Full-Time Faculty

Visiting and Part-Time Faculty

Bartley, Elizabeth

Becker, John

Blake, John

Clark, Daniel

Conboy, Dianna

Faehnle, Amanda

Hamaker, Whitney

Hill, Kimberly

Lear, Christie

Ramer, Brian

Stephens, Randy

Weipking Distinguished Professor

Ward, Dr. Anthony

Robert Benson

• Professor

Education

• Ph.D. University of Michigan
• M.A. University of Michigan
• B.A. University of Kansas

Contact

• e-mail: bensonra@muohio.edu

Mary Ben Bonham 

• Assistant Professor

Education

• M. Arch. University of Pennsylvania, School of Fine Arts
• B.Arch. University of Texas, School of Architecture

Contact

• phone: (513) 529-2840
• e-mail: bonhammb@muohio.edu

Mary Ben Bonham teaches Design and Environmental Technology in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at Miami University. She is former adjunct faculty with the Boston Architectural College and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
In teaching, Bonham promotes the learning of design methodologies, interaction with other disciplines, and an integrated approach to building technology that engages place, form, materiality and use. She believes that design practice today requires direct responses to the global imperative for sustainable design and construction practices.
A registered Architect (Kentucky) and LEED Accredited Professional, Bonham has practiced architecture in Texas, Kentucky and Massachusetts, and had an internship in Paris, France. Through twelve years in practice with Prellwitz Chilinski Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she served a diverse client group in the design and management of wide array of academic, commercial and residential projects. Her creative work portfolio includes a historic preservation award for the renovation of a historic house for a community center use, prototype design for the repositioning of several national restaurant chains, master plans for state college student centers, and numerous urban adaptive reuse projects in metropolitan Boston.
Bonham’s personal research focuses on sustainable design, innovations in building technology and contemporary French Architecture. She currently serves as the chair of the department’s Technology Committee.

Gerardo Brown-Manrique

• Professor / Coordinator, Urban Design Minor
• Coordinator, CDAG

Education

• M. Arch Cornell University
• B. Arch Rensselaer P.I.
• B.S. Building Sciences Rennselaer

Contact

• phone: (513) 529-7222
• e-mail: brownmg@muohio.edu

Denette Callahan

• Visiting Professor

Education

• B.S. Interior Design Miami University

Contact

• phone: (513) 529-7210
• e-mail: callahde@muohio.edu

Gülen Çevik

• Director, Interior Design

Education

• M.S.Arch. University of Cincinnati
• B.S. Interior Arch. Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey

Contact

• e-mail: cevikg@muohio.edu

Thomas Dutton

Professor, Chief Departmental Advisor, Director of the Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
1300 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Department of Architecture
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056

• Master of Architecture and Urban Design, 1977, Washington University
• Bachelor of Architecture, 1975, California Polytechnic State University

Contact

• phone: (513) 529-6445
• e-mail: duttonta@muohio.edu

Thomas A. Dutton is an architect and professor of architecture and interior design at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is co-editor (with Lian Hurst Mann) of Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and editor of Voices in Architectural Education: Cultural Politics and Pedagogy (South Hadley, MA.: Bergin and Garvey, 1991). His research focuses on the connections between critical pedagogy, architectural education, and urban theory and social practice. He has published in such journals as the "Journal of Architectural Education" (JAE), "Designer/Builder," "Rethinking Marxism," "The Nation," and "Z Magazine."

He has twice served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The first was as the East Central Regional Director (1995-98), and the second as Treasurer (1999-2001). He was a member of the editorial board of the JAE from 1989-99 and helped guest edit special editions on critical pedagogy, postmodern pedagogy, and housing and architecture. He served as the journal's Associate Editor for book reviews from 1995-99.

Dutton has received many awards for his teaching, including the ACSA's Creative Achievement Award (1990) for his sustained contributions to architectural design education and his creative use of the design studio; the Crossan Hays Curry Distinguished Educator Award from Miami University's School of Fine Arts (1996); and more recently he has been recognized by the Neighborhood Design Corporation of Cincinnati for the accomplishments of the Over-the-Rhine Design/Build Studio (1999, 2005).

Dutton is also director of Miami University's Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, which offers opportunities for faculty, student, and community learning in inner-city Cincinnati. He has been active in the Over-the-Rhine People's Movement for twenty-four years. He and his students design and rehabilitate housing for low- and moderate-income people there.

