Four new professors join the KSA for 2009-10
The Knowlton School of Architecture is pleased to welcome four new professors to its faculty this fall. The incoming group will strengthen each of the School's three sections, and help move the school forward into new areas of research and teaching. The four professors joining the KSA are Charisma Acey, Katherine Bennet, Sarah Cowles, and Karen Lewis.
Charisma Acey
"This fall I will be joining the Knowlton School of Architecture after completing my PhD at the University of California at Los Angeles. In the KSA, I will be teaching City and Regional Planning graduate and undergraduate studios, seminars, and core courses. This winter I will be teaching a GIS course and in the spring an undergraduate capstone in international development. My research focuses on international development in Africa. I will be working closely with the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity where I will be continuing my research on social equity in public service provision."
Click here for Charisma's Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
Katherine Bennett
"This fall I will move to Columbus from Seoul, South Korea, where I've been teaching and practicing as a designer. At KSA, I will teach Landscape Architecture graduate and undergraduate studios and seminars. My research concentrates on spatial and cultural forms that derive from population mobility. My work will continue to track emerging reformulations of the inhabited and natural environments - locally and internationally - within changing, increasingly blended economies."
Click here for Katherine's Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
Sarah Cowles
I am looking forward to joining the community at the KSA. This fall I am working with KSA students and colleagues on two gallery exhibitions: an installation with Tom Leader at the Rubin Center at the University of Texas at El Paso that focuses on the landscape of the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez region, and another at the OSU Urban Arts Space entitled “The Monuments of Columbus” that includes drawings, models, mappings, experimental geographies, sonic tours of imagined and projected futures for the landscape of Columbus, Ohio. This year I will be teaching courses in landscape representation that focuses on the urban land & water interface, a seminar on environmental justice, a design studio with Jason Kentner on "devastated landscapes", and a workshop exploring landscape on structure.
Click here for Sarah's Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
Karen Lewis
My teaching and research interests examine the intersection of graphic and infrastructural systems – stockyards, ports, urban signage, and peanut butter factories, to name a few examples of my interests - and will continue this work on information graphics at the KSA.
I frequently collaborate with Jason Kentner, assistant professor of landscape architecture. Our firm, Influx Studio, has been recognized in several competitions. Most recently our proposal for the Bronx Grand Concourse,"Inner Space," will be exhibited in New York. Our first built work, a 60-acre corn farm in Baltimore Township, will be completed this winter.
Prior to joining the KSA, I was on the faculty at the University of Kentucky and in 2008, was awarded the ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award. I look forward to teaching third and fourth year studios and in the introductory graphics sequence.
Click here for Karen's Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
Posted: 10/9/2009