THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Creative Director
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Partner
Andy Lantz is Partner and Creative Director at RIOS in Los Angeles, which he joined in 2011. His design perspective, style, and aesthetic have played important roles in numerous projects the firm has completed. While in graduate school, Andy helped design the Beverly School for the Deaf in Massachusetts, which required him to rethink learning environments that were visually and tactilely optimal for deaf learners. Upon graduation, Andy spent eight months working for a military contractor, analyzing and creating sensory-deprived environments for Black Hawk helicopter pilots. From 2011-14, Andy was an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Architecture, where he ran the Teen Architecture Studio program. He was a lecturer at the Knowlton School during the 2010-11 academic year. From 2008-10, he established and administered the Project Link program, an intensive immersion for high school students, at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Andy earned his BA in architecture from the Knowlton School and his MArch from Harvard GSD.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture
Ashley Bigham is an Assistant Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture and co-director of Outpost Office. She has been a Fulbright Fellow in Ukraine, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. At The Ohio State University, she is an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. In addition, she is a collaborative partner and visiting faculty at the Kharkiv School of Architecture in Ukraine.
Ashley's creative work and writing engage architecture through a study of consumption and domesticity, focusing on architecture's entanglement with the production and fulfillment of consumer desire. She is the editor of Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire (Applied Research + Design, 2022). Her writing and work has appeared in publications such as MAS Context, Dialectic, The Architect's Newspaper, Metropolis, Mark, CLOG, and Surface.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of City and Regional
- Editor - in - Chief of the Journal of Urban Affairs
Bernadette Hanlon is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at Ohio State University. Dr. Hanlon is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Urban Affairs.
Dr. Hanlon specializes in the study of metropolitan regions, focusing on suburban transformation, housing conditions and community development. She is the author of three books, Once the American Dream: Inner-ring Suburbs in the Metropolitan United States, Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US (with John Rennie Short and Thomas J. Vicino) and Global Migration: The Basics (with Thomas J. Vicino), and co-editor (with Thomas J. Vicino) of The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs. She is also author of numerous articles in some of the leading journals in urban studies, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, Environment and Planning A, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, the Journal of Urban Affairs, City and Community, and Housing Policy Debate .
She was the Vice-Chair and an elected member of the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association. Her term ended in July 2021. She received her PhD. in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has a Masters in Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from University College Dublin.
Dr. Hanlon teaches courses in planning theory, planning for housing, research design, and practice-oriented planning studio. Before joining Ohio State University, she was a researcher for the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education at the University of Maryland.
Expertise
Community Development
Housing Policy and Planning
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Professor / Architecture
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- the Design Principal of Colloqate
Bryan Lee is the Design Principal of Colloqate and a national Design Justice Advocate. He and Sue Mobley co-founded the firm in 2017, and it received an Architectural League's Emerging Voices award in 2019. Bryan is the founding organizer of the Design Justice Platform and organized the Design As Protest National Day of Action. He has led two award-winning architecture and design programs for high school students through the Arts Council of New Orleans and the National Organization of Minority Architects. Bryan earned a BS in architecture from the Knowlton School and a Master of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received a 2013 AIA Diversity Recognition Award, was a 2015 Next City Vanguard Fellow, and was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business in 2018. He is a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Job Titles:
- Announced As Spring 2018 Herbert Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professor
Job Titles:
- HR Consultant, Human Resources
- HR Consultant, Human Resources / HR Consultant, Biomedical Engineering / HR Consultant
Job Titles:
- Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor, Civil Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
- Director of the Ohio State Travel Behavior Research Group
Dr. Andre L. Carrel is an assistant professor of transportation and the director of the Ohio State Travel Behavior Research Group. His expertise is in travel demand modeling and public transportation, and his research focuses on the dynamics of travel behavior, travelers' adaptation to experienced service quality, and the impact of emerging mobility technologies on travel behavior. His research contributes to the forecasting of long-term trends in travel behavior and has practical implications for designing policies to promote more sustainable travel choices and to strengthen public transportation. His principal methods involve complex, survey-based studies, discrete choice models, and the integration of automatically collected data from mobile phones with survey data. Dr. Carrel is jointly appointed in Civil Engineering and City and Regional Planning and is a core faculty member of the Ohio State Translational Data Analytics Institute. He is the recipient of a 2021 NSF CAREER award. Dr. Carrel graduated from UC Berkeley, MIT, and ETH Zurich, and was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. His academic experience spans both passenger transportation and logistics.
