  She conducted a historical survey of 100 public school buildings and prepared the manuscript, "Public School Buildings of the District of Columbia, 1804-1930," for the District of Columbia Public Schools; wrote the successful World Heritage nomination, the Thomas Jefferson Thematic Nomination:  Monticello and the University of Virginia (Jeffersonian Precinct); authored reports on the potential of other architectural properties and Spanish missions for World Heritage status; and authored "William Howard Taft National Historic Site, An Administrative History” for the Midwest Regional Office of the National Park Service in Omaha, NE. 

Between 1977 and 1982, she worked for the National Trust for Historic Preservation as Education Service Coordinator and directed academic, continuing education, professional training, internship, elementary and secondary, and international programs. 

Between 1996 and 2005, she was associated with the M.A. Program in Historic Preservation, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, where she taught courses in preservation documentation and fieldwork through distance-learning methods, and served on M.A. thesis committees. Between 1984 and 1987, she served as a member of the Arlington County (Virginia) Historic Affairs and Landmark Review Board. 

Her major publications include: co-author with Frederick Gutheim, Worthy of the Nation: Washington, DC,  From L’Enfant to the National Capital Planning Commission (Baltimore, MD:  Johns Hopkins Press, 2006), Architects to the Nation:  The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect’s Office (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2000);  co-author, with Pamela Scott, Buildings of the District of Columbia (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1993); editor and contributor, Past Meets Future:  Saving America's Historic Environments (Washington, DC:  The Preservation Press, 1992); and co-editor and contributor, with Robert E. Stipe, The American Mosaic:  Preserving a Nation's Heritage (Washington, DC:  The U.S. Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites, 1987).  She has written many articles, essays, and reports on historic preservation, American architectural history, and the history of Washington, DC. 

She received a B.A. degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from George Washington University.  She attended the Seminar for Historical Administration in Williamsburg, VA, in 1972 and the Attingham Summer School in 1973. In 1976, she was recipient of the Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship awarded by the Washington, DC Branch of the English-Speaking Union and undertook a three-month study of conservation area designations in the United Kingdom.