Howard Gillette, Jr. is Professor of History at Rutgers University in Camden, where he teaches courses in modern U.S. history. Previously he taught at George Washington University and the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American Studies From Yale University.
He is author of Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), and with Fredric Miller, Washington Seen: A Photographic History, 1875-1965 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), as well as three edited books.
Professor Gillette is Director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, a research and advocacy organization for bringing new intellectual and monetary resources to cultural practice in the humanities as it relates to the Mid-Atlantic states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. His work in public history has included a role as a founder and first director of the Center for Washington Area Studies at the George Washington University and as editor of Washington History, the journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Journal of Planning History. He is a past president of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History and a former board member of the Historical Society of Washington and the Camden County Historical Society.