Cari Goetcheus

Cari Goetcheus, Professor in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia, specializes in cultural landscape research, documentation, and management. She holds the Draper Chair and teaches in the graduate Historic Preservation Program.

Her expertise spans cultural landscape inventory systems, historic American landscape survey guidelines, and interdisciplinary collaboration with public/private sectors. Current projects include partnerships with Gullah Geechee communities and Getty Foundation-funded preservation planning at Clemson University.

• Licensed Landscape Architect in Massachusetts and Georgia
• Director of UGA Cultural Landscape Laboratory
• Contributor to National Park Service Cultural Landscape Inventory program

Research interests focus on integrating tangible/intangible heritage, developing preservation frameworks for historic communities, and environmental planning for national parks and forests.