Expertise
Dr. Carrel's research interests include:
Understanding the influence of autonomous, shared, and alternative-fuel transportation technologies on travel behavior
Job Titles:
- Professor of Economic Development in
- Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
- Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs / Professor, City and Regional Planning
Edward (Ned) Hill is Professor of Economic Development in The Ohio State University's John Glenn College of Public Affairs and in the Knowlton School of Architectures' section on City and Regional Planning. He is also a member of the College of Engineering's Ohio Manufacturing Institute. He teaches introduction to public affairs, economic development, and state and local public policy.
Hill came to OSU after serving as Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. He was Clevleand State University's first Vice President Economic Development and Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Economic Development.
He was the editor of Economic Development Quarterly and Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) and is currently a member of MAGNET's Board of Directors. MAGNET is the Ohio MEP's affiliate in Northeast Ohio.
Ohio Governors Taft, Strickland, Kasich, and DeWine, as well as former Ohio Speaker of the House of Representatives Batchelder, have appointed Hill to commissions and boards. The Cuyahoga County Mayors and Managers Association recognized Ned's service to the communities of Northeast Ohio in 2016 with its George V. Voinovich Municipal Service Award. And, the Ohio Manufacturers Association's Board of Directors presented Ned with its Legacy Award in 2005 and again in 2016 for his work on behalf of Ohio's manufacturers. Ned's book, Ohio's Competitive Advantage, was credited with starting a five-year statewide conversation that resulted in fundamental business tax reform in the state of Ohio. The Cincinnati Enquirer referred to Hill as the "godfather of tax reform" in the summer of 2005.
His most recent book is Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy, published by Cornell University Press in 2017. His current research focuses on the impact of digital manufacturing on corporate investment and workforce strategies with his colleagues at the Ohio Manufacturing Institute.
He was a nonresident senior fellow of The Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program and of the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Hill is a frequent speaker on community and economic development, workforce issues, and manufacturing modernization. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, C-Span, The Weekly, NPR's Marketplace, BBC Radio, Inside Climate News, Utility Dive, Energy News, and well as many of Ohio's daily newspapers and public radio. The interviews have covered his recent research on the attempts to re-regulate electricity generation in Ohio, the economic impact of tariffs, the performance of the manufacturing sector in the U.S. and Ohio, and the attitudes of Ohio's middle class on foreign affairs and investment with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Ned earned his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning and Economics from MIT.
Expertise
Economic, community and workforce development
Regional economic resilience
State, local, and development finance
Job Titles:
- Professional Practice Professor in the City and Regional Planning Section of the Knowlton School
A fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and an AICP Certified Urban Designer, Dr. Ezell's decades of planning practice inform his client-based studio course, land development course, and PhD teaching practicum. Dr. Ezell led over 50 implemented plans and projects, elected to APA Ohio's Board of Trustees, served as Ohio's Professional Development Officer, and elected to Secretary for APA Tennessee. Practice acknowledgments include the AICP National Award for Implementation, Small Town Special Plan Award (APA Small Town/Rural Division), the Award for Excellence (APA Economic Development Division), APA Ohio's Focused Planning Project Award, and The Ohio American Society of Landscape Architecture's Merit Award.
Dr. Ezell publishes a range of topics, including Visualize Your Teaching: Understand Your Style and Increase Your Impact (Routledge) and Three Essential Questions for Better Planning (American Planning Association). Ezell's previous books on downtowns include Get Urban: The Complete Guide to City Living (Capitol Books) and Retire Downtown (Andrews McMeel).
Dr. Ezell holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a Master of Arts from South Dakota State University, and a Doctor of Education from Maryville University of Saint Louis.
Harley Etienne Knowlton is an Associate Professor and Graduate Studies Chair in the City and Regional Planning Section. Dr. Etienne also holds a courtesy appointment with Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law.
Etienne's research focuses on the confluence of institutions, patterns of neighborhood change, and social justice. He is the author of Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Change in West Philadelphia (Temple University Press) and co-edited Planning Atlanta with Barbara Faga in 2014 (Planners' Press/Routledge). His current project focuses on the spatial mapping of fatal police encounters for which he and his collaborator Frank Romo recently received a DataiKu Frontrunner Award.
Before joining Knowlton, Etienne was an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He was also faculty in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Prior to his academic career, Etienne worked in Philadelphia in the public policy and economic development sectors for Greater Philadelphia First (now merged with the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce), the Pennsylvania Economy League, and the 21st Century League, where he focused on policy issues including university-industry partnerships, K-12 school reform, health care access, and welfare policy.
Etienne was a part of the winning team for the Midtown Cultural Center Planning Initiative in Detroit, an international competition to connect several cultural and educational institutions into an interconnected set of campuses. He was previously a Senior Fellow of the University of Michigan Society of Fellows and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and serves on the Governing Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, a Master of Arts degree from Temple University, a Doctorate in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School.
Expertise
Community Development/Neighborhood Planning
Social Justice in City Planning
Job Titles:
- Director
- Chairman of Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Designer
Iman Ansari is an architectural and urban designer, historian, and educator. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Knowlton School and a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS. Their work has been published widely, has been recognized by multiple national and international awards, and has been exhibited at international venues such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Hammer Museum, the A+D Museum, MoMA PS1, the European Centre for Architecture, and as a part of the permanent design collection at the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
Ansari's scholarly research focuses on architecture's interactions with science, technology, and medicine in the modern era, looking specifically at the history of building technologies, codes and regulations, and standards of health and safety. He has contributed to multiple books and edited volumes on architectural history and theory, landscape architecture and urbanism. His writings have appeared in Architectural Review, Architectural Theory Review, Architect's Newspaper, Cabinet, Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians, Log, Metropolis, Places Journal, Room One Thousand, and Thresholds among others.
Ansari has been a TEDx speaker and has lectured at institutions across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. he holds a PhD in Architecture from UCLA, a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the City College of the City University of New York.
Jake Boswell is an associate professor and undergraduate studies chair of landscape architecture at The Ohio State University. His work centers on the entanglement of cultural, technological and natural systems in the production of designed and vernacular landscapes, with a specific focus on climatic imaginaries and attempts to alter climate. He comes to this interest through an education and training in landscape architecture, city planning and cultural anthropology and he pursues this work through a hybrid practice centered on historical inquiry and design speculation. His writing has been published nationally and internationally and his speculative and applied design works have received recognition in numerous international design competitions.
In 2016 Boswell was awarded the College of Engineering's Lumley Award for Interdisciplinary Research, and in 2018 he was named an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oak's Research Library and Collection. Mr. Boswell actively extends his research into his teaching. His student's work has regularly been recognized in both scholarly and professional venues and his teaching has been recognized with an OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2013.
Expertise
Climate futures
Job Titles:
- Selected 2019 Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor, Civil Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
Job Titles:
- Head
- Distinguished Professor and Head of the City
- Professor, Geography
- Section Head
- Section Head, City and Regional Planning
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Geography. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Regional Studies.
Dr. Clark's book Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities (Columbia University Press, 2020) won the 2021 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award as well as the 2022 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award. Her first book, Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2007 with Susan Christopherson) also won the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award.
In addition, Dr, Clark is the author of Working Regions: Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2013) and co-author of the 3 rd edition of Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning (Routledge, 2012), a widely adopted text in urban planning and policy courses. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy (Edward Elgar, 2015) and Transitions in Regional Economic Development (Routledge, 2018). Dr. Clark has also written numerous articles and book chapters appearing in venues such as the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society; the Journal of Urban Affairs; Regional Studies; Metropolitics; Journal of Planning Education and Research; and MIT Technology Review.
Dr. Clark is a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (RSA). She earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University, a Master's degree from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Dr. Clark teaches courses on urban and regional economic development theory, analysis, and practice and research design and methods. She has provided expert testimony before the US Congress and consulted with the OECD and the Canadian, UK, and US governments. Before joining the Knowlton School, Dr. Clark taught at Cornell University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Expertise
Urban and regional planning
Regional economic development
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Founding Partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Jennifer Guthrie is a founding partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Jennifer's design leadership merges a guiding, experiential vision with innovative and precise detailing. Her work ranges broadly, encompassing urban districts of green streets and mixed-use housing, public squares, rooftop gardens, urban farms, and cultural institutions. Corresponding examples of these diverse project types include the University of Washington's West Campus Streetscape and UW Farm, Chicago's Lurie Garden at Millennium Park, and the Seattle Civic Center Campus. GGN is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award. Additionally, Jennifer and her partners are the recipients of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture in 2011. She is President of the Landscape Architectural Foundation Board and serves on the CEO Roundtable. Jennifer was the Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor at Knowlton in 2014-15. She holds a bachelor of landscape architecture from the University of Washington.
Job Titles:
- Manager, Academic Program Services
Jessica (she/her) serves as manager of Knowlton Student Services. She joined the Knowlton School in December of 2012 as the Architecture, Landscape and City Scholars Manager and Knowlton Honors Director. She is a member of the Student Services team and works with undergraduates on academic advising, career and graduate school planning.
