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  • Mariola Alvarez sits on a chair inside Tyler School of Art & Architecture, smiling and looking away from the camera.

    Mariola Alvarez, PhD

    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

    Mariola Alvarez is a historian of Latin American art of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a specialization in the history of abstraction in Brazil.  Contributing to a larger interest in interdisciplinarity and the relationship of art to…

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  • Laurin Aman smiling and looking away from the camera.

    Laurin Aman

    Assistant Professor

    Laurin Aman (she/they) is an educator, researcher, designer, and fabricator. Her research, “(un)making material ecologies”, reimagines material life cycles to exist in reciprocity with environments and explores spatial potentials that materialize…

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  • Mauricio Bertat standing and looking at the camera, with photographs of architecture projects displayed behind him.

    Mauricio Bertet

    Professor of Practice

    Mauricio Bertet is a registered architect from Madrid, Spain. From 1994-1998, Bertet worked as a collaborating architect at the office of Rafael Moneo in Madrid, and from 1998-2001, he served as director of the Architecture and Store…

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  • Sonja Bijelic standing in a studio space, looking at the camera, surrounded by work.

    Sonja Bijelic, RA

    Associate Professor

    Sonja Bijelic is a registered architect and principal of ArchSTUDIO2227, a Philadelphia architectural firm. She is an award-winning architect with over 25 years of experience. Before founding ArchSTUDIO2227, she worked for Philip…

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  • Susan Cahan stands in front of a multicolored wall with her arms crossed, smiling at the camera.

    Susan E. Cahan

    Dean and Professor of Art History

    Susan E. Cahan is an art historian, curator and educator who specializes in contemporary art and the history of museums. Her research focuses on the relationship between social and artistic change and the confluence of factors that shape the way…

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  • Tracy Cooper looking at the camera.

    Tracy E. Cooper, PhD

    Professor

    Tracy E. Cooper specializes in Venetian and early modern cultural history and theory, with particular interests in architecture and urbanism, space and circulation and patronage and collecting studies. As a member of the board of directors for…

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  • Jane DeRose Evans, PhD

    Jane DeRose Evans, PhD

    Professor and Chair of Art History

      Jane DeRose Evans can be found excavating in and studying coins from areas across the Mediterranean basin conquered by the Romans. Her work has taken her to southern France, Israel, Jordan and most recently Turkey, where she is the coin…

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  • Alfred Dragani

    Alfred Dragani

    Adjunct Faculty

    Alfred Dragani is a founding principal of Dragani Martone Studio | dMAS, a Philadelphia-based architecture, planning and interior design studio focused on sustainable and innovative design strategies for the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. The…

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  • Emily Dugan smiling at the camera.

    Emily Dugan

    Senior Admissions Counselor

    Emily is the Senior Admissions Counselor here at Tyler working with all populations of students. As a first-generation college student herself, she feels passionately about helping students navigate the application process. When she’s not working…

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  • Alana F. Dunoff, FMP, IFMA Fellow

    Alana F. Dunoff, FMP, IFMA Fellow

    Adjunct Faculty

      Alana F. Dunoff, ProFM, FMP, IFMA Fellow, is a strategic facility planning consultant and facilities management professional with more than 28 years of field experience. She is passionate about Facilities Management education and teaching…

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  • Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver smiling and looking at the camera.

    Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver studies the archaeologies, landscapes, and arts of the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific focus on the hybrid material practices created on the borderlands of Bronze and Iron Age empires. Her research and publications to…

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  • Clifton Fordhamsmiling and posing in a studio

    Clifton Fordham, RA, IFMA, LEED AP

    Associate Professor

      Clifton Fordham is a registered architect who teaches architectural design, building technology and project planning. He is editor of the book Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the…

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  • Jamie Forslund

    Jamie Forslund, MEd

    Adjunct Faculty

    Jamie Forslund, a Tyler MEd alumna, teaches pre-service art and elementary teachers. While Forslund’s classroom teaching experience ranges from preschool to older adults and spans multiple disciplines, the majority of her experience is in…

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  • Dan Garofalo, AIA

    Dan Garofalo, AIA

    Adjunct Faculty

      Dan Garofalo, AIA is an architect, urbanist and sustainability professional and principal at Dan Garofalo, Architect. His professional career includes both architecture and urban design and more than 20 years as a…

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  • Marcia Hall, PhD

    Marcia Hall, PhD

    Laura H. Carnell Professor Emerita of Renaissance Arts

    Marcia Hall is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art. She is a teacher and scholar of Italian Renaissance painting who has written widely on painting in the sixteenth century, Raphael, Michelangelo and those who followed them…

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  • Sally Harrison smiles at the camera, standing in front of a vibrant mural filled with flowers.

    Sally Harrison, AIA

    Professor

    Sally Harrison is an architect, urban designer, educator, and scholar whose creative work and research explore the social impacts of design in underserved communities. She is the director and co-founder of The Urban Workshop, an interdisciplinary…

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  • John Hatfield looking at the camera with a rainbow-colored wall behind him.

