Design Faculty
Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies (MA + MFA), Interior Architecture
Catherine Anderson has worked at several architecture & interior design firms during her career and now dedicates her time to educating students on understanding architectural concepts. In 2013, Professor Anderson participated with some of the Interior Architecture Program's students in the United States Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
Professional Lecturer, Interaction Design Program
Chamberlaine is a licensed Architect with over ten years of experience across a variety of sectors and scales, but with a heavy focus on adaptive reuse and repositioning projects. Read More
Program Head, Design; Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Exhibition Design
Andrea Dietz is an architect, curator, and writer. Her creative and scholarly practice is focused on “architecture(s) of and on display” – or the translation and exhibition of the built environment. Andrea has worked in architecture research and exhibition design with Bestor Architecture, Chu + Gooding Architects, and independently. Read More
Adjunct Lecturer, Interaction Design Program
Cheyanne is the Chief Strategy Officer at Building Momentum. She has spent years traveling the world teaching warfighters technology to allow them to solve problems faster and cheaper. Read More
Professorial Lecturer, Fine Arts
Professorial Lecturer, Sculpture, Fine Arts Read More
Professorial Lecturer, Studio Arts Program
Denise Grant is a designer that specializes in using the Human-Centered Design Process to produce valuable prototypes that focus on social change. Read More
Assistant Professor and Faculty Advisor, Graphic Design
Aasawari Kulkarni is a designer, educator, and writer, originally from India. By employing tools of language, poetry, and empathy, her work explores the intersection of human behaviour and culture with design.Read More
Adjunct Lecturer, Interaction Design Program
Lauren is an award-winning analyst and designer whose practice includes writing and executing research plans, leading user interviews, hosting usability testing, and creating assets like personas, process and journey maps, service blueprints, and content strategy/migration. Read More
Professorial Lecturer, New Media Photojournalism, Studio Arts Program
Jim Mole, a painter and sculptor by training, is a versatile, deeply knowledgeable Internet strategist and usability advocate with more than twenty-five years of experience in advertising, marketing, web design and development. Read More
Associate Professor Sculpture and Spatial Practices, Studio Arts Program; Graduate Advisor, M.F.A. in Fine Arts and Social Practice
Maria del Carmen Montoya operates in the contested ground between art and social activism. Her primary medium is the communal process of making meaning. As an artist, she seeks ways to catalyze this natural social phenomenon with situations that insist on the power of human-scale intervention in the presumed inevitability of everyday life.Read More
Adjunct Professor, Graphic Design Program
Mr. Park has been a designer and an educator. His professional practice specializes in strategic branding and visual communication.
Interim Program Head of Design; Assistant Professor; Faculty Advisor (undergraduate and graduate), Interaction Design
Kevin Patton is a designer, musician, and creative technologist whose projects often include novel approaches to physical and computational interaction in expressive contexts. His research interests include expressive technological systems, automation and agency, visualization, musical thinking, and human centered design.Read More
Program Administrator, Design Program
Sheila Robinson is the program administrator for the Corcoran School's central office and its Design program. She administers the day to day operations of these programs, working with faculty and other staff to plan events, schedule courses and help students succeed.Read More
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Sam earned a BFA in Communication Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1985 and then together with two classmates, he founded KINETIK.Read More
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Design
Nidhi Singh Rathore is a South Asian designer, researcher, and educator who explores the application of design methodologies to civic engagement and social innovation.Read More
Professional Lecturer, Interaction Design Program
Chloe Varelidi is an award-winning designer, educator and the founder of the DC based design & research studio Humans Who Play. Read More