Cover Design by Christina Hillman (B.F.A.

Communications Design, Class of 15)

The spring 2014 Pratt Institute Course Catalog Cover Design Competition challenged students in the
Undergraduate Communications Design Department to submit cover designs for the 201415 graduate
and undergraduate course catalogs.

Competition winner Christina Hillman approached the design as a personal invitation to potential
students to join the Pratt community. She wanted to create a hand-done invitation, and drew her
cover illustrations without using digital tools. The single, swirling, looping line is a metaphor for the
complex path of discovery that Pratt students experienceand the constantly dizzying, and sometimes
frustrating, search for the next great idea.
PRATT INSTITUTE
Graduate Bulletin 20142015
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Contents

1 About Pratt Institute 61 School of Art 143 School of Liberal Arts

11 The History of Pratt 63 Art and Design Education and Sciences

13 How a Pratt Education Works 69 Arts and Cultural Management 145 History of Art and Design

73 Creative Arts Therapy 151 Media Studies

23 School of Architecture 45 Art Therapy and Creativity 155 Writing

27 Graduate Architecture and Development 157 Classes in the Liberal Arts

Urban Design 49 Dance/Movement Therapy

29 Architecture 53 Art Therapy with Special 161 Academic Degrees Overview

35 Urban Design Needs Children 163 Curricula

41 Programs for Sustainable 77 Design Management 182 Faculty

Planning and Development 81 Digital Arts 259 Graduate Admissions
45 City and Regional Planning 91 Fine Arts 269 Financial Aid
49 Sustainable Environmental 287 Tuition and Fees
Systems
101 School of Design 295 Registration
53 Historic Preservation
105 Communications Design 313 Student Affairs
57 Facilities Management
106 Communications Design 325 Libraries

108 Package Design 329 Board of Trustees

115 Industrial Design 331 Administration

123 Interior Design 333 Academic Calendar

341 How to Get to Pratt

129 School of Information and 343 Index

Library Science

131 Library and Information Science

The most innovative part of the most
interesting part of the most important
city in the world.
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute prepares
its 3,144 undergraduate and 1,479 graduate
students for rewarding and successful
careers in art, design, architecture,
information and library science, and liberal
arts and sciences.
With a 25-acre landscaped campus in
the historic Clinton Hill neighborhood
of Brooklyn, a creative community in the
midst of a renaissance, and a campus in
Manhattan, students are fortunate to have
access to the resources of bothmuseums,
galleries, restaurants, vintage shops and
more. Graduate programs are located on
both campuses.
Pratts programs are consistently ranked
among the best in the country; its faculty
and alumni include the most renowned
artists, designers, architects, and scholars Brooklyn, New Yorkhome
in their fields. Its programs encourage
collaboration and the development of
to more artists than any
creative strategies for design thinking. other city in the world and
As one of the worlds multicultural home to one of the best art,
epicenters for arts, culture, design,
technological innovation, and business,
architecture, and design
New York City provides Pratt students schools in the world.
with an exceptional learning environment
that extends beyond the Pratt campuses. See Page 21 for overview of Graduate Programs
including location.
From design firms and art galleries where
students may intern to museums and
concert halls where they enjoy all of the
citys cultural offerings, Pratts New York
City location is unparalleled.
Opposite: Students walk through the Quad
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Why Pratt?
#1 Interior Design
(U.S. News & World Report, 2013)
#2 Interior Design
(DesignIntelligence, 2014)
#5 Industrial Design
(U.S. News & World Report, 2014)
#3 Industrial Design
(DesignIntelligence, 2014)
#12 Communications
Design
(U.S. News & World Report, 2013)
#2 Digital Arts
(Animation Career Review, 2013,
Regional Rankings)
#11 Archives and
Preservation, Library
Science
(U.S. News & World Report, 2014)
#6 City and Regional
Planning
(Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban
Planning Programs)
#2 Fine Arts
(U.S. News & World Report, 2014)
Consistently High Rankings
Ranked among the top design schools by
BusinessWeek, Pratts undergraduate and
graduate programs are consistently ranked
among the top 10 or 20 in the country and
the world.
In 2013-14, U.S. News and World Reports
Best Graduate Schools included four of
Pratts programs, with Interior Design
ranked #1 and Industrial Design ranked
#5. Library and Information Science was
ranked #11 in the Archives and Preservation
category, while Communications and
Package Design was ranked #12 and Fine
Arts was ranked #15.
In 2014, DesignIntelligence ranked Pratts
graduate Interior Design program #2 in the
nation. Pratts graduate Industrial Design
program ranked #3.
The School of Architecture was ranked
among the top schools in the world by
Archifund, and the M.Arch. first professional
degree was ranked eighth regionally by
DesignIntelligence
The Institute was ranked #20 in U.S. News
& World Reports 2013 Guide to Americas
Best Colleges in the Regional Universities
North category. For 2013, Pratt was ranked
#1 in New York City and #2 in the country in
Global Language Monitor in the Art, Design,
and Music School category.
Pratt was also recognized as one of the
countrys most environmentally responsible
colleges in The Princeton Reviews 2013 Guide
to 322 Green Colleges.
Where creative minds are
inspired.
BROOKLYN CAMPUS
Located just 25 minutes from Manhattan,
Pratts main Brooklyn location is the only
New York City art and design school with a
traditional campus. A 25-acre landscaped
oasis, Pratt provides a visual respite in a busy
city. Ryerson Walk draws a path through
green lawns and mature trees surrounded by
125 years of architectural history.
Many of the Institutes nineteenth-century
buildings have been designated national
Opposite: Students sketch in the Sculpture Park

landmarks including the 1897 Renaissance
Revival-style Caroline Ladd Pratt House,
which serves as the official house of the Pratt
president and several students. The Pratt
Library, which was built in 1896 in a similar
style, boasts an interior designed by the Tiffany
Glass & Decorating Co.
Beyond this rich heritage, Pratt also has
several distinctly modern buildings that
have been constructed in the past decade.
The 26,000-square-foot Higgins Hall
Center Section, designed by Steven Holl
Architects and Rogers Marvel Architects for
the School of Architecture, opened in 2006.
In 2007, the 160,000-square-foot Juliana
Curran Terian Design Center opened
designed by Hanrahan Meyers Architects,
the firm led by Thomas Hanrahan, dean of
the School of Architecture.
Myrtle Hall, a LEED Gold-certified
building designed by the firm WASA/Studio A,
was completed in 2010 and home to the digital
arts programs. The 120,000-square-foot
building is a testament to Pratts commitment
to sustainability.
The entire 25-acre campus also comprises
the celebrated Pratt Sculpture Park, the
largest in New York City, with sculptures by
artists including internationally renowned
Richard Serra and Mark di Suvero. According
to Public Art Review it is one of the ten best
campus art collections in the United States.
Pratts tree-lined neighborhood,
Clinton Hill, has a history that is intimately
interwined with the Institute. A century
ago, it was home to the elite of Brooklyn.
The expansive mansions lining Clinton
Avenue belonged to the shipping magnates
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and mercantile princes of the Gilded Age.
Charles Pratt, whose fortune derived from
his partnership with John D. Rockefeller
in Standard Oil, started his Institute on History and architectural
family land just a few blocks from the family
beauty are all over Pratt and its
mansion.
Clinton Hill is one of New Yorks surrounding neighborhood.
premier Victorian-era neighborhoods and
BRETT AFFRUNTI, B.F.A. Communications
is listed on the National Register of Historic
Design 08, Illustrator, The New York Times
Places. In part because of Pratt, it boasts an
extraordinary number of creative artists,
architects, designers, illustrators, and
sculptors among its residents.
MANHAT TAN CAMPUS
Pratts Manhattan campus is located at 144
West 14th Street, walking distance to Union
Square, Chelseas art district, and many other
leading educational and cultural institutions.
The seven-story, 80,000-square-foot property
offers state-of-the-art facilities within a
distinctive, turn-of-the-century Romanesque
Revival building. Pratts Manhattan-based
programs benefit from the new campuss
cutting-edge technology and its prime location.
The Manhattan campus houses the School
of Information and Library Science, the Center
for Continuing and Professional Studies, the
Associate Degree programs, the graduate
programs in Design Management, Arts and
Cultural Management, and Communications
Design, and the School of Architectures
undergraduate Construction Management
program and graduate program in Facilities
Management. The library, exhibition space,
and state-of-the-art computer labs support the Opposite: Detail of the faade of the Pratt Manhattan
academic programs. campus
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WAYS TO GE T TO KNOW PRAT T
Request information at www.pratt.edu/
request, and well send you our catalog as
well as information about events, deadlines,
and programs based on your interests.
Visit: www.pratt.edu/visit
Email: admissions@pratt.edu
Call: 718.636.3514 or 800.331.0834
Twitter: @prattadmissions
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Visit us, ask questions, and find out why Pratt is
the first choice for so many students. Campus
tours are available daily. Schedule your campus
tour of the Brooklyn campus online at www.
pratt.edu/visit. Manhattan tours must be
scheduled through the department you are
applying to.
Most graduate departments welcome
prospective students who wish to visit. Please
contact your graduate department for an
appointment.
Pratt Institute
Office of Admissions
Myrtle Hall, 2nd floor
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Where faculty and students are at the center
of creative exploration and innovation.
Professional Faculty
Pratts nearly 1,000 faculty members are
award-winning artists, designers, planners,
architects, and scholars who mentor their
talented students to achieve comparable
success. They are also working professionals
in the citys creative sector, who bring to
the classroom their experience designing
buildings, creating ad campaigns, and
building furniture. The faculty represents
leaders in the art, design, architectural,
technology, and business communities.
These faculty members impart to
students the same high standards upheld in
their professional work. With different views,
methods, and perspectives, they all share a
common desire to develop each students
potential and creativity to the fullestto turn
out competent and creative professionals
who will shape the world to come. Faculty
serve as critical connections when students
are ready for employment or internships.
ACADEMIC INITIATIVES
Students and faculty move effortlessly
between traditional age-old techniques
and more contemporary digital software
taking advantage of Pratts extensive range
of facilities from shops in metals, wood,
ceramics, jewelry to labs for animation,
motion arts, and interactive arts. From
state-of-the-art facilities to research
initiatives, the Institute is committed to
providing students with the best education
possible. A Faculty Innovation Fund allows
faculty to initiate new areas of investigation.
A few academic initiatives where faculty and
students collaborate:
At the Center for Sustainable Design
Studies (CSDS), green design
principles are integrated into the
curricula. The Design Incubator for
Sustainable Innovation, a project of
CSDS, supports several graduating
students each year as they develop
design ideas into marketable products.
In Corporate-Sponsored Studios and
Projects, faculty members explore
new approaches to a design or business
problem while students gain real world
experience. Partners have included
Barnes & Noble, Colgate-Palmolive,
General Mills, and West Elm.
At the Pratt Center for Community
Development, faculty, staff, and
fellows work for a more just, equitable,
and sustainable city for all New
Yorkers by empowering communities
to plan for and realize their futures.
Opposite: 3-D printer built by the Digital Futures Lab in
the School of Architecture
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Tools for Tomorrow
INTERNSHIP AND CAREER SUPPORT
The Center for Career and Professional
Development inspires, supports, and
educates students and alumni. The Center
offers career and internship counseling,
resume and portfolio assistance, industry
mentoring, professional development,
workshops, entrepreneurial support, and a
lifelong job search support system.
Pratts New York City location provides
a distinct advantage for students looking
for internships or job experience. Qualified
students are offered challenging on-the-job
experiences in top art galleries, publishers,
architecture, and design firms in both
Manhattan and Brooklyn, giving them
firsthand work experience as well as credit
toward their professional degree.
Six months after graduation, 94 percent
of Pratts graduate students are employed.
Students are prepared for fulfilling,
meaningful, and productive careers along
with an understanding of emerging trends
and the global job market.
servers. From film editing and digital
animation to two- and three-dimensional
rendering, all workstations feature the latest
software for the departments using them.
Those working in the three-dimensional
realm have access to 3-D printers, laser
cutters, and CNC milling machines. Pratt
continually upgrades lab equipment as
industry standards change.
EXHIBITIONS
Gallery space, both on the Brooklyn
campus and at Pratt Manhattan, is extensive,
showing the work of students, alumni,
faculty, staff, and other well-known artists,
architects, and designers throughout the
academic year. Pratt Manhattan Gallery is
a public art gallery that strives to present
significant work from around the world in
the fields of art, architecture, fashion, and
design. The Rubelle and Norman Schafler
Gallery on the Brooklyn campus mounts
faculty and student exhibitions as well
as thematic shows featuring the work of
unaffiliated artists. In addition, Pratt has
more than 15 other galleries located on its
Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses.
support the general education curriculum.
The library houses more than 200,000
volumes of print materials, including more
than 600 periodicals, rare books, and the
college archives. The library also includes
a multimedia center housing nearly 3,000
film and video titles as well as the Visual
Resources Center, a collection of more than
120,000 circulating architecture, art, and
design digital images.
The Pratt Manhattan Center Library
supports the Pratt community as well
as visiting researchers. The library has
a growing collection of monographs,
serials, and multimedia, as well as stock
photography. It offers a wide range of
electronic resources, including general and
subject-specific databases all of which are
available off-site.

STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY
Pratts computer labs and digital output
centers have the most current equipment
available. Computer labs offer computer
workstations, color scanners, color and
black-and-white printers and plotters,
digital and analog output centers, digital
photography, video and sound bays,
multimedia video projection, and multiple
LIBRARIES
The Pratt Library on the Brooklyn
campus is located in an 1896 landmark
building with interiors by the Tiffany
Glass & Decorating Co. Collections and
services are focused on the visual arts,
architecture, design, creative writing,
and allied fields. Additional materials Opposite: Students at the Pratt Manhattan Library

The History of Pratt
On October 17, 1887, 12 young people
climbed the stairs of the new Main
building and began to fulfill the dream of
Charles Pratt as the first students at Pratt
Institute. Pratt, one of 11 children, was born
the son of a Massachusetts carpenter in 1830.
In Boston, he joined a company specializing
in paints and whale oil products. When he
came to New York, he founded a petroleum
business which would become Charles Pratt
and Company. The concern eventually
merged with Standard Oil, the company that
made John D. Rockefeller his millions.
Pratts fortunes increased and he
became a leading figure in Brooklyn,
serving his community and his profession. A
philanthropist and visionary, he supported
many of Brooklyns major institutions. He
always regretted, however, his own limited
education and dreamed of founding an
institution where pupils could learn trades
through the skillful use of their hands. This
dream was realized when Pratt Institute
opened its doors more than 125 years ago.
To this day, members of the Pratt family are
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leading supporters of the Institute. Pratt Institute has admirably
The Institutes success is based largely
filled a unique position
on Charles Pratts philosophy of education,
which revolutionized teaching by challenging in the American educational
the traditional concept of academia as a systemI am confident
purely intellectual exercise. He created
that Pratt will continue its
a school where applied knowledge was
emphasized and specific skills were taught traditions of excellence
to meet the needs of a growing industrial in the years ahead.
economy. Pratt has been a pioneer in
education since its inception. Today, Pratt PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, from a
offers students more than 27 undergraduate telegram sent on the occasion of Pratts
majors and concentrationsmore than most 75th anniversary in 1962
other art and design schools in the country
and 26 masters degree programs.
The energy, foresight, and spirit Charles
Pratt gave to his dream remains even today.
Inscribed on the seal of the Institute is his
motto: Be True to Your Work, and Your Work
Will Be True to You.
Opposite, top: Pratt Institute Free Library, established
in 1896; Bottom left: The Institute began offering
classes to women in 1888; Bottom right: Charles Pratt,
founder of the Institute

Pratt Students
Although Pratt students come from all over
the world, they share several characteristics.
First, many have known since childhood that
they enjoy creating things. Second, most
enjoy inventive problem solving both in and
out of the classroom. Finally, most share a
deep desire to change the world and leave
their imprint.
Pratt receives approximately 3,000
applications for its graduate class of 464,
enabling the admissions committee to
select an student body with a wide variety
of backgrounds. Thirty-four percent of
the new graduate class come from other
countries, including China, Taiwan, India,
South Korea, Mexico, Canada, Thailand, and
Turkey. Thirty-seven percent of the graduate
enrollment comes from states other than
New York, giving Pratt a truly national and
international student body.
Although it is possible to attend Pratt part
time, 87 percent of graduate students choose
to study full time, reflecting a high degree of
commitment. The Institutes entire student
body is composed of 4,623 undergraduate and
graduate students33 percent men and 67
percent women.
ST UDENT LIFE
Pratt students regularly attend films, plays,
lectures, art openings, and concertsboth
on campus and around New York City.
Recreational classes are held at the Athletic
Resource Center, which has extensive
work-out facilities including a 200-meter
indoor track, five indoor tennis courts,
basketball and volleyball courts, a weight
room, dance/exercise rooms, and sauna.
These cultural outings play an essential role
in the Pratt experience.
In addition to the wealth of opportunities
for exploration in the city, on the Brooklyn
campus, students often socialize in the
residence halls and cafeteria and cafes or at
the Student Union, the Library, the Schafler
Gallery, and the Activities Resource Center,
where most sports and wellness activities take
place. In warm weather, students often meet
and sit on the lawns amid the contemporary
sculptures that dot the campus.
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ATHLE TICS AND RECREATION
Pratts Division III athletic programs are
based in the Activities Resource Center,
which has a 200-meter indoor track,
five indoor tennis courts, basketball and
volleyball courts, a weight room, dance/
exercise rooms, and saunas. Pratt is a
member of the Hudson Valley Athletic
Conference. Mens and womens varsity
sportsopen to undergraduatesinclude
outdoor and indoor track, cross-country,
basketball, volleyball, and tennis.
LIVING ON CAMPUS
Pratt provides some apartment-style
graduate housing in Brooklyn, but most
graduate students live off-campus in a
variety of housing options from apartments
to brownstones and lofts, sharing with
other students. Many opportunities are
listed through the Office of Residential
Life. Various meal plans are available for
residential students.
Opposite: Students sketch beside the Brooklyn
Campus Library
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Notable Alumni

What do the Chrysler Building and Scrabble have in common? Both were designed by Pratt
alumni. Pratt has approximately 26,000 active alumni, whose achievements are a testament
to the soundness of the Institutes educational philosophy. Pratt alumni have designed well-
known and award-winning furniture, clothing, buildings, commercials, as well as artworks,
which are regularly exhibited in major museums and galleries.

William Boyer, designer of the classic
Thunderbird
Shawn Christensen, Academy Award winner
Tomie DePaola, childrens book author and
illustrator
Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and playwright
Harvey Fierstein, playwright and actor,
Torch Song Trilogy
Steve Frankfurt, advertising innovator
Bob Giraldi, film director
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, installation artist
Michael Gross, executive producer,
Ghostbusters
Bruce Hannah, furniture designer for Knoll,
named Designer of the Decade in 1990
Eva Hesse, sculptor and painter
Betsey Johnson, fashion designer
Edward Koren, cartoonist, The New Yorker
Naomi Leff, interior designer
George Lois, advertising designer
Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer
Peter Max, pop artist
Norman Norell, fashion designer
Roxy Paine, conceptual artist
Sylvia Plachy, photographer
Beverly Pepper, sculptor
Charles Pollock, furniture designer
Paul Rand, graphic designer, created
IBM logo
Robert Redford, actor and director
Robert Sabuda, illustrator
Stefan Sagmeister, graphic designer
David Sarnoff, president, RCA Corporation
Annabelle Selldorf, gallery and museum
architect
Robert Siegel, architect, Gwathmey Siegel
Kaufman
Pat Steir, contemporary painter and
printmaker
William Van Alen, architect, Chrysler
Building
Tucker Viemeister, product designer, Oxo
Good Grips
Max Weber, modernist painter
Robert Wilson, avant-garde stage director
and playwright
Carlos Zapata, residential and commercial
architect
Peter Zumthor, Pritzker Prize-winning
architect

Ellsworth Kelly, minimalist painter Tony Schwartz, creator, Alka-Seltzer Opposite: The iconic Chrysler Building, designed by
commercial Pratt alumnus William Van Alen
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Cultural Partnerships
in New York City
The Institute has created partnerships with
a number of major cultural institutions so
students may take advantage of the vast
opportunities in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Students participate in collaborative work as
part of their curriculum or simply have class
visits. On their own, Pratt students may visit
free of charge.
Close to Pratts Brooklyn campus,
the Brooklyn Museum has an impressive
permanent collection. The Egyptian art
collection is one of the worlds finest. The
museums Asian art collection, though
modest in size, is one of the more diverse
and comprehensive in the New York
metropolitan area. The museum puts on
Above: Brooklyn Museum
several contemporaryand often localart
exhibitions each year. The First Saturday
of each month is a day of special events when
the museum is free to the community.
Open year-round, the adjacent Brooklyn
Botanic Garden features one of the most
impressive Japanese gardens outside Japan.
It captures nature in miniature: trees and
shrubs, carefully dwarfed and shaped by
cloud pruning, are surrounded by hills, and
a pond. The Cranford Rose Garden features
5,000 bushes of 1,200 varieties of roses.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music,
popularly known as BAM, is at the vanguard
of theater offerings. You can see productions
ranging from performance art and
independent films to stylized Shakespearean
productions. Pratt students can attend BAM
events at discounted rates.
In Manhattan, Pratt students also
enjoy visiting these institutions where fees
are waived: The Cooper Hewitt National
Design Museum, The Frick Collection,
Museum of Arts and Design, The Museum
of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum
of American Art.
Study Abroad Programs
Pratts Study Abroad programs combine
the Institutes academic excellence with
firsthand exposure to some of the most
vibrant international centers of art, design,
and architecture.
ARCHITECT URE IN T URKEY
Students visit and study urban conditions,
historical monuments, and archaeological
sites in Istanbul and surrounding regions.
This course provides firsthand experience
analyzing architecture, cultural forces,
and site conditions through architectural
investigations. The course focuses on
international experience within the lens
of two significant factors of the twentieth-
first-century metropolis: rapid change and
heterogeneity in Istanbul. Students look
at existing ecological, urban, and historic
data in order to evaluate and represent
information from the unique architectural
perspective. This class will track systemic
change and heterogeneity from past to
present in order to understand the shifting
heterogeneity that defines Istanbul and
the surrounding region. Path methodology
techniques will be used to study topics
including water quality, aquatic life, water

edge/coastline configuration, waterfront
programming/land-use, waterfront
architecture, waterfront practices of
everyday life, land-cover, and urban form.
FLORENCE SUMMER PROGRAM
In partnership with Studio Art Centers
International (SACI), students study
Florentine art and culture, museum and
library research, documentation, and cultural
heritage conservation for four weeks. The
program offers two 3-credit courses.
LONDON SUMMER PROGRAMS
Students have the opportunity to study
e-publishing and digital scholarship at
Kings College London for two weeks in the
early summer and, in a separate program,
study museums use of digital media at
Ravensbourne College of Design and
Communication in London for two weeks
in July. Students can apply for one or both
programs, which each offer one 3-credit
course.
ARCHITECT URE AND URBAN DESIGN IN
ROME SUMMER PROGRAM
This program gives graduate Architecture
and Urban Design students the opportunity
to earn three credits studying architecture,
urbanism, and design during the month
of June. The program is located in Romes
famous Trastevere district and includes
travel to Florence, Siena, and Venice.
Financial aid is typically available. This
course seeks to mine these intensively
designed environments for contemporary
principles. While the course is fully engaged
with the historical significance of the
material it presents, it also finds excellent
opportunities to study the relational
dynamics, socio-political developments,
techno-material innovations, and
manipulated ecologies out of which such
incredibly concentrated cultural production
emerges. Course content is delivered
through lectures, discussions, tours, visiting
scholars, and projects that perform a
speculative mapping of the city of Rome in
the form of graphics, diagrams, notation,
and text.
PRAT T SUMMER IN PARIS
The Pratt Summer in Paris Program gives
students the opportunity to earn six elective
credits studying literature and writing. It is
available to all Pratt students, but geared
more toward undergraduate students. The
program is housed at the Cit International
Universitaire de Paris, which is located within
minutes of the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel
Tower, the Sacr Coeur, and countless other
points of interest. The program includes two
Humanities courses. The first course, The
American Writer in Paris, focuses on works
by the most prominent American writers
living in or passing through Paris during
the twentieth century. The second course,
Surroundings, is a writing seminar focused on
encounters with provocative settings.
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ARCHITECT URE AND DESIGN IN
COPENHAGEN SUMMER PROGRAM
The Architecture and Design in
Copenhagen program gives Architecture,
Communications Design, Fine Arts,
Industrial Design, and Interior Design
undergraduate and graduate students the
opportunity to earn seven credits studying
cutting-edge Scandinavian design. The
program lasts seven weeks, running
between mid-June and early August. The
curriculum combines interdisciplinary
studio work with an investigation and
analysis of contemporary society, politics,
and environment. Teachers include masters
in the fields of architecture, furniture
design, graphic design, interior architecture,
and urban design. Students also travel to
Sweden, Finland, Norway, and western
Denmark for field trips.
SUSTAINABLE PL ANNING DEVELOPMENT
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS
The Programs for Sustainable Planning
and Development (PSPD)Planning,
Sustainable Environmental Systems,
Historic Preservation, and Facilities
Managementoffer six courses that
include an international component. In
addition to PSPD graduate students, these
seven courses are open to other graduate
students, fifth-year architects, and others
with the permission of the instructors in
the course and one of the two PSPD co-
coordinators. All courses offer three credits.
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The courses involve study in Brooklyn
both before and after the excursion element.
In alternating summers, students can
either travel to Tokyo, Japan, for intensive
research on placemaking and urban design;
or to Istanbul, Turkey, for a mini-studio
addressing urban development topics.
Every January, students can participate in
a studio in and on behalf of a South India
community, where the intention is to create a
comprehensive sustainability, preservation,
and land use plan over a period of years.
Every spring break, students have the chance
to travel to Sao Paolo, Brazil, in connection
with work with graduate students there
comparing conditions and best practices for
a selected community sustainability topic.
Also in spring, students can travel
to Rome, Italy, for an intensive
introduction to Roman architecture
and the citys unique ability to meld
architectural styles and time periods.
In addition, students can participate
in a six-week study of Scandinavian
urban design, which takes place at
the Danish Institute for Study Abroad
(DIS) in Copenhagen.
PRAT T IN VENICE SUMMER PROGRAM
In Venice, students may register for six
to eight credits, selecting from courses in:
Printmaking/Drawing, Painting, Art History
of Venice, and Materials and Techniques
of Venetian Art. The program takes place
in June and July. It is open to graduate and
undergraduate students. Pratts program is
conducted in collaboration with the Universit
Internazionale dellArte at the Villa Heriott
and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica.
With its rich artistic history and visual appeal,
Venice provides inspiration for studio and
on-site work. Art history classes are held at

various sites and alternate with lectures that
provide a historical context for the visits. In the
graduate course in Materials and Techniques
students visit conservation laboratories to
learn from local experts and research specific
aspects of materials and process.
For more information on individual
programs, contact Dr. Marianthi
Zikopoulos, Interim Director of Study
Abroad and International Partnerships, at
mzikopou@pratt.edu or go to www.pratt.
edu/study_abroad.
Commitment to Sustainability
Higher education has a unique role in
America. No other institution in society
has the influence, the critical mass, and the
diversity of skills needed to successfully
reverse global warming. Pratt Institute is
taking a leadership role in sustainability
for schools of art, design, and architecture
nationwide. At this critical moment, when our
environment and ways of life are at risk, we
have a responsibility to ensure that each of our
graduates has a deep awareness of ecology,
environmental issues, and social justice.
In The Princeton Reviews 2013 Guide to
322 Green Colleges, Pratt was recognized as
one of the countrys most environmentally
responsible colleges. As active participants
in the American College and University
Presidents Climate Commitment
(ACUPCC), Pratt seeks to be a carbon
neutral campus. In 2010, Myrtle Hall, a
LEED Gold-certified building designed by
the firm WASA/Studio A, was completed.
The 120,000-square-foot building is
a testament to Pratts commitment to
sustainability.
Regardless of discipline, our graduates
must be able to integrate best sustainable
practices into their professional lives.
Within each program, Pratt students are
offered an opportunity to learn to think in
new ways about the relationship of designer
to product, architect to built environment,
and artist to creative expression. The
Institute is continuously working to
reduce our carbon footprint, greening
our dorms, facilities, and classrooms
and creating ongoing, living laboratory
from which our students can observe,
participate, and experiment.
The Institutes Center for Sustainable
Design Studies (CSDS) is an active and
collaborative resource for sustainable
design at Pratts Brooklyn campus. Under
the umbrella of CSDS, the Pratt Design
Incubator for Sustainable Innovation
provides ambitious students and Pratt
alumni with a stimulating place to launch
sustainability-minded businesses, providing
office space, planning support, and access to
shop facilities. For more information, go to
csds.pratt.edu/.
Opposite: Students take advantage of the Institutes
many study abroad programs including Architecture in
Rome. Photo Sami Suni
Page 20: Myrtle Hall, the Institutes sustainably
designed, LEED-certified administrative
and academic building
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ACCREDITATION STATEMENT
Pratt Institute is a coeducational undergraduate and
graduate institution chartered and empowered to
confer academic degrees by the State of New York.
The certificates and degrees conferred are registered
by the New York State Department of Education. Pratt
is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education
of the Middle States Association of Colleges and
Schools, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104,
215-662-5606. The Commission on Higher Education
is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by
the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Commission
on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation.
Programs in art and design are accredited by the
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
(NASAD).
The School of Architectures Bachelor of Architecture
program is accredited by the National Architectural
Accrediting Board. (For more information on NAAB
accreditation, refer to the School of Architecture
section. Pratt is a charter member of and accredited
by the National Association of Schools of Art and
Design. The B.F.A. in Interior Design is accredited
by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation
(formerly FIDER).
The Master in Library and Information Science
program is accredited by the Committee on
Accreditation of the American Library Association.
The Master in Art Therapy is approved by the
Education Approval Board of the American Art Therapy
Association, Inc., and as such meets the education
standards of the art therapy profession. The Graduate
Dance/Movement Therapy program has been
approved by the American Dance Therapy Association.
Programs offered by Art and Design Education and
the M.S. for Library Media Specialists (LMS) offered
by the School of Information and Library Science are
accredited by RATE.
The BFA offered by the Interior Design department
is accredited by the Council for Interior Design
Accreditation (formerly FIDER).
DEPARTMENT
GRADUATE ARCHITECT URE AND
URBAN DESIGN
PROGRAMS FOR SUSTAINABLE
PL ANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
ART AND DESIGN
EDUCATION
CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY
ARTS AND CULT URAL MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATIONS/PACK AGE
DESIGN
DESIGN MANAGEMENT
DIGITAL ARTS
FINE ARTS
HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN
HUMANITIES AND MEDIA ST UDIES
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
INTERIOR DESIGN
INFORMATION AND LIBRARY
SCIENCE
WRITING
PROGRAMS AND EMPHASIS STUDY ABROAD CAMPUS
M. Architecture. (first professional)  rchitecture and Urban Design in Rome,
A Brooklyn
Architecture M.S. (post-professional) Architecture in Turkey, , Architecture and Design in
Urban Design M.S. (post-professional) Copenhagen
City and Regional Planning M.S. Sustainable Planning Development International Brooklyn, except Facilities
City and Regional Planning M.S./J.D. Workshops Management, which is based
(with Brooklyn Law School) in Manhattan
Historic Preservation M.S.
Sustainable Environmental Systems M.S.
Facilities Management M.S.
M.S. with initial certificate Brooklyn
Pedagogy and Studio Advanced Certificate
Art Therapy and Creativity Development M.P.S. Brooklyn
Art Therapy SP/SU M.P.S.
Art Therapy Special Ed M.P.S.
Dance/Movement Therapy SP/SU M.S.
Dance/Movement Therapy M.S.
Arts and Cultural Management M.P.S. Manhattan
Communications Design M.F.A. Architecture and Design in Copenhagen Manhattan
Package Design M.S.
Design Management M.P.S. Manhattan
Digital Arts M.F.A. Florence Summer Program Brooklyn
3-D Animation and Motion Arts
Digital Imaging
Interactive Arts Combined Digital Arts/Library and Info
Science M.F.A./M.S.
Fine Arts M.F.A. Architecture and Design in Copenhagen, Pratt in Venice Brooklyn
Painting and Drawing
Photography
Printmaking
New Forms Sculpture
History of Art and Design M.S. Pratt in Venice, Florence Summer Program Brooklyn
Combined History of Art and Design/Fine Art M.S./M.F.A.
Combined History of Art and Design/Library Science
M.S./M.S.
Media Studies M.A. Pratt Summer in Paris Brooklyn
M.I.D. Architecture and Design in Copenhagen Brooklyn
Qualifying three-year M.S. Architecture and Design in Copenhagen Brooklyn
Two-year M.S.
Library and Information Science M.S. London Publishing Summer School, Florence Summer Manhattan
Library and Information Science Library Media Specialist M.S. Program
Combined Library and Information Science M.S./J.D. (with
Brooklyn Law School)
Library and Information Science Advanced Certificate
Library Media Specialist Advanced Certificate
Archives Advanced Certificate
Museum Libraries Advanced Certificate
Writing M.F.A. Brooklyn
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School of Architecture DEAN

Thomas Hanrahan

ASSISTANTS TO THE DEAN

Kurt Everhart
Pamela Gill

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION L ABS

Mark Parsons

OFFICE

Studies in the School of Architecture gather from the arts, Higgins Hall North, 1st Floor
Tel: 718.399.4304 | Fax: 718.399.4315
sciences, and liberal arts to produce works of value that are arch-dean@pratt.edu
www.pratt.edu/arch
sensitive to the realities of life in the cultures of the world.
Graduates are imbued with strong ethics and an understanding ARCHITECT URE

of architects ability to improve the quality of life.

