Timothy M. Rohan (Chair & Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, UMass Amherst)

Timothy Rohan is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses upon architecture and design from the mid-twentieth century to the present. He is the author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (Yale, 2014), which includes a chapter about Rudolph’s UMass Dartmouth and related Boston projects. Tim also edited a collection of essays by an international group of scholars about the architect, Reassessing Rudolph (Yale, 2017). Tim has contributed to edited volumes about the Brutalism from the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and TU-Delft. Tim has published articles in journals such as JSAH and Art in America about many other subjects, among them the buildings of Marcel Breuer, disco architecture and interiors. 

Mary Anne Hunting (Architectural Historian)

Mary Anne Hunting is an Architectural Historian Mary Anne Hunting received a PhD from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (2007); a master’s degree in the history of decorative arts from the Copper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Parsons School of Design (1989); and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University (1980). She is the author of Edward Durell Stone: Modernisms Populist Architect (W. W. Norton, 2013) and with Kevin D. Murphy of Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism (Princeton University Press, 2025). She also is a co-contributor to The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (2021), among other projects. 

Sarah Horowitz (PhD candidate at Boston University)

Sarah Horowitz is a PhD candidate studying the history of modern architecture and urbanism. Her dissertation research focuses on the history and architectural development of postwar American performing arts center complexes. Prior to coming to Boston University, she was the curatorial assistant at the Picker Art Gallery and the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, where she organized a number of permanent collection and special exhibitions. Sarah currently serves as the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Kristina Wilson (Chair & faculty of the Visual & Performing Arts at Clark University)

Kristina Wilson serves as chair and faculty member of the Visual & Performing Arts at Clark University. She is an art historian specializing in modern design, modern art, and the history of museums in the United States. She studies how race and gender influence the practice of designers and artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She also examines how identity mediates modernism for the public—whether it be the public that encounters art and design in magazines, or the public that attends art museums. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, including Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design (Princeton University Press 2021). She is currently researching the multi-racial design ecosystem of midcentury New York City.

Professor Wilson received her B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University. Her scholarship has been awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art (2009) and the First Prize Award for Excellence, exhibition category, from the Association of Art Museum Curators (2016). She has received grants from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Graham Foundation, among others.

Stephanie Walker (Dean of University Libraries, UMass Boston)

Virtually all of Stephanie Walker’s career has been spent leading libraries and other knowledge partners, such as IT, Makerspaces, VR labs, and Writing Centers, through transformational and strategic changes.  That’s been done through all sorts of initiatives, ranging from major renovations and creating whole new multi-use buildings; to Open Access and publishing support; to Open Educational Resources programs; to major new collaborations with Offices of Research or Publishing; and more.  She has done this at her current institution, University of Massachusetts Boston, where she is the Dean of University Libraries, and previously at University of North Dakota, City University of New York – Brooklyn College, Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library, and the University of Toronto.  Currently, at UMass Boston, she is co-chairing the planning of a complete renovation of Healey Library, to transform it from a building suited for the way academic research libraries functioned in the 1970s to a modern, dynamic, shared building supporting all academic and research needs of faculty, staff, and students.  Tentatively, the space will include the Library, Archives, patron-facing IT units, SEAS (student equity, access, & success), the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and more.  

Curtis Brundy (Dean of Libraries at the UMass Amherst) 

Curtis Brundy serves as Dean of Libraries at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Editor in Chief of Katina: Librarianship Elevated, published by Annual Reviews. He leads efforts to transform scholarly publishing through equitable access and sustainable models while advancing organizational excellence across library services. His work focuses on building future-ready libraries that thoughtfully integrate emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to meet the evolving needs of research and learning communities. 

Galadriel Chilton (Dean of the University Library at UMass Lowell)

Before joining University of Massachusetts Lowell, Galadriel Chilton served as Director of Collections Initiatives for the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC), where she led collaborative collection programs and initiatives across thirteen research institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, and Columbia.

She brings to the role a deep commitment to inclusive, staff-centered leadership and a passion for ensuring equitable access to information and resources. Her work has spanned shared print and digital collections, open access advocacy, ethical licensing of digital resources, and infrastructure design for collaborative governance.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Berea College, and holds a Masters in Library Science from Indiana University, and a Master of Arts in Educational Technology and Instructional Design from San Diego State University.

Nancy Godleski (Dean of University Libraries, UMass Dartmouth)

Sonia Pacheco (Librarian, UMass Dartmouth)

Ann Beha 

Founder of Ann Beha Architects (now Annum Architects), Ann’s work champions preservation and adaptive use in dialogue with contemporary design. She reconsiders historic and modernist resources, and the future of civic, cultural, and academic settings. 