Jessica received a BSS in Family Services and a M.Ed. in College Student Personnel from Ohio University. Before coming to work at the Knowlton School, Jessica was an academic advisor at the University of Kentucky. In 2011, she received the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Outstanding Advisor of the Year award.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Job Titles:
- Graduate Program Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- President and CEO of Columbus
Jonathan Moody is President and CEO of Columbus-based Moody Nolan. The firm has grown to over 230 employees and 12 offices across the nation. Its designs have now won over 300 design citations including 46 from the American Institute of Architects and 43 from the National Organization of Minority Architects. Jonathan has helped continue and extend the firm's position as the largest African-American-owned architecture firm. Moody Nolan continues to garner national attention by promoting "diversity by design." Jonathan received his BS of architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from UCLA.
Joseph Nelson Bradford graduated from The Ohio State University in 1878 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He returned to teach in the Department of Engineering in 1885. After having created the Department of Fine Arts in 1886 and the Department of Photography in 1890, he founded the 11th architecture program in the country within the Department of Engineering in 1899. In 1900 he developed the program into a full four-year curriculum. The first degree was conferred on John Peterson in 1903. In 1906, Bradford succeeded in creating architecture as an independent area of study within an enlarged College of Engineering by establishing an autonomous Department of Architecture. As early as 1918, a parallel four-year program in architectural engineering was introduced. The last Bachelor's degree in Architectural Engineering was conferred in 1939.
Job Titles:
- Senior Academic Program Services Specialist
Judith joined the Knowlton School in January 2020 as the section program coordinator and changed roles to senior academic advisor in 2022.
Originally from the Netherlands, Judith graduated from Utrecht University with a Master of Arts in Linguistics. She has worked in many different higher education settings throughout her career. Before starting at Knowlton Judith was the student services manager at OSU's Graduate School.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Analyst for the State of Minnesota House of Representatives
Katherine Schill is a fiscal analyst for the State of Minnesota House of Representatives. For more than 35 years, Kathy has provided policy and fiscal analysis for two state legislatures-Minnesota and Ohio-and has trained hundreds of legislators and staff about the budget process. She currently staffs the House Tax Committee and the Property Tax and Local Government Finance Division. Throughout her career, Kathy has been active with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) holding a variety of elected and appointed leadership positions, including service on the NCSL Executive Committee, the Legislative Staff Coordinating Committee, and as President of the National Association of Legislative Fiscal Offices. She holds a Master of City and Regional Planning from the Knowlton School, where she has also taught as a lecturer. Kathy was elected to the Ohio State University Alumni Association Advisory Council in 1999, representing the College of Engineering, and to the OSUAA Board of Directors in 2000.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor, Civil Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
Kerry Gerich is a Landscape Designer at EDGE, working on a wide variety of projects, including estate residential, mixed-use development, and sports and recreation master plans. Her diverse experiences in horticulture and environmental design allow her to provide a nuanced perspective to the collaborative process. She is a former President of the Knowlton Alumni Society and holds a BS in landscape architecture from the Knowlton School.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Associate Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the Knowlton School
- Member of the American Planning Association
- Professional Engineer
Kimberly Burton is an Associate Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the Knowlton School in the College of Engineering at the Ohio State University. She is also an affiliated faculty member of OSU's Sustainability Institute and OSU's Building Science program. She specializes in sustainability and resiliency, especially related to transportation, hazard mitigation, and equity; and she also focuses on public engagement and distance learning.
Ms. Burton is a licensed professional engineer (Ohio P.E.), certified planner (AICP) with an advanced specialty in transportation planning (CTP), a LEED accredited professional in neighborhood development (LEED AP ND), and a certified climate change professional (CC-P). She has authored a variety of publications, including "Transportation Energy Beyond Fossil Fuels," a re-occurring chapter in the last five State of Transportation Planning publications by the American Planning Association (2013, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022) where she explores the different ways to reduce fossil fuel dependency in the transportation sector. She also published "Leading Remotely in a Crisis" on the American Planning Association's Blog page in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; she contributed to the American Planning Association's current Policy Guide on Surface Transportation, published in 2019; and co-authored the "Noise-Compatible Land Use Planning" chapter in the Guide to Planning in Ohio in 2007.
Ms. Burton received a bachelor of science in civil engineering in 1999, master of city and regional planning in 2002, and a master of learning technologies in 2021; all three degrees are from the Ohio State University. She has also over 20 years of experience working in practice in both the public and private sectors. In addition to serving as an OSU faculty member, she is also the President of a consulting firm, Burton Planning Services (BPS), which is focused on sustainable planning and environmental solutions for its clients.