URBAN DESIGN

As a result, they know how to build, what further graduate studies.

to build for whom, and how to enhance
the surrounding environment, in the city
or country, in a public works project or a
private home.
The Graduate Architecture and
Urban Design programs offer three graduate
degreesone professional and two post-
professional.
The first-professional Master of
Architecture (M. Arch.) degree is an
84-credit, three-year professional degree
program for students holding a four-year
undergraduate degree in any field. This
program prepares students to take the
architectural licensing exam and to become
practicing architects. Students may also
receive advanced standing for pursuing
PROGRAMS FOR SUSTAINABLE
The post-professional Master of Science
PL ANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
in Architecture (M.S. Arch.) is a 36-credit,
three-semester (summer, fall, spring) program
CIT Y AND REGIONAL PL ANNING
for those who hold an accredited five-year
Bachelors of Architecture or the equivalent. A
SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL
thesis is completed in the final semester. SYSTEMS
The post-professional Master of
Architecture and Urban Design is a 33-credit, HISTORIC PRESERVATION
three-semester (summer, fall, spring)
program for those who hold an accredited FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
five-year Bachelors of Architecture or
the equivalent. A culmination project is
completed in the final semester.
Students in the M.S. Arch. and the Urban
Design programs are encouraged to develop
specialized areas of research.

Opposite: Erik Thorson

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The School of Architecture is dedicated
to maintaining the connection between
design theory and practice and to extending
the range of knowledge necessary to fully
understand the built environment. The
diversity of programs within the school, and
the accessibility of other programs within
the Institute, enables students to pursue
a wide range of interests within the field.
Architecture students may take electives in
fine arts, illustration, computer graphics,
industrial design, furniture design, interior
design, and photography, as well as electives
in advanced architectural theory, design,
technology, and management.
The schools location in New York City
allows students immediate and frequent
access to the citys resources. The graduate
programs also have excellent internal
resources: a strong faculty, good facilities,
and a developing research network that
connects the department and its students to
serious national and international work in
the field. This network brings distinguished
visitors to speak to graduate students in a
research forum; invites visiting faculty to
teach studios, workshops, and seminars; and
forges extensive and thoughtful connections
with international cities and throughout
the United States. The opportunity to
learn from peers is also an exciting part of
the educational experience at Pratt. Post-
professional degree students come from
a wide range of architectural practice, and
first-professional degree students come from
diverse fields of undergraduate study. The
student body includes many international
students, each of whom brings a different
perspective to the study of architecture. The
school encourages transfer students to apply
and will evaluate credits from other colleges,
universities, or community colleges.
The School of Architecture demonstrates
daily that learning does not occur solely
within the classroom. This is reflected in
the annual undergraduate and graduate
lecture series, which brings some of the most
influential architects in the world to campus;
the Center for Experimental Structures;
exhibits by students and faculty that fill three
galleries on a regular basis; and the study
abroad programs in Italy and France. The
school publication, InProcess, documents
student work throughout the year.
Pratts Center for Community
Development, formerly PICCED, one of the
oldest community advocacy and technical
assistance organizations in the United States,
gives students additional opportunities to
work on real-life projects.
Students are further exposed to the
professional world through optional
internship programs that place them in
outstanding New York architectural firms,
public agencies, and nonprofit design
institutions, giving them firsthand work
experience as well as credit toward their
professional degrees.
The School of Architectures mission is
to educate the future leaders of the design
disciplines in the professional fields of
architecture, urban design, city and regional
planning, construction and facilities
management, and historic preservation.
This effort builds upon a strong context of
professional education within an art and
design institute that stresses the relationship
between intellectual development and
creative activity. The school provides a broad
cultural and intellectual base in the liberal arts
and sciences while providing the specialized
knowledge unique to individual disciplines.
The importance of lifelong learning is
emphasized through studio-based curricula
and research-oriented thesis programs.
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HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS The NAAB grants candidacy status ST UDENT WORK
to new programs that have developed viable
In the United States, most state registration The School of Architecture reserves the right
plans for achieving initial accreditation.
boards require a degree from an accredited to temporarily retain during the academic
Candidacy status indicates that a program
professional degree program as a year, for exhibition and classroom purposes,
should be accredited within six years of
prerequisite for licensure. The National representative work of any student enrolled
achieving candidacy, if its plan is properly
Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), in its programs.
implemented.
which is the sole agency authorized to
The School of Architecture offers
accredit U.S. professional degree programs
graduate degrees in accredited and
in architecture, recognizes two types of
nonaccredited programs. The M. Arch. first
degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture and
professional degree program is a three-
the Master of Architecture. A program may
year professional program. The program
be granted a five-year, three-year, or two- In 1980, Pratt was wonderful
is accredited by NAAB in 2010. The M.S.
year term of accreditation, depending on
Arch. and Urban Design programs are in many of the same ways
its degree of conformance with established
educational standards.
post-professional and offer a three-semester it is wonderful now. The
Masters degree in Architecture and Urban
Masters degree programs may consist professors I had talked about
Design. Post-professional programs in the
of a pre-professional undergraduate
United States are not accredited by the the values in architecture:
degree and a post-professional graduate
degree, which, when earned sequentially,
NAAB. Pratts Graduate Planning Program the importance of space,
is accredited by the Planning Accreditation
constitute an accredited professional proportion, and light. And
Board and offers a two-year Master of
education. The pre-professional degree is
Science degree in City and Regional those are values that I hold
not, by itself, recognized as an accredited
degree, however.
Planning. The Facilities Management dearly to this day.
program is non-accredited and offers a two-
year Master of Science degree in Facilities ANNABELLE SELLDORF, B. Arch. 85,
Management. Founding principal, Selldorf Architects

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Please refer to the Admissions section.

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Graduate Architecture
and Urban Design

The mission of the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design guest studios, and seminars. Faculty and stu-
dents in both programs come from national
(GAUD) programs is twofold. For the first-professional degree
and international backgrounds.
program, students develop expertise to engage and lead A developing research area within GAUD
complex architectural projects in the professional practice is the Network for Emerging Architectural
Research (NEAR), which connects the
of architecture through the exploration and development of
department to national and international
substantive methods of design and inquiry across the discipline. work. Commensurate with the complexities
For the post-professional programs both in architecture and in of the 21st century, NEAR expands beyond
traditional limitations of academic research,
urban design, the mission is to expand a students established
and establishes a space for experimentation
professional education into new forms of thinking, types of and development in academia, industries,
practices, and areas of expertise. In all cases, each program and public institutions.
The Graduate Architecture programs
promotes a students lifelong relationship with his or her field.
at Pratt Institutes School of Architecture
contribute to the progressive design environ-
Students in GAUD are immersed in an and faculty are engaged in the design of
ment for advanced architectural research
exploratory design-studio culture. The three contemporary experimental architectural
located in New York City. The schools New
distinct degrees within the two programs projects and the integration of academically
York City location provides immediate and
Architecture and Urban Designshare rigorous seminar courses in history and
frequent access to the citys extensive range
coursework, students, faculty, and events, theory, computer media, and technology.
of creative opportunities. The international
thus allowing each program to draw upon The Graduate Architecture programs
study abroad programs extend the investiga-
the others perspectives and expertise. This have a diverse faculty of distinguished edu-
tion of the city to Rome and Istanbul with
mix supports the ability to integrate diverse cators and practicing architects, excellent
concentrated seminars looking at both cities
theoretical and technical knowledge in facilities, and trans-disciplinary connections
and their unique contributions to architec-
speculative design work while emphasizing with the well-known art and design depart-
ture and urbanity.
critical thinking/critical making. Students ments of Pratt Institute. Distinguished
visitors present their work to graduate stu-
Opposite: Hannibal Newson, Mina Rafiee, Wei Xin, dents on a regular basis in research forums,
Michelle Fowler, Paulina Hospod
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Architecture

Architecture is a cultural act. Both the first-professional CHAIR

William MacDonald
and post-professional programs seek to formulate a
contemporary approach to architecture that is ecological ASSISTANT CHAIR
Philip Parker
in the sense that it provides collective exchanges that
are both trans-disciplinary and trans-categorical. This PROGRAM COORDINATORS
Alexandra Barker,
ecological approach encourages feedback, theoretical studies, Master of Architecture

and exposure to myriad other categories and disciplines Jason Vigneri-Beane,

Master of Science, Architecture
that are newly emerging in contemporary culture. It
Maria Sieira,
also helps students develop relationships with industry, Architecture History/Theory

manufacturing, and political agencies. This approach seeks Cristobal Correa, Technology

to intensify heterogeneous interests and agencies. In Christopher Whitelaw, Media

addition, the programs see architectural innovations in both ASSISTANTS TO THE CHAIR
theory and practice of architecture and the interconnected Erin Murphy
Erika Schroeder
phenomena out of which the discipline emerges.
OFFICE
Tel: 718.399.4314 | Fax: 718.399.4379
gaud@pratt.edu
www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture

Opposite: Left: Andri Klausen, Jeffrey Johnson; Right

Top: Andri Klausen, Jeffrey Johnson; Right Middle Top:
Jonathan Alexander, Nick Tran; Right Middle Bottom:
Jonathan Alexander, Nick Tran; Right Bottom: Jonathan
Alexander, Nick Tran
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The Graduate Architecture program MASTER OF SCIENCE, ARCHITECT URE

offers two degrees: Master of Architecture (POST-PROFESSIONAL)

(M. Arch.) (first-professional), and The 36-credit, three-semester (summer, fall,

Master of Science (M.S.) in architecture spring) post-professional program aims to
(post-professional). expand a students previously established
professional education into new forms of
MASTER OF ARCHITECT URE thinking and practice. Open to students
(FIRST-PROFESSIONAL) holding a five-year (B. Arch.) or equivalent
(M. Arch.) degree in architecture, the
The Master of Architecture, a first-
program helps students develop a lifelong
professional degree, is a NAAB accredited
relationship to their specific interests in
84-credit, three-year program that maintains
architecture. All students are exposed to
a mission to train students as leaders in the
relevant issues through rigorous history
professional practice of architecture with
and theory electives, lectures by prominent
substantive methods of design and inquiry.
scholars, computer-technology courses
The program is intended for students holding
emphasizing critical thinking, and studios
a four-year undergraduate, non-professional
requiring integration of theoretical and
degree in any field. This program aims to
technical knowledge. The program begins
establish a students professional education
with an intensive summer semester
with new forms of thinking and practice
concentrating in design, digital media, and
and to help students develop a lifelong
theory. The second semesters advanced
relationship to their respective elds.
option studios are integrated with those
Core design studios and seminars
taken by the Master of Architecture (first-
in history and theory, computer media,
professional) students. The culmination of
and building technologies in the first
the program is a thesis project in a student-
three semesters prepare students for the
developed specialized area of research.
comprehensive architecture project in the
fourth semester. This combined design and
integrated building-systems course integrates
all related disciplines into the single project.
The final two semesters are dedicated to
advanced-option studios and seminars where
students can explore a range of options within
all four areas of the curriculum.

Right: Nima Farzaneh

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Sutton; Right: Sean Madigan; Bottom Row: Left, Middle: Philip
Jenkin; Right: Victoria Maceira

Top Row: Left: Antonis Charalambous; Top Row: Middle: Ryan

Griffin; Top Row: Right: Sidika Merchant; Middle Row: Left, Middle,
Right: Michele Zanella; Bottom Row: Left: Reynolds Diaz Jr., Chris
Dorey; Bottom Row: Middle: Andri Klausen, Jeff Johnson
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Urban Design

Urban design is a continually evolving field.
The expansion and contraction of cities, the
increasingly intricate systems of economic
exchange, along with intense environmental
change suggest that new forms of innovative
environmental analysis and information-
sensitive design are necessary and desirable.
New synthetic strategies for urban and
industrial ecologies related to the capacities
of rural production are studied in detail. The
holding a five-year (B. Arch.) or equivalent (M. CHAIR
William MacDonald
Arch.) degree in architecture. The program
begins in the summer semester with an inten-
ASSISTANT CHAIR
sive curriculum focused on concepts, theory,
Philip Parker
and representational/generative practices
of urban design, and continues with design
COORDINATOR
studio and seminar courses toward a culmi- David Ruy
nating project in the third semester.
The program is run as a series of advanced ASSISTANTS TO THE CHAIR
design/research studios and seminars that Erin Murphy

program engages students across multiple attempt to contend, in new ways, with the Erika Schroeder

forms of expertise with the most thought-
ful and innovative work in new computer
mapping and visualization technologies,
theoretical debates, historical precedents,
transdisciplinary approaches, and specu-
lative methodologies that are brought to
questions of contemporary cities in design
studios and seminars.
complex issues of contemporary urban
OFFICE
environments. These issues include: desires
Tel: 718.399.4314 | Fax: 718.399.4379
to promote notions of co-generative environ-
gaud@pratt.edu
ments that lead the potential for non-linear www.gaud.pratt.edu
and highly sensitive system feedback; the
need to address multiplicity of scales and
diverse populations; the formulation of
connections between diverse institutions
and agencies; the analysis and invention of

MASTER OF SCIENCE ARCHITECT URE forms of representation and repositories of

AND URBAN DESIGN
Students enrolled in the Urban Design
program graduate with a master of science
degree in architecture and urban design. The
program is 33-credits and three semesters
(summer, fall, spring). It is open to students
information that act as genuine resources for
decision-making. Urban design is envi-
ronmental design where environmental is
considered at scales that range between micro
(street curb cuts) and macro (global flows of
production and resources).
Opposite: Carlos Gonzalez Uribe
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Programs for Programs for Sustainable Planning

and Development

Sustainable Planning COORDINATOR

David Burney

and Development 718.399.4323

dburn153@pratt.edu

City and Regional Planning

CHAIR
John Shapiro
Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development (PSPD) 718.399.4391
johnshapiro@pratt.edu
is an alliance of four programs with a shared value placed
ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
on urban sustainabilitydefined by the triple bottom line
Adia Ware
of environment, equity, and economy. 718.399.4340
aware@pratt.edu

The four graduate Master of Science PSPD also offers linkages to the
Sustainable Environmental Systems
programs are: undergraduate Construction Management
program, with the opportunity to focus COORDINATOR
City and Regional Planning on real estate development; Brooklyn Law Jaime Stein

Sustainable Environmental School, with the opportunity for a joint

718.399.4328
jstein9@pratt.edu
Systems masters/Juris Doctor; and to the Pratt Center
Historic Preservation for Community Development,
Historic Preservation
with the opportunity to combine study
Facilities Management
and advocacy. COORDINATOR
Each of the four graduate programs The primary mission of the PSPD is to Nadya K. Nenadich
maintains its independence, degree, provide a professionally oriented education 718.399.4326
nnenadic@pratt.edu
and depth of study. Yet with the advice to a student body with diverse cultural,
of coordinators and department chairs, educational, and professional backgrounds.
students can move between the four The PSPD welcomes applicants with Facilities Management
programs, with the further option to follow undergraduate degrees in a wide range of
CHAIR
set tracks for specialized or multifaceted disciplines. In the application process, the Harriet Markis, P.E., SECB
studies. Studios bring together students PSPD values creativity, civic engagement, 212.647.7524
from all four graduate programs for and depth of experience, in addition to hmarkis@pratt.edu

interdisciplinary teamwork. intellectual capacity. ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR

Philip Ramus
Opposite: New York City is the PSPDs laboratory for 212.647.7524
cross-disciplinary study and internships
fm@pratt.edu
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILIT Y
The Sustainable Environmental Systems
program is entirely devoted to urban
environmental policy, science, and design.
Green development and LEED courses
augment the Facilities Management program
curriculum. The Historic Preservation
program is already greened, as the most
sustainable action is to preserve and reuse.
URBANISM
In this century as in the last, the major
human force on our planet is migration
to metropolitan areas, while the major
challenge of the present and future is
addressing global warming. Prior city
planning values of aesthetics (as per the
City Beautiful movement of the late 19th
century) and new technology (as per the
City Efficient movement of the mid-20th
century) must now be augmented with a
new City Sustainable movement. The PSPD
is especially committed to realizing this
paradigm on the community as well as the
citywide basis.
SOCIAL EQUIT Y AND
ECONOMIC VIABILIT Y
True sustainability considers factors such
as social justice and financial realities.
Advocacy and participatory planning are
core principles, further propelled by the
Livable Cities and the Environmental Justice
movements. Sustainability is not just a new
set of technologies and standards; it is also a
value system.
PROFESSIONALISM AND
INTERNSHIPS
Relevant employment and internships are
an important component of the PSPDs
educational approach. Students entering
with work in a relevant field may earn credits
through work experience/portfolio credit.
Unpaid and paid internships are available.
The resulting variety of professional
experiences enriches seminar discussions
and studio teamwork, provides students
with a wealth of contacts in the field,
and strengthens their job qualifications.
IMPACT
Through internships, partnerships, studios,
demonstrations of professional competence,
and directed research, students have ample
opportunity to work on real-world and
real-time issues. Successes are illustrated
in this catalog and in the PSPD newsletter.
(Check the websites for each program.) New
Yorks history, diversity, and international
character offer a rich training ground for
planners, preservationists, developers, and
sustainability practitioners.
Students graduate equipped with
the technical know-how, collaborative
skills, and critical thinking necessary to
pursue professional careers and plan for
environmental and social justice in urban
places. Alumni play leading roles in a broad
spectrum of jobs in the public, private, and
nonprofit sectors.
PSPD courses are offered in the evenings,
except for the Historic Preservation
programs courses, which are concentrated
on two weekdays and evenings. This
scheduling affords students maximum
flexibility to work or intern, and affords
the PSPD the ability to tap as faculty the
regions most accomplished professionals.
These include the founders of community
organizations, executives in development
firms, New York City commissioners,
political leaders, and more.
THE PRAT T CENTER
The PSPD collaborates closely with the
Pratt Center for Community Development
(www.prattcenter.net)one of the nations
foremost university-based research and
technical assistance organizations in the
service of disadvantaged communities.
A number of courses relate to Pratt Center
projects, many students intern at the Pratt
Center, Pratt Center senior staff teach in the
PSPD, and other faculty work closely with
the Pratt Center on research and advocacy
efforts. Pratt Centers services include:
Visioning to identify community needs
and workable strategies.
Testimony and events to
inform groups and officials
about community challenges
and opportunities.
Research, recommendations for
action, and advocacy to advance
community plans.
Neighborhood to regional
coalitions to advance specific
policy recommendations.

The PSPD also enjoys a relationship with
the New York Industrial Retention Network
(NYIRN) and with Project for Public Spaces
(PPS). NYIRN is the citys leading advocate
and technical assistance provider for indus-
try, and a national leader in studying and
advocating green construction and industry.
PPS is the nations leading proponent of
placemaking, traffic calming, public mar-
kets, and more, with projects all around the
world. PSPD students have ample opportu-
nity to intern with NYIRN and PPS, and work
on their projects. Other internship place-
ments include the New York City Economic
Development Corporation and other city
agencies, the Landmarks Conservancy and
other civic organizations, NYC Environmen-
tal Justice Alliance and other environmental
groups, and community-based organizations
throughout New York City.
SUSTAINABILIT Y AT PRAT T
The PSPD is one of the founding members of
Pratts Sustainability Coalition (www.csds
.pratt.edu), an interdisciplinary committee
of students, faculty, and staff. The Sustain-
ability Coalition facilitates awareness,
communication, and cross-departmental
interaction about environmental sustainabil-
ity, in addition to organizing the Institutes
annual Green Week.
GLOBAL PRACTICE
The PSPD is responding to the challenges
of the global village with courses that run
partly or entirely abroad. These courses
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 43
are as much about students learning global degree can be pursued simultaneously or
innovations and practices as about providing sequentially so long as 15+ credits of the
opportunities for students to study in foreign Pratt masters degree are completed after
places. For example, Pratt students have matriculation at Brooklyn Law.
traveled to Brazil to consider innovative
approaches to affordable housing; studied Contact:
the revitalization of former industrial
Julie Sculli
districts in the Czech Republic, Germany,
Academic Services Coordinator
and Brooklyn with European students;
Brooklyn Law School
and fleshed out the community details of
julie.sculli@brooklaw.edu
a regional sustainability plan for Goa with
718.780.0626
Indian students.
www.brooklaw.edu/academic/joint/
jointprogramsphp#mscity
JOINT DEGREE IN L AW
Pratt Institute and Brooklyn Law School
sponsor a program leading to the degrees
of Master of Science in City and Regional
Planning and Juris Doctor (J.D.). By taking
full advantage of the PSPDs alliance of
programs, all PSPD students can further
specialize in community development,
environmental policy, preservation, or
real estate. Students can also participate in
Brooklyn Laws Community Development
Clinic, which represents community
development corporations, cultural
institutions, and affordable housing
providers that serve underrepresented
communities.
The joint degrees can be earned in four
to five years of full-time studyless time and
cost than if the two degrees were pursued
independently. Students must apply and
be accepted to both schools independently.
Unlike the PSPD, Brooklyn Law does not
admit students in spring, and prospective
law students must take the LSAT. The joint
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City and Regional Planning

Since its inception 50 years ago, the City and Regional CHAIR
John Shapiro
Planning program has remained true to its emphasis on an johnshapiro@pratt.edu

education that stresses practice over theory, participatory

ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
planning over top-down policy making, and advocacy over Adia Ware
aware@pratt.edu
technocracy. Pratts accredited Master of Science in City and
Regional Planning requires 60 credits. The schedule of classes OFFICE

allows for prospective students to enter in fall or spring, and Tel: 718.399.4340
www.pratt.edu/pspd
complete their studies in two or two-and-a-half years.

To promote specialized or interdiscipli as from faculty. Virtually every student is

nary study, half of the credits are in elective
seminars and studios. While by no means
required, students can focus on one of six
particular professional specializations,
corresponding to the programs areas of
strength. These are described on the next
two pages.
INTERNSHIPS
assured an opportunity for an internship, and
four out of five students do so.
ST UDIO CULT URE
All of the advanced planning studios are
interdisciplinary, drawing students from
the other PSPD programs: Sustainable
Environmental Systems, Facilities
Management, and Historic Preservation.

Most students have had, or in the course of The studios tackle real planning challenges,

study will gain, work experience in the field in connection with a project of the Pratt

so that peers learn from each other as well Center for Community Development or
another advocacy organization.
Opposite: Student plan for retaining industry while
addressing climate change in Brooklyn

COMMUNIT Y DEVELOPMENT AND
PARTICIPATORY PL ANNING
Students focus on asset-based approaches
to strengthen healthy places and revitalize
distressed ones. They learn how to
regulate land use with neighborhood
quality of life in mind, develop affordable
housing, strengthen businesses and retain
jobs, and enhance urban environments
through design and amenities. The
programs alliance with the Pratt Center
for Community Development provides the
underpinning for this specialization. For
more information, visit prattcenter.net/.
PHYSICAL PL ANNING
Students develop an understanding of the
interplay among physical, social, regulatory,
cultural, and economic considerations in
creating viable physical patterns for diverse
contextsfrom large-scale development
to neighborhoods and cities. The emphasis
is on the experience of place and economic
and social vitality, rather than on pure
design or a particular design ideology.
PL ACEMAKING AND ALTERNATIVE
TRANSPORTATION
In the past 10 years there has been a
paradigm shift in thinking about urbanism,
from a primary focus on buildings to one
on the spaces between buildingspublic
space. Students learn to create and manage
successful, vibrant, and equitable public
Opposite: International courses and studios run in
Copenhagen, So Paolo, Tokyo, and India
spaces from a bottom-up, people-centric
approach.
SUSTAINABILIT Y AND RESILIENCY
In considering urban air, water, waste, and
brownfield problems and best practices,
students learn how to promote sustainable
communities and environmental justice.
With the creation of Recovery Adaptation
Mitigation Planning (RAMP), students
can focus on climate change and disaster
planning. RAMP links multiple studios,
seminars, and workshops directed at
one neighborhood each semester, and
in cooperation with local, research, and
advocacy organizations. (Refer to the
Sustainable Environmental Systems
program for additional electives.)
PRESERVATION PL ANNING
Students learn to integrate historic
preservation in the wider context of
urbanism, real-estate development, and
sustainability. The National Council for
Preservation Education recognizes the
Preservation Planning specialization. (Refer
to the Historic Preservation program for
additional electives.)
PUBLIC PURPOSE REAL-ESTATE
DEVELOPMENT
Students can gain the full range of knowl-
edge associated with expertise in real estate
development, but with an emphasis on green
development, affordable housing, adaptive
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 47
reuse, and public/private partnerships. (Refer
to the Facilities Management program for ad-
ditional electives).
JOINT DEGREE IN L AW
Pratt Institute and Brooklyn Law School
sponsor a program leading to the degrees
of Master of Science in City and Regional
Planning and Juris Doctor (J.D.). By taking
full advantage of the PSPDs alliance of
programs, all PSPD students can further
specialize in community development,
environmental policy, preservation, or real
estate. (Refer to the earlier PSPD section for
more details.)
I
use a lot of the concepts
of design, construction,
and development I learned
at Pratt to work with
architects and developers.
MITCHELL SILVER, B.Arch. 87,
Raleigh, North Carolina, Chief Planning
and Economic Development Officer;
President, American Planning
Association

Sustainable Environmental
Systems
The Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Systems is
one of the nations most innovative, interdisciplinary, systems-
based sustainability programs.
The Master of Science in Sustainable
Environmental Systems (SES) is designed
to meet todays increasing demand for
environmental professionals. Students
learn the interdisciplinary skills needed to
assess contemporary environmental issues;
catalyze innovative environmental problem
solving; uphold environmental and social
justice; and engage diverse stakeholders
in designing and developing sustainable
plans, policies, and communities. Graduates
are prepared to take on a range of roles as
environmental designers, policy analysts,
sustainability consultants, low-impact
developers, researchers, and advocates,
collaborating with environmental scientists,
policymakers, and communities.
Opposite: Student work from Green Infrastructure
Design and Build course
49
COORDINATOR
Jaime Stein
718.399.4328
jstein9@pratt.edu
ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
Adia Ware
THE SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL
718.399.4340
SYSTEMS PROGR AM IS UNIQUE IN ITS
aware@pratt.edu
COMBINATION OF SCIENCE, DESIGN,
AND P OLICY.
www.pratt.edu/uesm
By uniting a foundation of theoretical and
technical core courses with innovative
mini-courses, the program offers a uniquely
comprehensive curriculum that fosters
exposure to cutting-edge practicing
professionals. The program encourages
students to closely examine the relationships
between the environment, policy, and
public health. It examines the true cost of
environmental burdens and social benefit.

THE SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL
SYSTEMS PROGRAM IS UNIQUE IN ITS
EMPHASIS ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT.
As integral members of the Programs for
Sustainable Planning and Development
(PSPD), students are exposed to land use,
transportation, preservation, development,
and economic planning strategies. Through
this exploration, students understand the
complexities of the urban context and can
analyze global, federal, state, and local
policies accordingly. Students learn the skills
needed to build and preserve sustainable
urban communities. Through the Recovery
Adaptation Mitigation and Planning Initiative
(RAMP) the SES program has formed an
interdisciplinary suite of studio courses and
workshops in which students and faculty
from the School of Architecture work with
local community leaders from the regions
most vulnerable coastal communities. The
collaborative approach of RAMP enables
focused, interdisciplinary study and
implementation of resiliency strategies
for sustainable coastal communities.
The Sustainable Environmental Systems
program welcomes students with a variety
of undergraduate degrees, recognizing
that sustainability is most effective when
integrating a number of disciplines.
Students entering the program with
relevant professional experience, or with
a Bachelor of Architecture or a B.S./B.E. in
civil engineering or environmental science
degree, may receive up to 10 credits of
advanced standing.
Opposite: Segments from final student presentations
focused on sustainability indicators and energy systems
DIVERSIT Y
Students learn from each other as well
as from faculty. Most students have had
(or in the course of study will gain) work
experience in the environmental or related
fieldsas architects, engineers, community
organizers, and entrepreneurs. As the degree
is particularly rewarding for those seeking
professional development, many students
have existing professional experience.
INTERNSHIPS
Virtually every student is assured an
internship with an organization, agency, or
professional practice. In the past, interns
have been placed with the Mayors Office
of Long Term Planning and Sustainability,
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, New York
Industrial Retention Network, and Pratts
Center for Sustainable Design. Internship
examples include modeling energy
efficiency efforts in Bedford-Stuyvesant
with the Pratt Center for Community
Development; working with local businesses
to develop sustainability plans; and working
on LEED-certified projects. (Refer to the
earlier section on the PSPD for details.)
DESIGN + BUILD
Working alongside professionals, and using
New York City as a laboratory, students
learn a sustainability concept and its
implementation. This experience is reflected
in our Green Infrastructure Design + Build
studio as well as our Green Infrastructure
fellowships.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 51
CAREER
By bringing cutting-edge New York
City sustainability practitioners into
the classroom, students have access to
an invaluable network as they enter the
professional world.
The Sustainable Environmental Systems
program is integrated with other PSPD
programs, with the option for extended study
beyond the 40-credit Master of Science in
SES, as follows:
Courses in the City and Regional
Planning program expose students to
land use, transportation, and economic
development planning strategies. Joint
studios deal with sustainability plans
for development sites, neighborhoods,
and businesses.
Courses in the Facilities Management
program allow for a focus on green develop-
ment and property management practices.
Courses in the Historic Preservation
program allow for a focus on livability and
the recognition that often the least carbon
footprint approach is to preserve and reuse.
Courses within the Center for
Continuing and Professional studies allow
for an Advanced Certificate in Green
Infrastructure, a 21-credit hour professional
training in urban green infrastructure
(www.pratt.edu/prostudies).

Historic Preservation
Part of the School of Architecture, Historic
Preservation at Pratt is a two-year 44-credit
program leading to a Master of Science in
Historic Preservation.
The Historic Preservation (HP) program
prepares students for leadership in a continu-
ously changing preservation context. With a
broad grasp of cultural heritage issues, law,
policy, and practice coupled with documen-
tation, evaluation, communication, and
interpretative skills, the programs scholars
are prepared with the essential practical and
professional tools of the field. Case studies
and interaction with community leaders and
practitioners insure an integrative, interdis-
ciplinary, and inclusive approach. The New
York City environment, its urban context,
and an accomplished faculty support the
goal of excellence and national recognition
in the field.
Courses such as history, documenta-
tion and interpretation, adaptive reuse,
architecture, preservation planning, policy,
and heritage impart the broad range of skills
practitioners need today to practice in this
field. Students are encouraged to analyze
Opposite: Documentation research for the Brooklyn
Navy Yard studio workshop
53
preservation policies and methods within a
broader historical and social context, a critical ACADEMIC COORDINATOR
Nadya K. Nenadich
approach that enables graduates to practice
718.399.4326
at the highest professional level. Internships nnenadic@pratt.edu
give students real-world experience.
The program also seeks to foster a critical ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
approach to the field. Historic Preserva- Adia Ware
tion is in the midst of many changes as the 718.399.4340
aware@pratt.edu
profession grapples with the integration of
environmental, sustainability, and livability
issues. An urban focus, using New York City
as a laboratory, allows students to interact
not just with preservation professionals
but also with the residents and community
groups of historic neighborhoods, experienc-
ing as students the world they will work in.
The faculty is drawn from preservation
professionals who bring the real world of
preservation practicethat of the architect,
the designer, the historian, the private sector,
the government, and the nonprofitsinto the
classroom. Students intern at the New York
City Landmarks Preservation Commission,
the Municipal Art Society, at preservation
organizations, and in architects offices,
working at the cutting edge of our field.
Internships range from community
organizations at one end to the World
Monuments Fund at the other.
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Study abroad is available. Last year,
classes ran in Rome, Copenhagen, Brazil,
and India.
The Historic Preservation program
is located on Pratts 25-acre Brooklyn
campus, which is on the National Register of
Historic Places, and which boasts several
buildings officially designated as New York
City or New York State landmarks.
What were looking for in an application
is two-fold:
1. that you can handle the level of gradu-
ate work at Pratt successfully; and
2. that Pratt is the right place for you.
GPA is important, but we also look at what
interests you have as shown by extracur-
ricular activities, hobbies, and jobs. The
statement of purpose is very important.
No portfolio is required and we do not
require the GRE. An in-person or telephone
interview is strongly recommended. In your
statement, please tell us why you want a
degree in historic preservation and why you
want to come to Pratt. We want to be sure
that the students we select are those who can
best benefit from our unique focus and who
will bring original insights into our field.
LIFE AF TER PRAT T
HP graduates have found jobs in all areas
of historic preservation. They work at local
preservation and community organiza-
tions and at the National Park Service and
the World Monuments Fund. They work in
architectural and planning offices and house
museums. They run statewide preservation
organizations. Some have even come back to
teach at Pratt. A number of current students,
recent graduates, and other alumni have said
they will speak with prospective students. If
you are interested, their email addresses will
be made available to you.
Above: Adaptive reuse plan designed by students for a
vacant hospital
Opposite: East Village studio workshop students
considered street life, retailing, and culture

Facilities Management
The Master of Science program in Facilities Management (FM)
prepares graduates as professionals and problem solvers to
assume executive responsibilities in the management of facilities.
Facilities management executive responsi
bilities include assurance of a quality
environment, cost-effective capital and
operating investments, and the management
of facilities and equipment as assets.
Pratts Facilities Management Program
teaches innovative approaches to emerging
technologies, sustainable practices, and
ethical values, which distinguish Pratts
Facilities Management alumni as they lead
the fields efforts to advance the quality of
the built environment.
SPECIAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Undergraduate degrees in business,
architecture, construction management,
and engineering fields are preferred for
admission. Applicants receiving a bachelors
degree in other fields are also eligible but
Opposite: Students attend the Building Information
Modeling for Facilities Managers course
57
CHAIR
Harriet Markis, P.E., SECB
hmarkis@pratt.edu
ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
may be required to take non-credit courses Philip Ramus
fm@pratt.edu
in technical subjects prior to registering for
required courses.
OFFICE
Applicants must submit a statement
Tel: 212.647.7524 | Fax: 212.367.2497
of purpose in essay format to support the www.pratt.edu/arch/fm
application for advanced studies. The
essay should indicate an interest in or
an awareness of issues addressed in the
Facilities Management program.
Interviews are recommended and may
be scheduled by contacting the department
at fm@pratt.edu. Students are eligible
for graduate assistantships and tuition
scholarships upon acceptance into the
program only.
Facilities management has emerged
as a new area of expertise as communities,
corporations, and institutions systematically
plan for growth and change.
The Executive Facilities Management
function consists of a distinct set of
responsibilities.

