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:
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Phone: 608-890-4854
Yuhang Li
Position title: Faculty Director of Material Culture; Associate Professor of Chinese Art, Department of Art History
Email:
yuhang
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
Phone: 608-262-2015
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
Phone: 608-890-3704
Staff
Carolyn H. Jenkinson
Position title: Collections Manager
Email:
jenkinson
Phone: 608-262-3606
Bo Owen
Position title: Engagement Manager for Exhibitions & Programs
Email:
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Phone: 608-262-8815
Laura Sims Peck
Position title: Senior Operations Manager
Email:
laura.peck
Phone: 608-262-1162
Sophie Pitman
Position title: Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director
Email:
spitman
Phone: 608-262-3623
Affiliated Faculty
Anna Andrzejewski
Position title: Professor of American Art and Architecture; Centennial Chair
Email:
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Jennifer Angus
Position title: Professor of Design Studies, Kay Vaughan Faculty Fellow of Design + Innovation, Design Studies Department
Email:
jrangus
Phone: 608-263-3122
Jill Casid
Position title: Professor of Visual Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art History
Email:
jhcasid
Phone: 608-265-0136
Samuel Dennis
Position title: Senior Academic Faculty and Administrator, Design Studies Department
Email:
samuel.dennis
Marianne Fairbanks
Position title: Associate Professor, Textiles and Fashion Design, Design Studies Department
Email:
mfairbanks
Phone: 608-890-3327
Mitch Frank
Position title: Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department
Email:
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Phone: 608-262-4519
Brooke Godfrey
Position title: Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department
Email:
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Erin Hamilton
Position title: Assistant Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department
Email:
ehamilton
Phone: 608-261-1003
Mary Hark
Position title: Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department
Email:
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Phone: 608-262-1367
Elizabeth Hooper-Lane
Position title: Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department
Email:
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Cynthia Jasper
Position title: Vaughan Bascom Professor of Women and Philanthropy, Civil Society and Community Studies Department
Email:
crjasper
Phone: 608-262-2384
Carolyn Kallenborn
Position title: Professor Emerit, Design Studies Department
Email:
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Maria Kurutz
Position title: Teaching Faculty Emerit, Design Studies Department
Email:
kurutz
Kristin Litzelman
Position title: Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
Email:
litzelman
Phone: 608-262-3314
Kevin Ponto
Position title: Associate Professor, Textiles and Fashion Design, Design Studies Department
Email:
kevin.ponto
Phone: 608-265-3958
Lesley Sager
Position title: Teaching Faculty Emerit, Design Studies Department
Email:
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Majid Sarmadi
Position title: Audrey Rothermel Bascom Professor Emerit, Design Studies Department
Email:
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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
Phone: (608) 263-2900
Ann Smart Martin
Position title: Stanley and Polly Stone (Chipstone) Professor Emeritus of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture, Department of Art History
Email:
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Uchita Vaid
Position title: Assistant Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department
Email:
uvaid
Phone: 608-265-5209
Mengni Zhang
Position title: Assistant Professor of Design Studies, Design Studies Department
Email:
mzhang574
Phone: 608-262-7319
Affiliated Graduate Students
Danielle Burke
Position title: PhD Student, Design Studies Department
Email:
danielle.burke
Travis Olson
Credentials: PhD Candidate
Position title: PhD Candidate, Department of Art History
Phone: tdolson@wisc.edu
Honorary Fellows
Gianofer Fields
Position title: Honorary Fellowship
Advisory Committees
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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
Danielle Burke – PhD Candidate in Design Studies Department
Textile Collection Committee
Jenny Angus – Professor of Design Studies, Kay Vaughan Faculty Fellow of Design + Innovation
Barbara Borders – center/collection supporter
Dr. Sarah Anne Carter – Center for Design and Material Culture Executive Director, Associate Professor in Design Studies
Erin Dowding – Design Studies PhD student, Jane Graff Textiles Project Assistant
Carolyn Jenkinson – Collections 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
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
Marianne Fairbanks – Associate Professor, Design Studies Department, UW-Madison
Brooke Godfrey – Teaching Faculty, Design Studies Department, UW-Madison
Bo Owen – Engagement Manager for Exhibitions and Programs
Lars Shimabukuro – MFA Student in Design Studies
Mengni Zhang – Assistant Professor of Design Studies