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List of Professors

Namesort icon Years at Michigan Position

William Werner

1956 - 1998
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

William Shaun Jackson

1994 - 2013
Professor of Architecture
Professor of Art & Design
Professor of Operations & Management Science

William Muschenheim

1950 - 1973
Professor of Architecture

William LeBaron Jenney

1876
Professor of Architecture & Design

William D. Drake

1964 - 2003
Professor of Resource Policy and Conservation, Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning

William Caldwell Titcomb

1907 - 1913
1925 - 1932
Professor or Architecture

William A. Lewis

1957 - 1986
Professor of Art
Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Willard August Oberdick

1948 - 1982
Professor of Architecture
Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture

Wells Ira Bennett

1912 - 1958
Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing
Assistant Professor of Drawing
Professor of Architecture

Warren S. Holmes

1920
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Walter Winthrop J. Gores

1929 - 1959
Professor of Design

Walter Vancleve Marshall

1925 - 1960
Professor of Architecture
Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture and Design

Walter Benjamin Sanders

1947 - 1972
Professor of Architecture
Chairman of the Department of Architecture

Victor Slocum

1926
Instructor in Architecture (Sculptor)

Velma McEwen

2013 - 2017
Assistant Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Tom J. Buresh

2001 - 2010
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Thomas Sherdin Tanner

1936 - 1964
Associate Professor of Architecture

Thomas Samuel Haile

1942 - 1943
Instructor in Architecture & Design

Thomas J. Larkin

1953 - 1985
Professor of Art

Thomas Fulton McClure

1949 - 1983
Professor of Art

Theodore Larson

1948 - 1973
Professor of Architecture

T. Gerald Kronick

1930
Instructor in Architecture

Suzanne Lanyl Charles

2011 - 2013
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning

Sussan Babaie

2001 - 2008
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Assistant Professor of History of Art

Steven Y. Mankouche

2003 - 2009
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Stephen C. A. Paraskevopoulos

1958 - 1976
Professor of Architecture

Sophia Psarra

2005 - 2011
Associate Professor of Architecture

Sidney Fiske Kimball

1913 - 1919
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Serenus Glen Paulsen

1958 - 1965
1975 - 1985
1990 - 2006
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Samuel Chamberlain

1925
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Roy Strickland

2001 - 2021
Professor of Architecture

Ross Thomas Bittinger

1928 - 1940
1943 - 1949
Junior Instructor in Decorative Design
Assistant Professor of Engineering Drawing

Rosalyne Shieh

2009 - 2014
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Roger Benton Hollenbeck

1946 - 1948
Instructor in Architecture & Design

Roger Bailey

1932 - 1948
Professor of Architecture

Robert W. Marans

1968 - 2004
Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
Research Professor in the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Robert M. Darvas

1961 - 1996
Professor of Architecture

Robert L. Fishman

2000 - 2022
Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning.

Robert C. Metcalf

1950 - 1991
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Dean of College of Architecture & Urban Planning

Robert Beckley

1987 - 2002
Professor of Architecture
Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Robert A. Levit

1995 - 2002
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Richard Hall Jennings

1958 - 1963
Associate Professor of Art
Assistant Professor of Naval Science & Tactics 1945-46

Richard H. Wilt

1947 - 1981
Professor of Art

Richard D. Duke

1967 - 1998
Professor of Urban Planning

Richard Adolph Lippold

1941
Instructor of Architecture & Design
Instructor in Mechanism & Engineering Drawing

Reginald F. Malcolmson

1964 - 1983
Professor of Architecture
Dean of Architecture and Design

Raymond Mathews

1923 - 1942
Instructor in Architecture

Rania Ghosn

2011 - 2014
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Ralph Warner Hammett

1931 - 1966
Professor of Architecture

Rahul Jitendra Mehrotra

2003 - 2007
Associate Professor of Architecture

Philip N. Youtz

1957 - 1965
Professor of Architecture
Dean of Architecture & Design

Peter Osler

2002 - 2009
Associate Professor of Architecture

Percy Ash

1910 - 1912
Professor of Architecture

Panos Papalambros

1979 - 2022
Professor o Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Integrative Systems and Design
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Norman H. Barnett

1967 - 1993
Professor of Architecture

Myron Butman Chapin

1924 - 1957
Associate Professor Emeritus

Monica Ponce de Leon

2008 - 2016
Professor and Dean of Architecture
Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture

Mitchell J. Rycus

1977 - 2000
Professor of Urban Planning

Mignonette Yin Cheng

1963 - 1996
Professor of Art

Mary Olmsted Johnson

1926
Instructor in Architecture

Mary Chase Perry Stratton

1940 - 1942
Lecturer in Ceramics

Margaret E. Dewar

1988 - 2017
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning

Lydia M. Soo

1994 - 2017
Associate Professor of Architecture

Louis Holmes Boynton

1912 - 1924
Professor of Architecture

Lisa M. Iwamoto

1996 - 2002
Assistant Professor of Architecture Practice

Leonard K. Eaton

1950 - 1989
Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
Professor History of Art

Leon Alexander Makielski

1915 - 1928
Instructor of Drawing and Painting

Leon A. Pastalan

1966 - 1998
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Lara L. Fernando

2004 - 2008
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Kurt Brandle

1981 - 1997
Professor of Architecture

Kiyoshi Mano

1956 - 1961
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Kirk Newman

1949
Assistant Professor of Ceramics 2954

Kingsbury Marzolf

1963 - 2000
Professor of Architecture

Keith A. Brown

1969 - 1998
Associate Professor of Architecture

Kathy Velikov

2007 - 2009
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Katharine P. Warner

1967 - 2002
Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Karl Kasten

1946 - 1947
Instructor of Architecture & Design

Karl Daubmann

1999 - 2016
Professor of Architecture and Art and Design

Kan Chen

1971 - 1995
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning
Research Scientist, UMTRI

June Manning Thomas

2007 - 2020
Professor of Urban & Regional Planning

Joseph T. A. Lee

1952 - 1984
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Joseph J. Wehrer

1956 - 1989
Professor of Architecture

Joseph G. Rosa

2010 - 2016
Professor of Architecture
Director University of Michigan Museum of Art

Joseph Francis Albano

1947 - 1971
Professor of Architecture

John Worthington Hyde

1945 - 1972
Professor of Planning

John Nystuen

1959 - 2000
Professor of Urban Geography & Planning
Chair Department of Geography 1979-1982

John H. Stephenson

1959 - 1994
Catherine B. Heller Professor of Art
Dean of the Art School

John F. Dawson

1956 - 1963
Assistant Professor of Architecture & Design

Jerold D. Lax

1974 - 2002
Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Jennifer Maigret

2008 - 2009
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Jean Paul Slusser

1925 - 1957
Professor of Drawing and Painting
Director of Art Museum

Jean Hebrard

1931 - 1948
Professor of Architecture

Jean D. Wineman

2000 - 2017
Professor of Architecture

Jason Young

1993 - 2014
Associate Professor of Architecture

James Macgillivray

2011 - 2014
Assistant Professor of Architecture

James Donald Prendergast

1944 - 1974
Professor of Art

James C. Snyder

1980 - 2004
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

James Blaine Newman

1920 - 1925
Assistant Professor of Architecture

James Alvin Chaffers

1973 - 2008
Professor of Architecture

James Alfred Turner

1976 - 2009
Professor of Architecture

Jacques C. Brownson

1965 - 1968
Professor of Architecture
Chair of Architecture

Jack Arthur
 Garbutt

1952 - 1959
Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting

J. Yolande Daniels

1998 - 2001
Assistant Professor of Architecture

J. Sterling Crandall

1967 - 1997
Professor of Urban Planning

Herbert Wilson Johe

1947 - 1984
Professor of Architecture
Assistant Dean of Architecture

Herbert Atherton Fowler

1921 - 1938
Assistant Professor of Decorative Design

Henry S. Kowalewski

1962 - 2000
Professor of Architecture

Hemalata Dandekar

1980 - 2002
Professor of Urban Planning

Harry Robinson Gamble

1930
Instructor in Architecture

Harold W. Himes

1958 - 1983
Professor of Architecture

Harold J. Borkin

1961 - 2003
Professor of Architecture

Harlow Olin Whittemore

1914 - 1957
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Director of Arboretum 1934-1958

Gunnar G. Birkerts

1960 - 1990
Thomas S. Monaghan Architect-in-Residence Professor Emeritus

Grover Dee Cole

1940 - 1950
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design

Gretchen Lee Wilkins

2000 - 2008
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Glenn Gunnette Mastin

1947 - 1977
Professor of Architecture

Gerome Kamrowski

1946 - 1984
Professor of Art

Gerhard Olving

1963 - 1998
Professor of Architecture

George McDonald McConkey

1914 - 1955
Professor of Architecture

George Gould Ross

1934 - 1959
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture

George Bickford Brigham Jr.