These include:
Strategic planning.
Financial forecasting and budgeting.
Real-estate acquisition and disposal.
Architectural and engineering
planning and design.
Construction management,
maintenance, and operations
management.
The integration of new technologies
into existing and planned facilities.
Managing these areas of responsibility
requires the merging of business skills and
technical expertise. With this paradigm
in mind, graduates of the Facilities
Management Program will be able to:
Understand the planning, construc
tion, and operations framework in
which facilities are managed at local,
regional, national, and international
levels; and act as liaison between the
owner and professional service agents
on building teams.
Synthesize interdisciplinary efforts and
act across traditional administrative,
planning, and operational boundaries
to organize, coordinate, and
control diverse facilities and manage
ment activities.
Perceive design requirements,
their impact on quality of life and
environmental issues, and their value
in the engineering of facilities.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 59
Analyze facilities needs and develop SUSTAINABILIT Y
planning initiatives and effective
Electives can be taken in PSPD programs to
implementation strategies that are
provide depth as to a variety of sustainability
responsive to specific current and
practices: LEED certification, green roofs,
projected facilities issues.
energy conservation, alternative energy
Manage the process of facility sources, construction innovation, and more.
development to complete projects
on schedule and within budget to a
PL ANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
specified standard of quality.
Further real-estate development expertise
Direct and lead the specialists,
can be garnered through a combination
consultants, and in-house staff, as
of construction management, facilities
well as outsourcing organizations
management, and other PSPD electives
that perform specific aspects of the
dealing with zoning, public approvals,
facilities management function.
market studies, adaptive reuse, real-estate
Coordinate development activities law, environmental law, historic preservation
with ongoing operations to minimize compliance, and more.
disruptions and maintain the
continuity of facilities functions and
PRESERVATION
economic viability.
Electives can be taken in PSPD
The faculty consists of professionals
programs to provide extra knowledge of
actively engaged in facilities management
architectural history, adaptive reuse, and
in the public and private sectors as well
landmark approvals.
as in the various areas of specialization.
This combination of actively practicing
WORK AND ST UDY
faculty and students working in the field
brings a dynamic vitality to Pratts Facilities The Facilities Management courses are
Management program. offered in the evening at the Pratt Manhattan
Part of Programs for Sustainable Center, affording students the maximum
Planning and Development (PSPD), flexibility to combine work and study.
Pratts Facilities Management Program Refer to the earlier PSPD section for
is unique in its opportunity for enriched more information on these opportunities.
study, potentially leading to careers in real-
estate development, as well as expertise in
sustainability and preservation.
Opposite (clockwise from top left): FM students at
Winter Conference in Kufstein, Austria; FM student
Karen Hoffman at Madison Square Garden; Students
field trip to Washington, D.C.; Pratt Manhattan campus
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School of Art

The School of Art is home ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION ACTING DEAN
Leighton Pierce
to the most comprehensive ARTS AND CULT URAL MANAGEMENT
professional art education ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
TO THE DEAN
CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY
available. Katherine Morris

Two major objectives guide every DESIGN MANAGEMENT

ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN
department. The first is an emphasis on Donna Gorsline
DIGITAL ARTS
professional skills development. The
schools students gain the techniques, ASSISTANT DEAN FOR ACADEMIC
FINE ARTS AFFAIRS
skills, methodology, and vocabulary
Dianne Bellino
required for success as productive artists,
designers, and scholars.
ACTING ASSOCIATE DEAN
The second objectiveimperative so that
Amir Parsa
the professional expertise is not simply tech-
nical trainingis development of the critical DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND
judgment and historical perspective needed ADMINISTRATION
to become a problem solver. Art and design Daisy Rivera

history, melded with studies in the liberal arts

and sciences, provides the context for stimu- OFFICE
Main Building, Fourth Floor
lating intellectual and creative inquiry.
Tel: 718.636.3619 | Fax: 718.636.3410
Gifted students from across the United
States and the world collaborate and learn
at Pratt, weaving creative energy and
opportunity into an unmatched educational
experience.

Opposite: Work by Trudy Benson (M.F.A. 10)

62
The faculty consists of professional art-
ists, designers, and practitioners, including
numerous recipients of prestigious awards
such as the Tiffany, Fulbright, and Gug-
genheim fellowships. The facultys works,
projects, and publications are recognized and
respected around the world.
In addition to the outstanding curricula
and faculty, the School of Art offers a wide
range of graduate degree offerings in Fine
Arts and Media studio disciplines as well
as programs in Art and Design Education,
Creative Arts Therapy, and Arts and Cultural/
Design Management. All programs are sup-
ported by exceptional technical and studio
resources. Pratts distinguished professional
programs in the School of Design and the
School of Architecture also enrich the School
of Art programs.
Perhaps best of all, the schools disciplines
are taught in the broader cultural context of
New York City, which provides inspiration
and an opportunity to learn from the multi-
tude of artists and designers who abound in
this creative capital.
The mission of the School of Art is to
educate those who will make and shape
our built and mediated environment, our
aesthetic surroundings, and our collective
future. The School of Art is a diverse collec-
tion of disciplines, dedicated to the primacy
of studio practice and the transformative
power of creativity. We educate leaders in the
creative professions to identify, understand,
shape, and benefit from the challenges of
a rapidly changing world. Our courses are
designed to develop critical thinking skills,
deepen understanding, enable practice, and
empower visionary action. The School of Art
is dedicated to developing creative leadership
in a world that requires it.
Above: Work by Jean Paul Gomez (M.F.A. 13)
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Art and Design Education

In 1994, Pratt inaugurated the Master of Science in Art and ACTING CHAIR
Aileen Wilson
Design Education, drawing students from the worlds of awilson2@pratt.edu
718.636.3637
art, design, and architecture. The curriculum expands upon
the philosophy and practices of our continuing undergraduate ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
Lia Wilson
and post-baccalaureate programs and was one of the first in lwilso13@pratt.edu
the country to include design education. 718.636.3681

We endeavor to be progressive and dynamic
and at the forefront of our field while
providing a stimulating, challenging, and
supportive environment for our students,
faculty, and staff. Our students are
passionate teachers and learners engaged in
creative individual and community practice
as artists, educators, and researchers.
The earliest incarnation of the current
Department of Art and Design Education
was in the late 19th century, when Pratt
Institute opened its doors in Brooklyn, New
York. Opportunities to combine theory and
practice have been an integral part of the
program ever since. Now, as then, teaching is
viewed as a creative process with studio work
enhancing and complementing instruction
rather than competing with it.
In 1897, art classes for children were ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION
offered in cast drawing; sketching in outline, OFFICE
color, light, and shade; and freehand Tel: 718.636.3637 | Fax: 718.230.6817
adeinfo@pratt.edu
perspective. This was to be the genesis of a
www.pratt.edu/ad/ade
unique student teaching experience and
resource for the community. Beginning in
COORDINATOR,
1902, the Saturday classes were used as a YOUTH PROGRAMS
vehicle for art teacher training. The Saturday Tara Kopp
Art School became a laboratory where tkopp@pratt.edu
Tel: 718.636.3654
learning how to teach and researching issues
of pedagogy are modeled upon artistic
YOUTH PROGRAMS OFFICE
practice. Students test ideas, develop a
Tel: 718.636.3654 | Fax: 718.230.6876
personal teaching style, and explore research www.pratt.edu/youth
questions through participation and
observation. The seminars following the
Saturday classes are forums for reflection
upon both unfinished and completed projects.
Students thus get opportunities to work
collaboratively with their peers, community

Above: Saturday Art School sculpture class, ages 912,
with graduate student teacher Caitlin Reller.
Photo by Kevin Wick
Opposite: Saturday Art Schools Adventures in Art,
age 8, with graduate student teacher Erika Schroeder.
Photo by Kevin Wick
Page 66: Pratts Saturday Art School classes
members, and professionals in the field, while
they learn to develop lessons and construct
environments that promote critical inquiry
and creative practice.
The departments conception of art has
broadened considerably from those first
classes in the 19th century. A range of art
practices is presented and explored, from
traditional forms to contemporary multidisci-
plinary works.
Our approach to art and design educa-
tion is distinguished by a willingness to look
to other disciplines for inspiration. In recent
years, we have drawn upon the work of art-
ists, educators, and scholars in the elds of
literature, folklore, philosophy, and anthro-
SCHOOL OF ART 65
pology. Narrative and autobiography, play
and performance, meaning and memory
are threads that play an important role in
our classroom conversations and research.
We ask our students to go beyond textbook
vocabulary and style. Their plans, essays, and
research papers are developed from their own
stories and personal knowledge. Reflective
practitioners, they are prepared to work effec-
tively in diverse cultural contexts and to apply
interdisciplinary perspectives in a variety of
educational settings.
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Through a combination of individual ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN ART AND WORKSHOPS

study, observation, and reection, along with DESIGN EDUCATION

collaborative and interactive experiences,

students learn how to articulate the inexpress-
ible, imagine the invisible, and convey a sense
of the aesthetic in their art classrooms as well
as in their own lives and in the community at
large. The study of art and design education
leads us back to our own creativity.
BROOKLYN CAMPUS
This 23-credit-hour program is open to
individuals with an M.F.A. degree, or those
currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program at
Pratt. For those applicants already holding an
M.F.A. degree, the program may be com-
pleted in two semesters.
Child Abuse Identification Workshop
School Violence Prevention and
Intervention Workshop
Training in Harassment, Bullying,
Cyberbullying, and Discrimination in
Schools: Prevention and Intervention

These workshops must be taken with a

The Programs Structure
M.S. IN ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION
WITH INITIAL TEACHER CERTIFICATION IN
VISUAL ARTS, PRE-K12
BROOKLYN CAMPUS, A 38-CREDIT-HOUR DEGREE
Applicants must have completed a four-year
undergraduate program with a minimum
of 25 credit hours in the appropriate courses
in studio art and/or the history of art from a
regionally accredited institution of higher
education, or one that is approved by the
New York State Department of Education, or
with the equivalent of the bachelors degree
from an international institution of accept-
able standards.
All applicants must submit a portfolio of 15
provider approved by NYSED.
images of work (submit online at pratt.slide-
room.com). The required written statement
of purpose is given significant consideration. PASSING SCORES ON THE FOLLOWING
TESTS AND ASSESSMENTS:
All applicants are contacted for a Skype
interview when all credentials have been
received. A TOEFL of 600 (250 computer or
Educating All Students (EAS)
100 Internet) is required for international Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST)
students. All applicants are encouraged to Content Specialty Test (CST)
schedule a visit to the department.
edTPA
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
In order to be recommended for NYSED
Initial/Professional Certification in Visual
Arts, Pre-K12, candidates must also have
completed the following:

A 3-credit course in child and adolescent

M.S. IN ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION
psychology and a 3-credit course in a foreign
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
language are pre- or co-requisites. These
BROOKLYN CAMPUS, A 34-CREDIT-HOUR DEGREE
courses may be taken at Pratt or transferred
Applicants must have received their Initial
from another post-secondary school.
Certification as a teacher of Visual Arts and
have prior teaching experience.

Arts and Cultural Management
The mission of the Arts and Cultural Management (ACM)
graduate program is to build on Pratt Institutes international
reputation for developing creative leaders. Our programs
mission is to develop leaders able to use their creativity
strategically to foster creative expression, build creative
community, and shape a commerce of ideas and images in an
increasingly challenged and mediated world. ACM prepares
participants to lead and manage in a changing cultural
landscape that includes new challenges, new media, and new
forms of cultural expression. Based in experiential learning,
the program creates a collaborative learning community that
sharpens critical thinking, deepens reflective practice, and
develops strategic leadership skills.
The program encourages participants to
consider their role in society and their
respective communities as cultural arbiters
and educators. This approach yields arts
and cultural leaders who are equipped with
the necessary theoretical, analytical, and
practical skills to respond creatively to the
changing cultural, economic, and social
environments in which they work. The
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institutions
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CHAIR
Mary McBride, Ph.D.
OFFICE
Tel: 212.647.7560
acm@pratt.edu
www.pratt.edu/ad/acm
two-year Arts and Cultural Management
(ACM) Program, created to bridge the
creative disciplines with the strategic
disciplines, provides a leadership education
more focused than an M.B.A. on the
special needs of cultural leaders managing
21st-century creative enterprise across
the boundaries of private, nonprofit, and
government sectors. Our program objective
is to develop reflective leaders who can
collaborate to create sustainable strategic
advantages using our Triple Bottom Line
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that are inherent in arts and cultural

business environments.

Utilizing technology and new media to

advance strategic goals.

Providing practical skills for

negotiating organizational and artistic
conflicts.

Broadening outlooks on the social,

economic, and political climate and
the role of arts and cultural institutions
in society.

Sharpening personal capacities

for understanding and solving
organizational and human relations
problems.

Developing communications skills for

the effective exchange of ideas and
information.

Sharpening the individuals capacities

to anticipate and effectively manage
change fueled by external forces.

Developing the leadership capabilities

of each participant.

Sharing the ideas and experiences of

The programs core principles and key study areas provide an integrated focus on the role of strategic
a diverse group of promising arts and
design in the creation and management of thriving cultures, communities, and commerce
cultural managers.
by Design plus Culture (TBLD+C) strategic Stretching each participants ability The ACM program prepares participants for
framework. By expanding the coursework to deal with a wide range of critical
a rapidly shifting cultural, economic, and
to include nonprofit management practices, artistic, institutional, and business
social environment and political context.
public policy, and other contemporary problems in practical and theoretical
It provides the skills necessary to lead and
issues, ACM stresses the importance terms.
manage in a changing world and an increas-
of simultaneously developing business
Increasing the individuals ability to ingly challenged ecosystem.
acumen and a sense of social responsibility.
manage complex, cross-disciplinary, The ACM program provides
These goals are accomplished by:
and competing problems and tensions participants with the opportunity to:
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Join a creative learning
community of professionals with
diverse expertise.
Develop a strategic skill set
that bridges public, profit, and
working professionals and those who may
wish to pursue full-time internships.
The Programs Structure
and professional goals, including how the
applicant hopes to use the skills he or she
acquires in this program. The statement
should be no more than 500 words or two
pages. In some cases, volunteer experience

nonprofit sectors. will be an acceptable demonstration of

Explore the role of art, culture, and
meaning-making in shaping equity,
economy, and ecology of place.
Create and expand professional
networks worldwide.
Examine trends and global challenges.
Use technology to advance
dialogue and engagement.
Refine communication, collaboration,
and conflict-management skills.
Lead the development of thriving
cultures and creative economies.
Leadership coaching is a key component
of the Arts and Cultural Management
program. It provides participants with an
opportunity to reflect on their leadership
style and identify strengths and stretch
steps. Coaches work one-on-one and with
participant teams and serve as catalysts for
positive change and ongoing development
related to career needs. Coaches enable and
support participants. They assist in conduct-
ing assessments, enabling participants to
develop specific personal and professional
development action plans, and enabling
teams to deepen their skill in managing con-
flict and encouraging innovation.
Classes are offered on alternating
weekends in Manhattan to accommodate
interest in the field. An interview (in person,
The Arts and Cultural Management Program
by phone, or by email) with the program
is a two-year, cohort-based program.
director is required for admission. A
Participants are required to take 42 credits to
minimum 3.0 undergraduate cumulative
complete the program and receive a Master
index is required. For international students,
of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Arts and
a minimum Test of English as a Foreign
Cultural Management. The program has five
Language (TOEFL) score of 600 is required.
required semestersfall, spring, summer,
Course enrollment is available to fully
fall, spring. Each semester is divided into two
matriculated Design Management and Arts
terms and participants enroll in two courses
and Cultural Management students only.
per term, with the exception of semesters
three and five. Courses are taken in order as
listed in the program curriculum. Two five-day
intensivesat the beginning and middle of the
programprovide the opportunity for several
brief, intensive courses, including behavioral
simulation and negotiating modules.
Coursework is concentrated in these
sessions and moves at a fast pace. Class
attendance is critical, since each alternating
weekend of classes is one-tenth of the entire
course. Students are required to complete the
42 credit hours of the program to graduate.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Applicants should demonstrate substantial
experience in a related field or activity and
an interest in leading cultural enterprises.
The required statement of purpose should
reflect the applicants personal vision of how
this program fits in with his or her personal

Creative Arts Therapy
Established in 1970, Pratts Graduate Department of Creative
Arts Therapy is one of the oldest graduate creative arts
therapy training programs in the country.
Pratt offers a Master of Professional Studies
in Art Therapy and Creativity Development,
a Master of Professional Studies in Art
Therapy with Special Needs Children, and
a Master of Science in Dance/Movement
Therapy. Students learn creative arts
therapy skills as applied to a wide variety of
patient populations, including psychiatric
inpatient and outpatient, substance abuse,
geriatric, special education, therapeutic
nurseries, after-school programs, families,
medical rehabilitation, Child Life, eating
disorders, AIDS, the homeless, and
traumatized populations, as well as work
in prevention and wellness. At the end of
their training, students are prepared for
entry work in a broad continuum of settings,
ranging from institutions to creative work in
the community.
Our students learn to combine personal
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CHAIR
Julie Miller
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRE TARY
Jean Simmons
artistry with clinical acumen through the
OFFICE
integration of experiential, theoretical, Tel: 718.636.3428 | Fax: 718.636.3597
and practical learning. Our goal is to help adt@pratt.edu
students to be able to use a complex and open www.pratt.edu/ad/ather
theoretical framework that makes it possible
for them to respond to a multitude of clinical
situations. They learn to use themselves in
the most creative ways possible, while being
grounded in developmental and diagnostic
skills, group, and individual dynamics.
Each student is encouraged to develop his
or her own unique style, informed by an
experiential process.
Our philosophy stems from the
understanding of art therapy and dance/
movement therapy as experiential
therapies. Experiential learning and
process orientation are the cornerstones
of our curriculum. Every course includes
some experiential components, and the
department maintains an environment
that supports and encourages the students
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involvement in that process. Accordingly,
we are committed to maintaining small class
sizes, to enhancing communication between
students and faculty, and to encouraging
discussion of the learning process itself.
One of the strongest elements of our
program is the synthesis of the theoretical
and the practical. Our program combines
practicum/internship assignments with
coursework from beginning to end, providing
graduates with a firm grounding in the actual
practice of art and dance/movement therapy
upon graduation. Students attend two days
of practicum/internship weekly. They must
complete one practicum/ internship in each
of two years. They receive weekly on-site
supervision. In addition, they engage in
weekly group and bi-monthly individual
supervision with one of our faculty. Because
Pratt is located in a large urban center, there is
a wide variety of practicum sites with a range
of populations. Our internship coordinators
assist students in finding an appropriate
clinical placement based on the learning
needs of the student.
There is richness to be gained from
including both art therapy and dance/
movement therapy students in the
department. Students can learn about the
nature of creative arts therapy in general
and the particular strengths and limitations
of their chosen modality. A majority of the
courses are discipline specific, although
many of the classes are taken with art and
dance therapists combined. Graduates
receive discrete degrees, in either art or
dance therapy.
Knowledge of research and professional
writing skills are developed through
completion of a thesis. Students are given
the option of a range of research methods,
including quantitative and qualitative. The
latter may include a case study, a project
implemented in the community, or descriptive
methods investigating the experience of a
phenomenon or therapeutic process.
The American Art Therapy Association
has approved both art therapy degrees. The
Dance Therapy program is approved by the
American Dance Therapy Association. All
programs are licensure-qualifying and
graduates automatically satisfy educational
requirements for licensure in New York State.
For those considering a career in art or dance
therapy or who want a basic introduction, we
offer the Spring Institute, which is a three-
day set of courses in various areas of creative
arts therapy.
The Creative Arts Therapy program
offers its degrees in two formats. The
Academic Year format offers classes in
a traditional manner, with classes in fall
and spring semesters, for 15 weeks each
semester. The low residency format is an
innovative educational program based on
a low residency adult learning model. The
program is designed for those students
who do not live near or are otherwise
unable to engage in a traditional masters
degree format.
The Programs Structure
M.P.S. IN ART THERAPY AND CREATIVIT Y
DEVELOPMENT AND M.S. IN DANCE/
MOVEMENT THERAPY
These programs provide a synthesis of
creative, aesthetic, and psychotherapeutic
theory. Courses offer a thorough theoretical
framework that is then translated into
personal and practical application through
an experiential process. Artwork and/or
movement is done in every course and is used
to learn therapeutic skills. Students focus on a
wide variety of populations and are required
to work with a different population for each of
the two years of internship/practicum. Both
programs are for students who want a broad
body of skills, balanced with a strong
theoretical framework.
M.P.S. IN ART THERAPY WITH SPECIAL
NEEDS CHILDREN
The program is intended to train art
therapists who want to work with special
education populations, not as art teachers.
The degree does not qualify students for a
teaching license. Classes are the same as
for other art therapy students. The main
differences are:
In both years of the practicum
experience students must work with
special education populations.
Distinct readings are given in
some classes.
Papers and case presentations center
on a special education population.
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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
(FOR ALL DEGREES)
A bachelors degree is required for
admission. For the Art Therapy program,
a degree in art or psychology is preferred.
For the Dance Therapy program, a degree
in dance or psychology is preferred. The
following prerequisites are required for
all programs: 12 credits in psychology
(to include coursework in general,
developmental, and abnormal psychology
and theories of personality).
For the Art Therapy program only: 18
credits in studio art (to include coursework
in drawing, painting, and 3-D to include
ceramics).
but all other prerequisites must be completed
before starting the program. Psychology
credits must be completed before the start of
the second year.
Students in the academic year format are
admitted for the fall semester only. Students
in the low residency format are admitted for
the spring semester only.
ACADEMIC YEAR FORMAT
The cycle of classes in New York is as
follows: students take a number of courses
and practicum/internship from September
through May for two consecutive years.
LOW RESIDENCY FORMAT
Housing is available on campus when
courses are being held in New York. Courses
in New Hampshire take place in Lincoln, in
the White Mountains. Students rent resort
condominiums, at reasonable prices, for
the duration of their stay. The low residency
format is offered to both art and dance/
movement therapy students.
The low residency program is
not considered full-time. Therefore
international students will be ineligible
for F-1 Visas.

For the Dance/Movement Therapy The cycle of classes is as follows: students

program only: coursework in anatomy/
kinesiology; extensive experience in at least
two idioms of dance, one of which must be
modern dance; and experience in mind/
body modalities, such as meditation, yoga,
body therapy, etc.
All prerequisite courses may be taken on an
undergraduate level but must be taken from
an accredited institution to receive academic
credit. Studio classes will be accepted for
movement experience. For the Art Therapy
program, students may start classes with half
of the psychology and half of the studio art
credits but must complete all prerequisites
before the start of the second year. For the
Dance Therapy program, students may start
classes with half of the psychology credits,
take one class (79 days) in mid-March in
New York. During the last week of June, they
take another class (79 days), also in New
York. During the first three weeks of July,
students take courses (over three weeks) in
New Hampshire.
Students complete reading assignments
before classes and then complete their papers
after classes are over, giving them a chance
to integrate class experience with readings
and practicum/internship experience. Two
years of practicum/internship are done
from September through May following the
first and second year of summer classes.
Supervision is completed through weekly
phone, video, and online contacts that keep
low residency students consistently in touch
with Pratt faculty.
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Design Management

Design education imparts many things, but it does not CHAIR

Mary McBride, Ph.D.
typically provide training in the leadership, team building,
strategy, nance, marketing, and operations skills necessary OFFICE
Tel: 212.647.7538
to effectively lead a design department or to run a design dm@pratt.edu
business. Similarly, M.B.A.s who are selected to lead design www.pratt.edu/ad/dm

functions often lack the design experience necessary to guide

design decisions or to lead creative people.

The Design Management (DM) program was
created to bridge the disciplines of design and
business management. The two-year program
provides an executive education more focused
than an M.B.A. on the special needs of design
leaders managing design firms or managing
design teams in creative industries. Since its
launch in 1995, the program has been
providing an executive education more
focused than an M.B.A. on the special needs of
leaders managing design firms or teams in
creative industries.
Design Management classes are
designed for working professionals
and delivered by working professionals
from the worlds of business and
design. Participants come from a variety
of disciplines, including industrial
design, interior design, graphic design,
fashion design, communication and
information design, interactive media
design, and architecture.
The programs academic calendar is
modeled after successful executive M.B.A.
programs. Its schedule of alternating
weekends (Saturdays and Sundays)
allows participants to carry their full job
responsibilities while they study.
The mission of the Design Management
(DM) graduate program is to build on Pratt
Institutes international reputation for
developing creative leaders and to provide an
educational experience that can help shape
21st-century strategic leaders who are able to
bridge the disciplines of design and business
to catalyze innovation. Our program
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strategic framework. Learn to identify and manage critical
management magazine; Top Right and Bottom The program provides designers with the business challenges strategically.
Left: Design Futures collaboration with EDC and
opportunity to:
Source4Style; Bottom Right: The programs core Practice using Triple Bottom Line
principles and key study areas provide an integrated by Design (TBLD) to create strategic
focus on the role of strategic design in the creation Join a learning community of
and management of sustainable advantage professionals with diverse professional and sustainable advantage and social
Above: Infographic exploring the the correlation of and cultural backgrounds. innovation.
sustainable practices, education, and quality of life.
Featured in Catalyst Issue 11 Develop a strong skill set in the Analyze key global social, economic,
discipline of business and the environmental, technological, and
objective is to develop reflective leaders management of design. political challenges.
who can collaborate to create sustainable Explore emerging trends and draw Meet the challenge of managing in
strategic advantage using our Triple Bottom from new ideas converging across team-based organizations.
Line by Design plus Culture (TBLD+C) design disciplines. Develop leadership capabilities.

Rene communication, negotiation,
and conict management skills.
Learn techniques for leading and man-
aging innovation.
Use technology to aid design in creat-
ing advantage.
Sharpen skills in operations and
project management, nance, and
budgeting.
Apply strategic thinking to marketing,
new product development, and brand
management.
Create and extend professional net-
works worldwide.
Leadership coaching is a key component
of the Design Management program. It
provides participants with an opportunity to
reflect on their leadership style and identify
strengths and stretch steps. Coaches work
one-on-one and with participant teams
and serve as catalysts for positive change
and ongoing development related to
career needs. Coaches enable and support
participants. They assist in conducting
assessments, enabling participants to
develop specific personal and professional
development action plans, and enabling
teams to deepen their skill in managing
conflict and encouraging innovation.
Graduates are prepared for leadership
roles in strategic design and strategic
management. They are able to use design
to create sustainable strategic advantage
and social innovation and to shape the way
business is designed worldwide.
SCHOOL OF ART 79
The Programs Structure to receive the accredited academic degree
Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in
Design Management.
The Design Management program
curriculum is designed to develop strategic
management skills in five areas related
ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS
to design management: operations Design Management program applicants
management, financial management, should ideally have an undergraduate
marketing management, organization degree in one of the design disciplines and
and human resource management, a minimum of three years professional
and management of innovation and experience prior to admission. All applicants
change. Courses are relevant and offer must follow the standard rules for admission
active learning experiences that provide to a graduate program at Pratt and meet those
participants with an integrated focus requirements. See www.pratt.edu/apply.
on the role of design in the creation and Course enrollment is available to fully
management of strategic and sustainable matriculated Design Management and Arts
advantage and social innovation. and Cultural Management students only.
Offered at Pratts West 14th Street campus
in Manhattan, classes meet every other
weekend for two full days or twelve hours.
In addition, students attend for a full week
at the beginning and middle of the program.
This integrative experience provides the
opportunity for several brief, intensive
courses, including behavioral simulation and
negotiating modules. These weeks establish
and maintain relationships among students
in each class, which many participants in
executive programs consider especially
valuable. The program has five required
semestersfall, spring, summer, fall, spring.
Each semester is divided into two terms and
participants enroll in two courses per term,
with the exception of semesters four and
five. Courses are taken in order as listed in
the program curriculum. Participants are
required to complete 42 credit hours in order
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Digital Arts

Imagine youre an artist who knows how to use every piece of CHAIR
Peter Patchen
hardware and software in the worldnow what?
ASSISTANT CHAIR
Carla Gannis
Students in the Graduate Digital Arts thriving New York art scene, establishing a
program at Pratt are immediately engaged professional network and taking advantage
ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
in the creation of artwork utilizing digital of exhibition opportunities that exist Deidre Carney
technologies. These artists come together to nowhere else in the country. Graduates
study interactive arts, digital animation and become leading contributors to the digital L AB MANAGERS
motion arts, and digital imaging. Within a arts with a commitment to the cultural Igor Molochevski
context of new media, students use critical enrichment of their world. Greg Blazer

thinking, creative problem solving, technical

facility, and conceptual skills to develop a OFFICE

sophisticated body of work.

The Programs Structure Tel: 718.636.3411 | Fax: 718.399.4494
dda@pratt.edu
Studio practice is essential for students http://dda.pratt.edu
of interactive art and imaging. Students Students are able to follow one of three

working in these areas of study are provided tracks: interactive arts, digital anima-

with studio space for the completion of tion and motion arts, and digital imaging.

their theses. This intensive course of study This 60-credit, full-time program is to be

is augmented by internships, special topics completed in two calendar years. Students

courses, and lectures and critiques by complete required coursework in their

visiting artists. Students create work with primary area of emphasis and one year of

the guidance of a faculty of professional work on a thesis, which culminates in a thesis

practicing artists and scholars, who serve as paper, exhibition, or screening of the com-

models in the pursuit of artistic excellence. pleted work. Additional degree requirements

Digital art students become part of the include completing six credits of extra-
departmental studio electives, one course in
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INTERACTIVE ARTS Admissions Requirements FACILITIES IMAGING CENTER

Students use computer-human interaction 9 digital studios The Digital Arts Imaging
Imaging center Center has class-
to convey meaning in the form of physical Applicants must have an undergraduate related equipment and
Audio room
installations, interactive objects, and online degree in art, design, or animation and Gallery/test space other services available
artworks. This includes the combination of only to registered
should submit a strong visual portfolio Graduate studios
(by concentration) Digital Arts students.
video, animation, text, audio, and imagery in demonstrating a conceptual and aesthetic Services include:
an interactive environment. Recommended focus. Applicants whose first language is ADDITIONAL Wide format
electives include courses in history of new not English must achieve a minimum score RESOURCES 2-D printing

media, sculpture, creating exhibitions, proto- of 550 on the Test of English as a Foreign B/W laser printers 3-D printing (ABS)
3-D printer (ABS) 3-D scanning
typing, programming, interactive installation, Language (TOEFL). In addition to the
3-D scanner Flatbed and
online media, robotics and physical comput- TOEFL requirement, all enrolling students slide scanning
Color laser and
ing, electronic music, and sound. whose first language is not English will inkjet printers
EQUIPMENT FOR
be tested for English Proficiency unless DVD and CD-ROM
duplicator CHECK OUT
they have a TOEFL score of 600. Pending INCLUDES:
DIGITAL ANIMATION AND MOTION ARTS Flatbed scanners
the outcome of this test, individuals
Slide scanner HD digital
Students create evocative narrative and may be assigned to ESL courses. For video cameras
RAID file storage
nonnarrative films and installations using more information, contact the Office of and transfer system Digital still cameras
2-D and 3-D digital animation techniques, Admissions at admissions@pratt.edu or the Plasma screen Portable lighting kits
live action, and motion graphics. Rec- Render farm Digital audio
department chair at 718.636.3411. recorders
Laser cutter
ommended electives include history of Digital Arts Graduate Assistantships are Headphones
animation, film criticism, traditional anima- available beginning in the first semester of SOF T WARE Microphones
tion, character design and rigging, lighting attendance. Positions range from assisting 11' 12' portable
Adobe Photoshop green screen
and rendering, audio and video, composit- faculty research to creative or technical Adobe Illustrator 35 mm projector
ing and special effects, and advanced digital support. Graduate Assistantships are Adobe InDesign Portable video
awarded based on individual skills or degree Adobe After Effects projection screens
animation techniques.
Apple Aperture Video tripods with
goals and are available throughout the three-way fluid head
AutoDesk Maya
Digital Arts M.F.A. degree program. Apple Final Cut Pro Wacom tablets
DIGITAL IMAGING
Apple Logic Installation computers
This area of study employs digital and Adobe Dreamweaver Digital projectors
(normal and
traditional processes in the creation of large- Adobe Flash wide throw)
format digital prints, installations, artist Adobe Director DVD players
books, and other tactile media. It addresses
Opposite: Piyatas Tantanapornchai (M.F.A. 13), Max/Msp/Jitter and recorders
interactive installation
Mental Ray Wide array of tutorials
critical issues and techniques in the develop- Pages 8485: Fangge Chen (M.F.A. 13), animation still Processing and much more.
ment, printing, and presentation of digitally Pages 8687: Loreto Riveros (M.F.A. 13), digital imaging Quicktime Pro
based art. Recommended electives include Pages 8889: Left: Yasmina Nysten (M.F.A. 12), digital Syflex
imaging installation;Right: Qian Zhang (M.F.A. 13),
critical history of photography, etching, silk- and much more
interactive installation
screen, lithography, and digital photography.