    John Hatfield

    Professor of Practice and Director of Arts Management Track

    John Hatfield has over 30 years’ experience with art organizations including as Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park, NY for 10 years, Deputy Director and various positions at the New Museum, NY for 17 years and served as Asst. Vice…

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  • David Herman looking at the camera.

    David Herman Jr., PhD

    Associate Professor

    David Herman Jr. is a lens-based exhibiting artist, educator and scholar whose work explores the relations between the perceptual and the social as a political endeavor. His research and scholarly interests are grounding in a belief that the…

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  • Richard Hylton

    Richard Hylton

    Associate Professor

    Richard Hylton’s research interests focus on Black British Art, African American Art in a Global Context, historical recovery and cultural memory and restitution, contemporary art, and ethnography. Richard Hylton was born in London, England and…

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  • Renee Jackson sitting on a table, smiling at the camera.

    Renee Jackson, PhD

    Associate Professor and Program Head of Art Education

    Renee Jackson is an artist, critical feminist pedagogue, and scholar, whose research interests relate to the disruption of oppressive mechanisms in education and the integration of game-design and gameplay as collaborative art forms and learning…

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  • Ken Jacobs, PhD

    Ken Jacobs, PhD

    Adjunct Faculty

    Ken Jacobs has more than 30 years of progressive professional experience in historic preservation, project-based research, architectural work and construction administratio. He is interested in the adaptive reuse of 18th- through early 20th-century…

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  • Matt Karp, AIA

    Matt Karp, AIA

    Adjunct Faculty

    A licensed architect and an active civic volunteer, Matt Karp focuses on using technology to inform design, construction and sustainability. His experience includes all phases of design, documentation and construction for institutional projects with…

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  • Lisa Kay leans against a fence, smiling warmly at the camera and crossing her arms.

    Lisa Kay, EdD, ATR-BC

    Professor and Chair of Art Education & Community Arts Practices

    Lisa Kay is an artist/researcher, art educator, and art therapist whose creative voice is manifested in and enhanced by the integration of these three identities. She considers art, teaching, and therapy as an integral part of her art practice. A…

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  • Jessica L. Kirker, PhD

    Adjunct Faculty

    Jessica Kirker is a visual arts educator that has been teaching artist-scholars ranging from preschool to higher education over her 25+ year career. She has facilitated arts-based learning in a diverse range of formal and informal settings…

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  • Em Kleaver smiling at the camera

    Em Kleaver

    Admissions Counselor

    Em Kleaver is an arts education administrator, teaching artist, and scholar who comes to their role as an Admissions Counselor at Tyler with a deep passion for guiding students and their families through the college admissions process. Em seeks…

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  • Grace Ahn Klensin smiling at the camera.

    Grace Ahn Klensin

    Director of Admissions

    Grace is dedicated to ensuring every applicant feels seen, valued, and supported. She believes in celebrating the individuality of each student and makes it a priority for people from all backgrounds to explore the unique opportunities at Tyler. …

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  • Joseph Kopta behind a medieval art piece

    Joseph Kopta, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Joseph R. Kopta, PhD (he/they) is an art historian of the medieval world, with particular expertise in the visual and material culture of the Eastern Roman Empire. His intellectual interests are informed by issues of materiality, phenomenology of…

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  • Christopher McAdams standing in an architecture studio, looking at and smiling for the camera.

    Christopher McAdams

    Associate Professor and Curriculum Coordinator of Architecture, Facilities Management and Historic Preservation

    Christopher McAdams is an architect and technologist working with augmented and virtual reality platforms to investigate immersive and interactive spaces. His work uses parametric tooling, digital fabrication, and mixed reality systems to…

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  • Pablo Meninato, with his arms crossed looks at the camera in an architecture studio space.

    Pablo Meninato, PhD

    Associate Professor

    Pablo Meninato, PhD, is an architect, architectural critic, and educator whose research focuses on the principles and mechanisms that govern the architectural and urban project. A native of Argentina, Meninato has taught and practiced…

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  • Sarina Miller

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sarina Miller teaches and develops courses in art and design history that incorporate cross-cultural and interdisciplinary elements. A primary component of her holistic pedagogical method involves visual literacy and thematic teaching. She is the…

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  • Taryn Mudge smiling at the camera with her arms crossed.

    Taryn Mudge, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Taryn Mudge is an architectural educator and scholar whose research focuses on design pedagogies and methods of visual research in architecture. She recently received a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from the University of…

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  • Jeffrey S. Nesbit looking at the camera with his arms crossed.

    Jeffrey S. Nesbit

    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

    Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design. His experience spanning over a decade includes leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban projects, along with…

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  • Emily Neumeier sitting outdoors on a step

    Emily Neumeier, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Emily Neumeier is a historian of Islamic art and architecture who studies the visual and spatial cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Her research and teaching cover a wide range of material to address…

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  • Pepón Osorio smiling at the camera.

