Landscape Institute
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.
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.
Sandra A. Brock BS, civil engineering, University of Lowell; project manager, Judith 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 College; 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 Consul-tants; associate editor, People, Places and Plants magazine; English editor, Hunan Forestry Science & Technology, Changsha, China.
Nancy S. Coleman MLA, University of Massachusetts, 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.
Stan Edelson MA, psychology, Beacon College; scholarship student at the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; instructor, Massachusetts College of Art, Lesley College, and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education; practicing creative artist for over fifty years; director, playwright, and acting instructor.
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 magazine.
Gursan Ergil Certificate in Design Management, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Certificates in Landscape Design and Landscape Design History Program in Landscape Institute of Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University; BSC, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul; practicing landscape historian and designer in the United States and Turkey.
Elizabeth Eustis Doctoral candidate, Bard Graduate Center; MA, history of decorative arts, Cooper Hewitt National Museum and Parsons School of Design; AB in 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.
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; cited by the trustees of Radcliffe College as Distinguished Radcliffe Seminars Instructor; fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; recipient, Gold Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society; practicing 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.
Charles A. Hammond PhD, American and New England Studies: Architectural History and the History of Landscape Design, Boston University; instructor, Pine Manor College and the Boston Architectural Center; founder and CEO, Charles of Boston; landscape historian, consultant, and designer.
Barry Hannegan PhD Art History, Institute of Fine Arts; Certificate in Museum Practice, Metropolitan Museum of Art; former director, Historic Landscape Preservation, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation; adjunct faculty, graduate program in landscape studies, Chatham College, Pittsburgh.
Heather 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.
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; 2002-2003 Bullard Fellow, Harvard Forest.
Ann Kearsley MLA, MLAUD, Harvard Graduate School of Design; AB, Dartmouth College (English & 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/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, Massa-chusetts 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; editor, Arnoldia, magazine of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
Amy Martin MSW, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Certificate in Landscape Design, Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; art studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; landscape designer in private practice, Scituate, Massachusetts.
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 Environmental Laboratories; former adjunct professor, Antioch New England Graduate School; 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, Phase 1 and 2; former field coordinator, Wetland Studies for Add-A-Lane Project, Route 3, Massachusetts Depart-ment of Highways & Fay, Spofford & Thordike; author of the Wetland Site Index method and Enjoy Birds software.
Bici Pettit-Barron MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; M. Mus., New England Conservatory of Music; studies in drawing, Boston University and Ruskin School, Oxford University; AB, Radcliffe College; former director, Radcliffe Seminars Program in Landscape Design; exhibits in Cambridge, Maine, and Puerto Rico.
Jeff Pankin MS Education, SUNY Albany; MA Computers in Education, Lesley University; BA, SUNY Albany; Senior IT Training Consultant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaches web publishing classes and consults on department sites, designer of commercial and professional web sites.
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, Massa-chusetts 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 faculty Radcliffe Seminars, former visiting faculty Rhode Island School of Design, University of Louisiana, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; lecturer, Smithsonian Instit-ution in Thailand and Mairie de Paris Departement des Parcs et Espaces vertes; Major seawall project (Arc Seawalls), Massachusetts.
Todd Richardson MLA, University of Massachusetts, 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.
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.
Chuck Sherzi, Jr. BS, plant and soil science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; AS, horticulture, Massachusetts Bay Community College; graduate studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; landscape design studies, Radcliffe Seminars; 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.
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.
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.
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 at the Rhode Island School of Design; faculty and thesis advisor, Boston Architectural College; CLARB certified; registered landscape architect in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Minnesota.
Holly Weeks MA equivalent, University of Edinburgh; AB, English and American literature, Harvard University; principal, WritingWorks SpeakingWorks; instructor, Harvard University, Harvard Negotiation Project, Emerson College, and the Madeira School; author, Getting Through (Harvard Business School Press); cited by the president of Radcliffe College as Distinguished Radcliffe Seminars Instructor; co-taught, Atlanta University; evaluator, Management Communication Program, Harvard Business School; initiated professional development program, Doyle Dane Bernbach Advertising Agency.
V. Michael Weinmayr MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BSLA, Penn State University; registered landscape architect; fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; private practice, Weinmayr Associates, Inc.; 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 College; principal, Boussard Garden Design; former associate professor of management in strategy, leadership, and marketing, Simmons Graduate School of Management.
Benjamin T. Williams BArch, Boston Architectural Center; studied fine art at Greenfield Community College; practicing architect and interior designer as project manager for the Baker Design Group; previous projects include the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, the Cross Town development, and Azmara Nation Hospital; recipient, Glassman Travel Scholarship.
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.