Dr. Lisa Goff

Lisa Goff holds a joint appointment in English and American Studies and is affiliated faculty in the Architectural History Department in the School of Architecture. She is the director of UVA’s Institute for Public History, and the principal investigator on two digital public history projects: Take Back the Archive, a digital archive of the history of sexual violence at UVA; and Finding Virginia’s Freetowns, an ArcGIS work-in-progress that will map and annotate Reconstruction-era Black settlements in Virginia. Her public history work has garnered several Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grants and two 3 Cavs awards from UVA. She teaches the popular course “Hands-On Public History: Slavery and Reconstruction” (AMST 3221-3222), which partners with Black history organizations to document and preserve community histories in central Virginia. She is the author of Shantytown USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor" (Harvard UP), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2016.