The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation

Barry L. Stiefel is an associate professor in the Historic Preservation and Community Planning program at the College of Charleston. He is interested in how the sum of local preservation efforts affects regional, national, and multinational policies as well as preservation education. Recently, he has taken an interest in automobiles as a metaphor for rethinking the way we approach the preservation of the built environment. Dr. Stiefel has published numerous books and articles. Originally from southeastern Michigan, where the automobile industry was key to the region's identity, Dr. Stiefel now resides with his family in South Carolina, where his primary mode of transportation is a bicycle. Jennifer Clark is the head of the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her research?areas in automobility?include motor museums, roadside memorials, and the motoring life. She is the editor of Safe and Mobile (1999), the author of? Aborigines and Activism?(2008) andThe American Idea of England, 1776-1840?(2013), and?the editor, with Adele Nye, of?Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards?(2018). She is currently researching social histories of Holden.