LARC Faculty

We hope you will consider joining us in protecting and restoring sensitive and critical environments, and creating socially equitable, ecologically sustainable, and economically viable landscapes.

Our faculty have a wide variety of educational backgrounds (landscape architecture, art, biology, plant science, environmental planning, city and regional planning, and geography) and academic and professional experiences. Our collaborative scholarship, creative research, innovative teaching, and service reinforce an interdisciplinary and systems approach to design, planning, and management that are the hallmark of landscape architectural practice. We stress the importance of solving problems responsibly and imaginatively. The studio experience engages students in the process of creating comprehensive alternatives for real and hypothetical design interventions in cultural and natural landscapes.

People

Contact information	Research Focus
Christopher Ellis, Ph.D., PLA, ASLA Professor email: cdellis@umd.edu \| room: PLS 2144 \| phone: 301.405.7782	Landscape performance Sustainable development Landscape ecology Environmental perception Information technology for landscape planning and design
Byoung-Suk Kweon, Ph.D., PLA Professor email: kweonb@umd.edu \| room: PLS 2140 \| phone: 301.405.4341	Environmental behavior Environment and health School and children’s environments Landscape performance Environmental justice Urban Agriculture
David Myers, Ph.D., PLA, ASLA Director and MLA Program Chair Associate Professor email: dnmyers@umd.edu \| room: PLS 2146 \| phone: 301.405.4350 \| skype: david.myers.asla	Forest conservation Landscape ecology Green infrastructure and community greening Greenway planning and design
Deni Ruggeri, Ph.D. Associate Professor & BLA Program Chair email: druggeri@umd.edu \| room: PLS 2136 \| phone: 301.405.0229	landscape democracy & right-to-landscape community participation and co-design place identity and attachment engaged scholarship and pedagogy social factors in urban design and livability Bottom up community development processes

Contact Information	Research Focus
Allen Davis Professor email:apdavis@umd.edu \| room: EGR 1151 \| phone: 301.405.1958	Water quality and physiochemical treatment processes Urban storm water quality characterization and treatment Fundamental and applied research on stormwater control measures Development of media and designs for enhanced stormwater quality improvement
Peter May Assistant Research Professor email: pimay@umd.edu \| room: ANS 1426 \| phone: 301.405.1198	Ecosystem Ecology Ecology and Natural Resource Management Carbon Management
David Tilley Associate Professor email: dtilley@umd.edu \| room: ANS 1421 \| phone: 301.405.8027	Ecological Technology, Engineering, Design, & Modeling Energy and water balance of living architecture Green walls
Jana VanderGoot Associate Professor email: jvanderg@umd.edu \| room: ARC 1206 \| phone: 301. 405.4005	Urban development Principles and methods of site analysis

Contact Information	Research Focus
Sherry Russell Lecturer (LARC151) email: slr2020@umd.edu	Landscape performance Economic effects of community managed open spaces and parks Practice business strategy
John Wray Lecturer (LARC321 & LARC721); HOK email: jwrayiv@umd.edu
Caren Yglesias, Ph.D., AIA, Affil. ASLA Lecturer (LARC263 & LARC470/670); Architect; author of the recent book, Desert Gardens of Steve Martino (Monacelli, 2018) email: caren@umd.edu
Shihua Wang Lecturer email: shihua@umd.edu	Experience in city planning and site design International experience in China, Korea and Middle East Expertise in graphic illustration as well as layout and color design
Colleen Vacelet, LEED AP, ASLA Lecturer (LARC 160) & President of Intreegue email: cbathon@umd.edu	Sustainable Design Planting Design Building and landscape integration

Contact Information	Research Focus
Ann Anderson Lecturer with 20+ years of landscape architectural office practice specializing in graphic communication and planting design
James Westwater Ph.D Lecturer (LARC489R, LARC620, LARC689C)	Art + design Land art Conceptual art Creative spaces
Brenda Iraola, FASLA, PLA, CPSI, CPTED, MRPA Lecturer (LARC 321)	Construction Methods & Materials for Landscape Architectural Design Construction Bid Documents & Specifications Project Management Sustainable Design

Contact Information

Research Focus

Ann Anderson

Lecturer with 20+ years of landscape architectural office practice specializing in graphic communication and planting design

James Westwater Ph.D

Lecturer (LARC489R, LARC620, LARC689C)

Art + design
Land art
Conceptual art
Creative spaces

Brenda Iraola, FASLA, PLA, CPSI, CPTED, MRPA

Lecturer (LARC 321)

Construction Methods & Materials for Landscape Architectural Design
Construction Bid Documents & Specifications
Project Management
Sustainable Design

LARC Faculty

We hope you will consider joining us in protecting and restoring sensitive and critical environments, and creating socially equitable, ecologically sustainable, and economically viable landscapes.

People

Full-time Faculty

Affiliate & Graduate Faculty

Jana VanderGoot

Instructional Faculty

Sherry Russell

John Wray

Caren Yglesias, Ph.D., AIA, Affil. ASLA

Shihua Wang

Colleen Vacelet, LEED AP, ASLA

Recent Visiting Lecturers

Ann Anderson

James Westwater Ph.D

Brenda Iraola, FASLA, PLA, CPSI, CPTED, MRPA