Shelley S. Mastran

Professor in Practice in Urban Affairs and Planning

Shelley S. Mastran is a preservation planning consultant and co-directs the Your Town: Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.She has been involved in community planning projects, heritage areas, and scenic byway management plans in Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia.She worked with Ed McMahon of the Urban Land Institute on the publications, Better Models for Development in Virginia and comparable books for California, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.She is a Visiting Professor in the graduate programs of Natural Resources and Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech (Alexandria campus).

Ms. Mastran is the former Director of the Rural Heritage Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.She is co-author with Samuel N. Stokes and A. Elizabeth Watson of the second edition of Saving America’s Countryside, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1997.She is the principal author of Mountaineers and Rangers: A History of Federal Forest Management in the Southern Appalachians, 1900-1980, written for the U.S. Forest Service.She has a B.A. in English from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Maryland, the George Washington University, the University of Virginia, and Goucher College.