The Architectural Studies program is housed in the Department of Art History and Architectural Studies, which is the home department for the program's historians. As an Architectural Studies major, you will also have the opportunity to work with associated faculty members in many other departments.

Faculty

Di Luo, Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Di Luo

Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Chinese Art • Chinese Architecture • Architectural History • Architecture • Asian Art • World Art • Digital Humanities


Denise Pelletier, Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of Art

Denise Pelletier

Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of Art

Ceramics • Sculpture • Site-specific art


Anna Vallye, Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Anna Vallye

Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

(On Sabbatical 2023-2024 Academic Year)

History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant-garde art and architecture


Rebekah Sturges

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies

Associated Faculty

Nadav Assor, Associate Professor of Art, Judith Ammerman '60 Director, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology

Nadav Assor

Associate Professor of Art, Judith Ammerman '60 Director, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology

New Media art • Interactive programming and prototyping as art-making methods • Sound and video production and presentation, with a focus on experimental methods • Experimental 3D methods: motion capture, 3D scanning, 3D printing • Media installation; Media performance; Critical perspectives on art and technology • Cultural aspects of military-industrial technologies, with a concentration on imaging technologies and drone (UAV) technologies, their histories and implications • DIY drone construction and control (hacking drones) • Mapping-related and site-specific art


James Austin, Associate Professor of French, Chair of the French Department

James Austin

Associate Professor of French, Chair of the French Department

Proust • French film


Gregory A. Bailey, Associate Professor of Art

Gregory A. Bailey

Associate Professor of Art

Sculpture • Mold making and casting • Ceramic shell foundry process • Welding and fabrication • Wood construction • Installation art • Conceptual art


Catherine Benoit, Professor of Anthropology

Catherine Benoit

Professor of Anthropology

Areas of interest: Haiti, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, European overseas territories, Union of Comoros, Mayotte • Necropolitics, borders, (im)mobilities, maritime cemeteries • Garden and Landscape studies


MaryAnne Borrelli, Susan Eckert Lynch '62 Professor of Government

MaryAnne Borrelli

Susan Eckert Lynch '62 Professor of Government

United States politics and government • Gender and United States politics • The Presidency • Congress


Christopher Hammond, Professor of Mathematics, Assistant Chair of the Mathematics and Statistics Department

Christopher Hammond

Professor of Mathematics, Assistant Chair of the Mathematics and Statistics Department

Operator theory • Complex analysis • Series Convergence Tests


S. James Lee, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Co-Chair of the Computer Science Department

S. James Lee

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Co-Chair of the Computer Science Department

Avatars • Computer graphics and visualization for interactive applications such as computer games, virtual reality environments, autonomous interactive characters, museum installations


Denise Pelletier, Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of Art

Denise Pelletier

Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of Art

Ceramics • Sculpture • Site-specific art


Peter Siver, Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies

Peter Siver

Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies

Limnology • Phycology • Impacts of environmental stress on lakes • Reconstructing ancient environments


Derek Turner, Class of '43 Professor of Philosophy, Karla Heurich Harrison '28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment

Derek Turner

Class of '43 Professor of Philosophy, Karla Heurich Harrison '28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment

Philosophy of science • Philosophy of biology • Environmental philosophy


Michael Weinstein, Associate Teaching Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Michael Weinstein

Associate Teaching Professor of Physics and Astronomy

First-year physics ("studio") • Introductory astronomy lectures and labs


Andrea Wollensak, Professor of Art

Andrea Wollensak

Professor of Art

Social design and collaborative community ventures • Mapping and visualizing data • Digital poetics • Site-specific installation works • Digital Fabrication • Design History and Graphic Design • Book Arts and Typography