1930 - 1960
Professor of Architecture

Gavin Michael Shatkin

2001 - 2012
Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Frederick C. O'Dell

1920 - 1961
Professor of Architecture

Frederic Howard Aldrich

1939 - 1943
Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting

Frank Cassara

1947 - 1983
Professor of Art

Francis Skillman Onderdonk

1925
Instructor in Architecture

Francesco Della Sala

1950
Associate Professor of Architecture

Fernando Luiz Lara

2004 - 2009
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Ernest Wilby

1923 - 1943
Professor of Architecture

Ernest Karl Mundt

1940
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Ernest Harrison Barnes

1915 - 1943
Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting

Eric J. Hill

1993 - 2017
Clinical Professor of Practice in Architecture

Emmanuel-George Vakalo

1979 - 2000
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning

Emil Weddige

1937 - 1974
Professor of Art

Emil Lorch

1906 - 1940
Professor of Architecture
Dean of Architecture

Elsie L. Harper-Anderson

2003 - 2008
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Eliel Saarinen

1923
Visiting Professor of Architecture

Edward Victor Olencki

1948 - 1987
Professor of Architecture

Edward Dimendberg

1998 - 2004
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor of Film and Video Studies
Associate Professor of Architecture

Douglas Stewart Kelbaugh

1998 - 2020
Professor and Dean

Donald Burnette Gooch

1936 - 1974
Professor of Art

Donald B. Kersten

1964 - 1994
Professor of Art

Dean H. Wilson

1948 - 1969
1974 - 1975
Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning

David Moisseiff Scobey

1989 - 2006
Associate Profesor of Architecture

David Henry Reider

1947 - 1982
Professor of Art

David Bieri

2010 - 2015
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning

Daniel H. Carson

1961 - 1968
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Associate Research Psychologist in the Institute of Science and Technology
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Architecture

Coleman Austin Jordan

2000 - 2004
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Assistant Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies

Christopher Z. Wzacny

1968 - 1989
Associate Professor of Architecture

Christopher Brown Leinberger

2005 - 2012
Clinical Professor of Practice

Chet Harmon LaMore

1947 - 1974
Professor of Art

Charles William Pearlman

1949 - 1959
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Charles W. Cares Jr.

1956 - 1986
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Chair Landscape Architecture 1969-1978
Director of Arboretum 1968-1986

Charles Ronello Barnum

1926
Instructor in Architecture

Catherine Bortic Heller

1938 - 1965
Professor of Design

Caroline Constant

2001 - 2014
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Carlton W. Angell

1923 - 1962
Instructor in Freehand Drawing & Modeling
Artist in the University Museums

Carlos F. Lopez

1945 - 1953
Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting

Carl E. Guldberg

1946 - 1950
Instructor in Drawing and Painting

Carl D. Johnson

1960 - 1989
Professor of Landscape Architecture

Brian Carter

1994 - 2002
Professor of Architecture

Beverly Robinson

1912 - 1915
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Bertha VanZwaluwenburg Frayer

1939

Beaver Edwards

1931 - 1940
Instructor in Modeling

Barry N. Checkoway

1983 - 2021
Professor of Social Work, Urban and Regional Planning

Aseem Inam

1997 - 2005
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning

Arthur Peter Op
perman

1958 - 1977
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

Arnold Benjamin Handler

1950 - 1981
Professor of Planning

Annette W. Lecuyer

1994 - 2003
Associate Professor of Architecture
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Architecture

Andrew Holder

2012 - 2015
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Anatole Senkevitch Jr

1986 - 2011
Associate Professor of Architecture

Amy C. Kulper

2006 - 2017
Associate Professor of Architecture

Allan G. Feldt

1971 - 1994
Professor of Urban Planning

Ali Mahmoud Malkawi

1995 - 2002
Assistant Professor of Architecture

Alan W. Steiss

1988 - 1999
Professor of Urban Planning

Alan A. Marra

1949 - 1974
Professor of Architecture

Aare Kotivalo Lahti

1941 - 1974
Professor of Art

Albert J. Rousseau

1915 - 1931
Professor of Architecture