Fine Arts
The primary goal of the M.F.A. program is to provide an
advanced education for artists. To this end, we emphasize
the development of students as individual thinkers, makers,
and professionals.
Centrally located in Brooklyns thriving art
community, Pratts M.F.A. program in Fine
Arts immerses students in the culture of
contemporary art, supported by a faculty
of working artists and peers. The graduate
curriculum is both rigorous and flexible,
allowing wide latitude for interdisciplinary
exploration while fostering critical
perspectives and a deeper understanding of
the histories, issues, and cultural contexts that
inform artmaking today.
Pratts M.F.A. degree is in Fine Arts rather
than in a specific discipline. Students build
their program of study in consultation with a
faculty mentor and departmental advisors.
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CHAIR
Deborah Bright
ACTING ASSISTANT CHAIR
Dina Weiss
ASSISTANTS TO THE CHAIR
Nat Meade
Graduate instruction is offered in a wide Lisa Banke-Humann
range of media, including painting, drawing,
printmaking, photography, video, sculpture, TECHNICIANS
and integrated practices and new forms Adam Apostolos
(i.e. installation, public art, performance). Alexia Cohen
Yasu Izaki
Beyond departmental courses, M.F.A.
Sarah Shebaro
students may choose graduate-level Keith Simpson
electives in any department in Pratt Institute Christopher Verstegen
and concurrent dual degree programs
(M.S./M.F.A.) are offered in the History of OFFICE
Art and in Art and Design Education. Tel: 718.636.3634
www.pratt.edu/ad/fineart
Students work in individual studios
and have access to shared shops and
labs, including a fully equipped wood
shop, metal shop, print shop, ceramics
studios, darkrooms, digital labs with
high-resolution scanners and printers, as
well as dedicated campus galleries. There
are many opportunities to show work in a
variety of traditional and non-traditional
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spaces on campus. Each semester, students
open their studios to the public and second-
year students mount individual thesis
shows that are also open to the public. In
addition to a regular schedule of studio
visits by faculty members, the departments
Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS) brings
internationally renowned artists and critics
to give public lectures and have individual
studio visits with graduate students. In
addition, the Pratt Artists League (PAL),
the graduate student club, has a budget to
bring in visiting artists and critics for studio
visits and fund other student-generated
programming and exhibitions. An
interdisciplinary five-week summer course
in Rome, City as Studio, offers students the
opportunity to research and create work in
an international context.
Pratts faculty members in Fine Arts
are distinguished by their achievements,
exhibiting internationally, as well
as receiving major awards from the
Guggenheim Foundation, National
Endowment for the Arts, Tiffany
Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation,
Skowhegan, Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
Creative Capital, and Art Matters. Pratts
graduate students in Fine Arts come from
around the world and are selected for their
promise and readiness for the intensive, self-
directed experience of graduate study.
Opposite: Eric Rue, M.F.A. 13
The Programs Structure to teach Fine Arts, Pre-K12, a certification
that is reciprocated in more than 35 states.
The Master of Fine Arts program at Pratt For specific courses, see the Art and Design
Institute offers the following areas of Education section of this Bulletin.
emphasis: painting/drawing, printmaking,
sculpture, photography, and integrated M.S./M.F.A. IN FINE ARTS
practices/new forms (nontraditional
Students will complete the normal
investigations). Students complete two
requirements for the M.F.A. with an art
semesters of coursework in their area of
history minor (15 credits of HA, HD courses),
emphasis and one year of work on a Master
plus 15 additional credits of art history,
of Fine Arts thesis, including a written thesis
including the distribution requirements and
statement and a solo exhibition in the graduate
required courses specified for the masters
galleries. Degree requirements include 27
degree in art history. Students must be
studio elective credits, nine credits in art accepted by both departments and complete
criticism/history, and six credits in the liberal a total of 75 credits.
arts. The 27 elective credits may be used for
a wide varietyof interdisciplinary, studio,
ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION
or technics courses across the Institute. A ADVANCED CERTIFICATE
minimum of 60 credits and two years of study (FALL AND SPRING)
are required for the Master of Fine Arts degree.
This 23-credit-hour program is open to
The time and number of credits may not be
individuals with an M.F.A. degree, or those
reduced but may be extended. All work for
currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program at
the degree must be completed within seven
Pratt. For those applicants already holding
calendar years after initial registration as a
an M.F.A. degree, the program may be com-
graduate student. pleted in two semesters, and the application
requirements are the same as those listed for
M.F.A./POST-BACCAL AUREATE the M.S. in Art and Design Education.
(CERTIFICATE IN ART AND
DESIGN EDUCATION)
ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS
M.F.A./Post-baccalaureate (Certificate in Art
Applicants for admission to the M.F.A. degree
and Design Education) is designed for M.F.A.
program in Fine Arts must have a bachelors
students desiring eligibility for a Pre-K12
degree from an accredited college, university
teaching certificate. Students take 20 credits in
or art/design school. It is not required
Art and Design Education. With one additional
that applicants have majored in studio art
studio elective credit, students can qualify for
in their undergraduate studies, only that
their provisional New York State Certification
they demonstrate their readiness for the
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challenges of M.F.A. studies. The 60-credit
M.F.A. program in Fine Arts comprises four
consecutive 15-week fall/spring semesters
and begins in the fall. Accepted students may
defer entry for one year. Those considering
applying are strongly urged to visit Pratt.
Department tours can be arranged by
contacting Nat Meade, Assistant to the Chair,
718.636.3792 (nmeade@pratt.edu).
APPLICATION GUIDELINES
In addition to Pratts general graduate
admissions requirements, applicants
to the M.F.A. in Fine Arts are required
to upload the following materials to
https://pratt.slideroom.com.
2) An accompanying numbered image list I cant overemphasize the
indicating the title, dimensions, materials
used, and date of completion for each
importance of New York as
work submitted. the center of the art and
For international applicants whose first design world; studying in
language is not English, a minimum TOEFL
New York at Pratt was a very
score of 80 (Internet) is required. Applicants
who are notified that they have reached the special experience.
semi-finalist stage of the admissions process
will be interviewed on Skype. JOHN PAI, B.I.D. 62, M.F.A. 64,
Fall admission only, priority deadline Internationally renowned sculptor and
and scholarship consideration: January 5. former Pratt faculty
Applications will be considered as long as
there is space in the program.

1) A digital portfolio of up to 20 well-

selected images (including detail views)
of recent works made in the last 23 years.
The graduate admissions committee is
looking for portfolios that show a serious
exploration of an idea through a body of
work rather than showing a disconnected
sampling of concepts and styles.
Applicants may show work in diverse
media as long as all of the work shows
evidence of a guiding sensibility or idea.

Opposite: Patrick Rowe, M.F.A. 13

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School of Design

The School of Design is home COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN ACTING DEAN

Leighton Pierce
to the most comprehensive PACK AGE DESIGN
professional design education ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
TO THE DEAN
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
available. Katherine Morris

Two major objectives guide every INTERIOR DESIGN

ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN
department. The first is an emphasis on Donna Gorsline
professional skills development. The
schools students gain the techniques, ASSISTANT DEAN FOR
skills, methodology, and vocabulary ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Dianne Bellino
required for success as productive artists,
designers, and scholars.
ACTING ASSOCIATE DEAN
The second objectiveimperative so
Amir Parsa
that the professional expertise is not simply
technical trainingis development of the DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND
critical judgment and historical perspective ADMINISTRATION
needed to become a problem solver. Art Daisy Rivera

and design history, melded with studies in

the liberal arts and sciences, provides the OFFICE
Main Building, Fourth Floor
context for stimulating intellectual and
Tel: 718.636.3619 | Fax: 718.636.3410
creative inquiry.
Gifted students from across the United
States and the world collaborate and learn at
Pratt, weaving creative energy and opportunity
into an unmatched educational experience.

Opposite: Work by Gyeong Ko Eun (M.F.A. 11)

102
The faculty consists of professional art-
ists, designers, and practitioners, including
numerous recipients of prestigious awards
such as the Tiffany, Fulbright, and Gug-
genheim fellowships. The facultys works,
projects, and publications are recognized
and respected around the world.
In addition to the outstanding curricula
and faculty, the School of Design offers
a wide range of graduate degree offer-
ings in Communication Design, Interior
Design, and Industrial Design. These
studio practices are extended and linked to
programs in Art and Design Education and
Arts and Cultural/Design Management.
All programs are supported by exceptional
technical and studio resources. Pratts
distinguished professional programs in the
School of Art and the School of Architecture
also enrich the School of Design programs.
Perhaps best of all, the schools disci-
plines are taught in the broader cultural
context of New York City, which provides
inspiration and an opportunity to learn
from the multitude of artists and designers
who abound in this creative capital.
The mission of the School of Design is
to educate those who will make and shape
our built and mediated environment, our
aesthetic surroundings, and our collective
future. The School of Design is a diverse
collection of disciplines, dedicated to the
primacy of studio practice and the trans-
formative power of creativity. We educate
leaders in the creative professions to iden-
tify, understand, shape, and benefit from
the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
Our courses are designed to develop critical
thinking skills, deepen understanding,
enable practice, and empower visionary
action. The School of Design is dedicated
to developing creative leadership in a world
that requires it.
Above: Work by Carolina Pabon-Escobar (M.I.D. 13)
Opposite: Work by Sasha OMalley (M.S.
Communications Design 10)
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Communications Design

Pratt Institutes Graduate Communications Design Department CHAIR

Santiago Piedrafita
has been educating graphic and package designers for over
40 years. In a survey of 10,000 design professionals by Graphic ASSISTANT CHAIRS
Michelle Hinebrook
Design USA magazine, the program is recognized as one of the five Warren Bernard

most influential graphic design schools of the past 50 years and

ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
one of the top five graphic design schools today; the program is Anna Krstevski

ranked in the top 12 of over 200 graduate design programs in the

nation, as reported in U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Pratt offers the Master of Fine Arts degree in
Communications Design (M.F.A., terminal
degree) and the Master of Science degree in
Package Design (M.S., initial masters degree).
The department is located in the
Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea at
144 West 14th Street, between Sixth and
Seventh Avenues, and our student studios
are four blocks north on West 18th Street.
The departments faculty includes highly
regarded, award-winning professional
designers, authors, and marketing and
OFFICE
Tel: 212.647.7573 | Fax: 212.367.2481
des@pratt.edu
www. prattgradcomd.com
media specialists. The faculty serves as
important professional contacts for the
studentsseveral have written pivotal
design books and articles, and many have
been honored with design awards from
prestigious arts and design organizations.
Our location in one of Manhattans
most creative areas provides a wealth of
opportunities available nowhere else. With
access to world-famous design firmsand
through the departments internship
opportunities and professional facultythe
students have the opportunity to talk and

Opposite: John Olson (M.S. 14)

work with some of the best designers.
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As a result, many students secure industry
positions even before their graduation.
A diverse body of students from dif-
ferent cultural, professional, and educa-
tional backgroundsover 28 countries
are representedcome to Pratt to further
their careers in the design industry, begin a
journey towards becoming a design educa-
tor, or alter a career course. Our graduate
programs provide students the opportunity
to develop and refine their design process,
design voice, and creative skills leading to
professional competence and leadership.
M.F.A. in
Communications Design
Design plays a central and formative role
in shaping communities, technology,
and business. Never have designers been
expected to cultivate such a diverse set of
skills and knowledge. Our M.F.A. program
prepares individuals to pursue design
with passion and cultural relevance. Our
distinctive program emphasizes design as
a means for communicating meaningful
messages, organizing information, creating
compelling experiences, and effecting
social change.
We believe the most intriguing and
successful designers are cultural innovators
who use media to inform, persuade, and
entertain. Our graduates develop voices
as authors and entrepreneurs engaged in
identifying and solving design problems
within cross-disciplinary environments.
We approach design as an agent of changea
strategy for transforming behaviors of
individuals in desirable and sustainable ways.
The program provides a framework
for both professional practice and
academic careers, while emphasizing
full-time studio practice in graphic design
communications, identities, objects,
environments, and systems. Graduates
enter the professional world with a confident
design voice and an outstanding body of
work, prepared to become innovative leaders
in communications design areasi.e. print
media, typographics, identity systems and
branding, package design, design strategy,
social media and interaction design,
motion design, environmental design, data
visualization and information design, and
advertising design.
Applicants who hold an undergraduate
degree in graphic design, visual
communications, or the equivalent, and/or
have professional graphic design experience,
are typically able to complete the degree
requirements within two years if attending
full-time. Up to 12 credits of qualifying
courses may be required for applicants who
do not meet all entrance standards but whose
applications indicate a strong aptitude for
graduate study. This includes those who
studied in fields such as industrial and
interior design, architecture, fine arts, media
arts, communications and journalism, liberal
arts, business, and the sciences. Students
required to take qualifying courses can
expect to complete the degree requirements
within three years if attending full-time. A
portfolio review is required for admission.
Classes are offered both day and evening,
and part-time attendance is optional.
The components of the 62-credit M.F.A.
program include an emphasis on studio prac-
tice, research and scholarship, design teach-
ing methodologies, and academic studies of
visual media such as history, theory, critical
analysis, aesthetics, and related humani-
ties and social sciences. There are seven
M.F.A. Studioscourses that investigate
current practice and the future direction of
communications design. Courses empha-
size research, critical thinking, and design
strategy, coupled with entrepreneurship
and an iterative design process. Students are
invited to synthesize theory with practice.
These are intense studios taught by resident
and visiting faculty, sharing a common
foundation with the other studios offered in a
given semester. Each student is encouraged
to search for connections and relationships
between the studio projects and thesis, with
an emphasis on discovering his or her own
design voice. A significant proportion of the
work will be self-directed and independent,
with collaborative and community-based
projects as well. Studios will consist of group
discussions, critiques, student presentations,
individual faculty meetings, and visits with
guest designers.
These core studios are supported by
study in design process and methodology,
Opposite: Andr De Castro (M.F.A. 13)
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technology, history, visual thinking,
narrative strategy, social interaction, visual
identity systems, and typographic and
information design. Elective opportunities
include design management and marketing,
typeface/letterform design, color studio,
advertising, and illustration. Students may
also take electives in graduate programs
across the Institute.
Seminars are offered as a forum
for critical analysis and discussions of
theoretical, historical, and contemporary
issues in communications design. Design
Writing will focus on core writing skills and
effective methods for researching, analyzing,
evaluating, and chronicling design issues.
Independent studies, special projects,
internships, and portfolio development
opportunities are all available. A Teaching
Practicum is offered for those who desire to
enter post-secondary teaching.
M.F.A. candidates in Communications
Design will be required to present a thesis
and final body of work demonstrating
professional competence, which must
be approved by a thesis committee and
the department chairperson in order
to be eligible for degree conferral. The
department will support students in
frequent opportunities to present their
work both publicly and in circumstances
that develop connections with the
communication design profession.
Learning Outcomes of M.F.A.
Communications Design degree:
1. The ability to identify a problem
(problem seeking) and apply design
process and research methodology
towards a solution;
2. Advanced professional competence,
demonstrating depth of knowledge
and achievement, in a well-
developed, defendable, and
significant body of work;
3. The ability to demonstrate knowledge
of necessary theory and practice and
the desire for a leadership position in
the profession and academia;
4. Advanced capabilities with
technologies, demonstrated
in the creation, dissemination,
presentation, documentation, and
preservation of work.
M.S. Package Design
The M.S. in Package Design, a degree first
offered in 1966, educates students from di-
verse cultural, professional, and educational
backgrounds in design thinking, technical
skills, collaborative abilities, academic
knowledge, and managerial competence.
While focusing on creative problem solving,
the curriculum is pragmatic and industry-
oriented. Graduates enter the professional
world with an outstanding body of work,
prepared to become innovative leaders in the
field of package design.
The M.S. in Package Design is an initial
masters degree that offers students struc-
tured courses on the decision-making
process for new product and package dev-
elopment, featuring direction in package
design, typography, brand development,
marketing, structural packaging, packaging
technology, fragrance packaging, and the
business aspects of the package industry.
A minimum of 48 credits, which can be
completed within two to three years of study,
is required for the M.S. Package Design
degree program. Students accepted into
M.S. Package Design typically hold under-
graduate degrees in graphic design or related
design fields such as industrial or interior
design, architecture, fine arts, or media arts.
We welcome applicants from non-design
fields as well, such as business, liberal arts,
and the sciences. A qualifying program of up
to an additional six credits of prerequisite
classes may be required for applicants whose
undergraduate backgrounds do not meet all
entrance standards but whose applications
indicate a strong aptitude for graduate study.
For students with substantial graphic design
experience, the programwith courses
ranging from structural packaging to visual
communications to marketingchallenges
their creativity to its furthest potential. A
portfolio review is required for admission.
Opposite: Rui Maekawa (M.S. 14)
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Studying at Pratt exposed

me to teachers and
professionals who taught
me a lot more than I
realized at the time.
Graduate students at
Pratt were required to
write quite a bit, and that
developed my writing
abilities.

ISAAC KERLOW,
M.S. Communications Design 83,
Artist in residence, Earth
Observatory of Singapore Learning Outcomes of the M.S. Package
Above: Xiaoping Ma (M.F.A. 14)
Design degree:
Opposite: Rogier Bak (M.F.A. 14)

1. Advanced professional competence,

Classes are offered both day and evening, demonstrating depth of knowledge
and part-time attendance is optional. and achievement, in a well-devel-
The final stage of the curriculum is the oped, defendable, and significant
thesis, which provides knowledge of the body of work;

problem-solving process through directed 2. Advanced capabilities with technolo-

research and, over the succeeding two
semesters, gives students the opportunity
to develop an extensive, innovative project.
The comprehensive thesis demonstrates
professional competence and includes
extensive research, project formulation and
production, and process documentation.
Work on the thesis is done under the direction
of a major discipline faculty advisor.
gies, demonstrated in the creation,
dissemination, presentation, docu-
mentation, and preservation of work;
3. The ability to think and plan
independently;
4. An awareness of current issues and
developments in communications
design and the basic desire, ability,
and potential to contribute to the
expansion of the field.
Amazing! When I was at
Pratt in 64, the school was
around the age I am now. Its
still a role model for vitality,
creativity, engagement,
longevityId like to emulate
my alma mater when Im 125.

EDWARD KOREN, M.S. Art Education 65

Cartoonist, The New Yorker

Left: John Olson (M.S. 14)

Opposite: Top: So Young Jung; Bottom: Left, Right: Yue

Li (M.S. 14)

Industrial Design
Ultimately, design is about human beings, individually and
collectively, supplying propulsion to idealistic, aesthetic, and
practical ideas, and the passion of creating, understanding,
and sharing the work we do.
There are millions of people all over the
world waiting for the enlightened and
entrepreneurial participation of designers,
waiting to hear the insights that come
from our years of work and studyreal
interventions that can touch the lives of
all citizens of the world via the language
of design, showing whats possible in life.
The Industrial Design Department at Pratt
is united in a common, rigorous pursuit of
creativity, explored through projects large
and small, and translating ideas into a wide
variety of forms, systems and structures.
With this focus, the Pratt Masters program
in Industrial Design (MID) is consistently
ranked in the top 10 nationally by U. S. News
and World Report and DesignIntelligence.
A strong legacy feature of the MID is
that it welcomes students without previous
bachelors degrees in ID. These students
are talented not only in related fields of
architecture, engineering, and interior
design, but also fine art, biology, economics,
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CHAIR
Steve Diskin, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT CHAIR
Scott Lundberg
ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
neuroscience, dentistry, aviation, and music. Audrey Lapiner
We choose an amazingly diverse group of
students and encourage them to exploit their TECHNICAL COORDINATOR
previous academic pursuits and experience, John Medley
and they do so while gaining a solid
understanding of current design thinking. SHOP TECHNICIANS
Likewise, each faculty member within Gary Hou
Manuel Mota
the program has his or her particular path,
Alejandro Morales
and there is surely an understanding that, in Melissa Skluzacek
the expanding design profession, disciplines Julia Wheeler
often cross lines. As such, Industrial Design
students and faculty share an important OFFICE
mission: to encourage individual growth to Tel: 718.636.3631 | Fax: 718.636.3553
id@pratt.edu
its highest potential. Pratt also maintains
www.pratt.edu/ad/id
strong ties to industry through corporate-
supported programs, bringing essential
industry knowledge into the classroom.
Internships in design consultancies and
corporate offices are encouraged, and have
proved to be valuable learning experiences
that cannot be duplicated in a purely
academic setting.
Opposite: Dana Oxiles
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The Programs Structure
The Master of Industrial Design degree
consists of a six-semester, 60-credit program
for all students, regardless of previous
background, to promote collegiality and
cohesion in each incoming group of grad
students. This cohesion is absolutely
essential to a program that creates an
environment where learning from each
other and teamwork happen, and where
the richness of the program is enhanced
by a strong sense of community.
While our M.I.D. is admittedly a
generalist, humanist scheme designed to
support the varying skills and interests of
the students, we recognize that professors
and students alike need to be able to
comprehend and articulate the structure
and content of the program. Therefore, we
have clearly designated these three years of
study as: 1st year core (design thinking,
ideation, process, skills); 2nd year research
(methodology, topics, sources, electives,
pre-thesis); and
3rd year thesis (major individual project).
In addition, and looking to integrate the
future areas of expertise of grads, we have
grouped courses in three general areas:
exploration (studio, thesis, workshop);
technology (digital tools, form,
visualization, materials); and context
(seminar, special projects, business) to
give them the professional knowledge and
skills, in commercial, historical, societal and
global contexts, they will need to become
successful design professionals.
GID: Global Innovation
Design Track (2nd year option
abroad)
Beginning in the 2014-2015 academic year,
a select group of ID graduate students will
be offered the option to spend their entire
second year abroad for full creditthe fall
semester at Keio University in Tokyo and
spring semester at the Royal College of Art
(RCA) and Imperial College Londonin
the new Global Innovation Design (GID)
program. This groundbreaking international
study partnership will also allow students
from London and Tokyo to spend a semester
at Pratt.
At Keio, studies will be devoted to media
design and culture, utilizing the schools
advanced facilities, including prototyping
and robotics. In London, the curriculum will
focus on engineering and invention. The
Pratt component will emphasize the core
principles of industrial design. Pratt GID stu-
dents then return to New York to complete
their final two semesters of thesis work and
required courses. In addition to their local
studies, students at each location will col-
laborate globally on a large-scale project. By
capitalizing on the expertise of each school
and the distinct cultures of the three loca-
tions, the GID program will give students a
rich academic program and unique perspec-
tive on global design and entrepreneurship
that no single institution could conceivably
provide. For a more on GID, visit
http://globalinnovationdesign.org.
M.I.D. Thesis
The 3rd-year thesis provides the greatest pos-
sible freedom and opportunity for investigat-
ing a selected topic under the direction of a
faculty mentor. Candidates are expected to
demonstrate the full range of design skills
and methodology in their thesis projects.
Subjects range from consumer products and
packaging to systems and exhibition design,
and to the impact of emerging philosophies,
materials, and technologies in a global con-
text. Students register for six credits of thesis
over one year, which culminates in a formal
presentation of work at the conclusion of
the program.
All work for the degree must be complet-
ed within seven calendar years after initial
registration as a graduate student.
We invite you to have a look at the Indus-
trial Design Departments ID VIEWBOOK,
an annual overview celebrating end-of-
term presentations, the range of projects
produced in the department, and some of the
results of the hard work of amazing students
and professors.
Opposite: Cappellini Showroom exhibition of Furniture
Studio designs by grad students of Professor
Mark Goetz
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Interior Design

Interior Design at Pratt provides the ultimate learning CHAIR

Anita Cooney
environmentNew York City, an internationally recognized
center of interior designand a challenging course of ASSISTANT CHAIR
Karin Tehve
study for students preparing themselves for a career in an
expanding, dynamic field. ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
Aston Gibson

The graduate Interior Design program
was ranked first in the country by U.S.
News & World Report and second by
DesignIntelligence in 2014. Students are
comes from a background in economics has
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from dance, and each has something to int@pratt.edu
learn from the other. www.pratt.edu/ad/int

drawn from all parts of the world and, by
way of the Qualifying Program, from a
variety of disciplines, which creates an
intellectually and aesthetically stimulating
environment in the studios. These students
are a select group who come to Pratt to work
hard and prepare to enter a profession in
which the designer must be multifaceted
and able to provide innovative design
solutions. Many come to the program for
career change, so classroom interchange
is enhanced by the diversity of students
interests. For instance, the designer who
Our faculty members are practicing
professionals who bring real-world design
experience into play in their classroom
teaching. Their varied backgrounds and
expertise allow students to explore many
avenues of design.
Building upon its reputation as one of
the top graduate programs in the country,
the graduate Interior Design program
seeks to expand its leadership role, setting
standards for critical thought, exemplary
expression, professional aptitude, and
responsible action in transforming the
human environment. The curriculum

Opposite: Erin Fredrickson

brings the rigor as well as broad and deep
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thinking of architectural study to focus on
the scale, use, and materiality of the interior,
connecting interior design to larger issues
of inhabitation, cities, and society. The
program instills values in its students, not
as mere competencies but as opportunities
for critical engagement in the contemporary
world. In support of this transformative
responsibility, the program fosters an
inquisitive dialogue among its faculty and
students, and open exchange with the world
of designers, producers, and users of the built
environment. We are equally committed to
the application of current technology to the
educational experience and the support of
analysis and research that contributes to the
body of knowledge in the discipline.
The Programs Structure
Like its undergraduate counterpart, the
graduate Interior Design program at Pratt
is an architecturally oriented program with
emphasis on spatial design as well as surface
embellishment. All aspects of spacescale,
proportion, configuration, and light sources,
as well as textures, materials, and colors
are studied in relation to their effect on the
human spirit. Students are encouraged to
take advantage of the many course offerings
at Pratt, enabling them to fully develop
their interests and talents. Electives may be
chosen from any department in the Institute,
so an enormous variety of courses is available
for the pursuit of individual interests.
The program is full time. Many students MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
INTERIOR DESIGN
find internships, either for credit or
independently, generally pursued during The mission of the Master of Science in
the summer breaks. Interior Design program is to educate
For most students, the program talented and motivated students from
culminates in a thesis project. The thesis diverse cultural, professional, and
provides the greatest possible freedom educational backgrounds in the discipline
and opportunity for pursuit of a selected and profession of interior design. Our
topic. Work is done under the direction of educational community encourages
philosophical exploration, ethical and
thesis advisors and is completed within one
environmental responsibility, aesthetic
year. The Exhibition Design Intensive is an
expression, and practical application.
alternative to the traditional thesis track
We provide students with a challenging
and offers students a one-year immersion in
environment and course of study that
exhibit design in the final year.
encourages creative innovation.
Applicants with an undergraduate
degree in interior design, architecture,
or other closely related design fields may
be eligible for the 48-credit two-year
graduate program. An application portfolio
is required. A two-semester Qualifying
Program of an additional 20 credits is
required for applicants whose undergraduate
backgrounds are unrelated to interior design
or architecture but whose applications
indicate a strong aptitude for graduate
study. These students complete 68 credits
in three years. It should be noted that while
applicants to the Qualifying Program
are not required to submit a portfolio, we
do encourage applicants with academic
or professional experience to submit a
portfolio of work from other disciplines such
as fine arts, fashion, industrial design, or
communications design.
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Bottom Row: Hanna Chung
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Jun Chang

Left: Top, Bottom: Sruthi Sruthi Sekar and Ajitha

Anandan; Center: Justin Crocker, Xi Zheng, and
Edeline Bigas

Pratt was an amazing, amazing

experience in my life. We
had top faculty that inspired us.
I use the foundation that I
received at Pratt, but I take it in
many different directions.

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Renowned interior designer; principal, Samuel
Botero Associates, Inc.

Ive been told Im good at

creating luxurious spaces and
creating comfort in a very
elegant way. The Color course I
took at Pratt gave me the tools to
develop finished palettes for all
my professional projects.

