The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou
Emily Ford is a master's degree candidate in the College of Charleston/Clemson University Graduate Historic Preservation Program. She received her BA in history from the University of Florida in 2006. Ford has been involved in preservation efforts in and around New Orleans for a number of years, focusing primarily on cemetery preservation and archival research. Most recently, she has been instrumental in a documentation and restoration project for New Orleans's Lafayette Cemetery Number 1 with Save Our Cemeteries. This effort will contribute to her graduate thesis, which studies preservation issues specific to the New Orleans area.The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Deltais her first published work.Barry Stiefel is an assistant professor in the College of Charleston/Clemson University Graduate Historic Preservation Program. In 2008, Stiefel received his PhD in historic preservation from Tulane University in New Orleans. His research interests relate to the preservation of Jewish heritage with past research projects covering the synagogues of New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta area, as well as cultural connections between Louisiana's Jews with those in Alsace and Lorraine, France, and Quebec, Canada.