Professor
Ph.D., in American Studies, University of Minnesota (1966)
19th and 20th Century American Cultural History (particularly historic preservation); Local and Regional History; Popular Art and Architecture; Environmental History and Cultural Attitudes

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Office: 4408 Friedmann Hall
E-mail: peter.schmitt@wmich.edu
Phone: (269) 387-4647

Professional Activities

Dr. Schmitt has presented numerous papers and workshops at meetings of the National Popular Culture Association, Michigan American Studies Association, Michigan Society of Architects, and Great Lakes History Association, and many workshops to local government units, historical commissions, and public interest groups. He has been a consultant for a number of local government units and citizen groups on problems of historic preservation and interpretation of structures and government records, and participated in the Shoreline Humanities Project with a grant from Michigan Council for the Humanities.

Selected Publications

Back to Nature (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969; reissued 1990)

Kalamazoo: Nineteenth Century Homes in a Midwestern Village (1976)

Co-authored with Larry Massie: Kalamazoo: The Place Behind the Products, (1981); reissued 1998 and Battle Creek: The Place Behind the Products, (1984)