Throughout her career, Ms. Burton has been a leader in planning practice. Some highlights include receiving the Award for Excellence in Sustainability: Student Project from the American Planning Association's Sustainable Communities Division for her Sustainability Studio project "Grove City Sustainability Plan" (2021) and the Outstanding Student Project Award from the American Planning Association's Ohio Chapter for her Transportation Studio project "Byesville Community Mobility Plan" (2021). She also receiving the OSU Distinguished International Engagement Award for the Ghana Sustainable Change Program (2016) and the American Planning Association Division Council Award for Contribution to the Planning Profession for "State of Transportation Planning: Ahead of the Curve" (Burton authored a chapter) (2014).
Ms. Burton is a member of the American Planning Association and American Institute of Certified Planners. She serves as a member of the APA-Ohio Chapter's Board of Trustees and as the State Professional Development Officer in addition to the APA Hazard Mitigation Division's Ohio ambassador.
Ms. Burton teaches graduate and undergraduate lecture and studio courses on sustainability, transportation, green building, resiliency, future cities, professional development, municipal planning and zoning, and energy. Several of her lecture courses are offered as online asynchronous courses to OSU students and via the OSU College of Engineering's Professional and Distance Education Programs.
Expertise
Sustainability and resiliency
Job Titles:
- Coordinator - Building Services
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture at the Knowlton School
- Section Head
- Section Head, Landscape Architecture
Kristi Cheramie is Associate Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture at the Knowlton School. Her research explores the many ways we use building to respond to and cope with environmental fluctuation. Using speculation as a tool to reconstruct the historical systems, scales, and materials that give rise to adaptability and transformation in the landscape, her work reveals interconnections between story, memory, ground, and time. Her first book, Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome, will be released this year from Routledge. In 2016-2017, Cheramie received the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, where she examined early modern notions of environmentalism and perceptions of flooding, climate exigencies, and debris. Running parallel to her projects in Rome, Cheramie also works on the implications of early 20th-century flood control infrastructure in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. In addition to writing, Cheramie's visual work has been exhibited throughout the US. Her work on Louisiana coastal communities compromised by land loss, sea level rise, and competing industrial interests has been supported by the Van Alen Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. Cheramie holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Knowlton, she taught at Louisiana State University.
Dr. Ezell served as the inaugural chair of Knowlton School's Bachelor of City and Regional Planning program, writing, implementing, and administering the new curriculum of the (now mature) program. Ezell was appointed a Senior Affiliate for the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Ezell received the Ohio State University's Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, OSU's Service Learning Award, the College of Engineering's Outstanding Teaching Award, and was inducted into the university's Academy of Teaching. His students received the national AICP Student Project Award, the APA County Planning Division Plan Award, and the APA Ohio Planning Student Project Award.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Partner at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
- Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor
Laura Solano is a Partner at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. She is widely regarded as an expert in the field of landscape technology and sustainability, and her leadership and knowledge inform the design, construction, and post-construction maintenance of MVVA's projects. Her particular areas of expertise include the integration of stormwater management, complexities of on-structure landscapes, use of sustainable soil, innovative approaches for landscape materials, and techniques for organic maintenance. In collaboration with Matt Urbanski and Michael Van Valkenburgh, Laura serves as a managing principal for planning and design projects from their earliest phases and oversees the technical aspects of MVVA's landscapes firm-wide. Laura is a Distinguished Alumna of the Ohio State College of Engineering and was a Trott Distinguished Visiting professor at Knowlton.
Job Titles:
- Academic Program Services Specialist
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
Liz Lagedrost earned a bachelor's degree from Miami University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Knowlton School. After graduate school, Liz was with SWA in Los Angeles for two years, before moving to Walt Disney Imagineering, where she worked as a designer and senior designer for nine years. She is now a senior designer in Martha Schwartz Partners' LA office. She is an award-winning designer with projects across the globe, from art installations to urban infrastructure, to themed entertainment. With a passion for narrative and history, Liz approaches design through the lens of storytelling. Her interest in the intrinsic nature of human beings and our propensity for art, curiosity, and play, has influenced her desire to create unique places within the public realm. With an expertise in 3D modeling visualization and a strong background in graphic communication, Liz has led and collaborated with experts in the art, architecture, engineering, and entertainment industries to deliver on a number of world-class experiential projects.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Assistant to the Director of Knowlton School
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning
Maria Manta Conroy is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science in Systems Engineering and a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests are focused on planning for sustainable development, especially in terms of plan quality and watershed-based planning; enhancing participation processes; and planning around sensitive and protected lands, including water related resources. She and lead author Dr. Philip Berke were awarded the 2001 American Planning Association's National Planning Best Article award for Are we Planning for Sustainable Development? An Evaluation of 30 Comprehensive Plans. In 2023 she published a longitunidinal evaluation of the original plan set with former doctoral student Dr. Jessica P. Wilson also in the Journal of the American Planning Association. As part of the University's Sustainability Education and Learning Committee, she has been part of the Provost directive on Advancing Sustainability Education at OSU and is lead on a manuscript related to that effort currently under review.
Expertise
Planning for sustainable development
Watershed planning
Participation in planning processes
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
Mariko Masuoka joined Pelli Clark Pelli in 1980. She has been the design principal-in-charge for academic projects, large-scale civic projects, commercial mixed-use developments, and master plans. Mariko is currently leading the design team for 76 Trinity, which includes a podium for the historic New York church's offices and programs and an office tower, as well as a new interdisciplinary research building for The Ohio State University. Her academic projects include the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film at Vassar College, the Mathematics Building and Lecture Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study, Yale-NUS College campus in Singapore, the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry Building at Ohio State, and Yale Science Building and Malone Engineering Center at Yale University, Yale's first LEED Gold building. Mariko earned bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Yale University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
Megan Cavanaugh has been at the Wexner Center for the Arts since 2003 and is currently the Chief Operating Officer. She has held several previous positions at the Wex, including Director of Exhibitions Management, Director of Patron Services, and Head Registrar, and has been in her current role since 2019. Megan oversees institutional initiatives across the Wex, ranging from interdisciplinary programming to strategic planning, and works collaboratively with partners across campus and the community and beyond. She still works closely with the gallery-based programs, and their budgets, contracts, and logistics, and is involved in these areas throughout the center. She has occasionally acted as a curator on architecture- and design-related exhibitions, including Sarah Oppenheimer: S-337473, Architecture Interruptus, and All of Everything: Todd Oldham Fashion, and has been honored to work closely with such artists as LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tomashi Jackson, and Taryn Simon.
Job Titles:
- MASS Design Group Will Be This Year 's Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professor and Take Part in a Seminar Led by Karen Lewis
Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group will be this year's Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professor and take part in a seminar led by Karen Lewis
Job Titles:
- Coordinator of Media Production at the Knowlton School
Philip Arnold is the Coordinator of Media Production at the Knowlton School. He produces media that communicates the pedagogy, culture and achievements of the school through feature news articles, photography and video. As a member of the communication team, he contributes to marketing strategy and brand development to promote the school on a variety of platforms.
His work at the university reflects his interests outside of the Knowlton School. His writing has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Arts & Letters, The Iowa Review, Rattle, Gulf Stream, Midwest Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Adventure Cyclist and overseas in Honest Ulsterman, Corbel Stone Press, Galway Review, Northwords and New Shetlander Review. His piece, Stereoscopic Paris, was a "Notable Essay" in the 2017 Best American Essays anthology. His debut collection of poetry, The Natural History of a Blade, was recently published by Dos Madres Press. He is the recipient of an Individual Excellence Award in writing from the Ohio Arts Council.
His photography has appeared in Humana Obscura, Atticus Review, Fugue, Compose, Cerise Press, Apeiron Review, and Gravel Magazine. He has award-winning images in Black & White magazine's 2018 & 2020 contests in the Pinhole/Plastic Camera category. His work has exhibited at the Soho Photo Gallery (NYC), A Smith Gallery (Texas), Nave Gallery (Mass), Brickbottom Gallery (Mass), ArtsEye Gallery (AZ), and Santa Clara University (CA), and the 11th Biennial PhotoMidwest Festival in Madison, WI.
His documentary, "Into the Distance," screened at eight festivals, including DocUtah International Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, and Twin Rivers Media Festival. His recent feature-length documentary, "Hollywood in the High Country," was selected for the Longleaf Film Festival, UPIKE Film & Media Arts Festival, and Franklin International Independent Film Festival.
Job Titles:
- Head of Architecture
- Section Head
- Section Head, Architecture
Phu Hoang is Head of Architecture section at the Knowlton School of the Ohio State University and the the Robert S. Livesey Professor of Architecture.
He is a Founding Director of the interdisciplinary architecture practice MODU, recognized for advancing environmental and social intersections. The practice has designed for numerous cultural institutions, including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Design Museum Holon, and Creative Time. Along with his co-director Rachely Rotem, he was awarded the Founders' Rome Prize in Architecture (2017). They have also been awarded the Emerging Voices prize (2019) from the Architectural League of New York and the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists fellowship (2018) from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as research grants from the New York State Council on the Arts (2021, 2012) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (2013).
Before joining the Knowlton School, Hoang taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Hoang is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, President of its Society of Fellows, and a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
Welcome to the 2021-22 academic year! After a long 18 months, our return to campus has begun, and I am excited to see new and familiar (masked) faces in Knowlton Hall.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Engineering
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Engineering / Professor, City and Regional Planning / Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Rachel Garshick Kleit, PhD, is Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in the College of Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning (CRP) in the Knowlton School of Architecture, both at the Ohio State University (OSU). As of August 2021, she is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Planning Literature. Dr. Kleit holds a Bachelor of Arts, with Highest Honors in History, cum laude, from Brandeis University (1987), an MA in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University (1993), and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999). From 2012-2018 she was the Section Head of the City and Regional Planning in the Knowlton School. Prior to coming to OSU, Dr. Kleit was on the faculty for 13 years at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
Expertise
Dr. Kleit's research focuses on affordable housing and social inequality. She has interests in the social impacts of housing, housing mobility and instability, public housing authorities as developers, fair housing, and fair access to credit.
Specifically, she has written on the social network impacts of mixed-income housing, the influence of public housing redevelopment on the lives of original residents, the combination of social services and housing, and housing mobility and instability. This work led to her most recent project on understanding the factors causing some public housing authorities to build or own units that are not part of the public assisted housing stock. She has also published research on the equity impacts of economic development and workforce policies on poverty and inequality, as well as on the changing relationship between housing and inequality since the US mortgage crisis. She has published widely in scholarly journals, including Housing Policy Debate, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Urban Affairs, Social Networks, and Urban Studies.
In addition, Dr. Kleit has built on this research to co-found Move to PROSPER, a privately funded housing mobility pilot that uses life coaching, peer relationships, life skill development, and rental support to support single mothers with children in moving to safe neighborhoods with good schools for 3 years. Dr. Kleit currently serves as chair of the steering committee.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Co - Founder and Chief Executive of UrbanMatters Development Partners, L.L.C
Raymond Nix is co-founder and Chief Executive of UrbanMatters Development Partners, L.L.C. a District of Columbia CBE (Certified Business Enterprise) real estate development and neighborhood revitalization firm specializing in affordable housing. Ray brings a wealth of hands-on development experience that includes project management, financial management, and community building. He has led the company from start-up to growth with a diverse project pipeline and roster of clients including faith-based institutions, developers, public housing authorities, homebuilders, and local energy utilities. Through his leadership, the company is managing a pipeline of 800+ units in multiple phases of development in the Mid-Atlantic region. He has a track record of successful implementation of community revitalization strategies and use of industry best practices including creative mixed financing and sustainable design. His specialties include: Community Development, Affordable Housing, Public Housing Mixed Financing, Mixed-Income Development, Urban Planning & Neighborhood Revitalization, Master Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Strategic Planning. Ray has two degrees from the Knowlton School: a Master of City and Regional Planning, and a BS in landscape architecture. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Engineering in 2020.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in the City and Regional
Ricardo Cardoso is an Assistant Professor in the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School. He earned his PhD in City and Regional Planning with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and he holds an MSc in Urban Development Planning from University College London as well as a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Porto. Before joining OSU, Ricardo was an Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and held post-doctoral positions at the University of Cape Town, New York University, and the University of Porto.
Expertise
Ricardo Cardoso's research centers on transnational urbanism, the urban effects of oil economies, and the politics of development and change in African cities. Focusing on Luanda, Angola, his work takes an interdisciplinary perspective to study critical intersections between energy regimes and emerging modes of urbanization. His ongoing book project-Luanda Unbounded: Energy Futures in the Throes of a Crude Urban Revolution-offers a critical examination of how changing patterns of energy generation shape socio-spatial forms in cities sustained and conditioned by the export of hydrocarbons. Based on long-term fieldwork, this contributes to debates on the future of energy in the age of climate change and its impact on the world's cities. Ricardo also sustains a continued interest in development and planning issues in Portugal.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
Roxyanne Burrus teaches City and Regional Planning principles and practices at Knowlton. Roxyanne also owns a consulting business, Cartier Burrus LLC, and a newly formed travel business. A graduate of UCLA with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Roxyanne earned a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning from the Knowlton School. She held executive-level positions as a Neighborhood Department Administrator and Regional Planning Director for Seneca County, Ohio. Throughout her 30-year career with city and county government, Roxyanne managed long-range community and neighborhood planning, review of zoning and variance applications and subdivision regulations, administered Historic Preservation, Code Enforcement, Neighborhood Planning, Community Revitalization, Affordable Housing and Non-profit grant administration. She is on the Franklin County Planning Commission, and the Knowlton School Alumni Society Board.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Goettsch Partners As a Principal and Senior Project Manager
In 2018, Samuel Luckino joined Goettsch Partners as a principal and senior project manager in the Chicago office. In this role, Sam leads project teams on selected assignments, with a focus on office, hospitality, residential and mixed-use buildings. Before moving to Goettsch, he worked at Arquitectonica for 13 years and served as the director of the New York office. Prior to that, he was a designer at Hillier Architecture, now known as RMJM. Sam holds both a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Architecture from the Knowlton School, where is also an active participant in the Knowlton Mentorship Program. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, a LEED Accredited Professional, and a member of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, where he previously served as a City Representative.
