Meet our incoming 2014 Senior Co-Chair

Daniel Hammer is Curator and Head of Reader Services at the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. In 2011 he led and completed a review and revision of the Research Center’s rights and reproductions policies and procedures, and is currently leading an on-going review of the Center’s policies and procedures for patron access to collections materials in the reading room. He has a Bachelor’s degree in German literature from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and a Masters degree in Historic Preservation from the Tulane University School of Architecture. He works closely with The Collection’s significant holdings relating to the history of the German community in New Orleans. He created an online research pathfinder to these materials, available at www.hnoc.org, and has published and presented numerous papers about 19^th and 20^th Century German New Orleans, and the German community organizations whose records are preserved at The Collection. He is also interested in the history of historic perseveration in New Orleans, and teaches a seminar on the history of North American architecture in the Preservation Studies program at the Tulane School of Architecture, where he is an Adjunct Lecturer.

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