Landscape Institute
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Faculty
Teaching at the Landscape Institute
Individuals interested in teaching at the Landscape Institute may contact Ann Greaney-Williams, Administrative Coordinator at 617.495.8632 or email landscape@arnarb.harvard.edu for additional information.
Current Faculty
Forms that may be of use to faculty members.
The following is a list of the current faculty of the Landscape Institute. Not all faculty members teach every semester.
John H. Alexander III ALB, biology, Harvard Extension School; plant propagator, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University since 1976; third-generation nurseryman; fellow and Award of Merit recipient, Eastern Region of the International Plant Propagator’s Socitey; recipient, Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Jackson Dawson Medal; speaks and writes on the subjects: lilacs, and plant propagation, most recently in “Collecting Sweetgum in the Wilds of Missouri,” Arnoldia (2008); and instructor, Arnold Arboretum’s Educational Programs; member of the International Lilac Society after having served several terms on the Board of Directors.
Phyllis Andersen MS, Simmons College; Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe College; former director, Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies of the Arnold Arboretum; landscape historian and urban landscape consultant.
Patricia Bales van Buskirk MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, architecture, University of Virginia; principal, Tricia Bales Landscape Design, Hingham, Massachusetts; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts.
Sandra A. Brock LEED® AP; BS, civil engineering, University of Lowell; professional engineer, project manager, Nitsch Engineering, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
Catherine Cardamone Master of Urban Affairs, Boston University; horticulturist and park designer, Town of Natick; owner, Verde Plantscape Design; former director, Urban Environmental Practices Program; former faculty, Roxbury Community College, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jean Cavanaugh MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe College; landscape architect in private practice, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Yo Yi Chen Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe Seminars; BS, biology, University of Texas; owner, Yo Yi Design; native of Shanghai.
Richard Churchill EdD, University of Florida; BS and MS, plant pathology, University of Georgia; AS, horticulture, University of Massachusetts; owner, Churchill Horticultural & Arboricultural Consultants; associate editor, People, Places and Plants; English editor, Hunan Forestry Science & Technology, Changsha, China.
Margie Coffin Brown MLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; BS, plant science, Cornell University; senior project manager, National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation where she prepares cultural landscape reports and preservation maintenance plans for public properties throughout the Northeast.
Nancy S. Coleman MLA, University of Mass-achusetts, Amherst; BS, journalism, Northwestern University; principal, Shaw Design LLC; formerly project manager and lead designer, Halvorson Design Partnership; formerly project designer, Carol R. Johnson Associates; registered landscape architect, Connecticut. Bethany Eisenberg
Bethany Eisenberg LEED® AP; MS, hydrology, University of Rhode Island; BS, plant and soil science, University of Vermont; additional education in civil engineering technology, Northeastern University; technical director for stormwater services, Land Engineering Department, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc.; over 22 years of experience in hydrology, hydraulics, stormwater management and site engineering, member, Massachusetts State Stormwater Advisory Committee.
Laura D. Eisener MLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BA, botany and anthropology, Connecticut College; principal, Laura D. Eisener Landscape Design, Saugus, Massachusetts; associate editor, People, Places and Plants.
Elizabeth Eustis Doctoral candidate, Bard Graduate Center; MA, history of decorative arts, Cooper Hewitt National Museum and Parsons School of Design; AB, comparative literature, Smith College; adjunct curator, New York Botanical Garden library; co-instructor, Bard College; member, steering committee, digital archive of historic garden views, Bard College; specialist in the history of printed garden views and nineteenth-century gardening magazines; collaborator with the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, on an exhibition and catalog, Romanticism in the Garden, opening Spring 2010.
Sally S. Fine MFA, Boston University; BFA, Ohio University; principal, S.S. Fine Design; artist and graphic designer; former Associate Professor of Visual Art, Regis College; currently teaching perspective drawing for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, online division; design work is exhibited locally and internationally; two- and three-dimensional art can be found in numerous national and international museums and collections.
Gina L. Foglia LEED® AP; MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BS, fine art and horticulture, SUNY Empire State College; former visiting lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Department of Architecture; partner, Heimarck & Foglia, LLC.
Steven C. Foster BLA, Michigan State University; principal, Steven C. Foster Landscape Architecture, Watertown, Massachusetts; practicing landscape consultant; member, American Society of Landscape Architects; registered landscape architect in Massachusetts and Michigan.
John F. Furlong MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; former director, Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; board member, COGDesign; cited by the trustees of Radcliffe College as Distinguished Radcliffe Seminars Instructor; fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; recipient, Gold Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society; registered landscape architect.
Kanchi Gandhi PhD, Texas A&M University; recipient, Donovan Stewart Correll Memorial Award, Native Plant Society of Texas (1994); editor, International Plant Name Index, Harvard University Herbaria; former assistant professor, The National College, Bangalore-4, India; nomenclature editor, Flora of North America; member, Committee for the Spermatophyta, International Association for Plant Taxonomy; associate editor, Rhodora, journal of the New England Botanical Club; associate nomenclature editor, Taxon, International Journal of Plant Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Evolution.
Lisa Giersbach LEED® AP; MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, art history and studio art, Grinnell College; instructor, Harvard Career Discovery Program and the Boston Architectural Center; guest lecturer and critic, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Senior Associate, Richard Burck Associates, Inc.; member, American Society of Landscape Architects; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts.
Heather D. Heimarck MLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; BFA, sculpture, University of Michigan; director, Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; principal, HighMark Land Design; former visiting faculty, Rhode Island School of Design and the Boston Architectural Center; former principal instructor for landscape architecture, Harvard University's Career Discovery Program; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts and Rhode Island; recipient, Harvard Webel Prize; merit awards, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Robert C. Hoover MLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; BS environmental design, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; principal, HBLA, Inc.; participated in the establishment and program development of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Healthcare Design Certificate Program.
Elizabeth Igleheart MSHP, Columbia University School of Architecture; former director of landscapes, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; co-curator, “Lost Gardens of New England,” Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; architectural historian and preservation planner.
Alice E. Ingerson PhD, cultural anthropology, Johns Hopkins University; applied history consultant for conservation and urban planning projects; instructor and curriculum coordinator, Environmental Citizenship Academy, University of Massachusetts, Boston; 2002-03 Bullard Fellow, Harvard Forest.
Ann Kearsley MLA, MLAUD, Harvard Graduate School of Design; AB, Dartmouth College, English and comparative literature; owner/principal, Ann Kearsley Design, Portland, Maine; registered landscape architect, Arizona and Maine.
Gary Koller MS, public garden administration, University of Delaware; BS, ornamental horticulture, Pennsylvania State University; AS, landscape design, Temple University; president, Koller and Associates; former assistant director for horticulture, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University; former visiting faculty member, Harvard Graduate School of Design and University of Massachusetts; contributor, Arnoldia, Fine Gardening, and American Nurseryman; recipient, the Julie Morris Award and Gold Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Nicholas P. Landry MArch, Northeastern University; architect, Baker Design Group.
C. H. Leslie Lee MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BLA, University of Toronto; project designer, Martha Schwartz, Inc.; former urban designer, Sasaki Associates, Inc., SWA Group, and Urban Strategies, Inc.; former instructor, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Clare Walker Leslie BA, Carleton College; visiting lecturer, Williams College, Massachusetts College of Art, Antioch University New England, National Audubon Society, and numerous other nature centers and educational institutions; author, The Art of Field Sketching and Nature Drawing: A Tool for Learning; co-author, The Ancient Celtic Festivals: And How We Celebrate Them Today, and Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You.
John Madama BS, environmental science with minor in art, Rutgers University; master’s program, plant and animal physiology, Fairleigh Dickinson University; instructor, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Radcliffe Seminars, and WGBH-TV; author/illustrator, Visual Design and Digital Image Processing (Harvard University and MIT), Desktop Publishing: The Art of Communications (Learner Publications), and co-author/illustrator, Endless Possibilities.
Karen Madsen BA, University of Iowa; graduate studies, Columbia and Harvard Universities;
landscape history consultant; former editor, Arnoldia, magazine of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
Erika Max Certificate in Lansdcape Design, Landscape Institute of Harvard University; BA, English, Wellesley College; landscape supervisor and educational coordinator, Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust, author, the National Register nomination form for the Utica Parks and Parkway Historic District, now listed on both the state and national Registers of Historic Places; apprenticed at the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation.
Dan McAllister MS, geography and business administration, Salem State; BS, more than 10-year span of experience in the green industry ranging from water systems hydraulics, irrigation, and outdoor lighting; principal, Nite Image, Inc.; certification, lighting, CAST lighting Advanced Installation, certification, design, Rutgers University; certification, Unique Lighting Design Mfg. Certification; member, LVLIA (Low-Voltage Lighting Institute Assoc.); member, Designers Lighting Forum of New England; vendor, Boston Society of Landscape Architects.
