Faculty at a Glance



Elen Deming picture M. Elen Deming, Professor
Based on my experiences as a practitioner, teacher, and editor, I am convinced the best way to advance the discipline is for landscape architects to reframe practical problems as intellectual opportunities. Together with my collaborator Simon Swaffield (Lincoln University, New Zealand), we have illustrated a broadly comprehensive range of research strategies so that landscape architects may realize the deeper clarity, beauty, and utility of integrating design and research in practice.
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Carol Emmerling-DiNovo image Carol Emmerling, Assistant Head /Academic Advisor/ Lecturer/ Curriculum Coordinator
Best practices, stormwater management, and environmental planning.
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Gale Fulton picture Gale Fulton, Assistant Professor
Professor Fulton is currently engaged in research and teaching that covers a wide range of landscape architecture–related issues ranging from the speculative to the practical. In response to the radical expansion in scope that landscape architecture has seen since the early 1990’s, he continues to develop the conceptual framework of landscape intelligence. Landscape Intelligence argues that landscape architecture has enormous potential for leadership in the future of the built environment — but only if it continuously strives to reinvent and refine its conceptual and practical tools.
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Rebecca Ginsburg picture Rebecca Ginsburg, Associate Professor
Atlantic slave trade; fugitive slaves; carceral landscapes; prison education.
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Dianne Harris picture Dianne Harris, Professor
I am a historian who specializes in studies that focus on the built environment. My most recent scholarship examines postwar houses in the United States between 1945 and 1960, and the history of suburban development during that period. It also focuses on the relationships that exist between what I and others call "race and space".
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David Hays picture David L. Hays, Associate Professor / MLA Curriculum Committee Chair
My research and teaching interests include both historical and contemporary landscape architecture. Those interests first became focused through a curriculum of art history and were subsequently transformed through my study of design.
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Richard L. Hindle picture Richard L. Hindle, Assistant Professor
My research focuses on technology in the garden and landscape. I am keenly interested in the archives of Professor Stanley Hart White and in patent research that queries the origins of emergent technologies in landscape architecture. Other interests include design/build, Horticultural Building Systems, garden history, plants in design, and the cultural production of landscapes.
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Misa Inoue picture Misa Inoue, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
As a design practitioner, I am interested in exploring cross-discipline learning and collaboration among various groups of design and engineering specialists. I also strive to be a bridge between the academic and professional fields, thus preparing the students to recognize the link between books, school design exercises, and real-world professional design work.
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Jinki Kim picture Jinki Kim, Assistant Professor
Ecological landscape design and planning; landscape ecology; sustainable community development; landscape construction; information technology development and application for landscape architecture.
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D. Fairchild Ruggles picture D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor
The art and built environment of the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia, visual theory, history of water systems and land management, cultural heritage, and women as patrons of art and architecture in Islamic societies.
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Stephen Sears picture Stephen Sears, Assistant Professor and Associate Head
Sears maintains an agenda of practice that includes the potential of marginal and contested urban territories, techniques in new media, and the value of the vernacular-cultural midwestern region. His recently edited volume, Round Barns Projected, features student design proposals for a historic experimental agricultural site.
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Amita Sinha picture Amita Sinha, Professor
My undergraduate training in architecture created the foundation for my graduate work on social and cultural issues shaping the built environment. I use ethnography as a research tool to study the city and its public realm. My research focus has expanded from the study of small urban spaces to cultural landscapes in parallel with my emerging interest in history and heritage. My landscape scholarship informs my design teaching on conservation and reclamation of heritage sites in India.
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Bill Sullivan picture William C. Sullivan, Professor
To what extent, and in what ways, does the built environment impact human health and wellbeing? I'm especially interested in understanding and measuring the ways in which everyday contact with nature influences human health. How does contact with nature mitigate the difficulties of life for people who live in urban public housing neighborhoods or in other challenging urban environments?
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