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List of Professors
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Position | |
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William LeBaron Jenney |
1876 | Professor of Architecture & Design |
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Emil Lorch |
1906 - 1940 |
Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture |
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William Caldwell Titcomb |
1907 - 1913 1925 - 1932 |
Professor or Architecture |
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Percy Ash |
1910 - 1912 | Professor of Architecture |
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Wells Ira Bennett |
1912 - 1958 |
Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing Assistant Professor of Drawing Professor of Architecture |
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Beverly Robinson |
1912 - 1915 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Louis Holmes Boynton |
1912 - 1924 | Professor of Architecture |
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Sidney Fiske Kimball |
1913 - 1919 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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George McDonald McConkey |
1914 - 1955 | Professor of Architecture |
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Harlow Olin Whittemore |
1914 - 1957 |
Professor of Landscape Architecture Director of Arboretum 1934-1958 |
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Ernest Harrison Barnes |
1915 - 1943 | Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting |
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Leon Alexander Makielski |
1915 - 1928 | Instructor of Drawing and Painting |
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Albert J. Rousseau |
1915 - 1931 | Professor of Architecture |
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Warren S. Holmes |
1920 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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James Blaine Newman |
1920 - 1925 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Frederick C. O'Dell |
1920 - 1961 | Professor of Architecture |
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Herbert Atherton Fowler |
1921 - 1938 | Assistant Professor of Decorative Design |
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Carlton W. Angell |
1923 - 1962 |
Instructor in Freehand Drawing & Modeling Artist in the University Museums |
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Raymond Mathews |
1923 - 1942 | Instructor in Architecture |
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Eliel Saarinen |
1923 | Visiting Professor of Architecture |
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Ernest Wilby |
1923 - 1943 | Professor of Architecture |
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Myron Butman Chapin |
1924 - 1957 | Associate Professor Emeritus |
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Samuel Chamberlain |
1925 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Walter Vancleve Marshall |
1925 - 1960 |
Professor of Architecture Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture and Design |
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Francis Skillman Onderdonk |
1925 | Instructor in Architecture |
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Jean Paul Slusser |
1925 - 1957 |
Professor of Drawing and Painting Director of Art Museum |
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Charles Ronello Barnum |
1926 | Instructor in Architecture |
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Mary Olmsted Johnson |
1926 | Instructor in Architecture |
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Victor Slocum |
1926 | Instructor in Architecture (Sculptor) |
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Ross Thomas Bittinger |
1928 - 1940 1943 - 1949 |
Junior Instructor in Decorative Design Assistant Professor of Engineering Drawing |
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Walter Winthrop J. Gores |
1929 - 1959 | Professor of Design |
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George Bickford Brigham Jr. |
1930 - 1960 | Professor of Architecture |
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Harry Robinson Gamble |
1930 | Instructor in Architecture |
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T. Gerald Kronick |
1930 | Instructor in Architecture |
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Ralph Warner Hammett |
1931 - 1966 | Professor of Architecture |
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Beaver Edwards |
1931 - 1940 | Instructor in Modeling |
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Jean Hebrard |
1931 - 1948 | Professor of Architecture |
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Roger Bailey |
1932 - 1948 | Professor of Architecture |
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George Gould Ross |
1934 - 1959 | Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture |
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Donald Burnette Gooch |
1936 - 1974 | Professor of Art |
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Thomas Sherdin Tanner |
1936 - 1964 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Emil Weddige |
1937 - 1974 | Professor of Art |
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Catherine Bortic Heller |
1938 - 1965 | Professor of Design |
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Frederic Howard Aldrich |
1939 - 1943 | Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting |
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Bertha VanZwaluwenburg Frayer |
1939 | |
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Grover Dee Cole |
1940 - 1950 | Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design |
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Ernest Karl Mundt |
1940 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Mary Chase Perry Stratton |
1940 - 1942 | Lecturer in Ceramics |
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Aare Kotivalo Lahti |
1941 - 1974 | Professor of Art |
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Richard Adolph Lippold |
1941 |
Instructor of Architecture & Design Instructor in Mechanism & Engineering Drawing |
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Thomas Samuel Haile |
1942 - 1943 | Instructor in Architecture & Design |
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James Donald Prendergast |
1944 - 1974 | Professor of Art |
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John Worthington Hyde |
1945 - 1972 | Professor of Planning |
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Carlos F. Lopez |
1945 - 1953 | Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting |
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Carl E. Guldberg |
1946 - 1950 | Instructor in Drawing and Painting |
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Roger Benton Hollenbeck |
1946 - 1948 | Instructor in Architecture & Design |
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Gerome Kamrowski |
1946 - 1984 | Professor of Art |
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Karl Kasten |
1946 - 1947 | Instructor of Architecture & Design |
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Frank Cassara |
1947 - 1983 | Professor of Art |
