John Hebble

John Hebble serves as the Resource Interpretive Specialist at Wharton State Forest, where he is responsible for the historic interpretation of Batsto Village Historic Site, Atsion Mansion Historic Site, and other significant sites throughout New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. His work for the New Jersey State Park Service at Wharton State Forest combines historic preservation, collections management, and public history. John received his BA in History from East Stroudsburg University and earned his MA in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was named Patterson Research Fellow at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, he completed his master’s thesis, titled “Rethinking the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond.” John’s current research interests include the social and architectural history of the American Gilded Age, labor history, and the integration of popular and material culture into public history programming. Since 2014, he has taught undergraduate history, art history, and humanities courses at various colleges and universities.