Agatha Sloboda
Architectural Historian/Historian, M.S.
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Agatha Sloboda joined Hunter Research as an Architectural Historian/Historian in June 2023. Agatha’s current duties consist of historical research and writing for architectural and archaeological studies as well as photographic documentation of residential, industrial, institutional and transportation-related resources. Recently, Agatha has authored the Statement of Significance for a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Darress Theatre (Boonton, New Jersey), an interpretive plan for the Franklin Street School (Cape May, New Jersey), the historical development chapters in the preservation plan for the Van Riper House (Nutley, New Jersey) and municipal historic register nominations for the Montclair Riding Club (West Orange, New Jersey) and the Sherman Place Residential Historic District (Jersey City, New Jersey).
Agatha is a graduate of the Historic Preservation department at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design (M.S., 2024) and of the Growth and Structure of Cities department at Bryn Mawr College (B.A., 2018). Agatha’s graduate thesis, “Jim Crowing Martha Washington: The Architecture of a Separate Black Public School in Philadelphia, 1881-1937,” inventoried and systematically categorized sites of segregated education and interpreted their architectural history and local heritage. While at Weitzman, Agatha served as a Teaching Assistant for the required first-year course, “Documentation, Research, Recording I,” as well as the department’s Student Internship Coordinator. During an internship with the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites, Agatha conducted National Register research on Quaker abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Prior to formally entering the historic preservation field and profession, Agatha held positions in tour guiding, hospitality and public history blogging in hometown Washington, D.C.
Agatha meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards (36 CRF 61) in History and Architectural History.
