Historian • Lawyer • Researcher

Erika D. Henson

I work where history, law, infrastructure, and place meet—turning complex cultural-resource questions into practical, defensible ways forward.

About

Connecting people, systems, and place.

My work brings legal analysis, environmental policy, historical research, and cultural-resource stewardship into the same room.

I am especially interested in how infrastructure decisions shape communities, how cultural landscapes carry memory, and how better systems can protect both project delivery and the places people value.

Work

What I do

01

Historic Preservation

Historic-resource surveys, National Register evaluation, archival research, and cultural landscape analysis.

02

Law & Compliance

Section 106, NEPA, GEPA, Section 4(f), federal consultation, and regulatory interpretation.

03

Infrastructure Systems

Practical workflows that connect preservation, engineering, field operations, documentation, QA/QC, and project delivery.

Research

Questions worth following.

The Law of Place

How law recognizes, protects, ignores, and transforms historic and sacred places.

Cultural Resources Systems Engineering

Building a systems framework for Section 106 compliance and complex cultural-resource programs.

Infrastructure & Memory

Studying how transportation and public works reshape cultural landscapes, access, memory, and community continuity.

Contact

Start a conversation.

Atlanta, Georgia

erikadhenson@gmail.com