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.

Department Chair

Joseph Alchermes, Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Architectural Studies

Joseph Alchermes

Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Architectural Studies

Late Roman art • Early Christian art • Byzantine art • Medieval architecture


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, Professor of Art

Denise Pelletier

Professor of Art

Ceramics • Sculpture • Site-specific art


Anna Vallye, Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Anna Vallye

Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

(On Sabbatical: Fall 2020 - Fall 2021)

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

Migration and border reinforcement • Anthropology of gardens and landscape • Health inequalities • Areas of interest: Haiti, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, European overseas territories


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


Ann S. Devlin, May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor of Psychology

Ann S. Devlin

May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor of Psychology

Environmental psychology • Healthcare design • Evidence-based design • Spatial cognition


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

Christopher Hammond

Professor of Mathematics, Chair of the Mathematics and Statistics Department

Operator theory • Complex analysis • Series Convergence Tests


S. James Lee, Associate Professor of Computer Science

S. James Lee

Associate Professor of Computer Science

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


Pamela J. Marks, Associate Professor of Art

Pamela J.  Marks

Associate Professor of Art

Painting • Drawing • Color studies


Kathleen McKeon

Professor of Mathematics, Associate Director for Academics of the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy

Computational graph theory • Enumeration • Algebraic graph theory • Probabilistic combinatorics • Algorithms and analysis

Denise Pelletier, Professor of Art

Denise Pelletier

Professor of Art

Ceramics • Sculpture • Site-specific art


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

Peter Siver

Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Director of the Environmental Studies Program

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, Senior Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy

Michael Weinstein

Senior Lecturer in 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