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David Henry Reider |
1947 - 1982 | Professor of Art |
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Richard H. Wilt |
1947 - 1981 | Professor of Art |
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Joseph Francis Albano |
1947 - 1971 | Professor of Architecture |
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Herbert Wilson Johe |
1947 - 1984 |
Professor of Architecture Assistant Dean of Architecture |
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Walter Benjamin Sanders |
1947 - 1972 |
Professor of Architecture Chairman of the Department of Architecture |
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Chet Harmon LaMore |
1947 - 1974 | Professor of Art |
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Glenn Gunnette Mastin |
1947 - 1977 | Professor of Architecture |
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Dean H. Wilson |
1948 - 1969 1974 - 1975 |
Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning |
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Theodore Larson |
1948 - 1973 | Professor of Architecture |
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Willard August Oberdick |
1948 - 1982 |
Professor of Architecture Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture |
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Edward Victor Olencki |
1948 - 1987 | Professor of Architecture |
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Alan A. Marra |
1949 - 1974 | Professor of Architecture |
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Thomas Fulton McClure |
1949 - 1983 | Professor of Art |
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Charles William Pearlman |
1949 - 1959 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Kirk Newman |
1949 | Assistant Professor of Ceramics 2954 |
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Robert C. Metcalf |
1950 - 1991 |
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Dean of College of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Leonard K. Eaton |
1950 - 1989 |
Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Professor History of Art |
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Arnold Benjamin Handler |
1950 - 1981 | Professor of Planning |
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William Muschenheim |
1950 - 1973 | Professor of Architecture |
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Francesco Della Sala |
1950 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Joseph T. A. Lee |
1952 - 1984 | Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Jack Arthur
 Garbutt |
1952 - 1959 | Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting |
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Thomas J. Larkin |
1953 - 1985 | Professor of Art |
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Charles W. Cares Jr. |
1956 - 1986 |
Professor of Landscape Architecture Chair Landscape Architecture 1969-1978 Director of Arboretum 1968-1986 |
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Kiyoshi Mano |
1956 - 1961 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Joseph J. Wehrer |
1956 - 1989 | Professor of Architecture |
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William Werner |
1956 - 1998 | Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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John F. Dawson |
1956 - 1963 | Assistant Professor of Architecture & Design |
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William A. Lewis |
1957 - 1986 |
Professor of Art Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning |
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Philip N. Youtz |
1957 - 1965 |
Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture & Design |
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Harold W. Himes |
1958 - 1983 | Professor of Architecture |
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Stephen C. A. Paraskevopoulos |
1958 - 1976 | Professor of Architecture |
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Serenus Glen Paulsen |
1958 - 1965 1975 - 1985 1990 - 2006 |
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Richard Hall Jennings |
1958 - 1963 |
Associate Professor of Art Assistant Professor of Naval Science & Tactics 1945-46 |
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Arthur Peter Op
perman |
1958 - 1977 | Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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John H. Stephenson |
1959 - 1994 |
Catherine B. Heller Professor of Art Dean of the Art School |
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John Nystuen |
1959 - 2000 |
Professor of Urban Geography & Planning Chair Department of Geography 1979-1982 |
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Gunnar G. Birkerts |
1960 - 1990 | Thomas S. Monaghan Architect-in-Residence Professor Emeritus |
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Carl D. Johnson |
1960 - 1989 | Professor of Landscape Architecture |
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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 |
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Harold J. Borkin |
1961 - 2003 | Professor of Architecture |
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Robert M. Darvas |
1961 - 1996 | Professor of Architecture |
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Henry S. Kowalewski |
1962 - 2000 | Professor of Architecture |
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Kingsbury Marzolf |
1963 - 2000 | Professor of Architecture |
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Mignonette Yin Cheng |
1963 - 1996 | Professor of Art |
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Gerhard Olving |
1963 - 1998 | Professor of Architecture |
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William D. Drake |
1964 - 2003 | Professor of Resource Policy and Conservation, Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning |
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Donald B. Kersten |
1964 - 1994 | Professor of Art |
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Reginald F. Malcolmson |
1964 - 1983 |
Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture and Design |
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Jacques C. Brownson |
1965 - 1968 |
Professor of Architecture Chair of Architecture |
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Leon A. Pastalan |
1966 - 1998 | Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Norman H. Barnett |
1967 - 1993 | Professor of Architecture |
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J. Sterling Crandall |
1967 - 1997 | Professor of Urban Planning |
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Richard D. Duke |
1967 - 1998 | Professor of Urban Planning |
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Katharine P. Warner |
1967 - 2002 | Associate Professor of Urban Planning |
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Robert W. Marans |
1968 - 2004 |
Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Research Professor in the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research |
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Christopher Z. Wzacny |
1968 - 1989 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Keith A. Brown |