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School of Information and Library Science
A REAL EDUCATION FOR THE DIGITAL
WORLD
In our global digital world, the field of library
and information science is at the heart
of human culture and communication.
Now, more than ever, the world relies on
highly educated professionals to design
and organize information using the latest
technology and digital tools in ways that
connect people with one another and to ideas
and meaning.
Pratts School of Information and Library
Science (SILS) prepares students to harness
the latest digital technology to design a more
usable and understandable world. At the
same time, SILS also prepares students to be
leaders in the field of library and information
science by imbuing them with the values
of the profession and teaching them to
uphold and advocate for intellectual
freedom, equal access to information, and
lifelong learning.
And, most important, students learn and
participate with an outstanding, creative,
and innovative faculty, each on the cutting
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edge of his/her area of research and teaching DEAN
and recognized internationally through their Tula Gianinni, Ph.D., M.L.S., M.M.
infosils@pratt.edu
publications and conference papers and
presentations.
ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN FOR
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
A GLOBAL EDUCATION Vinette P. Thomas, M.S.L.I.S.
vthomas@pratt.edu
IN MANHAT TAN
SILSs graduates are uniquely prepared ADVISOR FOR ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
for the many new and changing Quinn Lai, M.A., M.S.L.I.S.
opportunities available to information qlai@pratt.edu
professionals across a wide range of
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
environments, including libraries, archives,
Katie Merlie, B.A.
and museums, the IT sector, law, and health
mmerlie@pratt.edu
information. Our fall 2013 survey of recent
graduates showed 90 percent were working LMS COORDINATOR
in professional positions obtained within a Jessica Lee Hochman, Ph.D.
year of graduation. jhochman@pratt.edu
SILSs programs build on the theory and
OFFICE
research of the LIS field and a pedagogy
Tel: 212.647.7682 | Fax: 212.367.2492
that offers students an unparalleled
infosils@pratt.edu
opportunity to engage in an immersive, www.pratt.edu/sils
hands-on educational experience. As
the only LIS school headquartered in
Manhattana world capital of art and
culturewe say that Manhattan is our
campus as our students participate
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in collaborative and interdisciplinary
programs, partnerships, and internships
with New Yorks great cultural institutions
such as the Brooklyn Museum, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn
Public Library, and the New York Public
Library. Students carry out internships and
other work-study opportunities that can be
found nowhere else.
Students also have the unique
opportunity to learn from leaders in the
information professions who hold key
positions in academic, public, and research
libraries, and New Yorks premier cultural
institutions. Finally, SILSs international
summer programs in Florence and London
make the promise of a global education a
reality for students.
ST UDYING LIBRARY SCIENCE AT A SCHOOL
OF ART AND DESIGN
The history of SILS dates back to 1887, the
year Pratt Institute itself was founded.
SILS takes pride in being the oldest library
school in the United States and in having
our program continuously accredited by the
American Library Association since 1924,
when accreditation was introduced. Since
its founding, Pratt has been a leading school
of design, art, and architecture, and SILS
complements and aligns with its mission. By
being part of Pratt, SILS brings innovation
and creativity to information and library
science while drawing on Pratts many
academic offerings in the arts to offer unique
programs blending the arts with library and
information science, such as our dual degree
programs with the history of art and design
and with digital arts.
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Library and Information Science
A CREATIVE AND
VIBRANT COMMUNIT Y
SILS attracts students from top universities
who come to study with leading practi-
tioners and researchers. Our full-time
faculty members are leaders in informa-
tion research. Connecting their research
and teaching, students benefit from a rich
and immersive learning environment that
challenges them intellectually and to think
creatively. Part-time faculty members
are leaders in practice, holding key posi-
tions across the information professions.
Students can participate in a wide variety
of student organizations to enhance their
SILS experience. Among the organizations
they can join are: SILS Student Associa-
tion (SILSSA), and student chapters of the
American Library Association, Special
Libraries Association, Association for
Information Science and Technology,
and the Society of American Archivists.
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SILS FACILITIES ARE DESIGNED DEAN
FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING Tula Gianinni, Ph.D., M.L.S., M.M.
infosils@pratt.edu
SILS features specialized learning
environments to support our in-depth
ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN FOR
curriculum: we have labs for cultural ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
informatics, user experience, and the iLab Vinette P. Thomas, M.S.L.I.S.
for Digital Culture and Information, and vthomas@pratt.edu
the research/seminar lab. Each supports
learning activities with the latest technology ADVISOR FOR ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
Quinn Lai, M.A., M.S.L.I.S.
and software for courses such as information
qlai@pratt.edu
architecture and interactive design,
information visualization, research methods
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
in the social sciences, and knowledge Kate Merlie, B.A.
organization. Our cutting-edge seminar/lab mmerlie@pratt.edu
classrooms are designed for participatory
hands-on learning experiences. LMS COORDINATOR
Jessica Lee Hochman, Ph.D.
jhochman@pratt.edu
WHAT MAKES SILS YOUR FIRST CHOICE
FOR A LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
OFFICE
SCIENCE EDUCATION?
Tel: 212.647.7682 | Fax: 212.367.2492
infosils@pratt.edu
An outstanding job-placement rate as www.pratt.edu/sils
a result of strong relationships with the
profession
Partnerships with major cultural
institutions providing students venues
for experiential learning, including the
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New York Public Library, the Brooklyn
Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum,
and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The chance to earn advanced
certificates in archives and in museum
libraries within the M.S.L.I.S. degree
The opportunity to take courses
within overarching program concepts:
Cultural Informatics, Information
Policy and Society, LEO (Literacy
Education and Outreach) for Library
Media Specialist, and Children and
Young Adult Librarianship
International summer partnership
programs in Florence with Studio
Art Centers International and in
London with Kings College London,
Department of Digital Humanities.
The opportunity to earn dual degrees,
including the M.S.L.I.S. with: a master
of science in art history, a master of
fine arts in digital arts, and law degrees
with Brooklyn Law School
Small classes averaging 15 students
support participation and interaction
for immersive learning
Student advisement and mentoring by
full-time faculty
Classrooms designed as seminar/labs
to support hands-on learning, lecture,
and discussion
Convenient class meeting times at
3:30pm and 6:30pm to accommodate
working students
Courses feature teamwork, research,
and projects
The Master of Science
in Library and Information
Science (M.S.L.I.S.)
STRUCT URE AND REQUIREMENTS
The structure of the program supports
student learning and career goals and is built
around overarching areas of study that are at
once interdisciplinary and converging. These
are expressed through areas of concentration,
advanced certificates, and dual-degree
programs that offer students a rich array of
choices and the opportunity to take a creative
approach to planning their program. Through
a wide variety of courses, the curriculum
represents the information continuum in all
media and formats, including creation,
storage and retrieval, communication,
description and access, selection,
acquisition, organization, preservation,
dissemination, use, and management.
COURSE AND CREDIT REQUIREMENTS
Students must complete 36 credit hours
with a B average or better and meet other
prescribed requirements of the Institute.
Students entering with a masters degree
complete 30 credits. All SILS courses are
3 credits. The degree includes four core
courses (12 credits) and eight elective courses
(24 credits). Students must complete degree
requirements within four years from the date
of registering for the first course.
technology and digital tools effectively;
THE CORE CURRICULUM
All students must take the four-course core
curriculum that prepares them for more
advanced courses and to pursue focused
areas of study.
Required courses:
LIS-651 Information Professions
LIS-652 Information Services and Sources
LIS-653 Knowledge Organization
LIS-654 Information Technologies
Prior to enrolling in LIS-654 Information
Technologies, students should possess
baseline technology skills and be able to use
the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel,
Access, and PowerPoint, and various other
Internet technologies.
ST UDENT LEARNING ASSESSMENT/
OUTCOMES AND E-PORTFOLIO WITH
OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
Entering students are required to create
an e-portfolio and participate in SILSs
e-portfolio assessment program.Working
withtheir faculty advisors, studentsselect
three to five of their assignments that best
demonstrate mastery of the M.S.L.I.S.
program-level learning objectives and
outcomes.Students must demonstrate that
they can do the following: carry out and
apply research; communicate effectively and
create and convey content; use information
apply concepts related to use and users of
information and user needs and perspectives;

and perform within the framework of
professional practice.
E-portfolios at Pratt run on the mahara
platform, open source software, and are
supported by the Office of Educational
Technology and the Technology Advisory
subcommittee on Teaching and Learning.
We invite you to visit the e-portfolio
website at http://eportfolio.pratt.edu/.
CURRENT SILS ST UDENTS
Some students enroll directly from their
undergraduate degrees; others decide to
change careers after having established
themselves in other professions such as law
or teaching. Among our entering students,
about 30 percent hold subject masters
degrees and some enter with a Ph.D. or J.D.
PROGRAM THEMES: DESIGN
YOUR DEGREE PROGRAM TO MEE T
YOUR INTERESTS AND NEEDS
Cultural Informatics: Information Studies
at the Intersection of Culture, Digital Tech-
nology, and Information Science closely
tied to digital culture across libraries,
archives, and museums.
Traditional library services in arts and
humanities have been transformed through
their convergence with digital technology.
Pratts program reflects the fields new
directions and global reach, as represented
in an array of courses with studies in
academic, research, and museum libraries;
archives and special collections; fine and
performing arts; digital libraries; digital
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collections; exhibitions and catalogs; image
databases; Web design; and preservation and
conservation and digital humanities.
IPS (Information Policy and Society)
The IPS concentration will give students the
theoretical knowledge and practical skills to
work in todays information environments.
You will learn about the legal, economic,
and social forces that affect how we create,
use, reuse, repurpose, and share informa-
tion. Students will gain expertise in the
nature and use of information resources of
the federal government and its agencies, as
well as nonconventional NGO information
opportunities such as bibliographic and sta-
tistical sources, online databases, technical
report centers, public information facilities,
and sources of technical assistance. You will
be able to write policy briefs and reports for
your institution, make recommendations
for information policies, locate data from in-
ternational organizations such as the World
Bank, and much more.
Courses in the IPS concentration
include:
LIS-607 Digital Information Economics
and Management
LIS-611 Information Policy
LIS-613 Government Information work from the courses they have taken at SILS,
Sources
LIS-616 Business Economics & Statistical
Sources
LIS-627 Online Databases: Business
LIS-617 Legal Research Methods & Law
LIS-626 Online Databases: Law
LIS-684 Contemporary Issues in Law
For more information on the IPS program
email Professor Debbie Rabina, program
coordinator, at drabina@pratt.edu.
ST UDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES &
OUTCOMES
Viewed through the lens of information
studies in the digital age from digital libraries
to global networks and social media, the
SILS program learning objectives represent
what students learn and what skills they have
acquired at the completion of their MSLIS
degree program.
1. Research
2. Communication
3. Technology
4. User-Centered Focus
5. LIS Practice
E-PORTFOLIO AND ASSESSMENT:
A GRADUATION REQUIREMENT
All students entering the MSLIS degree
program are required to complete an
e-portfolio that must be approved by their
advisor before they will be permitted to
graduate. The e-portfolio provides students
with an opportunity to showcase their best
and an opportunity to demonstrate they have
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LEO (LITERACY, EDUCATION, AND
OUTREACH)
From public and school libraries to
museums, this area of study is supported by
our programs in Library Media Specialist and
Children and Young Adult Librarianship.
M.S.L.I.S. WITH LIBRARY MEDIA
SPECIALIST (LMS) PROGRAM LEADING TO
NY STATE TEACHER CERTIFICATION
LMS meets the needs of students who
wish to become school librarians. Our
LMS specialization, accredited by the NY
State Regents, leads to NY State teacher
certification. This 32-credit track, part of
the 36-credit M.S.L.I.S. degree, prepares
students for rewarding careers. Students
holding an M.S.L.I.S. degree may complete
the LMS track with the SILS Advanced
Certificate. See below for details.
Through scholarship, fieldwork and
student teaching practica, LMS candidates
prepare for careers in New York City school
libraries. Completion of this program leads
to New York State teacher certification in the
area of LMS, which is one of two areas in which
students at Pratt can earn teacher certification.
To give students a richer experience
through collaboration and interdisciplinary
approaches, we work with Art and Design
Education to meet program and certification
requirements in the field of education. LMS
students must fill out an additional application
after acceptance to SILS.
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This application includes:
An interview with the LMS
Coordinator
A brief application form
An additional brief essay
Three recommendation letters
Undergraduate GPA of 3.5 or above
GRE scores, upon request
To comply with the New York State Education
Departments (NYSED) requirements for
certification, students must have the requisite
background in liberal arts and sciences,
which will be determined prior to admission.
In some cases, students may be able to earn
these credits as they complete their SILS
degree. In addition, NYSED requires:
Pedagogical core in education
(six credits of coursework,
ED-608 Roots of Urban Education
and ED-610 Child and Adolescent
Development, LIS-691 Serving Students
with Disabilities in the Library)
Two noncredit seminars: Child Abuse
Recognition and Life Safety and
Violence Prevention
Three examinations administered by
New York State
edTPA video assessment (for students
beginning in Fall)
SILS Required coursework for LMS
Students includes:
Four SILS Core Courses (LIS 651, 652,
653, 654)
Six LMS Required Courses (LIS 648,
676, 677, 680, 690, 692)
Two electives
LMS Students must complete 100 hours of
field observation in school libraries in at least
eight different schools. At least 15 hours must
be in schools that serve students with special
needs. During LIS 690 and LIS 692, students
will conduct 40 full days of student teaching.
For more information on LMS, please
visit http://www.pratt.edu/academics/
information_and_library_sciences/degree_
programs/library_media_specialist/.
Children and Young Adult Librarianship
Students pursuing this program area find
rewarding positions in public libraries
and in museum education and outreach
programs. They also take advantage of SILSs
strong partnerships with the New York and
Brooklyn Public Libraries and the New York
City public schools.
PROGRAM FOCUS AREAS
In consultation with faculty advisers,
students generally focus their elective
coursework to meet individual career
goals in the field of library and information
science. Within this framework, we have
developed areas of emphasis based on the
strengths of our curriculum and faculty
as well as disciplinary and collaborative
connections with the Institute. These areas
are described below.
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Digital Humanities
Reflecting the latest trends in LIS,
SILS introduced a digital humanities
concentration in 2011. Bringing focus to
digital cultural heritage, data collection,
data analysis, and visualization, as well
as the changing natures of scholarship
and publication in the digital age, its
foundational courses are:
LIS-657 Digital Humanities
LIS-658 Information Visualization
Knowledge Organization
and Cultural Heritage
Growing out of traditional studies of
cataloging and classification, database
design, storage, and retrieval, this area
has emerged as one central to the latest
developments in Internet and Web-based
information studies.
It prepares students for careers in online
services, digital collections and libraries,
Web libraries, and information systems
and networks.
Recommended electives:
LIS-608 Human Information Behavior
LIS-630 Information Science Research
LIS-662 Advanced Cataloging
LIS-663 Metadata, Description and
Access
LIS-670 Cultural Heritage Description
and Access
UX (User Experience) LIS-697 Cultural Heritage Conservation,
Florence, SACI School
The User Experience (UX) concentration
LIS-655 Digital Preservation
teaches students how to design usable,
useful, and desirable digital interfaces (e.g., and Curation
websites, mobile/tablet apps, etc.) from a
user-centered perspective. While UX is a Research and Assessment
field in its own right, UX skills are becoming
A solid understanding of the research process
increasingly important within the LIS
is valuable in many professional activities,
profession as libraries, museums, archives,
including data management, academic and
and information organizations expand their
medical librarianship, leadership, grant
digital offerings. Drawing from the Human-
writing, scholarly communication, research,
Computer Interaction (HCI) discipline,
and usability. Involvement in research
students in the UX concentration will be
enables an individual to be an effective
trained in the methods used to understand
professional and leader, and strengthens
users and their contexts and apply that
an organizations status within the larger
knowledge to the design and evaluation of
professional community.
interactive technologies.
LIS-630 Information Science Research
Recommended electives:
LIS-608 Human Information Behavior
LIS-630 Information Science Research
LIS-605 Digital Resources and User
LIS-643 Information Architecture and
Interaction
Interaction Design
LIS-681 Community Building and Law Librarianship
Engagement
Given the rapid growth of information
LIS-644 Usability Theory and Practice services over the Internet and Web, as well as
LIS-608 Human Information Behavior
global contexts, information policy and law
have become a new and demanding area of
LIS-693 Digital Libraries
focus for legal research, adding to the fields
LIS-658 Information Visualization scope and influence. Law schools, law firms,
court system libraries, and corporations
LIS-645 Management of Digital Content
are typical places of work for law librarians.
Preservation/Conservation For recommended electives for this
concentration, see the section under
LIS-632 Preservation and Conservation
dual-degree programs with Brooklyn
LIS-634 Conservation Lab, Brooklyn Law School.
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Health Information
The expanding role of technology in the
provision of health sciences and medical
information offers students new and
challenging opportunities. Librarians in this
field work in a wide range of settings, from
medical schools and academic libraries to
pharmaceutical firms and hospitals. The
program permits students to take Pratt
courses on site at Cornell Medical Library,
where they study the latest theories and
practices in the field.
Recommended electives:
LIS-685 Medical Librarianship
LIS-697 Contemporary Issues
 in Health Information
Dual-degree Programs
M.S.L.I.S. AND M.S. IN HISTORY OF ART,
DESIGN, AND ARCHITECT URE
This program is especially designed for
students who wish to pursue careers
in art-related eldswhere art, information,
and technology converge. Students will be
prepared to work in any number of settings
from academic libraries and museums to
galleries and auction houses, as well as other
cultural settings. The program requires 30
credits at SILS and 30 credits in history of art,
for a total of 60 credits. Students must apply
to and be accepted as matriculated in
both programs. Application may be made
initially to the dual-degree program, or
to one of the two programs, with later
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application to the other, provided that the Recommended courses:
student has not yet graduated from the
Accounting for Lawyers
rst program entered.
Administrative Law
M.S.L.I.S. AND M.F.A. IN American Legal History
DIGITAL ARTS (DIGITAL ARTS
Comparative Law
AND INFORMATION)
Copyright Law
This three-year, 75-credit dual degree
Information Privacy
prepares students to work at the intersection
of digital arts and information. It offers Intellectual Property: Protection of
students the opportunity to develop Digital Information
high-level knowledge and skills in using International and Foreign Law Research
digital tools creatively across media in such
Similarly, nine of the 86 credits required for
emerging areas as virtual information and
learning environments for a wide range of the J.D. may be taken at Pratt.
information settings. Recommended courses:
LIS-613 Government Information Sources
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE AND L AW (T WO LIS-616 Business, Economics and
DUAL-DEGREE PROGRAMS WITH Statistical Sources
BROOKLYN L AW SCHOOL)
LIS-617 Legal Research Methods and Law
Literature
M.S.L.I.S. and J.D.: 104 credits; M.S.L.I.S.
LIS-619 International Information Sources
and L.L.M. (Law Masters) in Information
Law and Society: 45 credits LIS-626 Online Databases: Law
In affiliation with Brooklyn Law School, LIS-627 Online Databases: Business
this program prepares students for careers LIS-684 Law Librarianship:
in law librarianship and related elds. Contemporary Issues
Todays employers often give preference
This dual degree can be completed in three
to law librarians holding a J.D. as well as
to four years of full-time study, or four to five
an M.S.L.I.S. The joint degree requires
years of part-time study, including summers.
completion of 86 credits for the law degree
To enter the program, a student must apply
and 36 credits for the M.S.L.I.S. degree; nine
separately to Pratt and to Brooklyn Law
of the 36 LIS credits can be taken at Brooklyn
School. Each school processes applications
Law School, subject to the approval of the
independently, without reference to the joint
dean of SILS. Students wishing to pursue the
degree. Upon acceptance to both schools,
M.S.L.I.S./L.L.M. must already hold a J.D.
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a student follows the joint degree program
leading to the conferring of both degrees.
Students who have already earned a library
science or law degree before applying to
Pratt are not eligible for the joint degree
program. To obtain a Brooklyn Law School
application and catalog contact:
Office of Admissions
Brooklyn Law School
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.780.0385
SILS Certificate Programs
SILS offers several certicate programs
within the M.S.L.I.S. program, or for people
who already hold library science degrees and
wish to earn a specialization.
ADVANCED CERTIFICATE
PROGRAMS IN ARCHIVES AND
IN MUSEUM LIBRARIES
Students choose to complete one or both
12-credit certificates within the M.S.L.I.S.
(24 credits plus the 12-credit core for the
36-credit masters), as the program curri-
cula are complementary within the contexts
of cultural informatics and arts and
humanities perspectives.
ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN ARCHIVES (12
CREDITS WITHIN THE M.S.L.I.S. PROGRAM
OR POST-GRADUATE)
This program can be taken within
Pratts M.S.L.I.S. program. It can also
be taken as a stand-alone program
by holders of an M.L.S. degree from an
ALA-accredited program.
Required courses:
LIS-625 Management of Archives and
Special Collections
LIS-698 Practicum/ Seminar
Two electives from recommended
archives courses (6 credits)
ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN MUSEUM
LIBRARIES (12 CREDITS WITHIN THE
M.S.L.I.S. PROGRAM OR POST-
GRADUATE)
Pratt-SILS is the first and only school of
library and information science to offer a
museum libraries certificate program. Based
on four pillars of knowledgeresearch/
curatorial; digital technology; education,
outreach, and field experienceit prepares
students for careers not only in museums,
but also research libraries, art libraries,
and in digital archives and humanities.
This program can be taken within Pratts
M.S.L.I.S. program. It can also be taken as
a post-M.L.S. certificate by holders of an
M.L.S. degree from an ALA-accredited L.I.S.
school. Students select one three-credit
course from a selection of courses for each of
the four required areas.
ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN
LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST PROGRAM
LEADING TO NEW YORK STATE TEACHER
CERTIFICATION IN LMS (18 CREDITS)
To be eligible for this post-masters program,
applicants must hold an M.L.S. degree from
an ALA-accredited program.
Required courses:
LIS-648 Library Media Centers
LIS-676 Literature and Literacy for
Children
LIS-677 Literature and Literacy for Young
Adults
LIS-680 Instructional Technology
LIS-690 Student Teaching I
LIS-692 Student Teaching II
One hundred hours of eld observation in
school library media centers plus 40 full days
of student teaching (20 elementary and 20
secondary) are required. Student teaching is
conducted in the fall or spring terms in New
York City under the supervision of a certied
LMS. Field hours and student teaching must
be completed, documented, and submitted to
the coordinator in order to graduate.
In addition, New York State requires a
rm background in liberal arts and sciences
for all certied teachers, to be determined
prior to admission. In some cases students
may earn these credits as they complete their
SILS degree.
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Required courses:
ED-608 Roots of Urban Education
ED-610 Child and Adolescent
Development
LIS-691 Serving Youth with Disabilites
For more information, contact Professor
Jessica Hochman, coordinator of the
Library Media Specialist Program, at
jhochman@pratt.edu.
ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION ST UDIES
(30 CREDITS)
To meet the needs of experienced
professionals, Pratt offers a post-masters
certificate requiring 30 credits of
coursework. Of these, six must be research-
oriented independent study. Of the
remaining 24 credits, students may take up to
nine in related subject areas.
Required courses:
24 elective credits
(eight three-credit courses)
LIS-699 Research-oriented
Independent Study
(six credits)
Admissions
Students may begin their program fall, spring
or summer. Applications are reviewed on a
rolling admissions basis.
ADMISSION AS A SPECIAL ST UDENT
Students eligible for admission may begin
the program as a special student, defined
as a non-matriculated student. As such,
a student may take up to six credits. To
proceed in the program, a student must
apply for admission and be accepted as
matriculated. See www.pratt.edu/apply
for more information.
and personally fulfilling. All students should
SCHOL ARSHIPS
Merit scholarships are awarded to entering
students based on their academic record.
Continuing scholarships are awarded to
students for their second year of study
based on their work at SILS, including
student research and international study
in our London and Florence programs and
practicum study abroad. We also award
tuition scholarships for two courses tied to a
two-semester internships program at a NYC
cultural institution such at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Planning Your Program
ADVISEMENT AND MENTORING
Upon entering SILS, each student is assigned
a faculty advisor to help with course planning
to meet his/her educational and career
goals as well as for e-portfolio advisement.
Whether taking the 36-credit masters or
the 30-credit degree for students holding a
masters in another field, students work with
their advisors to customize their programs.
In addition, the SILS office staff, a team
of knowledgeable and caring professionals,
are ready to assist students and to make their
educational experience at Pratt rewarding
establish a Pratt email account and sign up
for the SILS listserv to stay informed about
school activities and job postings.
INTERNSHIPS AND PRACTICUM
To gain hands-on experience studying
and working in ones area of emphasis, we
strongly encourage students to participate in
our program of internships and practicum.
Students select their work site based on
program interests and career goals and have
the opportunity to work in such leading
cultural organizations as The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the New York and Brooklyn
Public Libraries, Brooklyn Historical Society,
Brooklyn Museum, Teachers College and
Brooklyn College Library and Archives,
Lesbian Herstory Archives, Frick Reference
Library, MoMA, and Pratt libraries in
addition to numerous other academic and
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special libraries in the metropolitan area WORKSHOPS The fact that Pratt is a
in elds such as IT, publishing, and the
SILS provides students with a series of world-renowned
corporate sector. The practicum serves to
all-day workshops taught by experts in
bridge students to the professional world and art school that encourages
their field. Past workshops included Paper
facilitate career development.
Conservation, Rare Book Cataloging, independent thinking
Introduction to EAD, Introduction to seemed like a natural fit
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS Archivists Toolkit, Grant-writing for
for me.
Digitization Projects, Graphic and
Responding to the globalization of
Sequential Novels, and Podcasting and JILL GOLDSTEIN, M.S.L.I.S. 09, Project
information and library service, SILSs new
Information Visualization. Archivist, Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive,
program in international librarianship offers
courses in Florence and London. Brooklyn College Library
Florence in partnership with Studio Art
Centers International (SACI) is a five-week,
six-credit program offering two three-credit We are terrifically excited
courses that run concurrently and are taught
about the sea change at
by SACI Italian faculty:
libraries, and rethinking our
1. Florentine Art and Culture, Museum and
model in a new world.
Library Research and Documentation

2. Cultural Heritage Conservation, GRETCHEN CASSEROTI, Assistant

which focuses on paper conservation Director for Public Services at the Public
including rare books, manuscripts, and Library in Darien, Conn.
art on paper

London is a two-course, six-credit program:

Forty years have passed,
1. London Summer School on
and I still believe that
E-Publishing and the Strand
Symposium in partnership with Pratt Institute, with its
Kings College London, Department friendly atmosphere, was
of Digital Humanities, is a two-week
the best thing that ever
three-credit program. It features visits
to publishers and libraries in London, happened to me.
Cambridge, and Oxford, and lectures
DR. FARIDEH TEHRANI, M.S.L.I.S. 76,
by noted academics.
Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries
2. Museums & Digital Media with the
Ravensbourne College of Design &
Communication
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School of Liberal Arts

and Sciences

The mission of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences is to HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN

enable students to explore areas of knowledge and reflect MEDIA ST UDIES

critically and creatively on aesthetic forms and on intellectual
WRITING
and cultural practices. Graduates can conduct research,
substantiate arguments, and communicate in the broadest CL ASSES IN THE LIBERAL ARTS

possible sociohistorical, literary, and scientific contexts. The

schools primary goal is for its students to make continuing
DEAN
contributions as critical thinkers and creative professionals. Andrew W. Barnes, Ph.D.
las-dean@pratt.edu

On the graduate level, the School of Liberal
Arts and Sciences offers the M.A. in Media
Studies, the M.S. in History of Art and
Design, and the M.F.A. in Writing. Both the
Media Studies and Writing programs are
unique to a liberal arts school located within
an art and design institution in that they work
with and interrogate social spaces that are
configured and reconfigured using a creative
lens influenced by artists, designers, and
architects. In addition, the School of Liberal
Arts and Sciences also offers graduate
classes for students majoring in the fine arts,
digital arts, communications design, and
architecture, among others.
Our faculty in the School of Liberal
ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN
Arts and Sciences are nationally and
Gloriana Russell
internationally known creative artists,
writers, scholars, critics, and scientists
ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT
who have chosen to be at Pratt because our COORDINATOR
inherent cross/transdisciplinary nature gives Erich Kuersten
us the freedom to fundamentally rethink the
way we approach our given subjects. OFFICE
The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tel: 718.636.3570 | Fax: 718.399.4586
www.pratt.edu/slas
also provides English language support
for international students in the Intensive,
full-time Certificate of English Proficiency,
and summer certificate Programs (IEP, CEP,
and SCP). The courses in these programs
help students to prepare for academic and

Opposite: Students in the classroom

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studio courses by incorporating elements

of literature, as well as critical theories and
examinations of the visual arts. The SCP is
strongly recommended for students whose
TOEFL score is below 600 (PbT). Students
who complete the SCP program are not
required to take the placement exam.
Finally, our Writing and Tutorial Center
gives support to students in their graduate
thesis by giving them the tools to better
articulate and present their final projects.
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History of Art and Design

Pratt Institute is an exceptional place to study the history of art CHAIR

Dorothea Dietrich, Ph.D.
and design. Our landmarked campus attracts leading artists,
designers, historians, and theorists and is only minutes from the ASSISTANT CHAIR
Gayle Rodda Kurtz, Ph.D.
studios, galleries, private collections, libraries, and museums
that make New York a premier center of art and design. ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
Jill Song

The faculty is composed of distinguished experience, and a professional network that

scholars and mentors who focus on the
intellectual and professional growth of our
students. Their expertise, dedication, and
original thinking can be seen in the broad
range of courses, academic and professional
opportunities, and, most importantly, in the
quality of our students work.
Explore our degree options and you will
find students studying 17th-century frescos
in Venice, 20th-century product design at
first-rate auction houses, and 21st-century
performance art at the Guggenheim
Museum. Students come from a wide range
of backgrounds, and leave with knowledge,
Opposite: Class trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
OFFICE
will inform and support their careers for Tel: 718.636.3598
many years. ha@pratt.edu
Every graduate students program
includes behind-the-scenes experiences,
not only at exhibitions and museums but
also in the Institute itself. Connections with
other departments in all areas of fine arts and
designinterior, industrial, communication,
and fashionoffer a unique platform for
an interaction between practitioners and
theoreticians. Our students witness the making
of art and design first hand, which adds a real-
life perspective to their scholarly studies.
A Pratt graduate student is surrounded
and inundated by an aesthetic and intellectual
swirl like no other. Pratts faculty is
distinguished in training and experience,

with an impressive array of degrees and
professional credentials.
The History of Art and Design
department offers exciting lectures and
seminars on a wide range of approaches,
from connoisseurship to the most recent
theoretical approaches. Frequent excursions
and internships result from our extensive
working relationship with the citys museums,
galleries, and cultural organizations and are a
crucial part of the curriculum.
Graduate Degrees
The department of the history of art and
design offers the M.S. degree, requiring 36
credits as described below and a thesis. In
addition, a Certificate of Museum Studies
can be earned in conjunction with this
M.S. degree.
Two dual degree programs are
available: History of Art and Design with
Fine Arts, leading to M.S/M.F.A. degrees;
and History of Art and Design with Library
and Information Science, leading to
M.S/M.S degrees.
ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN MUSEUM
ST UDIES
The Certificate in Museum Studies
complements the M.S. degree in the
History of Art and Design Department by
offering both a solid base in art and design
history and practical, in-depth experience
in the museum world. History of Art and
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Design courses are augmented by Pratts PRAT T IN VENICE
School of Information and Library Science,
Pratt in Venice is a six-week summer
Department of Art and Design Education,
program that takes place in June and July.
and the Arts and Cultural Management
Art History of Venice (HA590I, 3 credits)
program. Many members of our faculty
and Materials and Techniques of Venetian
are museum professionals who bring their
Art (HA600I, 3 credits) are offered together
expertise and experience to the classroom.
with Painting (Art 590I, 23 credits) and
The Certificate is intended to give graduates
Printmaking/ Drawing (Art 591I, 23 credits).
an edge for those who seek museum and
Graduate and undergraduate students
gallery employment. The Certificate is
enroll for six to eight credits. We collaborate
available to graduate students enrolled in the
with the Universit Internazionale dellArte
History of Art and Design masters program
and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in
as well those in the dual programs with the
Venice. Group visits to Padua and Bassano/
Department of Fine Arts and the School
Maser are included. The program fosters
of Information and Library Science and is
interaction between art history and the
only awarded upon completion of those
studio arts through group events, faculty/
masters degrees. Some of the courses for the
student discussions, visiting lecturers, and
Certificate may be taken within the credits
just by being there together. Participants
required for the M.S. degree.
experience the visual riches of Venice and
have the opportunity to conduct research in
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES, AND extraordinary museums and libraries.
CONSERVATION
Arts historical concern with materials and
techniques exists naturally in connection
with programs in the practice of art. This is
an emphasis in all our courses, but it takes
specific form in our required Materials,
Techniques, and Conservation course. In
addition, issues related to conservation
problems in Venetian art history are explored
with the help of local experts on site in our
Venice program.
Opposite: Students at Pratt in Venice at the Gallerie
dell Accademia in summer 2011
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Students at a private showing in the Print Study Room
of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Media Studies

The Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt is situated CHAIR

Maria Damon, Ph.D.
in the uniquely vibrant environment of an art, design, and engl@pratt.edu

architecture school. Students who value both the intellectual

COORDINATOR
and creative sides of media studies are encouraged to apply. Jonathan Beller, Ph.D.
jbeller@pratt.edu

Media Studies at Pratt is an intensive The Programs Structure ADMINISTRATIVE SECRE TARY
program developed in relation to Pratts art,
Danielle Skorzanka
design, and architecture environment and
The program emphasizes studies of media
to the burgeoning mediascape, lively social OFFICE
in their various forms, including film, video,
space, and theoretical scene of Brooklyn and Tel: 718.636.3790
television, radio, writing, and computer-
New York City. Classes are small, following
mediated forms of convergence. Students
both the seminar and workshop format, and
study the logics and logistics of media
all classes are taught by professors.
and mediation, and they explore cultural
The program has been conceived and
technologies of expression, representation,
instituted in a way that understands that
and manipulation, along with the aesthetic,
media emergence is rapidly transforming
economic, and political contexts in which
experience, society, and knowledge. It is
such media necessarily operate. Students
designed to foster the investigation of many
gain expertise in media history, theory
of the significant social, political, cultural,
and practice, and in textual analysis,
economic, and aesthetic questions of our
interpretation, and semiotics.
time by drawing both on the historical record
The Master of Arts in Media Studies
with regard to media forms and on cutting-
graduate program consists of 30 credits
edge theory regarding gender and sexuality,
taken over three semesters and a thesis. The
race, nation, political economy, aesthetic
program can be completed in three semesters
form, screen studies, and the like.
if the student finds a final thesis/project topic
during the first year and prepares to complete

it in the third semester. Even so, an extra
semester is generally recommended to allow
more time to find, explore, and develop the
thesis/project that will best serve the students
particular interests.
The core sequence for the M.A. consists
of Mediologies I and II (six credits total)
and Encounters I and II (two credits total),
Practices I and II (elective courses totaling
six credits), seminars and project courses
(electives totaling 12 credits), an Internship
course (optional) and a final thesis with
required Final Project/Thesis Workshop (four
credits total).
Mediologies courses (HMS-650A/B) provide
students with crucial critical and theoretical
tools; students take a sequence of two
required introductory courses during their
first year. These courses are designed to
address students with substantial experience
in media studies as well as students with
less exposure.
Practices courses comprise a range of
electives, including those taught in
other programs, such as Digital Arts. These
courses enable students to acquire basic
competence in media aesthetics
and production.
Encounters courses (HMS-549 A/B) enable
students to engage directly with others
working in media fields, and with timely
issues and ideas, in an open-discussion
salon environment.
The Final Project/Thesis Workshop
(HMS-659A) offers an intensive small support
group in which students can develop and
write their thesis; students who want more
time to finish their thesis may take HMS-659B
(Thesis in Progress).
Students may also choose to undertake an
internship for academic credit (HMS-9700, 9701,
9702, 9703) and professional enrichment.
Admissions Requirements
Applications for admission to the Master
of Arts in Media Studies are due January 5
for the following fall; the program accepts
fall entrants only. Applicants should have
a B.A., B.S., or B.F.A. from an accredited
institution. Candidates must submit (1) a
statement of purpose in which they describe
their interest in the program; (2) 1020
pages of relevant writing sample(s), with
emphasis on analytical writing about media;
(3) transcripts of undergraduate coursework;
and (4) two letters of recommendation.
All applicants must follow the standard
admission process for graduate programs at
Pratt: see www.pratt.edu/apply.
MASTER OF ARTS IN MEDIA ST UDIES
In addition to the core courses described
above, the program offers a range of
electives in areas of specialization and
interdisciplinary constellations within
media studies, enabling students to develop
particular areas of concentration, first
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through coursework and then in their one-
on-one work with thesis advisors. Faculty
represent areas that include New Media,
Documentary Studies, Global Media, Media
and the Urban Environment, Media and
Performance, Music/Sound Studies, Media/
Attention Economies, Media Ecology,
Archaeology of (New) Media, and Media,
Activism, and Social Change.
Elective seminars run in the format
of small discussion courses focused on
individual or team presentations on the
analysis of texts, films, objects, themes,
and theories. Elective project courses are
semester-long laboratory/workshops
in which students and one or more
faculty membersin any one of several
departmentsengage a topic, idea,
interface, space, or modality, focusing on
the interface between the theorization and
production of media objects. Foci will vary
based upon specific expertise and interests
of involved faculty and students.
Each year in late April, the Media Studies
Program will host a conference, Mediologies,
which will include presentations of work
and works-in-progress by students, faculty,
and guest presenters. Seminar courses being
offered in the spring will enable students to
develop papers and projects specifically for
presentation at Mediologies.
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Writing

The Pratt M.F.A. in Writing is a new and unique two-year CHAIR

Maria Damon, Ph.D.
program specifically designed to support and encourage engl@pratt.edu

intellectually rigorous and inspired writing practices that are

COORDINATOR
philosophically, culturally, and politically informed. Christian Hawkey
chawkey@pratt.edu

The premise of the program is that writing
can be transformative at all scales, from the
personal to the social, and we aim to incubate
such cosmopolitan, local, pleasure-filled, and
potentially revolutionary poetic practices.
Our approach to the M.F.A. curriculum
emphasizes interdisciplinary group critiques
(with core faculty, guest artists, and peers
engaging in weekly discussions and
presentations of student work). Additionally,
students take part in one-on-one guided
mentorships, civic and urban exploration
and fieldwork, and student-led collaborative
seminars in Literature, Media Studies,
Performance, Experimental Practices,
Activism and Critical Theory, to name a few.
The Pratt M.F.A. therefore offers
contemporary writers the tools and the
support they need to build a practice that
is responsive and adaptive (and even a
form of resistance) to our rapidly evolving
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRE TARY
environmental and political times and to
Danielle Skorzanka
the enormous shifts taking place in media
technologies. What can writing become OFFICE
now that the landscape for its production, Tel: 718.636.3790
distribution, and exchange includes not
only books and journals, but also internet
platforms, digital technologies, video, audio,
pdf, blogs, and social media?
This program engages a vision of writing
that is not genre-specific, but rather inclusive
of multiple modes of inscriptionfrom
fiction to poetry, performance to nonfiction,
translation to cultural criticism, investigative
journalism to digital media, documentary
to science fiction. There is also a special
focus on alternate or hybrid approaches to
writing, with hybridity defined as a set of
interactive processes that can potentially
generate new social spaces. What avant-
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garde experiments, what research, what
interventions, what archives, what speech
acts, what literary and artistic traditions,
what genres, what media technologies,
what theoretical frames, what narratives,
and what materials are most suited to your
artistic inquiries? Well help you figure
that out as you begin to establish a creative
practice that is sustainable across a lifetime
of change.
Our core faculty of writers is diverse
and internationally renowned. Their work
traverses and often combines numerous
disciplines: activism, performance art,
translation, media and cultural theory,
theater, fine art. Our course of study
emphasizes collaboration, radical pedagogy,
administrative transparency, and non-
hierarchical learning.
Course of Study
The Graduate Program in Writing M.F.A.
consists of several core classes and seminars
taken over four semesters (two years), with
the goal of producing a final manuscript,
performance, or collaborative event.
There are three notable features of the
new program. First, the heart of the program
is a once-a-week core class, the Writing
Studio, which is an open, democratic forum
dedicated to the collective critique and
discussion of student and faculty works-in-
progress. Second, each student is offered
one-on-one guided Mentorships with a
chosen faculty member. Third, the program
provides students with support and guidance Admission Requirements
to extend their cultural productions and
research interests into the world in the
Applications for admission to the Master of
form of Fieldwork Residencies: ongoing
Fine Arts are due January 5 for the following
residencies conducted in collaboration
fall; the program accepts fall entrants
with an outside institution, community,
only. Applicants should have a B.A., B.S.,
organization, archive, occupational domain,
or B.F.A. from an accredited institution.
or activist group.
Candidates submit (1) a statement of
purpose in which they describe how their
Other notable features of the Pratt MFA in
writing interests align with the vision of
Writing include:
the program; (2) 1020 pages of relevant
Student-led collaborative Writing writing samples of any genre; (3) transcripts
Practice Seminars that explore the of undergraduate coursework; and (4) two
intersections of writing, research, letters of recommendation. To apply, follow
activism, radical pedagogy, and the standard admission process for graduate
critical theory. programs at Pratt: www.pratt.edu/apply.
Sustained focus on 21st-century modes
of authorship including: activism,
transdisciplinary and cross-genre
experiment, performance, innovative
uses of new media, investigative and
research techniques, conceptual
frameworks, collaborative methods,
and site-specific approaches.
A course of study stressing a writing
process that takes into account the
material and technological aspects
of writing, the human body that
produces it, and the larger social,
sexual, historical, economic, racial,
and cultural contexts in which and
through which all imaginative writing
takes place.
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Classes in the Liberal Arts Humanities and Media Studies

CHAIR
Maria Damon, Ph.D.
engl@pratt.edu

ASSISTANT CHAIR
Kathryn Cullen-Dupont

ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR

Danielle Skorzanka

Mathematics and Science

CHAIR
Pratt provides a well-rounded education in the liberal arts that Carole Sirovich, Ph.D.
encompasses Humanities and Media Studies, Mathematics and sci@pratt.edu

Science, Social Science, and Cultural Studies. In addition, the ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
Margaret Dy-So
Institute supports international students in gaining the English
L ABORATORY TECHNICIAN
language skills they need to pursue their education and to Tiffany Liu

interact as vital members of the community.

