Stefan Woehlke

UMD lecturer and Blue Fern Travel co-founder Stefan Woehlke has combined his passions for food, history and culture to build a unique career dedicated to sharing untold stories of diverse communities.

Woehlke and his wife Mary Collins founded the small food tour company six years ago under the name Carpe D.C., rebranding last year as Blue Fern Travel amid their expansions beyond D.C. and outside the food industry.

Woehlke now works for the Historical Preservation Program in the UMD Department of Anthropology where he runs an archeology lab and helps with a site analysis of Kippax Plantation in southeast Virginia. His projects in the fields of digital heritage and historical archeology involve 3D documentation of heritage and archeology sites and curating their representation and interpretation into virtual and online environments. This semester, Woehlke is teaching a course on 3D documenting and collecting site information through laser scanning and photogrammetry.