Our Next Speaker

Jobie Hill, PhD, History; MS, Historic Preservation; MA, Art History; BA, Anthropology; Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing

Jobie Hill is a licensed preservation architect with over fifteen years of professional experience. She has graduate degrees in historic preservation (MS) and art history (MA), and a BA in anthropology and is completing her Ph.D. in history at Duke.

Since 2011, her research and professional work has focused exclusively on domestic slave buildings. She is engaged in interdisciplinary research examining the architecture of slavery, the influence these dwellings on the lives of their inhabitants, and the preservation of their history.

In 2012 she started an independent project titled “Saving Slave Houses” with the primary goal to ensure that slave houses, irreplaceable pieces of history, are not lost forever. In her efforts to preserve extant slave houses and to education the public about them she has had the opportunity to partner with the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), TED Talk, Trimble, Google, Historic American Buildings Survey, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, National Trust for Historic Preservation, C-SPAN, Virginia Humanities, Montpelier and Monticello.