People

Leadership & Faculty Directors

Sarah Anne Carter

Position title: Executive Director of the Center for Design & Material Culture; Associate Professor in Design Studies, Design Studies Department

Email: scarter5@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-890-4854

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Yuhang Li

Position title: Faculty Director of Material Culture; Associate Professor of Chinese Art, Department of Art History

Email: yuhang@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-263-1175

Marina Moskowitz

Position title: Faculty Director of Textiles, Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Material Culture, and Design, Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department

Email: mmoskowitz@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-2015

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Jung-hye Shin

Position title: Faculty Director of Design, Department Chair and Professor of Design Studies, Faculty Director of the Design Thinking Program, Interior Architecture Program Coordinator, Design Studies Department

Email: jshin9@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-890-3704

Staff

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Carolyn H. Jenkinson

Position title: Collections Manager

Email: jenkinson@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-3606

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Dakota Mace

Position title: Photographer

Email: dmace@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-1162

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Laura Sims Peck

Position title: Operations Manager

Email: laura.peck@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-1162

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Sophie Pitman

Position title: Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director

Email: spitman@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-3623

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Roberto Torres Mata

Position title: Preparator

Email: rtorres4@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-1162

Affiliated Faculty

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Jennifer Angus

Position title: Professor of Design Studies, Kay Vaughan Faculty Fellow of Design + Innovation, Design Studies Department

Email: jrangus@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-263-3122

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Jill Casid

Position title: Professor of Visual Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art History

Email: jhcasid@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-265-0136

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Samuel Dennis

Position title: Senior Academic Faculty and Administrator, Design Studies Department

Email: samuel.dennis@wisc.edu

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Wei Dong

Position title: Professor Emerit, Design Studies Department

Email: weidong@wisc.edu

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Marianne Fairbanks

Position title: Associate Professor, Textiles and Fashion Design, Design Studies Department

Email: mfairbanks@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-890-3327

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Mitch Frank

Position title: Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department

Email: msfrank2@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-4519

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Brooke Godfrey

Position title: Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department

Email: bagodfrey@wisc.edu

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Beverly Gordon, black and white photo of a women at neck length with her hair up smiling at the camera

Beverly Gordon

Position title: Professor Emerit, Design Studies Department

Email: bgordon@wisc.edu

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Erin Hamilton, woman seated wearing a blue shirt with long brown hair and wearing glasses

Erin Hamilton

Position title: Assistant Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department

Email: ehamilton@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-261-1003

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Mary Hark

Position title: Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department

Email: hark@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-1367

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Elizabeth Hooper-Lane

Position title: Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department

Email: ehooperl@wisc.edu

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Cynthia Jasper

Position title: Vaughan Bascom Professor of Women and Philanthropy, Civil Society and Community Studies Department

Email: crjasper@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-262-2384

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Carolyn Kallenborn

Position title: Professor Emerit, Design Studies Department

Email: cmkallen@wisc.edu

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Maria Kurutz

Position title: Teaching Faculty Emerit, Design Studies Department

Email: kurutz@wisc.edu

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Mark Nelson

Position title: Professor Emerit, Design Studies Department

Email: mnelson2@wisc.edu

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Kevin Ponto

Position title: Associate Professor, Textiles and Fashion Design, Design Studies Department

Email: kevin.ponto@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-265-3958

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Lesley Sager

Position title: Teaching Faculty Emerit, Design Studies Department

Email: lhsager@wisc.edu

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Majid Sarmadi

Position title: Audrey Rothermel Bascom Professor Emerit, Design Studies Department

Email: majidsar@wisc.edu

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Jonathan Senchyne

Position title: Associate Professor & Director, Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, The Information School

Email: senchyne@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: (608) 263-2900

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Ann Smart Martin

Position title: Stanley and Polly Stone (Chipstone) Professor Emeritus of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture, Department of Art History

Email: asmartin@wisc.edu

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Uchita Vaid

Position title: Assistant Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department

Email: uvaid@wisc.edu

website bio

Phone: 608-265-5209

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Mengni Zhang

Position title: Assistant Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department

Email: mzhang574@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-7319

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Danielle Burke

Position title: PhD Candidate, Design Studies Department

Email: danielle.burke@wisc.edu

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Maeve Hogan, woman seated wearing a grey top and smiling at the camera

Maeve Hogan

Position title: PhD Candidate, Design Studies Department

Email: mmhogan3@wisc.edu

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Addison Nace

Position title: PhD Candidate, Design Studies Department

Email: ahnace@wisc.edu

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Natalie Wright

Position title: PhD Candidate, Design Studies Deoartment

Email: newright3@wisc.edu

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Advisory Committees

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Center Steering Committee

Dr. Sarah Anne Carter, Center for Design and Material Culture Executive Director, Associate Professor in Design Studies
Yuhang Li – Associate Professor of Chinese Art
Lynn Mecklenburg – CDMC/HLATC Supporter
Dr. Marina Moskowitz – Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Material Culture, and Design
Jonathan Prown – Executive Director and Chief Curator, Chipstone Foundation
Dr. Jung-hye Shin – Chair, Design Studies Department
Maeve Hogan – PhD Candidate in Design Studies Department

 

Textile Collection Committee

Jenny Angus – Professor, Textiles and Fashion Design
Dr. Sarah Anne Carter – Center for Design and Material Culture Executive Director, Associate Professor in Design Studies
Liz Hooper – Lane, Senior Lecturer, Art History Department and Design Studies Department
Carolyn Jenkinson – Collection Manager
Dr. Marina Moskowitz – Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Material Culture, and Design
Dr. Sophie Pitman – Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and Research Director
Sandy Winder – CDMC/HLATC Supporter

Gallery Committee

Anna Campbell – Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, UW-Madison
Dr. Sarah Anne Carter – Center for Design and Material Culture Executive Director, Associate Professor in Design Studies
Emma deVries – Engagement Manager for Exhibitions and Programs
Marianne Fairbanks – Associate Professor, Design Studies Department, UW-Madison
Brooke Godfrey – Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department, UW-Madison