Full-Time Faculty

Visiting and Part-Time Faculty

John Becker                                         Christie Lear

Stephen Brown                                     Kim Martin

Suzanne Carney                                   Dick Overton

Sean Cottengim                                    Kip Ping

Josh Frick                                            Randy Stephens

Whitney Hamaker                                 Raffi Tomassian

Brice Hamill                                         Amanda Woltjer

Robert Benson

• Professor

Education

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

Contact

• phone: (513) 529-7273
• e-mail: bensonra@muohio.edu

John Blake

• Coordinator of Community Projects, Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
• Design Build Studio Instructor

 Education

• BA Miami University
• M. Arch Miami University

Contact

• e-mail: blakeja@muohio.edu
• phone: (513) 330-1712

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

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

Cincinnati Professor of Community Engagement, 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

Diane Fellows teaches architectural design and theory with a focus on issues of place-making and visual culture, specifically the juncture of cinema and architectural processes and design within the undergraduate and graduate areas of the department of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University. Fellows began her career as a photographer (BFA, Philadelphia College of Art / University of the Arts) and received her Master in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in video, performance, and drawing. She continued her work at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Rockefeller Fellow, and, in 1992, received her Master in Architecture, from the University of Oregon. Prior to joining Miami University in 2002, Fellows was a project designer for Ellerbe Becket Ltd working on diverse national and international projects from health-care to large public and privately funded sports entertainment venues.
    Fellows is currently working on a series of films, stories, and essays titled “TopoNarratives” that concern personal and public spaces of migration. Her short films have been presented in diverse national international venues concerned with aesthetics, urban design and planning, holocaust studies, and new media. Short films “TopoNarratives 1-4” and “the Alley” are currently in international distribution film. “the Alley” is a finalist award winner in the New York Festivals Awards 2008.
    For a companion essay to “TopoNarratives 1-4” see: Fellows, Diane “Erasure: Temporality and the Second Generation” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 33, Number 4, December 2009, pp. 1045-1056.
    Fellows is the department’s coordinator for the exchange program with Fachhochschule Rosenheim, University of Applied Sciences, Rosenheim, Germany

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

Mr. Humphries is a visual artist and designer focusing on translating one media form to another. The creative work takes the form of watercolor drawings, carved wooden slabs, automatic poems, and multi-layered sounds. The subject of these studies are the desert southwest, a personal narrative coded in a tragic greek myth, and indigenous plant life. Currently directing graphic media at Miami University within the School of Fine Arts and living nearly off of the “food-grid” in urban Cincinnati, John has worked as a designer of architecture and other environments; including entertainment design in the US and Asia and recently awarded the Texas Society of Architect Studio Honor Award for watercolour drawings extending the relationship of drawing, representation, and building. Dissemination of creative works has been through several exhibitions, panel member as design reviewer, and presentations at national conferences. Among these were an exhibition and presentation at Hochschule in Rosenheim Germany, many presentations of work at the National Conference on the Beginning Design student, and a forthcoming presentation and exhibition at the Interior Design Educators Council for work allied with The National Creative Research Award for images related to the artists personal narrative titled: “of mud, Earth, or Nothing”.

Current gallery representation is with the Phyllis Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio found here http://www.philliswestongallery.com.

links to sites
drawing from the southwest summer travel seminar to study the desert landscape
BORGK design research into sound, vision, the human figure and representation.
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

Nazanin Khodadad                                

• Assistant Professor

Education 

• M. Arch., University of Cincinnati
• B.S. Interior Design, University of Cincinnati

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

Mary Rogero

• Assistant Professor

Education 

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

John Weigand is Professor and Chair in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at Miami University (Ohio). He earned architectural degrees at Miami and at the University of Illinois and worked professionally in Chicago from 1980 to 1991, prior to teaching. At Miami, Weigand developed the BFA in Interior Design (1995) and directed the BFA program until 2006. He remains active in national interior architecture initiatives. He is a current member of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) Board of Directors, has served on the IIDA Strategic Planning Committee, co-chaired the 2003 Body of Knowledge Conference in Washington DC, and has participated in numerous national programs addressing collaborative design education and practice. Weigand chaired the 2006 Interior Design Educator Council (IDEC) white paper committee on Graduate Education (Journal of Interior Design, 2007). He is author of The Nature of Design, an interdisciplinary text on design fundamentals, which received the AIGA Award of Merit in 2004, and is a contributor to Schools that Learn (Senge, 2000). In 2001, he was awarded the NCARB Prize for creative integration of practice and education in the academy, for his work with collaborative, internet-based design. Weigand is also the 1999 winner of Miami’s Crossan Hayes Curry “Effective Educator Award.”

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