    Pepón Osorio

    Professor

    Pepón Osorio is known for his provocative, large-scale, multimedia installations that merge conceptual art and community dynamics. His visual language, explosive and elegance challenges traditional art canons with richly textured monumental…

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  • Portrait of Matthew Palczynski wearing a blazer and a plaid shirt

    Matthew J. Palczynski

    Adjunct Faculty

    www.arthistorylecturer.com Matthew Palczynski’s research focuses on vanguard art since ca. 1900, with a particular emphasis on the intersections between painting and architecture. One of his primary goals is to use art in unexpected ways,…

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  • Alpesh Kantilal Patel smiling at the camera.

    Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD

    Associate Professor

    ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 + SPRING 2025 Alpesh Kantilal Patel’s (they/he) art historical scholarship, curatorial projects, and art criticism reflect their queer, transcultural, and decolonial approach to global contemporary art as evidenced by their…

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  • Erin Pauwels looking at the camera.

    Erin Pauwels, PhD

    Associate Professor of Art History and Undergraduate Advisor

    ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 + SPRING 2025 Erin Pauwels is an historian of modern and contemporary art in the Americas with special interest in photography, Indigenous Studies, and ecocritical approaches to visual culture. Her research explores the…

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  • Portrait of Alice Price smiling at the camera

    Alice M. Rudy Price

    Adjunct Faculty

    Price received a Ph.D. in art history from Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Price and Emily C. Burns are the editors of Mapping Impressionist Painting in a Transnational Context (Routledge 2021). Burns and Price’s next…

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  • Jeff Richards looking and smiling at the camera.

    Jeff Richards, RA

    Assistant Professor

    Jeff Richards is a registered architect whose work explores the potential of architectonic components such as material, structure and building envelope to both reinforce and transform conceptual approach. His teaching and practice examine the…

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  • Fauzia Sadiq Garcia smiling inside an architecture studio at Tyler, surrounded by build models and design materials.

    Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, RA, LEED AP, IFMA

    Associate Professor and Program Head of Architecture, Facilities Management and Historic Preservation

    Fauzia Sadiq Garcia is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Temple University and Curriculum Coordinator of Facilities Management & Architecture Majors. She is a registered architect, educator and artist harnessing technological…

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  • Robert Shuman Jr., AIA LEED AP

    Robert Shuman Jr., AIA LEED AP

    Associate Professor

    Robert Shuman’s practice is dedicated to the making of consequential works in real space and time, with craft and consideration both of their sustenance of essential human experience and appreciation of their impact on our common environment. He…

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  • Angela Sileo smiling at the camera.

    Angela Sileo

    Junior Admissions Counselor

    Angela Sileo is an Admissions Counselor who provides application support at both the both the undergraduate and graduate level. She is passionate about connecting with prospective students and their families to show all that Tyler has to offer. …

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  • Marianna M. Thomas, AIA

    Marianna M. Thomas, AIA

    Adjunct Faculty

    Marianna Thomas, founder/principal of Marianna Thomas Architects, sees every project as both place-making and storyline in which occupancy by new users is a chapter. Her teaching connects aspirational UNESCO guidelines and patterns of everyday…

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  • Ulysses Sean Vance looking at the camera.

    Ulysses Sean Vance

    Associate Professor

    My research in architecture is directed by accessibility in buildings and involves designing interventions for the health and well-being of underserved communities. It is research founded on inclusive decision-making in the planning and…

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  • Jeremy Voorhees looking at the camera.

    Jeremy Voorhees

    Associate Professor and Architecture Foundations Curriculum Coordinator

    Jeremy Voorhees is a designer and researcher focusing on the political and cultural dimensions of architectural design. Primarily concerned with cities, his work explores the role that architecture and architects play in shaping communities…

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  • Na Wei standing and looking at the camera.

    Na Wei, RA, LEED AP

    Associate Professor

    Na Wei is the Founding Principal of WEI architects (aka Elevation Workshop), a design firm originally founded in New York and currently based in Beijing since 2009. The idea of the genius loci is very particular in Wei’s work. She professes a…

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  • Ashley West smiling at the camera.

    Ashley D. West, PhD

    Associate Professor

    Ashley West is an art historian of the early modern period, 1400-1700, with a particular expertise in the history, practice, and theories of printmaking. Her interest extends to cross-cultural encounters between the Holy Roman Empire and its…

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  • Photo of Kate Wingert-Playdon wearing a blue shirt, looking at the camera

    Kate Wingert-Playdon

    Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture

    Kate Wingert-Playdon is focused on cultural identity as expressed in design and construction histories, buildings and sites. Her applied and scholarly research begins with the premise that a more comprehensive understanding of the cultural…

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  • Andrew John Wit smiling, leaning on a desk with his arms crossed in a Tyler architecture studio.

    Andrew John Wit

    Associate Professor

    Andrew John Wit leads research focused on novel building systems generated through composites, emerging tools and robotics. He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary research group wito*, Laboratory for Intelligent Environments; co-author of…

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  • Sally Harrison smiles at the camera, standing in front of a vibrant mural filled with flowers.

    Sally Harrison, AIA

    Professor

    Sally Harrison is an architect, urban designer, educator, and scholar whose creative work and research explore the social impacts of design in underserved communities. She is the director and co-founder of The Urban Workshop, an interdisciplinary…

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