Chester Liebs received his M.S. in Historic Preservation from Columbia University School of Architecture in 1977. He was instrumental in the founding of the Society for Industrial Archeology in 1971 and the Society for Commercial Archeology in 1977. He was the founding director (from 1975-1994) of the University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program. Since leaving the University of Vermont, he has served as a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning and in the Graduate School of Conservation at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. While at Tokyo University he researched and lectured on lessons for livable communities from the "everyday intangible cultural heritage" of Japan.
In 2006 Chester Liebs was the George Pearl Fellow Lecture speaker at the University of New Mexico. Before that he received the James Marston Fitch Preservation-Education Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Preservation Education.
Sources: UNM Today, "Sustainability focus of UNM's inaugural Pearl lecture," March 21, 2006 http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001119.html UNM Today, "UNM Fulbrights to Research, Lecture Abroad," January 16, 2007 http://www.unm.edu/news/UNMToday/07-01-16issue.pdf
From the guide to the Chester H. Liebs Papers, 1869-1992, 1900-1981, (University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research)
