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FACULTY

The faculty of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, School of Planning, and the Departments of Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Visual Communication Design participate in offering the degree. Faculty from disciplines outside of the College of Design may participate in the program if appropriate to the interdisciplinary nature of the student's research interest.

The College of Design faculty members listed below are the only members who are approved to chair dissertation committees within the program.

School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Sherry Ahrentzen, PhD., MA, University of California, Irvine; BA, University of California, San Diego.  Housing to better accommodate the social and economic diversity of U.S. households and families.  Email: Sherry.Ahrentzen@asu.edu

Harvey Bryan, PhD, MS, MArch, University of California-Berkeley; BArch, Arizona State University. Energy and buildings, building simulation, and environmental impacts of buildings.
Email: Harvey.Bryan@asu.edu

Edward A. Cook, PhD, Wageningen University (Netherlands); MLA, Utah State University; BS, Washington State University. Urban open space planning, ecological networks and greenways, riparian corridor planning, ecological design.
Email: Edward.Cook@asu.edu

Renata P. Hejduk, PhD, Harvard University; MA Tufts University, AB, Columbia University. History of architectural theory 1945–present, especially its relationship to continental philosophy, culture, and literary theory, history and theories of the European and American radical avant-gardes in architecture and urbanism of the 1960s and 70s.
Email: renata.hejduk@asu.edu

Thomas Morton, PhD, University of Pennsylvania ; BA, Pennsylvania State University. The architecture and urbanism of the Roman Empire, the city of Rome through time, the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, North Africa (antiquity through the present day). Email: Thomas.Morton@asu.edu

Filiz Ozel, DArch, University of Michigan; MArch, Middle East Technical University; BArch, Middle East Technical University. Life/fire safety, knowledge based systems for code compliance, emergency egress, computer simulation, data modeling, environmental cognition. 
Email: Ozel@asu.edu

T. Agami Reddy, PhD, Master in Solar Energy, University of Perpignan, France; BS, Sir Aurobindo International Center for Education, Pondicherry, India.  Energy sustainability and renewable energy, demand-side energy efficiency and conservation in buildings and building energy systems, indoor air quality and its impact on occupant health and productivity, green buildings, advanced energy systems, low energy sustainable cooling.  Email: t.agami.reddy@asu.edu  

Paul K. Zygas, PhD, Cornell University; MArch, Harvard Graduate School of Design; AB cum laude, Harvard College. Architectural history and theory, modern architecture, baroque architecture.
Email: zygas@asu.edu

School of Design Innovation

Diane Bender, PhD, MA, BA, Michigan State University. Computer-aided design, online design education, e-portfolio creation and assessment, technology in work environments.
Email: Diane.Bender@asu.edu

Beverly K. Brandt, PhD, Boston University; MA, Michigan State University; BFA, University of Michigan. Design history, theory, criticism; the Arts and Crafts Movement; historic interiors; American craft.
Email: Beverly.Brandt@asu.edu

Jacques Giard, PhD, Concordia University (Canada); HDiploma Design, Birmingham Polytechnic (United Kingdom); Diploma Design, Institut des arts appliques (Canada). Cultural and contextual values in design; operational issues in design; microeconomic enterprises in design.
Email: Jacques.Giard@asu.edu


Michael Kroelinger
, PhD, University of Tennessee; MArch, University of Arizona; MS, University of Tennessee; BS, University of Alabama. Sustainability, building energy performance, daylighting analysis and performance.

 

Department of Applied Biological Sciences

Douglas Green, PhD, Oregon State University; MS, North Dakota State University; BS, Humboldt State University. Soil ecology, nutrient cycling, riparian ecology, watershed management.
Email: Douglas.Green@asu.edu

William H. Miller, PhD, MS, BS, Washington State University. Geographic information systems, range habitats and nutrition.
Email: William.Miller@asu.edu

Alvin H. Mushkatel, PhD and MS, University of Oregon; BA, Ohio State University. Housing, policy evaluation, land use planning and policy, environmental policy, natural and technological hazards policy, emergency management, growth management policy, economic development policy. Email: Alvin.M@asu.edu

Gary L. Whysong, PhD, University of Wyoming; MS, BS, Montana State University. Current research and creative activities focus on quantitative ecology, vegetation sampling theory, geographic information systems, dynamic spatial modeling.
Email: Gary.Whysong@asu.edu

Academic Connection Faculty

Below are links to the different faculty pages for departments who have an academic connection with the PhD program:

Applied Biological Science

Arts, Media, and Engineering

School of Human Evolution and Social Change

School of Geographical Sciences and Planning
School of Sustainability