Social Science and Cultural Studies
CHAIR
HUMANITIES AND MEDIA ST UDIES MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
Gregg Horowitz, Ph.D.

The Humanities and Media Studies Depart- The mission of the Department of ss@pratt.edu

ment offers a variety of coursesEnglish Mathematics and Science is threefold. The ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR
literature, communications, music, theater, first is to acquaint students with scientific Sophia Straker-Babb

film, foreign languages, and creative writ-
ingas well as a graduate programs in Media
Studies and Writing. What unites them,
giving them continuity, is the departments
mission: to recognize and foster the relation-
methodologies, critical thinking, and the
history of scientific thought. The second is Intensive English Program
to address the interface between science INTENSIVE ENGLISH DIRECTOR
and art, architecture, and design, whether Nancy Seidler
it is through the physics of light, the cep@pratt.edu

ship between visual and written texts; to instill chemistry of color, the biology of form, or CERTIFICATE OF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
within students critical thinking, reading, and the mathematics of symmetry. The third is COORDINATOR
writing skills that will inspire them in their to educate students so that they can respond Dana Gordon

professional lives for intellectual and creative
growth; and to promote understanding and
appreciation for the diverse cultures within
the U.S. and throughout the world.
intelligently and critically to todays new COMPUTER-ASSISTED L ANGUAGE
developments in science and technology and LEARNING COORDINATOR
Rachid Eladlouni
make informed decisions regarding current
scientific matters that affect public policy ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
Natasha Dwyer
issues and ethics.

SOCIAL SCIENCE AND
CULT URAL ST UDIES
The Department of Social Science and
Cultural Studies trains students to
bring critical and analytical skills to bear on
the social world and on their professional
and artistic work. Through the perspectives
of social science, history, philosophy, and
cultural studies, students explore the cultural
achievements of humankind and the social
forces that have influenced the development
of culture and human personality.
Resources in the School of
Liberal Arts and Sciences
INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM
The Intensive English Program (IEP) pro-
vides academic English language instruction
to matriculated graduate and undergradu-
ate students. In addition, two certificate
programs run under the IEPs umbrella: the
full-time Certificate (CEP) and Summer
(SCP) programs. The mission of all programs
in the IEP is to support successful matricula-
tion of international students by providing
appropriate English language instruction.
Internal assessment and advisement ensure
students proper placement in English lan-
guage courses, as well as successful matricu-
lation and degree attainment. The curricu-
lum includes art, design, and architecture
content and is enhanced by direct exposure
to related cultural experiences and language-
learning technology.
Pratt Institute and the School of Liberal
Arts and Sciences welcome international
students and offer an array of programs and
services to improve English-language skills
and academic readiness. All international
students with TOEFL scores below 600
(PbT), 250 (CBT), or 100 (iBT)including
transfer studentswhose first language is
not English must demonstrate proficiency in
English by taking an English Placement Test
upon arriving at the Institute. The Intensive
English Program (IEP) in the Language
Resource Center on Pratts Brooklyn campus
administers the test.
This placement test consists of a reading
test, a writing test, and a personal inter-
view with an IEP faculty member. Students
assessed at the exempt level of English
proficiency satisfy their Intensive English
requirement and may enroll in all Institute
courses without restriction. Students who
are assessed as being in need of English
instruction must register in consecutive In-
tensive English courses (including summer
IEP classes should they wish to take other
Institute courses during those sessions) until
they achieve exempt status based on IEP exit
proficiency criteria.
Students who, upon entering Pratt, are
assessed below Level 5 may be required to
join the full-time CEP Program. Students
who have registered for three (fall and
spring) semesters are considered at risk.
Students who have registered for four (fall
and spring) semesters and who do not assess
at the exempt level may be required to with-
draw voluntarily from Pratt or register for the
full-time CEP Program.
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Good communication skills are essential
to academic success at Pratt Institute. In-
struction in the IEP emphasizes language use
for general academic and specific purposes
in the professions in which Pratt specializes,
namely, art, design, architecture, and infor-
mation and library science. IEP faculty are
trained and experienced in teaching English
as a second language, as well as in integrat-
ing art and design content into their courses.
Our classes are small (8 to 12 students per
session), and enrolled international students
benefit from their use of the Language Re-
source and Writing and Tutorial Centers for
additional language learning practice.
For information on the Test of English as
a Foreign Language (TOEFL) requirements
at Pratt Institute, please refer to the catalog
listing for particular schools and departments.
New international students are strongly
encouraged to enroll in IEP summer courses
in order to be fully prepared for the academic
requirements of their degree programs.
THE CERTIFICATE OF ENGLISH
PROFICIENCY PROGRAM
The Certificate of English Proficiency (CEP)
program at Pratt Institute is a one-year
English-language program located at our
Brooklyn campus. Students whose TOEFL
scores fall below the admission minimums
established by Institute degree programs
may apply to the CEP for full-time English-
language instruction. At the end of the
two-semester program of English study, those
students completing CEP coursework receive
a certificate of English language proficiency.
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Courses focus on speaking, listening,
reading, and writing within the context of art
and design, as well as TOEFL preparation.
For more information on Pratts Intensive
and Certificate English programs, contact
IEP administrative offices at 718.636.3450,
visit the IEP website at www.pratt.edu/iep or
email IEP at cep@pratt.edu.
L ABORATORIES AND COMPUTER
FACILITIES
The science laboratories (chemistry,
physics, biology), located in the Activities
Resource Center, are interdisciplinary
research facilities. Sophisticated
instruments and equipment are available,
and undergraduates are encouraged to use
them under faculty supervision. Computer
facilities are available for use by all students
of the Institute. Specialized facilities are
employed in the sciences.
WRITING AND T UTORIAL CENTER
The Writing and Tutorial Center provides
free tutoring for all Pratt students in English,
math, physics, art history, thesis preparation,
and other academic areas. Special assistance
is provided for students for whom English is a
second language. Small-group and regularly
scheduled one-on-one conversation sessions
are also offered.
The Writing and Tutorial Center staff
consists of a director, faculty and staff tutors,
and trained student peer tutors. The director
coordinates scheduling and appointments in
all areas. Any faculty member, staff member,
or adviser may recommend students who
need assistance.
The Writing and Tutorial Center is
located in North Hall 101 (opposite the bank).
Appointments can be made by phone, Skype
IM, or in person.
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Academic Degrees Overview

Enrollment in other than registered or otherwise approved programs may jeopardize
a students eligibility for certain student aid awards.

Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECT URE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECT URE
Architecture B. ARCH. 0202 Architecture (first-professional) M. ARCH. 0202
Construction Management B.P.S. 0201 Architecture (post-professional) M.S. 0202
Construction Management B.S. 0201 Architecture and Urban Design (post-professional) M.S. 0205
Building and Construction A . A .S. 5317 City and Regional Planning M.S. 0206

SCHOOL OF ART Facilities Management M.S. 0201

Digital Design and Interactive Media A .O.S. 5012 Historic Preservation M.S. 0299

Graphic Design A .O.S. 5012 Sustainable Environmental Systems M.S. 0206

Graphic Design/Illustration A . A .S. 5012 SCHOOL OF ART

Illustration A .O.S. 5012 Art and Design Education (init./prf. certification) M.S. 0831
Painting/Drawing A . A .S. 5610 Art and Design Education (prf. certification) M.S. 0831
Art and Design Education B.F. A . 0831 Art and Design Education ADV. CRT. 0831
Digital Arts B.F. A . 1009 Arts and Cultural Management M.P.S. 0599
Film B.F. A . 1010 Art Therapy and Creativity Development M.P.S. 1099
Fine Arts B.F. A . 1001 Art Therapy with Special Needs Children M.P.S. 1099
Photography B.F. A . 1011 Dance/Movement Therapy M.S. 1099
SCHOOL OF DESIGN Design Management M.P.S. 0599
Communications Design B.F. A . 0601 Digital Arts M.F. A . 1009
Fashion Design B.F. A . 1009 Fine Arts M.F. A . 1001
Industrial Design B.I.D. 1009
SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Interior Design B.F. A . 0201
Communications Design M.F. A . 1009
SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Communications Design M.S. 0601
Critical and Visual Studies B. A . 4903 Industrial Design M.I.D. 1009
History of Art and Design B. A . 1003 Interior Design M.F. A . 0201
History of Art and Design B.F. A . 1003 Interior Design M.S. 0201
Writing B.F. A . 1599 Package Design M.S. 1009
CENTER FOR CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL ST UDIES
Professional Services Management B.P.S. 0506
continued on next page
COMBINED DEGREE PROGRAMS
Art and Design Education B.F. A ./ 0831
M.S.
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Graduate Programs, continued

SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
Library and Information Science M.S. 1601
Library and Information Science: M.S. 0899
Library Media Specialist
Archives Certificate Program ADV. CRT. 1699
Library and Information Studies ADV. CRT. 1699
Library Media Specialist ADV. CRT. 0899
Museum Libraries ADV. CRT. 1699

SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

History of Art and Design M.S. 1003
Media Studies M. A . 0601
Museum Studies ADV. CRT. 1003
Writing M.F. A . 1599

COMBINED DEGREE PROGRAMS

Library and Information Science/Digital Arts M.S./ 1601/
M.F.A. 1009
Library and Information Science/Law M.S./J.D. 1601/
M.S./L.L.M. 1401
History of Art and Design/Fine Arts M.S./ 1009/
M.F.A. 1001
History of Art and Design/Information and Library Science M.S./M.S. 1009/
1601
Planning and Law M.S./J.D. 0206/
1401
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Curricula

School of M.Arch. in Architecture

(First-Professional)
Architecture
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 5
ARCH-601 Design Studio 1: Fundamentals 5 ARCH-805 Design Studio 5: Vertical 5
ARCH-611 Computer Media 1: Multimedia 3 Option

ARCH-631 Structures I 3 ARCH-861 Professional Practice 3

ARCH-651 History and Theory 1: Modern 3 History/Theory Elective 3

History GAUD Elective 3
Credit subtotal 14 Credit subtotal 14
SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 6
ARCH-602 Design Studio 2: Context 5 ARCH-806 Design Studio 6: Vertical 5
ARCH-612 Computer Media 2: Advanced 3 Option
Multimedia History/Theory Elective 3
ARCH-632 Structures II 3 All Institute Elective 6
ARCH-652 History and Theory 2: 3 Credit subtotal 14
Architectural Theory Total credits required 84
Credit subtotal 14
SEMESTER 3
ARCH-703 Design Studio 3: 5
Urban Mixed Use
ARCH-753 History and Theory 3: 3
Non-Western History
ARCH-761 Environmental Controls 3
ARCH-762 Material and Assemblies 3
Credit subtotal 14
SEMESTER 4
ARCH-704 Design Studio 4: CAP 5
ARCH-861 Professional Practice 3
History/Theory Elective 3
GAUD Elective 3
Credit subtotal 14
164CURRICUL A

M.S. in Architecture M.S. in Architecture M.S. in City and

(Post-Professional) and Urban Design Regional Planning
(Post-Professional)
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1
ARCH-781 Pro Seminar I 3 PLAN-600 Fundamentals: Seminar and 5
SEMESTER 1
GAUD Elective 6 Studio
UD-803 UD Studio I 5
ARCH-803 Summer Design Studio 6: 5 PLAN-602 History and Theory of City 3
UD-813 Methods and Computer 3 Planning
Vertical Option
Applications
Credit subtotal 14 PLAN-603 Urban Economics 3
UD-993 Urban Design Theory 3
SEMESTER 2 Elective Credits 3
Credit subtotal 11
ARCH-901 Fall Design Studio 5 Credits subtotal 14
SEMESTER 2
ARCH-982 Pro Seminar II 3 SEMESTER 2
UD-901 UD Studio II 5
ARCH-988 Thesis Research 3 PLAN-604 Planning Law 3
UD-981A Culmination Project Research 3
GAUD Elective 3 Elective Credits 8
UD-991 Urban Design and 3
Credit subtotal 14 PLAN-605 Planning Method I 3
Implementation: Case Studies
SEMESTER 3 Credits subtotal 14
All-Institute Electives 3
ARCH-912 Thesis 5 Credit subtotal 14 SEMESTER 3
All-Institute Elective 3 PLAN-701 Planning Methods II 3
SEMESTER 3
Credit subtotal 8 PLAN-810 Studio: Sustainable
UD-902 UD Culmination Project 5
Communities, or
Total credits required 36 All-Institute Elective 3
PLAN-820 Studio: Land Use and Urban
Credit subtotal 8 Design, or
Total credits required 33 PLAN-850 Studio: Sustainable 5
Development
Elective Credits 3
Credits subtotal 11
SEMESTER 4
PLAN-810 Studio: Sustainable
Communities, or
PLAN-820 Studio: Land Use and Urban
Design, or
PLAN-850 Studio: Sustainable 5
Development
PLAN-891 Directed Research 2
Elective Credits 5
Credits subtotal 12
SEMESTER 5
PLAN-892 Demonstration of Professional 3
Competence
Elective Credits 6
Credits subtotal 9
Total credits required 60
 CURRICUL A165

M.S. in Sustainable M.S. in Historic Preservation M.S. in Facilities Management

Environmental Systems
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1
PR-640 History/Theory of Preservation 3 FM-621 Computer Applications 3
SEMESTER 1
PR-643B Architecture and Urban 3 FM-631 Principles of Facilities 3
ESM-633A Environmental Law 3
History I: Europe Management
ESM-631 Sustainable Communities 3
PR-641 Documentation/Interpretation 3 FM-633 Managerial Accounting and 3
MSCI-610 Science of Sustainability 3 Finance
PR-651 Building Technology 3
Professional Elective Credits 5 FM-663 Real Estate Development 3
Credit subtotal 12
Credit subtotal 14 Credit subtotal 12
SEMESTER 2
SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 2
PR-661 Preservation Law and Policy 3
ESM-632 Environmental Economics 3 FM-632 Project Management 3
PR-642A Concepts of Heritage 3
ESM-633B Environmental Impact FM-634 Facility Programming and 3
PR-643A Architecture and Urban History 3
Assessment 3 Design
II: United States
UESM-634AClimate Change and Cities 1 FM-636 Facility Maintenance and 3
Preservation Elective 3
UESM-634BSustainability 1 Operations
Credit subtotal 12
Indicators Elective Credits 3
UESM-634CLife Cycle Analysis 1
SEMESTER 3
Credit subtotal 12
PR-891 Demonstration of Professional 3
UESM-635ASolid Waste Management 1 SEMESTER 3
Competence
UESM-635BWater Quality Management 1 FM-731 Strategic Planning and 3
PR-652A Interventions , Alterations, and 3
UESM-635C Urban Energy Management 1 Adaptive Reuse Management
All Institute Elective Credits 2 Preservation Elective 3 FM-733 Economic Evaluation of 3
Facilities
Credit subtotal 14 Credit subtotal 9
FM-735 Telecommunications: 3
SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 4 Concepts and Strategies
PLAN-820 Land Use Studio 5 PR-840 Preservation Studio 5 FM-771 Legal Issues 3
UESM- Demonstration of Professional PR-670A Intro to Real Estate 1 Credit subtotal 12
660A Competence 2 Development
Elective Credits 5 SEMESTER 4
PR-670B Real Estate Market Analysis 1
Credit subtotal 12 FM-798 Demonstration of Professional 4
PR-670C Preservation Tax Credit 1
Competence
Total credits required 40 Projects
HMS-697A Thesis Writing I 1
Elective Credits 3
Elective Credits 9
Credit subtotal 11
Credit subtotal 14
Total credits required 44
Total credits required 50
166CURRICUL A

School of Art M.S. in Art and Design M.S. in Art and Design
Education (Initial/ Education (Professional
Professional Certification) Certification)

SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1
ADE-506 Literacy and Language 1 ADE-616A Fieldwork in Art and Design 2
Acquisition in the Art Education
Classroom or
ADE-616B Fieldwork in Art and Design 2 ADE-616B Fieldwork in Art and Design
Education (with Special Education (with Special
Populations) Populations)
ADE-616C The Inclusive Art Room 1 ADE-616C The Inclusive Art Room 1
ADE-630 Media and Materials: from 3 ADE-625 Play and Performance: From 3
Studio to Classroom Childhood to Pedagogy
ED-608 Roots of Urban Education 3 ADE-630 Media and Materials: From 3
Studio to Classroom
Credit subtotal 10
Elective 2
SEMESTER 2
Credit subtotal 11
ADE-522 Student Teaching: 3
Saturday Art School SEMESTER 2
or ED-602 Survey of Art Education 3
ADE-524 Student Teaching: Literature
In the Galleries ED-605 The Teacher in Film and Fiction 3
ADE-619 Foundations in Art and Design 3 Elective 3
Education
Credit subtotal 9
ED-602 Survey of Art Education 3
Literature SEMESTER 3
Credit subtotal 9 ADE-517A Directed Research in Art and 2
Design Education
SEMESTER 3 or
ADE-521 Student Teaching: Saturday Art 3 ADE-517B Directed Research in Art and
School Design Education (with Special
or Populations)
ADE-523 Student Teaching: After School ADE-621 Special Topics in Art and 3
ADE-620 The Art of Teaching Art and 3 Design Education
Design ED-660A Thesis I 3
ED-660A Thesis I 3 Credit subtotal 8
Elective 2 SEMESTER 4
Credit subtotal 11 ED-660B Thesis II 3
SEMESTER 4 Elective 3
ADE-531A Student Teaching: 4 Credit subtotal 6
In the Public Schools
or Total credits required 34
ADE-531B Student Teaching:
With Special Populations
ADE-532A Student Teaching Seminar 1
ED-660B Thesis II 3
Credit subtotal 8
Total credits required 38
(Plus courses and credits listed under "Certification
Requirements")
 CURRICUL A167

Advanced Certificate in M.P.S. in Arts and Cultural

Art and Design Education Management

SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1 (FALL)

ADE-506 Literacy and Language 1 NYSED CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS ACM-625 Leadership and Team Building 2
Acquisition in the Art ACM-627 Management Communications 2
The following requirements must be fulfilled
Classroom
prior to applying for New York State Education ACM-631 Behavioral Simulation 1
ADE-521 Student Teaching: 3 Department (NYSED) Initial Certification in Visual
Saturday Art School Arts, Pre-K12. ACM-641 Management of Arts and 2
or Cultural Organizations
Academic Courses
ADE-523 Student Teaching: After School ACM-645 Art in the Urban Environment 2
Course in Child/Adolescent 3
ADE-616B Fieldwork in Art and Design 2 Credit subtotal 9
Development
Education with Special
Course in a Foreign Language 3 SEMESTER 2 (SPRING)
Populations
The courses may be taken at Pratt or transferred ACM-623 Financial Planning and Budget 2
ADE-620 The Art of Teaching Art and 3
from another accredited post-secondary institution. Management
Design
Completion of the following workshops taken ACM-624 Arts and Cultural Education 2
ED-608 Roots of Urban Education 3
with a provider approved by NYSED: ACM-632 Organizational Behavior 2
Credit subtotal 12
Child Abuse Identification 0 ACM-642 Nonprofit Law and Governance 2
SEMESTER 2
Workshop Credit subtotal 8
ADE-522 Student Teaching: 3
School Violence Prevention 0 SEMESTER 3 (SUMMER I AND SUMMER II)
Saturday Art School
and Intervention Workshop
or ACM-626 Managing Innovation 2
ADE-524 Student Teaching: Training in Harassment, 0 and Change
In the Galleries Bullying, Cyberbullying, and
Discrimination in Schools: ACM-633 Negotiating 1
ADE-531A Student Teaching: 4
Prevention and Intervention ACM-646 External Relations 2
In the Public School
or Passing scores on the following tests and ACM-652 Directed Research 1
ADE-531B Student Teaching: assessments: ACM-664A Capstone Planning: Advisement 1
With Special Populations Educating all Students (EAS) Credit subtotal 7
ADE-532A Student Teaching Seminar 1 Academic Literacy Skills Test
ADE-619 Foundations in Art and Design 3 (ALST) SEMESTER 4 (FALL)
Education Content Specialty Test (CST) ACM-621 Strategic Marketing 2
Credit subtotal 11 Education Teacher Portfolio ACM-622 Fundraising for Arts and 2
Assessment (edTPA) Culture
Total credits required 23
ACM-643 Art, Culture, and Social Policy 2
ACM-654 Strategic Technology 2
Credit subtotal 8

SEMESTER 5 (SPRING)
ACM-628 Advertising and Promotion 2
ACM-644 Cultural Pluralism in the U.S. 2
ACM-651 Finances and Financial 2
Reporting for Nonprofit
Managers
ACM-664B Shaping the 21st Century: 2
Integrative Capstone
ACM-671 Managerial Decision-Making 1
DM-643 Intellectual Property Law 1
Credit subtotal 10
Total credits required 42
168CURRICUL A

M.P.S. in Art Therapy and M.P.S. in Art Therapy and

Creativity Development and Creativity Development and
M.P.S. in Art Therapy with M.P.S. in Art Therapy with
Special Needs Children Special Needs Children

ACADEMIC YEAR PROGRAM LOW RESIDENCY PROGRAM

SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 4 YEAR 1

ADT-641/ Creative Arts Therapy I/ 3 ADT-646/ Group Creative Arts Therapy 3
621 Special Ed. I 626 II/Special Ed. II SEMESTER 1 (SPRING)
ADT-645/ Group Creative Arts Therapy I/ 3 ADT-650 Advanced Seminar II in Creative 3 ADT-641/ Creative Arts Therapy I 3
625 Special Ed. I Arts Therapy Adults 621
ADT-661/ Fieldwork Experience and 2 or ADT-640 Development of the 3
671 Supervision I/Special Ed. I ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled Personality I
or
TECH-634/Materials in Creative Arts 3 ADT-654 Children and Adolescents SEMESTER 2 (SUMMER)
635 Therapy/Special Ed I ADT-642/ Creative Arts Therapy II 3
ADT-660 The Psychology of Intergroup 3
Credit subtotal 11 Relations and Institutional 622
SEMESTER 2 Process ADT-645/ Group Creative Arts Therapy I 3
ADT-632/ Research and Thesis/ 3 ADT-664/ Fieldwork Experience and 2 625
633 Research and Thesis: Special 674 Supervision IV/Special Ed. IV TECH-634/Materials in Creative Art 3
Education Elective 3 635 Therapy
ADT-642/ Creative Arts Therapy II/ 3 Credit subtotal 14 SEMESTER 3 (FALL)
622 Special Ed. II ADT-661/ Fieldwork Experience and 2
Total credits required 53
ADT-640 Development of Personality I 3 671 Supervision I
ADT-647 Art Diagnosis 3 Credit subtotal 17
ADT-662/ Fieldwork Experience and 2 YEAR 2
672 Supervision II/Special Ed. II
Credit subtotal 14 SEMESTER 4 (SPRING)
SEMESTER 3 ADT-630 Clinical Diagnosis and 3
Treatment Issues
ADT-649 Advanced Seminar I in Creative 3
Arts Therapy Adults ADT-655 Development of Personality II 3
or ADT-662/ Fieldwork Experience and 2
ADT-651 Developmentally Disabled 672 Supervision II
or SEMESTER 5 (SUMMER)
ADT-653 Children and Adolescents
ADT-632 Research & Thesis 3
ADT-630 Clinical Diagnosis and 3
Treatment Issues ADT-649 Advanced Seminar I in Creative 3
Arts Therapy Adults
ADT-663/ Fieldwork Experience and 2 or
673 Supervision III/Special Ed. III ADT-651 Developmentally Disabled
ADT-688 Family Art Therapy 3 or
ADT-655 Development of Personality II 3 ADT-653 Children and Adolescents
Credit subtotal 14 ADT-688 Family Art Therapy 3
SEMESTER 6 (FALL)
ADT-663/ Fieldwork Experience and 2
673 Supervision III
Credit subtotal 19
 CURRICUL A169

M.S. in Dance/Movement
Therapy

ACADEMIC YEAR PROGRAM

SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 4
DT-671 Theory and Practice of Dance 3 ADT-646 Group Creative Arts Therapy II 3
Therapy I ADT-650 Advanced Seminar II in Creative 3
YEAR 3 DT-673 Studies in Movement Behavior I 3 Arts Therapy Adults
ADT-641 Creative Arts Therapy I 3 or
SEMESTER 7 (SPRING) ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled
ADT-645 Group Creative Arts Therapy I 3 or
ADT-664/ Fieldwork Experience and 2
674 Supervision IV ADT-661 Fieldwork Experience and 2 ADT-654 Children and Adolescents
Supervision I ADT-660 The Psychology of Intergroup 3
ADT-647 Art Diagnosis 3
Credit subtotal 14 Relations and Institutional
SEMESTER 8 (SUMMER) Process
SEMESTER 2
ADT-643 Expressive Modalities 3 ADT-664 Fieldwork Experience and 2
DT-672 Theory and Practice of Dance 3
ADT-646/ Group Creative Arts Therapy II 3 Supervision IV
Therapy II
626 Credit subtotal 11
DT-674 Studies in Movement Behavior 3
ADT-660 Psychology of Intergroup 3 II Total credits required 56
Relations
ADT-632 Research and Thesis 3
ADT-650 Advanced Seminar II in Creative 3
Arts Therapy Adults ADT-642 Creative Arts Therapy II 3
or ADT-662 Fieldwork Experience and 2
ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled Supervision II
or
ADT-640 Development of Personality I 3
ADT-654 Children and Adolescents
Credit subtotal 17
Credit subtotal 17
SEMESTER 3
Total credits required 53
ADT-649 Advanced Seminar I in Creative 3
Arts Therapy Adults
or
ADT-651 Developmentally Disabled
or
ADT-653 Children and Adolescents
ADT-630 Clinical Diagnosis and 3
Treatment Issues
DT-675 Improvisation 3
ADT-663 Fieldwork Experience and 2
Supervision III
ADT-655 Development of Personality II 3
Credit subtotal 14
170CURRICUL A

M.S. in Dance/Movement M.P.S. in Design Management

Therapy
SEMESTER 1
DM-631 Leadership Behavioral 1
LOW RESIDENCY PROGRAM Simulation
DM-632 Leadership and Team Building 2
YEAR 1 YEAR 3
DM-652 Design Management 2
SEMESTER 1 (SPRING) SEMESTER 7 (SPRING) DM-654 Strategic Technology 2
ADT-641 Creative Arts Therapy I 3 ADT-664 Fieldwork Experience and 2 DM-661 Financial Reporting and 2
Supervision IV Analysis
DT-673 Movement Behavior I 3
SEMESTER 8 (SUMMER) Credit subtotal 9
ADT-640 Development of Personality I 3
ADT-646 Group Creative Arts Therapy II 3 SEMESTER 2
SEMESTER 2 (SUMMER)
Advanced Seminar II in Creative DM-622 Advertising and Promotion 2
ADT-642 Creative Arts Therapy II 3
Arts Therapy DM-633 Managing Innovation and 2
ADT-645 Group Creative Arts Therapy I 3 Change
ADT-660 The Psychology of Intergroup 3
DT-671 Theory and Practice of Dance 3 Relations DM-641 International Environment of 2
Therapy I Business
ADT-650 Adults 3
SEMESTER 3 (FALL) or DM-651 Management Communications 2
ADT-661/ Fieldwork Experience and 2 ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled
or Credit subtotal 8
671 Supervision I
ADT-654 Children and Adolescents SEMESTER 3
Credit subtotal 20
DT-675 Improvisation 3 DM-634 Negotiating 1
YEAR 2 Credit subtotal 14 DM-653 Design Operations 2
Total credits required 56 Management
SEMESTER 4 (SPRING) DM-656 Directed Research 1
ADT-630 Clinical Diagnosis and 3 DM-662 Money and Markets 2
Treatment Issues
DM-673 Capstone Planning: Advisement 1
DT-674 Movement Behavior II 3
Credit subtotal 7
Advanced Seminar I in Creative
Arts Therapy SEMESTER 4
ADT-649 Adults 3 DM-621 Strategic Marketing 2
or DM-642 Business Law 2
ADT-651 Developmentally Disabled
DM-643 Intellectual Property Law 1
or
ADT-653 Children and Adolescents DM-663 Financing: Companies and New 2
Ventures
ADT-655 Development of Personality II 3
DM-671 Managerial Decision Making 1
ADT-662 Fieldwork Experience and 2
Supervision II Credit subtotal 8
S EMESTER 5
SEMESTER 5 (SUMMER)
DM-623 Building Entrepreneurial 2
ADT-632 Research & Thesis 3
Courage
DT-672 Theory and Practice of Dance 3
DM-644 Design Futures: Theory and 2
Therapy II
Practice
SEMESTER 6 (FALL) DM-655 New Product Management and 2
Development
ADT-663 Fieldwork Experience and 2
Supervision III DM-672 Business Strategy 2
Credit subtotal 22 DM-674 Shaping the 21st Century: 2
Integrative Capstone
Credit subtotal 10
Total credits required 42
 CURRICUL A171

