Meet Jan Cigliano Hartman
Jan Cigliano Hartman is an award-winning historian of eight beautifully illustrated books that portray the social and cultural history of life and place. Showplace of America: Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue, 1850−1910 (Kent State University Press, 1991), has sold over 20,000 units and remains in print after thirty years. It was Cleveland, Ohio’s gilded-age Euclid Avenue, home to such luminaries as the founder of Standard Oil, the chairman of Western Union Telegraph, and the inventor of the electric arc light, where Hartman discovered that John Hay was the most intriguing individual among a stunning field. Other books by Hartman include Private Washington: Residences in the Nation’s Capital (Rizzoli, 1997), Grand American Avenue, editor, (Pomegranate/American Architectural Foundation, 1994), and The Women Who Changed Architecture, editor (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021).
Hartman has over 45 years’ experience in book publishing, editing and producing more than 200 books. Jan was formerly an integral part of the editorial team at Princeton Architectural Press, a New York-based independent publisher known for its artistic, distinctive, and high-quality books. In 2020, she founded JAN HARTMAN BOOKS, to pursue her dream of working closely with a diverse array of authors, publishers, and institutions to create books that inspire, inform, and enchant. She serves on the board of the American Book Producers Association.
Supporting the scholarship for this book, Hartman had a Mellon Fellowship at Massachusetts Historical Society and residencies at the American Academy in Rome and Brown University Library. She is a graduate of Oberlin College with highest honors in history and George Washington University with a master’s in urban planning.
Beyond her scholarship, Hartman is an avid hiker, gardener, traveler, and reader. She is a devoted cat and dog mom, and a devotee of the College of the Atlantic’s human ecology education in Bar Harbor, Maine.