Eleanor M. McPeck MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, art history, Connecticut College; associate fellow, Silliman College, Yale University; practicing landscape consultant; former visiting lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design and University of California, Berkeley; co-author, Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes (1985); curator, “A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time,” exhibition of drawings by J.B. Jackson, Municipal Art Society; frequent contributor to Landscape Architecture and other landscape publications.
Marty Michener PhD, biology, Harvard University; BS, biology, Cornell University; president, MIST Software Associates; consultant, AMRO Environ-mental Laboratories; former adjunct professor, Antioch University New England; former executive director, New England Institute for Environmental Studies; principal investigator, National Cooperative Highway Research Program’s Remote Sensing and Other Technology for the Identification and Classification of Wetlands, FY '92, Phases 1 and 2; former field coordinator, Wetland Studies for Add-A-Lane Project, Route 3, Massachusetts Department of Highways & Fay, Spofford & Thorndike; author of the Wetland Site Index method and Enjoy Birds software.
Charlie Miller MS, civil engineering, University of Utah; MS, geology and geophysics, University of Utah; BS, Chemistry, College of William & Mary; registered professional engineer, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey; professional Geologist: Virginia; principal, Roofscapes, Inc.; member, American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Subcommittee on Sustainability-Buildings; member, Technical Advisory Committee, Center for Green Roof Research, Pennsylvania State University; member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); co-chair, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, Stormwater Management Committee; author, “Blue-Green Practices: Why They Work and Why They Have Been So Difficult to Implement Through Public Policy,” Growing Greener Cities, Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (2008); Methodology for the Design of Vegetated Roof Covers, Proceedings of the 1999 International Water Resource Engineering Conference, ASCE, Seattle, WA; “ Vegetated Roof Covers,” A New Method for Controlling Runoff in Urbanized Areas (1998); and Pennsylvania Handbook of Best Management Practices for Developing Areas (1998).
Jeff Pankin MS, education, SUNY Albany; MA Computers in education, Lesley University;
BA, SUNY Albany; senior IT training consultant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; teaches web publishing classes, designer, commercial and professional websites.
Susan Pashman Certificate in Landscape Design, Landscape Institute of Harvard University; MPhil, Columbia University; BA, philosophy, New York University; JD, Brooklyn Law School; former faculty, Adelphi University; former assistant dean, Douglass College of Rutgers University; author, The Speed of Light (1997) and several short stories; directed a grant-funded humanities program about changing suburban life to better meet women's needs.
Marion Pressley MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BLA and BS, State University of New York, Syracuse; fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Pressley Associates, Inc.; instructor, Rhode Island School of Design; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania; chair, Massachusetts Registration Board for Landscape Architects; recipient, Gold Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society; honor and merit awards in design, Boston Society of Landscape Architects.
Walter Punch MLS, Simmons College; MA, University of Massachusetts; director, alumni library, and adjunct faculty, Wentworth Institute of Technology; former head librarian, Massachusetts Horticultural Society; general editor, Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America (1992).
Priscilla Randall MLA, University of Virginia; principal, Randall & Rich Registered Landscape Architects; former visiting faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Louisiana, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; lecturer, Smithsonian Institution in Thailand and Mairie de Paris Département des Parcs et Espaces Verts; major seawall project (Arc Seawalls), Massachusetts.
Philip Reidy MS, civil engineering/geotechnology, Northeastern University; BS, civil engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; registered professional engineer in Massachusetts; over ten years practicing primarily heavy-construction geotechnical engineering at GZA GeoEnvironmental and seven years in facilities management at Fidelity Investments; founded, Rainwater Recovery Inc.; lecturer on rainwater harvesting and stormwater management at regional and national conferences and symposia.
Todd Richardson MLA, University of Massa-chusetts, Amherst; principal, Richardson & Associates, Inc., Saco, Maine; cited by the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as Distinguished Radcliffe Seminars Instructor; former instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts, and Bowdoin College; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts and Maine; merit awards in design and planning, Boston Society of Architects.
Carly Rocklen MS, natural resources and environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; BA, music, Tufts University; BA, environmental science, Tufts University; outreach director and restoration manager, Neponset River Watershed Association; manager, five-year collaboration project for biological control of purple loosestrife; internship in environmental planning, public outreach, and biological fieldwork; volunteer work in rare plant conservation and environmental education.