M.F.A. in Digital Arts (3-D M.F.A. in Digital Arts M.F.A. in Digital Arts
Animation and Motion Arts (Interactive Arts (Digital Imaging
Concentration) Concentration) Concentration)

SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1

DDA-606A Graduate Seminar I 3 DDA-606A Graduate Seminar I 3 DDA-606A Graduate Seminar I 3
DDA-610 Digital Arts Practicum 3 DDA-610 Digital Arts Practicum 3 DDA-610 Digital Arts Practicum 3
DDA-617 Languages 3 DDA-617 Languages 3 DDA-617 Languages 3
DDA-643 Animation Studio 3 DDA-622 Interactive Media I 3 DDA-645 Imaging Studio 3
Studio Elective 3 Studio Elective 3 Studio Elective 3
Credit subtotal 15 Credit subtotal 15 Credit subtotal 15
SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 2
DDA-606B Graduate Seminar II 3 DDA-585 Interactive Installation 3 DDA-606B Graduate Seminar II 3
DDA-643 Animation Studio 3 DDA-587 Art of Electronics 3 DDA-614 3-D Modeling 3
DDA Elective 6 DDA-606B Graduate Seminar II 3 DDA-645 Imaging Studio 3
Studio Elective 3 DDA Elective 3 DDA Elective 3
Credit subtotal 15 Studio Elective 3 Studio Elective 3
SEMESTER 3 Credit subtotal 15 Credit subtotal 15
DDA-653 Post-Production 3 SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 3
DDA-660A Thesis I 6 DDA-660A Thesis I 6 DDA-660A Thesis I 6
Art History Elective 3 DDA-646 Interactive Arts 3 DDA Electives 6
DDA Elective 3 DDA Electives 3 Art History Elective 3
Credit subtotal 15 Art History Elective 3 Credit subtotal 15
SEMESTER 4 Credit subtotal 15 SEMESTER 4
DDA-660B Thesis II 6 SEMESTER 4 DDA-660B Thesis II 6
Liberal Arts Elective 3 DDA-660B Thesis II 6 Liberal Arts Elective 3
DDA Elective 3 Liberal Arts Elective 3 DDA Elective 3
DDA Elective or Internship 3 DDA Elective 3 DDA Elective or Internship 3
Credit subtotal 15 DDA Elective or Internship 3 Credit subtotal 15
Total credits required 60 Credit subtotal 15 Total credits required 60
Total credits required 60
172CURRICUL A

M.F.A. in Fine Arts School of Design M.S. in

Communications Design
SEMESTER 1
(not open to incoming students
Studio Major 3 for fall 2015)
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3
PHIL-604 Aesthetics 3
Studio Electives 6 SEMESTER 1
Credit subtotal 15 DES-618 Typography I 3
SEMESTER 2 DES-620 Visual Communications I 3
Studio Major 3 DES-625 Visual Perception 3
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3 DES-680 Digital Design 3
Liberal Arts 3 Credit subtotal 12
Studio Electives 6 SEMESTER 2
Credit subtotal 15 DES-619 Typography II 3
SEMESTER 3 DES-621 Visual Communications II 3
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3 or
DES-681 Interactive Design I (DD)
FA-650A Thesis I 5
DES-677 Electronic Pre-press 3
Studio Electives 8 or
Credit subtotal 16 DES-683 Motion Design 1 (DD)
SEMESTER 4 HA-601 History of Western Art 2
or
FA-601 Thesis Statement I 2
HA-662 History of Communications
FA-650B Thesis II 5 Design
Studio Electives 7 Credit subtotal 11
Credit subtotal 14 SEMESTER 3
Total credits required 60 DES-624 Communication Seminar 3
or
DES-682 Interactive Design II (DD)
DES-626 Corporate Image Planning 3
or
DES-634 Marketing
or
DES-640 Design Management
DES-636 Visual Communications III 3
or
DES-684 Motion Design II (DD)
DES-660 Directed Research 2
Credit subtotal 11
 CURRICUL A173

M.F.A. in
Communications Design

SEMESTER 4 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 4

HD-505 History of Design 2 DES-710A Graduate Studio: Visual 3 DES-797 M.F.A. Thesis Production & 1
or Language A Exhibition
HD-506 Concepts of Design DES-720A Graduate Studio: Technology A 3 DES-799 M.F.A. Thesis II 3
DES-699A Thesis I 6 DES-730A Graduate Studio: 3 Elective Credits 9
Elective Credits 3 Transformation Design A DES-795A M.F.A. Thesis Resource A 1
Credit subtotal 11 DES-760A Graduate Seminar A 3 DES-795B M.F.A. Thesis Resource B 1
HD-641 Origins of Contemporary 3 or
SEMESTER 5 Comm. Design DES-607 Portfolio Development
DES-699B Thesis II 3 Credit subtotal 15
Credit subtotal 15
Credit subtotal 3 Total credits required 62
SEMESTER 2
Total credits required 48
DES-741 Cross Disciplinary Studio 3 PREREQUISITE COURSES
(Courses followed by the notation DD should be
DES-751 Design Writing 3
chosen if completing the M.S. program with an DES-601 Design Process & Methodology 3
or
emphasis in Digital Design.) DES-602 Design Technology 3
DES-640 Design Management
PREREQUISITE COURSES DES-791 Thesis Research 3 DES-603 Design Ideation & Visualization 3
DES-608 Design Procedures 3 Elective Credits 6 DES-604 Typography 3
DES-676 Computer Graphic Systems 3 Credit subtotal 15 Credit subtotal 12
These courses may be required as prerequisite SEMESTER 3
courses for students not having an appropriate
communications design background. DES-710B Graduate Studio: Visual 3
Language
DES-720B Graduate Studio: Technology B 3
DES-730B Graduate Studio: 3
Transformation Design B
DES-760B Graduate Seminar 3
DES-794A M.F.A. Thesis Resource A 1
DES-794B M.F.A. Thesis Resource B 1
or
HMS-697A Graduate Thesis Writing
DES-796 M.F.A. Thesis I 3
Credit subtotal 17
174CURRICUL A

M.S. in Package Design M.I.D. in Industrial Design

SEMESTER 1 YEAR 1 (CORE)

DES-618 Typography I 3 IND-667A Global Research Seminar 2
DES-620 Visual Communications I 3 SEMESTER 1 or
IND-515 Prototypes I
DES-625 Visual Perception 3 IND-612A Industrial Design Technology I 3
(with Seminar) Elective 2
DES-677 Electronic Pre-press 3
IND-614A Graduate Color Workshop I 2 Credit subtotal 11
Credit subtotal 12
(2-D) SEMESTER 4
SEMESTER 2
IND-672 3-D I 2 IND-667B Global Research Seminar 2
DES-619 Typography II 3 or
IND-694 Drawing I 2
DES-628 Structural Packaging Design 3 or IND-516 Prototypes II
DES-630 Packaging: Graphics I 3 IND-515 Prototypes I Take 3 credits from the industrial design core courses.
HA-601 History of Western Art 2 IND-608 History of Industrial Design 2 INDC-620 Process/Product Studio 3
or Credit subtotal 11 INDC-622 Interdepartmental Studio
HD-662 History of Communications
Design SEMESTER 2 INDC-624 Design Methodology
Credit subtotal 11 IND-612B Industrial Design Technology II 3 INDC-626 Design Strategies
(with Seminar)
SEMESTER 3 INDC-628 Furniture Design
IND-614B Graduate Color Workshop II 2
DES-629 Fragrance Packaging Research 3 INDC-630 Exhibit Design
(2-D)
Workshop or Elective (Graphics) INDC-632 Tabletop Design
DES-631 Packaging: Graphics II 3 IND-673 3-D II 2 INDC-660BDirected Research II 2
DES-660 Directed Research 2 or Elective 3
IND-516 Prototypes II
DES-680 Digital Design 3 Credit subtotal 10
IND-543 Digital Ideation 2
Credit subtotal 11
or
SEMESTER 4 IND-541 Solidworks I YEAR 3 (THESIS)
DES-634 Marketing 3 IND-615 Model Making 2
or or SEMESTER 5
DES-640 Design Management IND-690 Industrial Design Workshop I IND-515 Prototypes I 2
DES-699A Thesis I 6 IND-669 Business of Design for I.D. 2 or
Credit subtotal 9 Credit subtotal 13 IND-658 Special Project
HD-668 Thesis Seminar 2
SEMESTER 5
IND-699A Thesis I 3
HD-505 History of Modern Design 2 YEAR 2 (RESEARCH)
or Elective 2
HD-506 Concepts of Design SEMESTER 3 Credit subtotal 9
DES-699B Thesis II 3 IND-587 Sustainable Production 2 SEMESTER 6
Credit subtotal 5 Methods IND-699B Thesis II 3
Total credits required 48 IND-660A Directed Research I 2 Elective 3
Take 3 credits from the industrial design core courses. Credit subtotal 6
PREREQUISITE COURSES
IND-620 Process/Product Studio 3 Total credits required 60
DES-608 Design Procedures 3
IND-622 Interdepartmental Studio
DES-676 Computer Graphic Systems 3
IND-624 Design Methodology
IND-626 Design Strategies
IND-628 Furniture Design
IND-630 Exhibit Design
IND-632 Tabletop Design
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M.S. in Interior Design M.F.A. in Interior Design

(closed to incoming students
for fall 2015) SEMESTER 1
INT-711 Interior Design Studio 6
INT-713 Ideation and Representation 3
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 5 INT-715 Light, Color, and Material 3
INT-601 (QUAL) Qualifying Design I 6 INT-632 Color and Materials II 2 INT-717 Interior Design Theory 3
INT-606 (QUAL) Qualifying Architecture 2 INT-699A/ Thesis I or Exhibition Design I 35 Credit subtotal 15
Drawing 671
SEMESTER 2
INT-631 (QUAL) Color and Materials 2 HD-506 Concepts of Design 2
INT-722 Interior Design Options Studio 6
HD-609 History of Interior Design 2 Elective Credits 3
INT-724 Construction and Fabrication 3
Credit subtotal 12 Credit subtotal 10-12
INT-726 Environmental Technology and 3
SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 6 Sustainable Elements
INT-560 (QUAL) CADD I: AutoCAD 2 INT-641 Professional Practice 2 Theory Elective 3
INT-602 (QUAL) Qualifying Design II 6 INT-699B/ Thesis II or Exhibition Design II 35 Credit subtotal 15
INT-604 (QUAL) Qualifying Construction 2 672
SEMESTER 3
HD-610 History of Interior Design II 2 Elective Credits 24
INT-731 Interior Design Options Lab 3
Credit subtotal 17 Credit subtotal 9
INT-799A Thesis II 6
SEMESTER 3 Total credits required 77-79
Elective 3
INT-621 Design I 6 A minimum of 48 credits is required for the Master
of Science in Interior Design. The courses followed Elective 3
INT-623 Construction I 2 by the notation (QUAL) represent an additional INT-9401 Internship 1
INT-625 Presentation Techniques 2 20 credits that may be required for applicants whose Credit subtotal 16
INT-633 Lighting Design I 2 undergraduate backgrounds need strengthening in
art and design. SEMESTER 4
Credit subtotal 16 INT-799B Thesis II 6
SEMESTER 4 INT-641 Professional Practice 2
INT-561 CADD II: 3-D Max 2 Elective 3
INT-622 Design II 6 Elective 3
INT-624 Construction II 3 Credit subtotal 14
INT-698 Directed Research (Required 2 Total credits required 60
for thesis)
Credit subtotal 13 NYSED REQUIREMENTS
*History of Interior Design I and II may be
required for students whose undergraduate
studies did not cover the subject matter. This
will be determined by a review of an applicants
transcripts and an interview with the academic
advisor.
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School of M.S. in Library and M.S. in Library and Information

Information Science Science: Library Media
Information and Specialist
Library Science SEMESTER 1
LIS-651 Information Professions 3
SEMESTER 1
LIS-652 Information Services and 3
LIS-651 Information Professions 3
Sources
LIS-653 Knowledge Organizations 3
Elective Credits 3
LIS-648 Library Media Centers 3
Credit subtotal 9
Credit subtotal 9
SEMESTER 2
SEMESTER 2
LIS-653 Knowledge Organization 3
LIS-652 Information Services and 3
LIS-654 Information Technologies 3
Resources
Elective Credits 3
LIS-654 Information Technologies 3
Credit subtotal 9
ED-610 Child Development 3
SEMESTER 3 LIS-691 Serving Children and Youth 3
Elective Credits 9 with Disabilities
Credit subtotal 9 Credit subtotal 12
S EMESTER 4 SEMESTER 3
Elective Credits 9 LIS-676 Literature and Literacy for 3
Credit subtotal 9 Children
Total credits required 36 LIS-677 Literature and Literacy for 3
Young Adults
Credit subtotal 6
SEMESTER 4
LIS-690 Student Teaching: Elementary 3
ED-608 The Roots of Urban Education 3
Elective Credits 3
Credit subtotal 9
SEMESTER 5
LIS-692 Student Teaching: Secondary 3
LIS-680 Instructional Technologies 3
Elective credits 3
Credit subtotal 9
Total Credits required 45
NYSED CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
The following academic requirements must be
fulfilled prior to applying for Initial Teaching
Certification. The courses or workshops may be
taken at Pratt or transferred from another post-
secondary school or institution.
Course in Child/ 3
Adolescent Psychology
One semester of 3
a foreign language
Workshop in 0
Child Abuse Prevention
Workshop in Life Safety and 0
Violence Prevention 0
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M.S./M.F.A. in Library and

Information Science/
Digital Arts
ELECTIVE COURSESM.S. IN LIS
Recommended Electives
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 5
Required Electives: 6 credits (two 3-credit courses)
LIS-651 Information Professions 3 LIS Elective Course (Electives 3
related to digital technology and information;
DDA-572 Electronic Music and Sound 3 may be selected from lists of
students select two courses from the following:
or required or recommended
courses.) LIS-608 Human Information Behavior 3
DDA-626 Audio for Digital Media
DDA-614 3-D Modeling 3 LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation 3
DDA-600 Digital Arts In Context 3
DDA-660 Thesis I 3 LIS-643 Information Architecture and 3
DDA-610 Fundamentals of Computer 3
Interaction Design
Graphics Note: 6 credits of non-DDA courses required for the
M.F.A. in DA degree are taken in the M.S. LIS program LIS-665 Projects in Digital Archives 3
DDA-616 Design for Interactive Media 3
from list of M.S. LIS electives with as asterisks (See LIS-663 Metadata, Description and
Credit subtotal 15 List). Access3
SEMESTER 2 DDA Electives (See List) 3 LIS-680 Instructional Technology 3
LIS-652 Information Services and 3 Credit subtotal 18 LIS-693 Digital Libraries 3
Sources
SEMESTER 6 Recommended Electives: 12 credits (four 3-credit
LIS-653 Knowledge Organization 3
LIS Elective Course 3 courses). Note: SS indicates summer session.
DDA-500 Interactive Studio, or Besides these elective courses, students may choose
LIS Elective Course 3
DDA-585 Interactive Installation 3 other electives such as Photography Collections,
Electives may be selected from the above lists of Film and Media Collections, and Digital Libraries.
DDA-622 Interactive Media 3 required or recommended courses.
LIS-605 Special Topics in Online Data- 3
Credit subtotal 12 DDA-587 Physical Computing 3 base Searching and Services
SEMESTER 3 DDA-660 Thesis II 3 LIS-611 Information Policy 3
LIS-654 Information Technologies 3 Credit subtotal 17 LIS-618 Special Topics in The Art 3
LIS Course from the list of 3 Total credits required 86 World: Services and Sources
Required Electives(See List) LIS-621 Special Topics in Electronic 3
Subtotals by Degree:
DDA-620 Graphics Programming 3 Collections and Sources (SS)
M.S. in LIS 30
DDA-625 Video Editing 3 LIS-623 Online Databases Humanities 3
M.F.A. in DA 45 and Social Sciences
Credit subtotal 12
LIS-629 Special Topics in Museum and 3
SEMESTER 4 ELECTIVE COURSESM.F.A. IN DA
Library Research
LIS Course from the list of 3 Recommended Electives
LIS-631 Academic Libraries and 3
Required Electives (See List) DDA-587 Physical Computing 3 Scholarly Communication
LIS Course from the list of 3 DDA-612 Digital Imaging 3 LIS-634 Abstracting and Indexing 3
Recommended Electives
(See List) DDA-614 3-D Modeling 3 LIS-641 Information Systems Analysis 3
DDA-645 Digital Imaging Studio 3 DDA-620 Graphics Programming 3 LIS-642 Special Topics in Thesaurus 3
Other Electives Design and Construction
DDA-650 Thesis Research 3
DDA-510 Artist Books in the Digital Age 3 LIS-686 Special Topics in Performing 3
Credit subtotal 12
Arts Librarianship
DDA-513 3-D Lighting and Rendering 3
LIS-696 Special Topics in Special 3
DDA-514 Storyboarding and Storytelling 3
Collections Institutes
DDA-584 ActionScript 3
LIS-698 Practicum/Seminar 3
DDA-624 3-D Computer Animation 3
DDA-630 Advanced Interactive Media 3
DDA-643 Digital Animation Studio 3
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Advanced Certificate in Advanced Certificate in Advanced Certificate in

Archives Museum Libraries Library and Information
Studies
SEMESTER 1
LIS-625 Management of Archives and 3 Four courses are needed in order to obtain LIS-699 Independent Study 6
Special Collections the Advanced Certificate in Museum Libraries. LIS Elective Courses (8) 24
This certificate is for students who have already See Concentration Advisor
Credit subtotal 3
graduated and obtained an MLS, whether from Pratt-
SEMESTER 2 Credit subtotal 30
SILS or another accredited library school.
LIS Elective See list below 3 Total credits required 30
1 course is required:
Credit subtotal 3 LIS-698 Seminar and Practicum 3
SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 1
LIS Elective See list below 3 LIS Elective from the following courses:
Credit subtotal 3 Curatorial:
SEMESTER 4 LIS-629 Museum Library Research 3
LIS-698 Seminar and Practicum 3 LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation
Credit subtotal 3 LIS-667 Art Librarianship
Total credits required 12 LIS-686 Performing Arts Librarianship
LIS Elective courses: LIS-688 Map Collections
LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation LIS-689 Rare Books and Special
LIS-650 Principles of Records Collections
Management LIS-697 Special Topics in Florentine Art
LIS-663 Metadata and Culture
LIS-665 Projects in Digital Archives Credit subtotal 3
LIS-669 Management of Electronic SEMESTER 2
Records LIS Elective from the following courses:
LIS-686 Performing Arts Librarianship Digital Technology:
LIS-688 Map Collections LIS-643 Information Architecture 3
LIS-689 Rare Books and Special LIS-665 Projects in Digital Archives
Collections
LIS-680 Instructional Technologies
LIS-694 Film and Media Collections
LIS-693 Digital Libraries
LIS-695 Photography Collections
LIS-697 Special Topics in London/
LIS-634 Conservation E-Publishing
LIS-635 Archives Application LIS-651 Web Design
LIS-655 Digital Preservation Credit subtotal 3
LIS-668 Projects & Moving SEMESTER 3
LIS-670 Cultural Heritage LIS Elective from the following courses
LIS-697 Special Topics in Research Museum Library Education and Outreach:
Local Histories
LIS-675 Museum and Library Education 3
LIS-697 Special Topics in Cultural Outreach
Heritage Conservation
Credit subtotal 3
SEMESTER 4
LIS-698 Seminar and Practicum 3
Credit subtotal 3
Total credits required 12
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Advanced Certificate in School of Liberal M.S. in History of Art

Library Media Specialist and Design
Arts and Sciences
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1
LIS-648 Library Media Centers 3 HA-602 Theory and Methodology 3
LIS-676 Literature and Literacy for 3 or
Children HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and
Conservation
LIS-690 Student Teaching I 3
Art History (Film/Design
Credit subtotal 9 Electives) 3
SEMESTER 2 Art History (Architecture 3
LIS-677 Literature and Literacy for 3 Electives)
Young Adults Credit subtotal 9
LIS-680 Instructional Technology 3 SEMESTER 2
LIS-692 Student Teaching II 3 HA-602 Theory and Methodology 3
Credit subtotal 9 or
HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and
Total credits required 18
Conservation
NYSED CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and
The following academic requirements must be Conservation
fulfilled prior to applying for Initial Teaching Art History (Non-Western
Certification. The courses or workshops may be Electives) 3
taken at Pratt or transferred from another post- Elective Credits 3
secondary school or institution.
Credit subtotal 9
Course in Child/ 3
Adolescent Psychology SEMESTER 3
One semester of 3 Art History (Pre-Renaissance 3
a foreign language Electives)
Workshop in 0 Art History (Renaissance/
Child Abuse Prevention Baroque Electives) 3
Workshop in Life Safety and 0 Elective Credits 3
Violence Prevention 0 Credit subtotal 9
SEMESTER 4
HA-605 Thesis 3
Art History (Renaissance/
Impressionism Electives) 3
Elective Credits 3
Credit subtotal 9
Total credits required 36
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M.S./M.S. in History of Art M.S./M.F.A. in History of Art

and Design/Library and and Design/Fine Arts
Information Science

Theory, Criticism, and History of Art, Design,

SEMESTER 1 and Architecture Requirements
LIS-651 Information Professions 3
LIS-652 Information Services and 3
Sources SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 5
HA-602 Theory and Methodology 3 HA-602 Theory and Methodology 3 History of Art and Design
or Studio Elective 3 Electives 9
HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and Studio Major 3 Credit subtotal 9
Conservation
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3 SEMESTER 6
Art History Elective 2
Liberal Arts Elective 3 HA-605 Thesis 3
Credit subtotal 11
Credit subtotal 15 History of Art and Design 3
SEMESTER 2 Elective
SEMESTER 2
LIS-653 Knowledge Organization 3 Credit subtotal 6
HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and
LIS-654 Information Technologies 3 Conservation 3 Total credits required 75
HA-602 Theory and Methodology 3 Studio Elective 3
or (For the M.S. degreeone elective in each of the
HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and Studio Major 3 distribution requirement fields: Film/Photo/Design,
Conservation Architecture, Non-Western, Pre-Renaissance,
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3
Renaissance through 18th Century, 19th/20th/21st
Art History Elective 2 Liberal Arts Elective 3 Centuries)
Credit subtotal 11 History of Art and Design 3
SEMESTER 3 Elective

Art History Elective 6 Credit subtotal 18

Library Science Elective 6 SEMESTER 3

Credit subtotal 12 FA-650A Thesis 1 5
SEMESTER 4 Studio Elective 3
Art History Elective 6 Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3
Library Science Elective 6 History of Art and Design 3
Elective
Credit subtotal 12
Credit subtotal 14
SEMESTER 5
SEMESTER 4
Art History Elective 5
FA-601 Thesis Statement I 2
Library Science Elective 6
FA-650B Thesis II 5
Credit subtotal 11
Studio Elective 3
SEMESTER 6 History of Art and Design 3
HA-605 Thesis 3 Elective
Credit subtotal 3 Credit subtotal 13
Total credits required 60
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M.A. in Media Studies M.F.A. in Writing Advanced Certificate in

Museum Studies
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 1
HMS-650A Methodologies I 3 WR-600A Mentored Studies I 1 Required core courses:
HMS-549A Encounters I 1 WR-602A Writing Practices I 3 HA-560 Museology 3
All Institute Electives 6 WR-601 The Writing Studio 4 HA-610 Internship 6
Credit subtotal 10 Writing Elective 2 HA-610B Internship 6
SEMESTER 2 Credit subtotal 10 A choice of 6 elective credits from:
HMS-549B Encounters II 1 SEMESTER 2 HA-600I Materials and Techniques of 3
All Institute Electives 6 WR-600B Mentored Studies II 1 Venice, Pratt in Venice Program
HMS-650B Methodologies II 3 WR-601 The Writing Studio 4 ADE-524 Student Teaching in the Gallery 2
Credit subtotal 10 HMS Elective 3 LIS-629 Museum and Library Research 3
SEMESTER 3 Writing Elective 2 LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation 3
HMS-659A Thesis Workshop 4 Credit subtotal 10 ACM-621 Strategic Marketing 2
All Institute Electives 6 SEMESTER 3 ACM-622 Fundraising for the Arts and 2
Culture
Credit subtotal 10 WR-601 The Writing Studio 4
ACM-624 Arts and Cultural Education 2
Total credits required 30 WR-602B Writing Practices II 3
ACM-642 Nonprofit Law and Governance 2
WR-603A Fieldwork Residency I 1
ACM-651 Finance and Financial 2
Writing Elective 2 Reporting for Nonprofit
Credit subtotal 10 Managers
SEMESTER 4 Total credits required 21
WR-601 The Writing Studio 4
WR-603B Fieldwork Residency II 4
WR-604A Final Thesis Project 1
Credit subtotal 9
Total credits required 39
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Architecture Faculty
Vito Acconci
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., College of the Holy Cross; M.F.A.,Writers
Workshop, University of Iowa; his design and
architecture come from another direction: a
background first in writing and then in art. By the
late 80s his work had crossed over, and he formed
Acconci Studio, whose operations come from
computer thinking and mathematical and biological
models. Acconci Studio treats architecture as
an occasion for activity and making spaces fluid,
changeable, and portable. The Studio is currently
working on a three-story building in Milan, a bridge-
system and park near Delft, and an amphitheater in
Stavanger, and has other projects in Toronto and
Indianapolis.
Nick Agneta, AIA
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Cooper Union; R.A., New York State;
member, Queens Chapter American Institute of
Architects; architect and construction manager
in the NYC metropolitan area; awards and honors:
Suffolk County 9/11 Memorial Competition, First
Place; Alabama School of Fine Arts Competition,
Second Place; achieved licensure with New York
State in 1986; has taught at New York University and
New York Institute of Technology and is the technical
director for Nelligan White Architects in New York,
N.Y.; currently teaches professional practice and is
IDP coordinator at Pratt.
Philip Anzalone
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.Arch., Columbia University; B.P.S. Architecture,
SUNY Buffalo; director of the Building Technologies
Sequence and director of the Avery Digital
Fabrication Laboratory, Graduate School of
Architecture, Columbia University; registered
architect with experience as a curtain wall
consultant for R. A. Heintges & Associates
and an architectural designer with Greg Lynn
Form; currently a partner of aa64; published
in ArchitectureWeek, ACADIA, ACSA, and the
International Journal of Architectural Computing.
Carlos Arnaiz
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Philosophy, Williams College; M.Arch.,
Harvard University; an associate partner at Stan
Allen Architect; previously worked for Office dA
in Cambridge, Field Operations and Bumpzoid
Architects in New York, and as a founding principal
for RUF studio in New York. His experience at these
offices has ranged from high-level strategic planning
for cities around the world to project design and
construction documentation on commercial and
residential projects. At Field Operations, he served
as project manager and lead designer on the
transformation of a 650-acre plot of land in the
middle of San Juan, Puerto Rico, into the islands
largest and most important Botanical Garden. He
led the development of all aspects of the project
including the creation of an expanded river corridor
along one of San Juans principal waterways. His
academic research has focused on the ongoing
relationship between ornament and structure in
design. While at Harvard, he collaborated with
Peter Rowe on a number of research projects
investigating innovative solutions in the planning
and management of contemporary urban regions.
He has served on juries at various institutions
in the U.S.A. including Harvard, Princeton, and
the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught
advanced studios in the Landscape Architecture
Program from 2002 to 2004.
Kutan Ayata
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.Arch., Princeton; B.F.A., Architecture,
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; partner/
co-director of Young & Ayata, a practice dedicated
to both building commissions and experimental
research and setting out to explore novel formal
and organizational possibilities in architecture and
urbanism. Previously, Kutan worked at Reiser +
Umemoto, where he was the lead project architect
for the O-14 Tower in Dubai and performed as
a senior designer in a number of projects and
competition entries; awards: Suzanne Kolarik
Underwood Thesis Prize.
Alexandra Barker
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR ; C O ORDINATOR,
M.ARCHITECT URE
B.A., Harvard University; M.Arch., Harvard University;
has coordinated the MARCH program since 2001;
grants: (with Catherine Ingraham) NCARB GRANT
to create a seminar integrating practice and the
academy; (with Nico Kienzl) FIPSE/CSDS grant
to integrate sustainable practices into the GAUD
curriculum; is a principal of Barker Freeman Design
Office, a New York practice employing material
research, fabrication technologies, and system
design as generative tools in the development of
multivalent spatial solutions.
Stphanie Bayard
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Dipl. Arch Paris La Villette; teaches
design studio and urban design seminars; previously
taught at Ohio State and Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute; founded aa64 with Phillip Anzalone, as an
experimental practice focusing on design, digital

fabrication, and material construction in the United
States and Europe; their work has been published
and exhibited at the AIA NY Center for Architecture.
Karen Brandt
VISITING PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., University of California at Berkeley; M.Arch.,
Harvard University; registered architect and senior
associate at R.A. Heintges & Associates, a firm
specializing in custom building envelope and curtain
wall design.
Meta Brunzema
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.Arch., Columbia University; principal of Meta
Brunzema Architect P.C., an award-winning
architecture and urban design practice that
addresses contemporary spatial, environmental,
and socio-political challenges in innovative ways; the
firm specializes in carbon-neutral design; current
projects include Park Avenue Market Mile in N.Y.C.
and River Pool in Beacon, N.Y. Brunzema is a
LEED(R) accredited professional.
Robert Cervellione
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
B.Arch., Architecture, Roger Williams University;
M.Arch., Architecture, Pratt Institute; principal of
CERVER Design Studio, a multidisciplinary practice
utilizing leading edge methodologies with advanced
computational systems; actively involved in research
that is focused on the advancement of digital
fabrication and computational geometry; has worked
for influential architects and designers creating
work of the highest quality that garners international
recognition; has also taught at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles
and the University of Michigan.
Steven Chang, AIA
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., University of California at Berkeley; Eisner
Prize in Architecture; a senior associate at Polshek
Partnership Architects, who has worked as a senior
designer/project architect on numerous cultural
and institutional projects, including the New York
Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Museum; also has
worked in construction as a carpenter and traveled
extensively while working at architecture offices in
Portugal, Germany, and Korea.
Cristobal Correa
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.S.C.E., Universidad de Chile; M.S.C.E.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; associate
principal, Buro Happold, New York office; joined
Buro Happold in 1998 and now manages teams in
the structural engineering division, dealing with,
among other things, tension structures, long-span
structures, and faades; notable projects include
the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in
Bentonville, Arkansas; the Arena das Dunas in Natal,
Brazil; and the Roppongi Canopies in Roppongi,
Japan; serves as a member of the board of the
Structural Engineers Association of New York.
Theo David
PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; M.Arch., Yale University;
practicing architect in New York City and Nicosia,
Cyprus; studied under Paul Rudolph at Yale; tenured
professor, former faculty president, and chair of
graduate architecture; has been awarded the 2009
Cyprus Architects Association Prize in Architecture,
the 2001 Cyprus State Architecture Award, the New
York City Bard Honor Award, NYSAIA Design Award,
and was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe
Award; his work as an architect/educator has been
exhibited and published worldwide.
Manuel De Landa
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts; has authored five phi-
losophy books: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
(1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997),
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), A
New Philosophy of Society (2006), and Philosophy,
Emergence, and Simulation (2009); also teaches
at the University of Pennsylvania, SCI-Arc in Los
Angeles, and holds the Gilles Deleuze chair at the
European Graduate School in Switzerland.
Deborah Gans
PROFES SOR
B.A., Harvard University; M.Arch., Princeton
University; design work has been published and
exhibited at IFA Paris, RIBA London, the Guggenheim
Museum, and the Venice Biennial; currently engaged
in a community-based project in New Orleans
funded initially by HUD and in a master plan for The
Graham School, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York;
publications include The Le Corbusier Guide, now in
ARCHITECTURE FACULT Y 183
its third edition; The Organic Approach; and, most
recently, Extreme Sites: Greening the Brownfield.
James Garrison
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Syracuse University; principal, Garrison
Architects.
Erik Ghenoiu
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A. Geography (cultural), Clark University, M.A. His-
tory of Art and Architecture, Harvard University;
M.S. Geography (urban), University of Wisconsin at
Madison; Ph.D. Architecture, Landscape Architec-
ture, and Urban Planning, Harvard University; works
on architecture, design, and urban planning of the
19th and 20th centuries, with particular focus on
Germany and the United States; has taught at Pratt,
Parsons, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison;
has served as a fellow of several research institutes
on both sides of the Atlantic and is currently involved
in founding a new institute in Berlin; currently a
co-editor and faculty coordinator for GAUDs Tarp
publication.
Jose Gonzalez
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; cofounder and principal, SOFTlab,
a design studio.
Catherine Ingraham
PROFES SOR
B.A., St. Johns College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
University; chair of Graduate Architecture, Pratt
Institute, 19992005; editor, Assemblage, 199198
and (with Marco Diani) of Restructuring Architectural
Theory; author, Architecture, Animal, Human;
Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity; and over
50 published articles on architectural theory and
history; recipient of New York State Council on
the Arts grant, Canadian Center for Architecture
research fellowship, Graham Foundation grants,
NEA grant, SOM research fellowship, Chicago, and
four MacDowell Colony residencies; winner, Museum
of Womens History design competition; has given
invited lectures, seminars, and symposia at over 60
national and international universities.
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Hina Jamelle
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., Denison University; M.Arch., University of
Michigan; co-director and a principal architect at
Contemporary Architecture Practice with Ali Rahim.
Robert Kearns
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A.E., Penn State University; M.A.E., Penn State
University; educational background emphasized
integration of building engineering disciplines with
architectural design and sustainability; has worked
in construction in Singapore and Germany; joined
Buro Happolds New York office in 2003 as a graduate
engineer and is currently an associate; his work with
Buro Happold has explored various areas of building
power systems, energy-efficient lighting design, and
alternative energies; experience with international
projects and architects has familiarized him with a vast
array of innovative design and construction practices.
Karel Klein
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.S. Civil Engineering, B.S. Architecture, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.Arch., Columbia
University; co-director of Ruy Klein; investigating
craft, precision, and the evolution of design exper-
tise in the digital age, she continues to foreground
the persistence of the designer in contemporary
culture; publications include GA Houses, The New
York Times Magazine, and Architectural Record;
registered architect in New York State.
Carisima Koenig
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Drake University; M.Arch., Iowa State University;
senior associate and LEED-accredited professional
practicing architecture at EYP Architects &
Engineers; specializes in the renovation of modernist
icons; her research interests include the evolving
relationships between architecture, urbanism,
and security from modernism to contemporary
practices; her work also addresses gender, diversity,
and politics in architecture.
Mehmet Ferda Kolatan
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Arch. Dipl. (with distinction), RWTH
Aachen; founded SU11 architecture+design
with Erich Schoenenberger as an experimental
architecture practice in New York City; firm has since
received national and international acclaim and has
been published widely; awards include Lucille Smyser
Lowenfish Memorial Prize and the Honor Award for
Excellence in Design, Columbia University.
Sulan Kolatan
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
Diploma, Technische Hochschule Aachen Universitat;
M.S., Architecture and Building Design, Columbia
University; founded KOL/MAC Studio along with
William MacDonald, in New York City in 1988.
Kolatan and MacDonald have taught architecture
as visiting professors at Barnard College, Ohio
State University, the University of Pennsylvania,
Parsons School of Design, University of Virginia,
The Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies in
Basel, Switzerland, and Venice, Italy, and Columbia
University. The Kolatan/MacDonald Studio primarily
works with strangely shaped structures, of housing
and apartment blocks. Dubbed Vertical Urbanism,
the apartment structures are divided into pods that
structurally conform to the addition and removal of
other pods.
Craig Konyk
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Catholic University; M.Arch., University of
Virginia; principal, Konyk Architecture.
Christopher Kroner
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.S., Architecture Design, University of Virginia;
M.Arch., Columbia; senior designer at Dean/Wolf
Architects in New York City; teaches courses in a
digital design sequence, focusing on fundamental
and advanced techniques in modeling, simulation,
visualization, analysis, scripting, and fabrication;
has taught at Columbia University GSAPP, the City
College of New York, the University of Virginia, and at
the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Sameer Kumar
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., CEPT, Ahmedabad; M.Arch., University
of Pennsylvania; LEED-accredited professional;
currently at KPF Associates, working on projects
in Hong Kong, China, and India; previously worked
for Heintges as building envelope consultant with
Studio Daniel Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava, Polshek
Partnership, and other New York practices; worked
for FTL Design Engineering Studio and specialized in
long-span, lightweight, and deployable structures; is
a visiting critic at Columbia and Parsons.
Franklin Lee
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Dipl. and R.I.B.A Part 2, Architectural Association,
London; M.S. Advanced Architectural Design,
Columbia; principal and cofounder, SUBdV in London
with Anne Save de Beaurecueil.
Thomas Leeser
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
Dipl. Ing. Architect; founder and principal, Leeser
Architecture, an internationally acclaimed studio,
known as a pioneer in design that specializes in the
inclusion of new media and digital technologies in
architecture.
Carla Leitao
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Architecture School of Lisbon;
architect (licensed in Europe), designer, and
writer; co-founder, AUM Studio (architecture
and multimedia) and Umasideia (architecture and
engineering) in Lisbon; projects include Visibility
(UIA Celebration of Cities competition, 2003, Lisbon,
Portugal); Suture, a multimedia installation; MAK
Vertical Garden (competition by invitation, 2006);
awards include the Akademie Schloss Solitude
Fellowship, 2005.
Teresa Llorente
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.E., Cooper Union; M.S., Columbia University;
licensed professional engineer in New York State.
John Lobell
PROFES SOR
B.Arch., M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania; interests
include architecture, cultural theory, consciousness,
Buddhism, information theory, and generative
genomics; recipient of several grants, including one
from the Graham Foundation; author of numerous
articles and several books, including Between Silence
and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
(Shambhala, 2008); consults on metal fabrication
with Milgo/Bufkin; director of research, Timeship.