J.E. Elliott

• Instructor / Coordinator, Recruiting & Alumni Affairs

Education

• B. Arch Miami University
• Architectural Association (London)

Contact

• phone (513) 529-2484
• e-mail elliotje@muohio.edu

Diane Fellows

• Associate Professor

Education

• M. Arch University of Oregon
• M.F.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.F.A. Philadelphia College of Art

Contact

• phone (513) 529-6447
• e-mail fellowd@muohio.edu

Craig Hinrichs

• Associate Professor / Director, Architecture Graduate Studies / Internship Coordinator 

Education

• M. Phil. Manchester University, U.K.
• B.S. University of Nebraska



Contact

• phone (513) 529-7036
• e-mail hinriccl@muohio.edu

John Humphries

• Assistant Professor / Graphics coordinator

Education

• M. Arch University of Texas, Arlington
• B.S. University of Texas, Arlington

Contact

• phone (513) 529-7036
• e-mail humphrjm@muohio.edu

links to sites

visual arts represented at the phyllis weston-annie bolling gallery
drawing from the southwest summer travel seminar to study the desert landscape
research garden a work in progress starting to link growing, music, and painting
studies for foundation design courses a collage of begining design studio projects

Ben Jacks

• Associate Professor

Education

• M. Arch. University of Pennslyvania
• B.A. University of Chicago

Contact

• phone (513) 529-4916
• e-mail jacksbm@muohio.edu

    Ben Jacks is an architect, writer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, where he teaches Design and Human Behavior, Research Methods, and studio design. His research focuses on the perception and experience of environment and place. He is especially interested in the connections between the everyday built environment and design aesthetics.
    In teaching, Jacks is particularly interested in helping students to develop their own design processes, and to take responsibility for their own learning. See (link to Statement of Teaching Philosophy)
    Journal publications include “Walking and Reading in Landscape,” Landscape Journal, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, Fall, 2007); “Walking the City: Manhattan Projects,” Places: A Forum of Environmental Design, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 18:2, June 2006; and “Reimagining Walking: Four Practices,” Journal of Architectural Education, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 57:3, February, 2004. He has published and presented approximately twenty-five conference papers.
    He currently serves as the department’s faculty councilor to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
    In 1991 he walked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Recently he became a student at the Stonecoast Brief-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing (for Non-Fiction) at the University of Southern Maine. He is currently writing a book about walking and the built environment.

Links & Downloads
Article: "Walking the City: Manhattan Projects," published in Places 18:1, Spring 2006

Catalog: “Walking, Poems, and Buildings,” Poets House, New York, January-March, 2005

Poets House - Installation, New York, 2005 (.mov)
A Discussion About "Walking, Poems, and Buildings," published in Romantic Pedagogies Commons, January 2005
Download "Building, Teaching, Research" file
Download "Student Work-Multidisciplinary Design Studio" file
- Catalog: Ben Jacks, Everyday Architecture, Cage Gallery, 2001
On Teaching and Learning (.pdf)


Scott Johnston

• Associate Professor / Director, Center For Building Science Research

Education

• M. Arch. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• B.E.D. Miami University

Contact

• phone (513) 529-7041
• e-mail johnstsa@muohio.edu

Murali Paranandi

• Associate Professor

Education

• M. Arch., CAAD Ohio State University
• M. Arch. Design Kent State University
• B. Arch. J. N. Tech University / India

Contact

• phone (513) 529-7086
• e-mail paranam@muohio.edu

John Reynolds

• Associate Professor 

Education

• M. Arch. University of Virginia
• B. Arch. University of Notre Dame
• Rome Studies University of Notre Dame

Contact

• phone (513) 529-7058
• e-mail reynoljm@muohio.edu

Sergio Sanabria

• Associate Professor 

Education

• Ph.D. Princeton University
• M.A. University of Colorado
• B. Arch. University of Colorado
• B.A. University of Colorado

Contact

• phone (513) 529-6426
• e-mail sanabrsl@muohio.edu

John Weigand

Professor / Chair,  Department of Architecture and Interior Design

• Education
• M. Arch. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• B.E.D. Miami University

Contact

• phone (513) 529-4903
• e-mail weiganjb@muohio.edu

Ted Wong

• Shopist



Education

• B.Arch. University of Minnesota
• B.E.D. University of Minnesota Certificate of Fine Woodworking College of the Redwoods 



Contact

• phone (513) 529-7242
• e-mail: wongtw@muohio.edu