VAF Board of Directors, 2024-2025

Officers

President: Elaine Jackson-Retondo, Independent Historian (2025)

First Vice President: Phil Gruen, Washington State University (2025)

Second Vice President: Heather Barrett, Maryland Historical Trust (2025)

Treasurer: Caroline Spurry, George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2028)

Secretary: Paula Mohr, Bentonsport Preservation, LLC (2025)

Elected Directors

Bobby Cervantes, Harvard University (2026)

Kathleen Powers Conti, Florida State University (2027)

Valentina Davila, Carleton University (2027)

Tara Dudley, University of Texas at Austin (2025)

Brian Goldstein, Swarthmore College (2026)

Willa Granger, Florida Atlantic University (2025)

Beth King, North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (2025)

Jeronimo Roldan, Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic

Preservation (2027)

Jake Torkelson, University of Pennsylvania (2027)

Nicholas Vann, Washington State Governor’s Office of Equity (2026)

José Vázquez, Miami Dade College (2026)

Wei (Windy) Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2026)

Appointed Directors

Buildings & Landscapes Editors

Michael Chiarappa, Washington College, co-editor (2024)

Margaret Grubiak, Villanova University, co-editor (2025)

VAN Editor

Gretchen Pineo, Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (2027)

Website Editor

Amanda Roth Clark, Whitworth University (2027)

Other Positions

Daves Rossell, Savannah College of Art and Design, book review editor (2027)

Laura Kilcer VanHuss, Independant Scholar

Melanie Millman, Assistant VAN Editor for Social Media

Laura Driemeyer, Preservation Company, NH, Archivist

Michelle Jones, Conference Planner

Michael Emmons and Catherine Morrissey, 2025 Conference Coordinators (Delaware)

Amanda Roth Clark and Phil Gruen, 2026 Conference Coordinators (Walla Walla, WA)