Anna Marcum is an independent architectural historian and preservationist. Anna earned a Master of Preservation Studies in 2018 from the Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans, Louisiana where she was the recipient of the inaugural Ann and Frank Masson Graduate Research Fellowship. In 2013, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Barnard College of Columbia University. Anna Marcum meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards for Architectural Historians. Marcum has listed properties on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Orleans’ Nine Most Endangered Sites. She has worked with the Vieux Carré Commission, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Historic New England, Boston, Massachusetts. Marcum has also worked on historic preservation projects in Los Angeles, California, the Texas Gulf Coast, Hammond, Louisiana, and Foley, Alabama. Anna presented her research about innovative site interpretation methods for New Orleans’ Canal Street in the “Projects in Progress” poster session at the Society of Architectural Historians 72nd Annual International Conference in Providence, Rhode Island. Anna’s preservation experience in New York City is wide-ranging. While she was the Director of Research and Preservation at Village Preservation, she successfully advocated to have the neighborhood South of Union Square listed as one of the “Seven to Save” endangered historic resources in New York state. She is a regular contributor to Atomic Ranch and The Architect’s Newspaper and has been quoted as an expert in the New York Times and Financial Times, among other publications. She has also appeared on the Preservation Destination Podcast. Anna is currently the Senior Director of Preservation at the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, TN.