Academic Leaders in Architecture

Women Deans of Architecture

Current as of December 2011

  • Susan Agre-Kippenhan, Montana State University (2006)
  • Mary Anne Akers, Morgan State University (2010)
  • Patricia Belton Oliver, University of Houston (2010)
  • Frances Bronet, University of Oregon (2005)
  • Rosalyn Y. Carter, Florida Atlantic University (1993)
  • Brenda Case Scheer, University of Utah (2002)
  • Janice A. Cervelli, University of Arizona (2008)
  • Candis Claiborn, Washington State University (2003)
  • Judith DiMaio, New York Institute of Technology (2001)
  • Geraldine Forbes Isais, University of New Mexico (2010)
  • Marilyn Jordan Taylor, University of Pennsylvania (2008)
  • Vini Nathan, Philadelphia University (2008)
  • Adèle Naudé Santos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004)
  • Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, University of Miami (1995)
  • Monica Ponce de Leon, University of Michigan (2008)
  • Donna V. Robertson, Illinois Institute of Technology (1996) ~
  • Hilary Robinson, Carnegie Mellon University (2005)
  • Ikhlas Sabouni, Prairie View A&M University (1998)
  • Kim Tanzer, University of Virginia (since 2009)
  • Sarah Whiting, Rice University (2010)
  • Jennifer Wolch, University of California, Berkeley (2009)

Date in parenthesis notates starting year of deanship.
~ Robertson was Dean of Architecture at Tulane University from 1992-96)

Women Directors of Architecture

  • Annmarie Adams, School of Architecture, McGill University
  • Ila Berman, California College of the Arts Architecture Program
  • Jori R. Erdman, Louisiana State University School of Architecture
  • Ann Pendleton-Julian, Ohio State University Architecture Section
  • Madlen Simon, University of Maryland Architecture Program

Women Chairs of Architecture

  • Robin Abrams, North Carolina State University School of Architecture
  • Leah Akins, Dutchess Comm. Col. Dept. of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Technologies
  • Renee Cheng, University of Minnesota School of Architecture
  • Ruth Connell, Morgan State University Dept. of Architecture
  • Karen Fairbanks, Barnard College and Columbia University Chair of Architecture
  • Gayle Nicoll, University of Texas, San Antonio Department of Architecture
  • Dagmar Richter, Cornell University Dept. of Architecture
  • Heather Roberge, University of California, Los Angeles Dept. of Architecture (Assoc. Vice Chair)
  • Ashley Schafer, Ohio State University Architecture Section Head
  • Kate Schwennsen, Clemson University School of Architecture
  • Judith Sheine, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Dept. of Architecture
  • Christine O. Theodoropoulos, University of Oregon Dept. of Architecture
  • Lynnette Widder, Rhode Island School of Design Dept. Head of Architecture

Women Leaders in Landscape Architecture

  • Lauri Macmillan Johnson, University of Arizona Director of Graduate Landscape Architecture,
    Past Director, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning