Daniel J. Nadenicek
Daniel J. Nadenicek, FASLA, is former dean of the University of Georgia College of Environment and current Design and Constance Knowles Draper Chair in Environmental Design. A widely published scholar in the areas of historic preservation, landscape history, and urban design, Nadenicek previously served as chair of the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at Clemson University and director of Healthy Communities and Historic Preservation at Clemson’s Restoration Institute. He joined the faculty of Clemson in 2002 after working eleven years at Pennsylvania State University, where he was on the landscape architecture faculty and director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History.
His publications include more than ninety articles, reviews, reports, and proceedings. Nadenicek also has presented more than seventy-five lectures, papers, and panel presentations in North America and Europe and has helped organize several major national and international conferences and symposia. He is currently writing a book about the conservation work of nineteenth-century American businessman Frederick Billings. He edits the LALH series Critical Studies in the History of Environmental Design and serves on the editorial boards of Landscape Journal and the University of Georgia Press. He is a past president of the Sigma Lambda Alpha honor society and a former member of the Executive Council of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. He has been a consultant on historic forests for the National Park Service and helped design the Campus Peace Garden at Penn State. Nadenicek earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history at Mankato State University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota.