About

Clifford W. Zink is an historian and preservationist based in Princeton, NJ, specializing in architectural, industrial, engineering, and landscape history. He has an M.S. in Historic Preservation from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and a B.S. in Documentary Film Making from Temple University.

He has received several preservation awards from state, county and local agencies, and the 2011 John A. Roebling Award from the Society for Industrial Archeology’s Roebling Chapter for an outstanding contribution to documenting or preserving the industrial heritage of the greater New York-New Jersey area.

His eight books have received six awards, including the 2012 New Jersey Author’s Award in popular non-fiction from the N.J. Studies Academic Alliance for The Roebling Legacy, and the 2015 Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Automobile Historians for Mercer Magic: Roeblings, Kusers, the Mercer Automobile Company, and America’s First Sports Car. He has served as consulting curator at the Roebling Museum, and wrote and directed its orientation film, Roebling Stories.

Mr. Zink gives talks at conferences and in special programs, and is noted by the N.J. Council for the Humanities as a Public Scholar. Please use Contact for information on scheduling a talk on The Princeton Eating Clubs, Mercer Magic, or The Roebling Legacy.