Ann’s projects include US Embassies in Athens and Paris, the Boston Public Library, Symphony Hall, and leading universities, museums and public resources.  An advocate and architect for libraries, and modernism, she has worked on buildings by Pei, Gropius, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Edward Durell Stone, SOM, and is collaborating on renewal of Wellesley’s Jewett Arts Center, Paul Rudolph’s first (1958) academic building.

Anns Honor Awards include the Boston Society of Architects and the US State Department Overseas Building Operations, and Honorary Doctorates from Wheaton and Colby Colleges. Her Master of Architecture degree is from MIT, and BA from Wellesley. A past GSD Loeb Fellow, Ann serves on Harvard’s Campus Design Advisory Council and the Boston Architectural Foundation, and is 2026 Louis Kahn Professor of Design at Yale University.

Robert Carroll (AIA, Senior Associate, Annum Architects)

Carroll works with cultural and academic campuses that includes programming, master planning, renovation of National Historic Landmark buildings, and new construction. He has led large teams of specialty consultants on complex renovation projects, carefully managing project schedules, budgets, and deliverables.

He is currently the Senior Project Manager for the renovation of the University Library at University at Albany and served as Senior Project Manager on the renewal and expansion of the Boston Athenæum, one of the oldest independent libraries in the country; the Student Learning Commons at Springfield Technical Community College, an adaptive reuse of a historic armory as a new campus nexus; and the renovation of library and exhibition spaces at the Grolier Club in New York.

His work with college and universities prior to Annum includes campus renovation and new construction projects for the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cliff Gayley (Principal, William Rawn Associates Architects, FAIA, LEED AP, BD+C)

David A. Gingerella (Vice Chancellor for Administration and Facilities at UMass Dartmouth)

David A. Gingerella has been at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth since February 2019.  In his role as Vice Chancellor for Administration and Facilities, David oversees the University’s administration operations, facilities operations; capital planning & construction; athletics and computing & information technology services (CITS). 

David is currently overseeing the LARTS building restoration project. The UMass Dartmouth Liberal Arts and Sciences or LARTS building, originally designed by mid-century modernist architect Paul Rudolph, opened in 1966 as the first academic building on the 710-acre Southeastern Massachusetts Technical Institute campus.  Many of the largest academic programs are located in the 165,000 sq. ft LARTS building.

David is also overseeing the CVPA building restoration project. The UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts Building opened in the spring of 1977 and was the last of the Paul Rudolph brutalist style buildings constructed on the main campus.  Many of the University’s studios, classrooms, and administrative offices are located at the CVPA building along with gallery and exhibition areas, media labs, and performance space for music students. 

Prior to joining UMass-Dartmouth, David served as the Vice President of Administration and Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Rhode Island College. David also served as a Senior Director of Business Operations at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, home of architect Paul Rudolph. While at Yale, David coordinated several major science building projects, and managed $240 million-plus in capital improvements.

Richard A. Yeager (AIA, Director of Planning and Facilities Information & Systems, UMass Lowell)

Richard Yeager is a seasoned campus planner and architect with over 35 years of experience in higher education facilities planning and design. He currently serves as the Director of Planning and Facilities Information Systems at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he leads a team of planners, programmers, and GIS specialists overseeing a 150-acre campus with 4.9 million gross square feet. His responsibilities include master planning, space and project management, GIS, and studies and assessments.

From 2018 to 2024, Yeager was the Director for Campus Planning and University Architect at UMass Amherst, managing a 1,450-acre campus with 13.4 million gross square feet. He led a multidisciplinary department responsible for all planning, real estate, space management, and project initiation.

Prior to UMass Amherst, Yeager was Assistant Director of Planning and Design at Boston College, where he oversaw the design and management of annual capital projects and contributed to the development of the Brighton Campus and Comprehensive Master Plan.

A dedicated preservationist, Yeager served over a decade on the Boston Landmarks Commission, including terms as Vice-Chair and Design Committee member. He also served on the Newburyport Planning Board and taught advanced design studios at the Boston Architectural College for more than ten years.

Yeager is an active member of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) and the Association of University Architects (AUA), where he currently serves on the Board of Directors. He has presented at numerous national conferences and helped host the AUA’s National Conference in both 2013 and 2024.

He holds degrees in architecture from the University of Virginia and Yale University, and resides in Kittery, Maine.