 Elizabeth Moore Humphreys is the projects coordinator and architectural historian at the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University. She supervises the Center’s National Register and survey program, and manages a variety of heritage development and historic preservation projects across the state. She works closely with graduate students at MTSU, training them on architectural documentation and research techniques. Her particular research interests include African-American educational resources of the 20th century and mid-20th century modern design.
Humphreys completed her master’s degree in Architectural History and Certificate of Historic Preservation at the University of Virginia in 2005. Her thesis, entitled Richmond, Virginia’s African American High Schools: the Architecture of the Washington-DuBois Debate, 1923-1938, focused on the physical representation of early twentieth-century trends in African-American high school education. She is a native of Clanton, Alabama, and received her bachelor’s degree in art history from Vanderbilt University in 2003.
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