Mark Davison is the Interim Director of Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design in the School of Design Studies at Boston Architectural College. Mark brings more than 20 years of professional and academic experience in historic preservation and urban planning to the BAC.

Mark’s career spans higher education, public service, and nonprofit leadership. Before joining the team at BAC, he taught at the University of Florida and in international posts including Taiwan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural History from the Savannah College of Art and Design, a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida. He also earned an MBA from Central European University, including a research period on the business of heritage tourism at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad. He later held a Fulbright post-doctoral appointment at the Universitat de Barcelona focused on pedestrianization efforts that integrate sustainability with planning, public health, and heritage conservation.

His research bridges sense of place, heritage tourism, sustainability, and urbanism, with a focus on how narratives from the past, the present, and of the future shape communities and their development. He has examined topics ranging from phenomenology and local heritage to public health in urban environments, as well as the role of storytelling in post-disaster recovery. At the BAC, Mark teaches Narratives of Place, Urban Cultural Landscapes, Cinematic Cityscapes, and Historic Preservation Law and Planning.

Prior to entering academia full time, Mark directed post-Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, worked with nonprofit and community development organizations in New York City, and provided historic preservation consulting in Savannah, Georgia.