Job Titles:
- Art Administration, Education and Policy
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Practice in the Landscape Architecture Section at the Ohio State University 's Knowlton School
- Trustee for the Center for Architecture
Tameka is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the landscape architecture section at the Ohio State University's Knowlton School. Her research is focused on land vacancies, specifically underutilized or abandoned sites left behind because of declining retail industries. Her work aims to reclaim and cultivate spaces of commoning for underserved communities, which challenge preconceived ideas about community gardens and the service they provide. Her work is represented through a study of traditional crafts, such as weaving and sewing, including curating and constructing natural materials. This manner of work reimagines a generative and creative practice of topographic form-making. It reflects new narratives celebrating a slowed landscape planning, design, continued maintenance, and stewardship process.
Since 2020, Tameka has served as a Board Trustee for the Center for Architecture and Design and chairs the youth programs committee. In 2022, she began service as a Commissioner for Columbus's Historic Resources Commission. Tameka holds a Master's in Landscape Architecture from Ohio State University, with a Bachelor of Art in Architecture from Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Resident Program Director for Garden
Thaïsa Way is the Resident Program Director for Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks. She is responsible for leading the programming for GLS including the residential fellowship program, scholarly visitors and events, and senior fellow meetings. Thaïsa holds a PhD from Cornell University, a Master of Architectural History from the University of Virginia, and a BS from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as an urban landscape historian teaching and researching history, theory, and design in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to coming to Dumbarton Oaks, Thaïsa served as founding director of Urban@UW, a coalition of urban researchers and teachers collaboratively addressing complex urban challenges, and as Chair of Faculty Senate at the University of Washington.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Knowlton School Advisory Board
- Executive Director of the Mid - Ohio Regional Planning Commission
William Murdock serves as executive director of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), Central Ohio's regional council for local governments that provides services, funding, tools, and resources to 75 member communities comprised of counties, cities, villages, townships, and regional agencies. At MORPC, William oversees innovative planning, services, and policies in transportation, planning, housing, land use, sustainability, and data. Working with a board of over 140 local leaders and more than 20 community committees, he reorganized MORPC to sharpen its focus on collaborative partnerships, proactive planning, and local government services. William is responsible for the development of MORPC's long-range transportation plan that coordinates over $20 billion of transportation improvements across the region through 2050. He spearheaded the major regional future scenarios effort known as insight2050 and the recently completed Regional Housing Strategy-both major public/private initiatives to prepare for Central Ohio's significant growth and development-and innovative efforts such as the Smart Region Task Force and Midwest Connect Hyperloop effort. William has four degrees from Ohio State: a BS in economics, BA in political science, a Master of City and Regional Planning, and a Master of Science in Parks, Recreation & Tourism Administration.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at the City
Yasuyuki (Yas) Motoyama is an Associate Professor at the City and Regional Planning of the Knowlton School. He conducts research about regional economic development and urban vibrancy through innovation and entrepreneurship.
He is the author of two books and thirty journal articles in economic development, geography, regional science, and business journals.
Motoyama has presented at numerous conferences in Japan, Mexico, Germany, and the UK. In the U.S., he has presented, for instance, at the Seattle Economic Development Commission, Committee on California State Assembly, National Governors Association, Council of State Governments, Harvard Business School, World Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and City of Columbus.
Prior to joining the Ohio State University, Motoyama was a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2008-2011), a Research Director at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (2011-2017), and an Assistant Professor of Geography and Business at University of Kansas (2017-2018).
Motoyama earned a Bachelor of Arts with triple majors in History, International Relations, and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He earned a Master of Public Administration from Cornell University, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning
Zhenhua is an associate professor in City and Regional Planning (CRP) at the Knowlton School of Architecture at OSU. His research interest includes infrastructure planning and policy, regional science, risk and resilience, and big data analytics. He has a strong background in economic impact assessments of infrastructure investment, disasters and resilience using Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models. He is one of the lead developers of the Economic Consequence Analysis Tool, an Excel-VBA software that is intended for policymakers and analysts who need quick estimates of the economic impact of numerous threats, including terrorism, natural disasters, and technological accidents.