1969 - 1998 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Kan Chen |
1971 - 1995 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning Research Scientist, UMTRI |
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Allan G. Feldt |
1971 - 1994 | Professor of Urban Planning |
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James Alvin Chaffers |
1973 - 2008 | Professor of Architecture |
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Jerold D. Lax |
1974 - 2002 | Associate Professor of Urban Planning |
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James Alfred Turner |
1976 - 2009 | Professor of Architecture |
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Mitchell J. Rycus |
1977 - 2000 | Professor of Urban Planning |
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Emmanuel-George Vakalo |
1979 - 2000 | Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning |
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Panos Papalambros |
1979 - 2022 |
Professor o Mechanical Engineering Professor of Integrative Systems and Design Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Hemalata Dandekar |
1980 - 2002 | Professor of Urban Planning |
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James C. Snyder |
1980 - 2004 | Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Kurt Brandle |
1981 - 1997 | Professor of Architecture |
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Barry N. Checkoway |
1983 - 2021 | Professor of Social Work, Urban and Regional Planning |
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Anatole Senkevitch Jr |
1986 - 2011 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Robert Beckley |
1987 - 2002 |
Professor of Architecture Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning |
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Alan W. Steiss |
1988 - 1999 | Professor of Urban Planning |
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Margaret E. Dewar |
1988 - 2017 | Professor of Urban and Regional Planning |
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David Moisseiff Scobey |
1989 - 2006 | Associate Profesor of Architecture |
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Jason Young |
1993 - 2014 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Eric J. Hill |
1993 - 2017 | Clinical Professor of Practice in Architecture |
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Brian Carter |
1994 - 2002 | Professor of Architecture |
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Annette W. Lecuyer |
1994 - 2003 |
Associate Professor of Architecture Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Architecture |
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William Shaun Jackson |
1994 - 2013 |
Professor of Architecture Professor of Art & Design Professor of Operations & Management Science |
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Lydia M. Soo |
1994 - 2017 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Ali Mahmoud Malkawi |
1995 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Robert A. Levit |
1995 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Lisa M. Iwamoto |
1996 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Architecture Practice |
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Aseem Inam |
1997 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Urban Planning |
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Edward Dimendberg |
1998 - 2004 |
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of Film and Video Studies Associate Professor of Architecture |
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J. Yolande Daniels |
1998 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Douglas Stewart Kelbaugh |
1998 - 2020 | Professor and Dean |
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Karl Daubmann |
1999 - 2016 | Professor of Architecture and Art and Design |
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Coleman Austin Jordan |
2000 - 2004 |
Assistant Professor of Architecture Assistant Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies |
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Gretchen Lee Wilkins |
2000 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Jean D. Wineman |
2000 - 2017 | Professor of Architecture |
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Robert L. Fishman |
2000 - 2022 | Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning. |
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Caroline Constant |
2001 - 2014 |
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Tom J. Buresh |
2001 - 2010 |
Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |
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Sussan Babaie |
2001 - 2008 |
Assistant Professor of Architecture Assistant Professor of History of Art |
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Gavin Michael Shatkin |
2001 - 2012 | Associate Professor of Urban Planning |
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Roy Strickland |
2001 - 2021 | Professor of Architecture |
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Peter Osler |
2002 - 2009 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Steven Y. Mankouche |
2003 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Rahul Jitendra Mehrotra |
2003 - 2007 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Elsie L. Harper-Anderson |
2003 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Lara L. Fernando |
2004 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Fernando Luiz Lara |
2004 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Sophia Psarra |
2005 - 2011 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Christopher Brown Leinberger |
2005 - 2012 | Clinical Professor of Practice |
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Amy C. Kulper |
2006 - 2017 | Associate Professor of Architecture |
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Kathy Velikov |
2007 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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June Manning Thomas |
2007 - 2020 | Professor of Urban & Regional Planning |
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Jennifer Maigret |
2008 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Monica Ponce de Leon |
2008 - 2016 |
Professor and Dean of Architecture Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture |
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Rosalyne Shieh |
2009 - 2014 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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David Bieri |
2010 - 2015 | Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning |
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Joseph G. Rosa |
2010 - 2016 |
Professor of Architecture Director University of Michigan Museum of Art |
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Suzanne Lanyl Charles |
2011 - 2013 | Assistant Professor of Urban Planning |
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Rania Ghosn |
2011 - 2014 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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James Macgillivray |
2011 - 2014 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Andrew Holder |
2012 - 2015 | Assistant Professor of Architecture |
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Velma McEwen |
2013 - 2017 | Assistant Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning |