CURRICULUM VITAE June 2019 James L. Wescoat Jr. Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Geography Department of Architecture Co-Director, Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism MIT, Room 10-390, 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 USA 617.253.0567
[email protected] http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/facultycurrent.htm#wescoat Education: Ph.D. The University of Chicago -- Geography (1983). Dissertation: "Integrated Water Development: Water Use and Conservation Practice in Western Colorado." M.A. The University of Chicago -- Geography (1979). Thesis: “Naturalistic Plantings in the Cultural Landscape.” B.L.A. Louisiana State University – Landscape Architecture (1976). “The Ambiguities of Nature.” Current Aga Khan Professor, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT Position: Co-Director, Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. Department of Architecture, 2008-present. Member of the Architecture and Urbanism group, History, Theory & Criticism group, and Urban Risk Lab. Affiliate faculty member: Department of Urban Studies and Planning research groups: City Design and Development; and Environmental Planning and Policy. Previous Professor and Head, Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Positions: Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2002- 2008. Faculty affiliate: Department of Geography; Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Center on Water as a Complex Environmental System; Institute for the Study of Intensively Managed Landscapes; International Council. Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder. 2000-02. Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, 1999-2002. Associate Professor, 1993-2000; Assistant Professor, 1989-93. Advisory Board, Natural Hazards Research Application and Information Center, 1992-2002. Faculty Associate, Peace and Conflict Studies program, 2000-02.