Marcus Quigley MS, civil and environmental engineering, Oregon State University; BS, environmental engineering, University of Notre Dame; senior civil and environmental engineer, Geosyntec Consultants; recognized as a national technical leader in stormwater best management practice (BMP) design, research and development, modeling, data analysis, and field data acquisition; provides technical leadership and project management for the International Stormwater Best Management Practices project; co-author, "Urban Stormwater BMP Performance Monitoring – A Guidance Manual for Meeting the National Stormwater BMP Database Requirements," (2002) and updated manual that incorporates Low Impact Development (2008); co-author, several BMP selection guidance manuals including "Evaluation of Best Management Practices for Highway Runoff Control" and the New York State Storm Water Design Standard for Phosphorus Restricted Watersheds (Chapter 10).
Paul E. Rogers BS, Clark University; horticultural consultant; proprietor, Stonehedge Garden Greenhouses; radio commentator and newspaper columnist; recipient, Director's Silver Medal, Worcester County Horticultural Society.
Skip Schiel BS, University of Washington; graduate studies, Tufts University; studied with Minor White; photographed and published environmental series about water, the Great Plains, and California live oaks; freelance photographer, Teeksa Photography.
Ellen Schneider MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, biology, Williams College; landscape project manager, City of Somerville, Massachusetts; former principal instructor of landscape architecture, Harvard University’s Career Discovery Program; former studio instructor and critic, Boston Architectural College.
Richard C. Schulhof MS, public horticulture, University of Delaware’s Longwood Graduate Program; MS, forestry, Harvard University; BLA, University of California, Berkeley; deputy director, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; former executive director, Descanso Gardens, California; currently conducting research on management responses to hemlock wooly adelgid and associated forest disturbance.
Chuck Sherzi, Jr. BS, plant and soil science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; AS, horticulture, Massachusetts Bay Community College; graduate studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; landscape design studies, Radcliffe Seminars; member, COGDesign Advisory Board; certified arborist, International Society of Arboriculture and Massachusetts Arborist Association; certified horticulturist, Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association; organic land care professional, Northeast Organic Farm Association (NOFA); certified soil foodweb advisor, Soil Foodweb, Inc.
Marie Stella MA, history, New York University; MS, management, Lesley College; certificates, Radcliffe Seminars Landscape Design and Landscape Design History Program, Radcliffe College; adjunct faculty, New York Botanical Garden, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, The Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and Cooper Union; landscape historian and designer.
Judith B. Tankard MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; BA, art history, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; architectural historian; editor, Journal of the New England Garden History Society; author, The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman (Sagapress/Abrams, 1997); co-author, A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony (TenSpeed, 2000), and Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood (Sagapress, 1996); recipient, Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association and Gold Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Will Trimble MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Bachelor of Industrial Design, North Carolina State University; project designer, Richard Burck Associates; instructor, Boston Architectural College.
Paul van Broekhoven BSEE, Syracuse University; MBA, Northeastern University; Certificate in Landscape Design, Landscape Institute of Harvard University; member, American Society of Landscape Architects; practicing engineer, engineering manager, and entrepreneur for 35 years; holder of five United States patents.
Roger L. Washburn MLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BA, environmental design, University of Washington; landscape architect, Roger Washburn Landscape Architecture, Somerville, Massachusetts; former landscape architect, The Architects Collaborative, Cambridge, Massachusetts; adjunct faculty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; recipient, Boston Society of Landscape Architects design awards.
Michael Wasser MLA, University of Virginia; BLA, University of Minnesota; founding partner of Hines/Wasser + Associates, Boston; visiting critic, Rhode Island School of Design; faculty and thesis advisor, Boston Architectural College; certified by the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards; registered landscape architect in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Minnesota.
V. Michael Weinmayr MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BSLA, Penn State University;
fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Weinmayr Associates, Inc.; registered landscape architect; co-author, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (University of Massachusetts Press, 1968); award recipient, Distinguished Alumni/ae, One Hundred Years of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University 1900-2000.
Catherine Wiersema MBA, Simmons College; Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe Seminars; principal, Boussard Garden Design; former associate professor of management in strategy, leadership, and marketing, Simmons Graduate School of Management.
Louise J. Wolfe MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; JD, New York University School of Law; BA, Cornell University; attorney, writer, and nonprofit manager with experience in visual arts; landscape research studies, including river restoration, estuarine restoration, Finnish landscape theory and the work of Reima Pietila, and information-sharing among American nonprofit river protection programs.
Crystal Woodward PhD, art psychotherapy, The Union Institute; MFA, painting, Pratt Institute;
MA, art psychotherapy, Goddard College; BFA, painting, Syracuse University; exhibitions, France, Germany, and the United States; former instructor, Sarah Lawrence College and the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Cynthia Zaitzevsky PhD, art history, Harvard University; consultant, architectural and landscape history; author, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System (Harvard University Press, 1982); frequent contributor to journals of architectural and landscape history.