Peter Macapia
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.T.S.,
Harvard University; M.A., Columbia University; M.Phil.,
Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University;
his design focuses on problems of computation,
mathematics, the geometry and topology of matter/
energy relations, and problems of urban density;
publications include Log, Monitor, Spread, and The
Cambridge Journal of Architecture; recipient of
grants for research in sustainability and design from
Columbia University and Pratt Institute; has taught and
lectured internationally in New York (Columbia and
Pratt), Los Angeles (SCI-Arc), Paris (ESA, Malaquais),
Mexico City (UNAM), and Tokyo (TUS).
William MacDonald
CHAIR OF GR ADUATE ARCHITEC T URE AND
URBAN DESIGN
M.Sc. Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia
University; B.Arch., Syracuse University; attended
the Architectural Association in London; director,
KOL/MAC, LLC, Architecture + Design, co-founded
with Sulan Kolatan; has taught as professor,
distinguished visiting professor, or visiting chair at
the University of Virginia (as acting chair); Columbia
University; the University of Pennsylvania; Southern
California Institute for Architecture; The Ohio State
University; City University of New York; University of
California at Berkeley; and Pratt Institute; academic
and professional honors and awards include the 40
under 40 award, Progressive Architecture awards,
AIA design awards; represented the U.S. in the U.S.
national pavilion and for the international segment
of the International Architecture Bienniale in Venice;
via KOL/MAC, has collaborated with various leading
companies, including DuPont, AI Implant of Biotech
Industries, Alias, Merck Chemicals, Autodesk,
C-TEK, ARUP AGU, DitlevFilms, Inc.; exhibited at
MoMA, SFMoMA, Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Barbican Art
Gallery, Architekturmuseum, Mori Contemporary
Art Museum, 1st International Architecture Biennial
in Beijing, VITRA, Yale University, and the FRAC;
publications include The New York Times; The
Washington Post, CNN, Phaidon Press, Rizzoli, GA
Houses, AD Magazine, Architectural Digest, ACTAR,
Domus, Lotus International, Architectural Record;
co-author, Lubricuous Architectures with Kari
Andersen; a comprehensive monograph titled KOL/
MAC WORK BOOK is currently in preparation for
publication.
Radhi Majmuder
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Economics, Columbia University; M.S., Civil
Engineering, Columbia University; M.B.A., Global
Executive, London Business School; vice president
of an internationally recognized and innovative
structural engineering firm in charge of U.S. and
Caribbean operations from its office in New
York; licensed professional engineer with over
18 years of experience; has worked for various
design consultancies that specialize in the design
of buildings, bridges, marine and coastal works,
and industrial and environmental structures; has
directed many projects from the conceptual
planning and proposal stages through the entire
design, engineering, and construction cycle,
including staffing and facilities startup.
Rosalinda Malibiran
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch. Design, University of Florida; M.Arch.,
Columbia University; a visual effects artist working
for Blue Sky Studios, who has worked on feature films
such as Rio, IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton
Hears a Who, IceAge: The MeltDown, and Robots.
Elliott Maltby
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Philosophy, Kenyon College; Master of
Landscape Architecture, University of California
at Berkeley; interests include how art and design
contribute to the success of the urban experiment;
current research focuses on temporal and
situational spatiality; partner, thread collective,
a multidisciplinary design firm that explores the
seams between building, art, and landscape; a
broadly defined notion of sustainability, existing site
characteristics, and sensory experience further
inform the firms design process; has worked for
five years with Mary Miss, one of the most influential
artists in the public realm.
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Benjamin Martinson
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Bachelor of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder;
M.Arch., Pratt Institute; worked for the New York
office of Buro Happold as an intern; spent two years
working for KOL/MAC, LLC, a digital design practice
based in New York and Istanbul; currently is working
on starting his own design firm with small projects in
Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado.
Signe Nielsen
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.A., Smith College; B.S.L.A., City College School of
Architecture; B.S., Pratt Institute; fellow, American
Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Mathews
Nielsen Landscape Architects PC since 1979; vice
president, N.Y.C. Public Design Commission;
recipient of more than two dozen national
design awards; co-author of three booksHigh
Performance Infrastructure Guidelines; Cool and
Green Roof; and Sustainable Site Designand author
of Sky Gardens.
Philip Parker
A S SISTANT CHAIR OF GR ADUATE ARCHITEC T URE
AND URBAN DESIGN, ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE
PROFES SOR
B. Design in Architecture, University of Florida;
M.Arch., Yale University; principal, Phillip Parker
Architects, a practice that spans scales from
furniture and building components to urban parks;
his projects on program, matter, city, and texts
have been exhibited, published, and reside in the
permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; he has lectured on architecture
and media and taught design studios and media
theory practice at a number of schools, including
Columbia University GSAPP, as coordinator of core
visual studies; Princeton University; The Ohio State
University; and RISD.
Chris Perry
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Philosophy, Colgate University; M.Arch.,
Columbia University.
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David Ruy
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., St. Johns College; M.Arch., Columbia University;
director, Ruy Klein, an award-winning design office
in New York City; firms work has been extensively
published and exhibited and the firm is recognized
as one of the leading speculative practices in
architecture today; Ruy has previously held positions
at Columbia, Princeton, and was the director of
research of The Nonlinear Systems Organization
(NSO), a transdisciplinary research organization, at
the University of Pennsylvania; his research examines
design topics at the intersection of architecture,
nature, and technology; the work of his practice has
recently been exhibited at The Museum of Modern
Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, and at Artists
Space, New York City.
Richard Scherr
DIRECTOR, FACIL ITIE S PL ANNING, ADJUNC T
PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Cornell University; M.S. Architecture,
Columbia University; published in the Journal of
Architectural Education; Architectural Record;
Progressive Architecture; Journal of the American
Planning Association; Competitions; Places
Magazine; Space; Octagon Architecture; Indian
Architect and Builder; and Asian Thought and Society;
author of The Grid: Form and Process in Architectural
Design; finalist, Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial
Competition; Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship; registered
architect in New York and Texas.
Erich Schoenenberger
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
B. Environ. Design, Technical School of Novia Scotia;
M.S. Advanced Architecture and Design, Columbia
University; co-founded (with Ferda Kolatan) su11
architecture+design in New York City in 1999;
received the Swiss National Culture Award for Art
and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for Best New
Designer; 2006 finalist for the prestigious Chernikhov
Prize; 2007 chosen finalist for the MoMA/PS1 YAP
competition.
Paul Segal
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.A., Princeton University; M.F.A., Princeton
University; founding partner of the internationally
published firm, Paul Segal Associates Architects,
LLP, who were recipients of 17 AIA Awards for Design
Excellence; past president of the AIA/NYC and of
the Center for Architecture Foundation; author
of the textbook, Professional Practice: A Guide to
Turning Designs into Buildings (W.W. Norton, 2006);
also an adjunct professor and director of practice at
Columbias Graduate School of Architecture; holds
an NCARB certificate and is a licensed architect in
seven states.
Benjamin Shepherd
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.S.C., Environmental Science, Northland College;
M.A., Environmental Management, Yale School of
Forestry; LEED-accredited professional and planning
practice leader at international environmental
design consultant firm Atelier Ten, with extensive
experience with urban ecology, renewable energy
systems, and green development assessments;
has managed the development of sustainability
guidelines for a wide range of master plans on
a multitude of sectors including commercial,
university, government, and transportation; he also
teaches core courses on environmental design and
building services at Yale School of Architecture.
Daniel Sherer
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A. Renaissance Studies, Yale University; Ph.D.
History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University;
historian and critic whose research delves into Italian
Renaissance and Baroque architecture from 1400 to
1750; urban history from Antiquity to the Baroque;
modernist receptions of the classical tradition; and
historiography, theory, and criticism of architecture
(with emphases on Tafuri, the School of Venice, and
Colin Rowe); has taught at the Columbia Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation;
the Harvard GSD, University of Toronto, and the Rice
University School of Architecture, among others.
Maria Sieira
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Yale University; M.Arch., University of
Pennsylvania; coordinates the GAUD Housing Studio:
Live, Work, Play and the History/Theory sequence;
teaches architecture design studios that focus on
green urban projects as well as seminars on film and
on installation art; founded Xoguete Architecture in
2007; registered architect in New York; has worked
on the Cidade da Cultura in Santiago de Compostela,
Spain, while at Eisenman Architects in New York
and on the Philadelphia Airport while at DPK&A in
Philadelphia.
Henry Smith-Miller
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.A., Princeton University; M.Arch, University of
Pennsylvania; former Fulbright scholar in architecture
in Rome, Italy; received the Brunner Award and the
New York Chapter Gold Medal for Excellence in
Design with his partner, Laurie Hawkinson; significant
projects include the Corning Museum of Glass and the
North Carolina Museum of Art Outdoor Cinema and
Amphitheater and Master Plan; recently completed
projects include the Land Ports of Entry at Champlain
and Massena, New York, and a mid-rise, multi-unit
condominium complex in Manhattan; currently the
design architect for the new River Building for the
Hospital for Special Surgery and the Bond Hotel tower,
both in New York City.
Roland Snooks
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., RMIT University; B. App.Sci.Environ.Design,
University of Canberra; M.S. Advanced Architecture
and Design, Columbia University; a design director of
Kokkugia, he has previously directed design studios
and seminars at UCLA, SCI-Arc, Pratt Institute, RMIT
University, and the Victorian College of the Arts;
his current teaching and research interests focus
on emergent design processes involving genetic
and agent-based techniques; his ongoing design
research into emergent design processes has
developed behavioral animation techniques for the
generation of architectural form; design experience
includes working in the offices of Reiser + Umemoto;
Kovac Architecture; Minifie Nixon; and Ashton
Raggatt McDougall.
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Michael Szivos schools in the U.S. and Asia, including Columbia

ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Louisiana State University; M.S. Advanced
Architectural Design, Columbia University; curator of
the GAUD Exihibtion; founder (in 2004) of SOFTlab,
a new media and digital design practice specializing
in the intersection of video, space, interactivity,
and branding through digital media and emerging
production; SOFTlab designed and produced
the portfolio website for the GAUD; SOFTlab has
participated in many group exhibitions and produced
digital video and interactive media for MoMA, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Van Alen institute, and
The New York Times, as well as work for various artists,
architects, and designers; recipient of the Honor
Award for Excellence and Award in Visual Studies at
Columbia University.
University, the University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong
University, Kyoto University, and the Cooper Union;
and she has lectured at various educational and
cultural institutions throughout the United States,
Europe, and Asia.
Jason Vigneri-Beane
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR; CO ORDINATOR,
M. S., ARCHITECT URE
B.P.S.Arch., SUNY at Buffalo; M.Arch., Iowa State
University; coordinator, M.S. Architecture; media
co-coordinator, M.Architecture; coordinator,
Graduate Architecture in Rome Program; founder
and principal, Split Studio; LEED-accredited
professional, who has lectured, taught, exhibited,
published in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Jeffrey Taras Aaron White

ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.S.Arch., Pratt Institute; B.Arch., M.Arch., University
B.A., M.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor; M.Arch.,
of Idaho; lives and works in New York City; recipient
Columbia University; currently a partner at both
of the Stanley Katz Award for design excellence while
Associated Fabrication and 4-pli Design in Brooklyn,
at Pratt; a co-founder of Out-fo Design (outfodesign.
New York; professional focus has been on bridging
com), whose work centers on issues of speculative
the gap between design and digital fabrication.
fabrication, new forms of urbanism, material
intelligence, and information systems.
Maria Ludovica Tramontin
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Cagliari, (Italy);
John Christopher Whitelaw
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.S., Columbia University GSAPP; Ph.D., University
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; M.Arch.,
of Cagliari (Italy); registered engineer in Italy; in
Columbia University; co-coordinator of digital media;
2004, cofounded ASPX, an architectural research
director of research and development at Evans &
practice based in Italy/UK; the firms work has
Paul, a global leader in the production of custom
received several awards, most recently (First Prize)
architectural interiors; he has lectured and taught
in a competition for a 600,000-square-foot General
in the United States and Europe; his work seeks
Hospital with a project that engages the latest
to accelerate the bridging between computation
trends in renewable energy sources; while at NOX
and construction; while at Evans & Paul, he has
she worked on built projects: Son-O-house, an
constructed a number of high profile projects for
interactive artwork in The Netherlands, and Maison
a list of architects, including DS+R, Herzog 7 de
Folie, a cultural center in Lille.
Meuron, Richard Meier, Asymptote, and KOL/MAC.

Nanako Umemoto-Reiser
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.A., Osaka University of Art, Japan; B.Arch.,
Cooper Union; a principal and co-founder of
Reiser + Umemoto, an internationally recognized
multidisciplinary design firm, which has built
projects at a wide range of scales: from furniture
design, to residential and commercial structures,
up to the scale of landscape, urban design, and
infrastructure; she has previously taught at various
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Vito Acconci
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., College of the Holy Cross; M.F.A.,Writers
Workshop, University of Iowa; his design and
architecture come from another direction: a
background first in writing and then in art. By the
late 80s his work had crossed over, and he formed
Acconci Studio, whose operations come from
computer thinking and mathematical and biological
models. Acconci Studio treats architecture as
an occasion for activity and making spaces fluid,
changeable, and portable. The Studio is currently
working on a three-story building in Milan, a bridge-
system and park near Delft, and an amphitheater in
Stavanger, and has other projects in Toronto and
Indianapolis.
Carlos Arnaiz
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.A., Philosophy, Williams College; M.Arch.,
Harvard University; an associate partner at Stan
Allen Architect; previously worked for Office dA
in Cambridge, Field Operations and Bumpzoid
Architects in New York, and as a founding principal
for RUF studio in New York. His experience at these
offices has ranged from high-level strategic planning
for cities around the world to project design and
construction documentation on commercial
and residential projects. At Field Operations, he
served as project manager and lead designer on
the transformation of a 650-acre plot of land in the
middle of San Juan, Puerto Rico, into the islands
largest and most important Botanical Garden. He
led the development of all aspects of the project
including the creation of an expanded river corridor
along one of San Juans principal waterways. His
academic research has focused on the ongoing
relationship between ornament and structure in
design. While at Harvard, he collaborated with Peter
Rowe on a number of research projects investigating
innovative solutions in the planning and management
of contemporary urban regions. He has served on
juries at various institutions in the U.S.A. including
Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania,
where he taught advanced studios in the Landscape
Architecture Program from 2002 to 2004.
Stphanie Bayard
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Dipl. Arch Paris La Villette; teaches
design studio and urban design seminars; previously
taught at Ohio State and Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute; founded aa64 with Phillip Anzalone, as an
experimental practice focusing on design, digital
fabrication, and material construction in the United
States and Europe; their work has been published
and exhibited at the AIA NY Center for Architecture.
Meta Brunzema
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.Arch., Columbia University; principal of Meta
Brunzema Architect P.C., an award-winning
architecture and urban design practice that
addresses contemporary spatial, environmental,
and socio-political challenges in innovative ways; the
firm specializes in carbon-neutral design; current
projects include Park Avenue Market Mile in N.Y.C.
and River Pool in Beacon, N.Y. Brunzema is a
LEED(R) accredited professional.
Jose Gonzalez
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; cofounder and principal, SOFTlab, a
design studio.
Mehmet Ferda Kolatan
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Arch. Dipl. (with distinction), RWTH
Aachen; founded SU11 architecture+design
with Erich Schoenenberger as an experimental
architecture practice in New York City; firm has since
received national and international acclaim and has
been published widely; awards include Lucille Smyser
Lowenfish Memorial Prize and the Honor Award for
Excellence in Design, Columbia University.
Sulan Kolatan
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
Diploma, Technische Hochschule Aachen Universitat;
M.S., Architecture and Building Design, Columbia
University; founded KOL/MAC Studio along with
William MacDonald, in New York City in 1988.
Kolatan and MacDonald have taught architecture
as visiting professors at Barnard College, Ohio
State University, the University of Pennsylvania,
Parsons School of Design, University of Virginia,
The Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies in
Basel, Switzerland, and Venice, Italy, and Columbia
University. The Kolatan/MacDonald Studio primarily
works with strangely shaped structures, of housing
and apartment blocks. Dubbed Vertical Urbanism,
the apartment structures are divided into pods that
structurally conform to the addition and removal of
other pods.

Carla Leitao
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia
University; Architecture School of Lisbon; architect
(licensed in Europe), designer, and writer; co-
founder, AUM Studio (architecture and multimedia)
and Umasideia (architecture and engineering)
in Lisbon; projects include Visibility (UIA
Celebration of Cities competition, 2003, Lisbon,
Portugal);Suture, a multimedia installation; MAK
Vertical Garden (competition by invitation, 2006);
awards include the Akademie Schloss Solitude
Fellowship, 2005.
William MacDonald
CHAIR OF GR ADUATE ARCHITEC T URE
AND URBAN DESIGN
M.Sc. Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia
University; B.Arch., Syracuse University; attended the
Architectural Association in London; director, KOL/
MAC, LLC, Architecture + Design, co-founded with
Sulan Kolatan; has taught as professor, distinguished
visiting professor, or visiting chair at the University
of Virginia (as acting chair); Columbia University;
the University of Pennsylvania; Southern California
Institute for Architecture; The Ohio State University;
City University of New York; University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley; and Pratt Institute; academic and
professional honors and awards include the 40
under 40 award, Progressive Architecture awards,
AIA design awards; represented the U.S. in the U.S.
national pavilion and for the international seg-
ment of the International Architecture Bienniale in
Venice; via KOL/MAC, has collaborated with various
leading companies, including DuPont, AI Implant of
Biotech Industries, Alias, Merck Chemicals, Autodesk,
C-TEK, ARUP AGU, DitlevFilms, Inc.; exhibited at
MoMA, SFMoMA, Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Barbican Art
Gallery, Architekturmuseum, Mori Contemporary Art
Museum, 1st International Architecture Biennial in
Beijing, VITRA, Yale University, and the FRAC; publica-
tions include The New York Times; The Washington
Post, CNN, Phaidon Press, Rizzoli, GA Houses, AD
Magazine, Architectural Digest, ACTAR, Domus, Lotus
International, Architectural Record; co-author,
Lubricuous Architectures with Kari Andersen; a com-
prehensive monograph titled KOL/MAC WORK BOOK
is currently in preparation for publication.
Elliott Maltby
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Philosophy, Kenyon College; Master of
Landscape Architecture, University of California
at Berkeley; interests include how art and design
contribute to the success of the urban experiment;
current research focuses on temporal and
situational spatiality; partner, thread collective,
a multidisciplinary design firm that explores the
seams between building, art, and landscape; a
broadly defined notion of sustainability, existing site
characteristics, and sensory experience further
inform the firms design process; has worked for
five years with Mary Miss, one of the most influential
artists in the public realm.
Benjamin Martinson
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Bachelor of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder;
M.Arch., Pratt Institute; worked for the New York
office of Buro Happold as an intern; spent two years
working for KOL/MAC, LLC, a digital design practice
based in New York and Istanbul; currently is working
on starting his own design firm with small projects in
Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado.
Signe Nielsen
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.A., Smith College; B.S.L.A., City College School of
Architecture; B.S., Pratt Institute; fellow, American
Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Mathews
Nielsen Landscape Architects PC since 1979; vice
president, N.Y.C. Public Design Commission; recipi-
ent of more than two dozen national design awards;
co-author of three booksHigh Performance
Infrastructure Guidelines; Cool and Green Roof; and
Sustainable Site Designand author of Sky Gardens.
Philip Parker
A S SISTANT CHAIR OF GR ADUATE
ARCHITECT URE AND URBAN DESIGN,
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B. Design in Architecture, University of Florida;
M.Arch., Yale University; principal, Phillip Parker
Architects, a practice that spans scales from
furniture and building components to urban parks;
his projects on program, matter, city, and texts
have been exhibited, published, and reside in the
permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; he has lectured on architecture
and media and taught design studios and media
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theory practice at a number of schools, including
Columbia University GSAPP, as coordinator of core
visual studies; Princeton University; The Ohio State
University; and RISD.
David Ruy
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., St. Johns College; M.Arch., Columbia
University; director, Ruy Klein, an award-winning
design office in New York City; firms work has been
extensively published and exhibited and the firm
is recognized as one of the leading speculative
practices in architecture today; Ruy has previously
held positions at Columbia, Princeton, and was
the director of research of The Nonlinear Systems
Organization (NSO), a transdisciplinary research
organization, at the University of Pennsylvania; his
research examines design topics at the intersection
of architecture, nature, and technology; the work
of his practice has recently been exhibited at The
Museum of Modern Art, the Rhode Island School
of Design, and at Artists Space.
Erich Schoenenberger
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B. Environ. Design, Technical School of Novia Scotia;
M.S. Advanced Architecture and Design, Columbia
University; co-founded (with Ferda Kolatan) su11
architecture+design in New York City in 1999;
received the Swiss National Culture Award for Art
and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for Best New
Designer; 2006 finalist for the prestigious Chernikhov
Prize; 2007 chosen finalist for the MoMA/PS1 YAP
competition.
Nanako Umemoto-Reiser
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.A., Osaka University of Art, Japan; B.Arch., Cooper
Union; a principal and co-founder of Reiser +
Umemoto, an internationally recognized multidisci-
plinary design firm, which has built projects at a wide
range of scales: from furniture design, to residen-
tial and commercial structures, up to the scale of
landscape, urban design, and infrastructure; she has
previously taught at various schools in the U.S. and
Asia, including Columbia University, the University of
Pennsylvania, Hong Kong University, Kyoto University,
and the Cooper Union; and she has lectured at various
educational and cultural institutions throughout the
United States, Europe, and Asia.
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City and Regional Planning Faculty
Moshe Adler
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Adjunct
Associate Professor, Columbia University.
Caron Atlas
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., University of
Chicago; Director, Arts Democracy Project.
Eddie Bautista
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute; Executive Director, New
York City Environmental Justice Alliance.
Jennifer Becker
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute; consultant, Pratt Center
for Community Development.
Jessica Braden
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.A. Geography and Planning, University of Toledo;
B.A., University of Toledo; Director, Pratt Center for
Spatial Analysis Visualization Initiative.
David Burney
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M. S., University of London; Dip. Arch., Heriot Watt
University, Edinburgh; Dip. Arch., Kingston University,
London; former Commissioner, NYC Department of
Design and Construction.
Joan Byron
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; Urban and Regional Policy
Fellow, Harvard University; Director of Policy, Pratt
Center for Community Development.
Mike Flynn
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
University of Vermont; M.S.C.R.P, Pratt Institute;
Director of Capital Planning, NYC Department of
Transportation.
Michael Freedman-Schnapp
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.U.P, New York University; Director of Policy,
NYC City Council.
Adam Friedman
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A, Haverford College; J. D., Benjamin Cardozo
School of Law; Certificate in Strategic Planning In
Non-Profit Management, Harvard Business
School; Executive Director, Pratt Center for
Community Development; founding executive
director, New York Industrial Retention Network.
Mindy Fullilove
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S. Nutrition, M.D., Columbia University; Co-
Director, Columbia University Community Research
Group; Professor, Columbia University.
Moses Gates
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.U.P., Hunter College; Director, CHAMP,
Association for Neighborhood Housing
Development.
Daniel Hernandez
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.Arch., University of California; B.S. California State
University; Director of Planning Practice, Jonathan
Rose Companies.
George Jacquemart, P.E.
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.U.P., Stanford University; principal, BFJ Planning.
Nicholas Klein
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University; Masters in
Urban Spatial Analytics, University of Pennsylvania;
Researcher, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center,
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public
Policy, Rutgers University.
Raj Kottamasu
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Master of City Planning with Urban Design Certificate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Certificate in
Film, Video and New Media, Art Institute of Chicago;
principal, Raj Kattamasu Video and Design.
Frank Lang, R.A.
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania; B.Arch., Columbia
University; Director of Housing, St. Nicks Alliance.
Matthew Lister
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., Real Estate Development, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Master of Suburb and
Town Design, University of Miami; Project Manager,
Jonathan Rose Companies.
Alan Mallach
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Sociology, Yale University; Senior Fellow, Center
for Community Progress; Senior Fellow, Metropolitan
Policy Program, The Brookings Institution.

Elliott Maltby
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.L.A., University of California at Berkeley; principal,
Thread Collective.
Michael Marrella
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.C.P., Certificate in Urban Design, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Director, Waterfront and
Open Space Planning, NYC Department of City
Planning.
Jonathan Martin, Ph.D
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Cornell University; M.R.P., Cornell University;
B.S.D., Arizona State University; Associate, Buckhurst,
Fish and Jacquemart, Planning Consultants.
William Menking
PROFE S SOR
Doctoral Candidate, The Graduate School of the City
University of New York; M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute;
M.S., University College, London; B.A., University of
California at Berkeley; editor in chief, The Architects
Newspaper.
Mercedes Narciso
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.S.C.R.P, Pratt Institute; B.A., Simon Bolivar
University; formerly Senior Planner, Pratt Center
for Community Development.
Signe Nielsen
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.L.Arch., City College of New York; B.A., Smith
College; B.S., Pratt Institute; principal, Mathews
Nielsen Landscape Architecture.
Larisa Ortiz Pu-Folkes
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
principal, Larisa Ortiz Associates.
Juan Camilo Osorio
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
M.S., University of Massachusetts; B.Arch.,
Universidad Nacional de Columbia; Director of
Research, NYC Environmental Justice Alliance.
Stuart Pertz
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.Arch., Princeton University; B.Arch., Princeton
University; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Fontainebleu,
France; former member, New York City Planning
Commission; founding chair, Pratt Institute
Graduate Urban Design Program.
Steven Romalewski
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., Columbia University; Director, CUNY Mapping
Service, Center for Urban Research at The Graduate
Center/CUNY.
John Shapiro, AICP
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Chair, Graduate Center for Planning and the
Environment; M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute; formerly
principal, Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Planning
Consultants.
Ronald Shiffman, FAICP, FAIA
PROFES SOR
M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute; B.S.Arch., Pratt Institute;
founder, Pratt Center for Community Development.
Toby Snyder
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.Arch., Rhode Island School of Design; Certificate,
Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania; M.S.C.R.P.,
University of Pennsylvania; B.Arch., Clark University;
Urban Designer, FX Fowle Architects.
Daniel Steinberg
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Doctoral Candidate, Urban Planning, Columbia
University; B.A., University of Chicago.
Samara Swanston
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
J.D., St. Johns University; counsel to the Environ-
mental Protection Committee, NYC City Council.
Lacey Tauber
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., City & Regional Planning, M.S., Historic
Preservation, Pratt Institute; Legislative Director,
NYC City Councilmember Reynoso.
CIT Y AND REGIONAL PL ANNING FACULT Y 191
Petra Todorovich
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.C.R.P., Rutgers University; former Director of
America 2050, Regional Plan Association; Senior
Officer of Outreach, Amtrak.
Meg Walker
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.Arch., Columbia University; Vice President, Project
for Public Spaces.
Ben Wellington
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., M.S., Computer Science, New York
University; Quantitative Research Analyst Two Sigma
Investments; Co-Founder, Cherub Improv.
Andrew Wiley-Schwartz
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Former Assistant Commissioner,
NYC Department of Transportation; consultant at
Bloomberg Associates.
Edward Perry Winston, R.A.
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Harvard University; M.Arch., Rice University;
Senior Architect, MAP Architects.
Ayse Yonder, Ph.D
PROFES SOR
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; M.C.P.,
University of Pennsylvania; Diploma for Architecture,
Istanbul Technical University.
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Sustainable Environmental
Systems Faculty
Chelsea Albacher
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S., Tufts University; B.A., the New School for Social
Research; sustainability planner, Vita Nuova.
Bridget Anderson
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.P.A., Columbia University; B.A., Macalaster College;
Director, NYC Department of Sanitation Bureau of
Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling.
Alec Appelbaum
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.B.A., Yale University; B.A. English, Yale University;
green economy correspondent, The Faster Times.
Jen Becker
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S.C.K.P., Pratt Institute; B.A., University of
Wisconsin at Madison.
Michael Bobker
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S. Energy, New York Institute of Technology;
director, Building Performance Lab, CUNY Institute
for Urban Systems.
Carlton Brown
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Princeton University; C.O.O, Full Spectrum.
Damon Chaky, Ph.D.
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, DEPARTMEN T
OF M ATHEM ATICS AND SCIENCE
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Carter Craft
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.U.P., New York University; co-founder,
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; managing member,
Outside New York.
Adam Friedman
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Haverford College; J.D., Benjamin Cardozo
School of Law; Certificate in Strategic Planning In
Non-Profit Management, Harvard Business School;
executive director, Pratt Center for Community
Development; founding executive director, New York
Industrial Retention Network.
Ben Gibberd
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Edinburgh University; author: New York Waters:
Profiles from the Edge (Globe Pequot Press, 2007),
and The Little Black Book of New York (Peter Pauper
Press, 2006).
Michael Haggerty
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.U.P., Harvard University, B.A., Bard College.
Tom Jost
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.U.D. Urban Design, Pratt Institute; B.A. Economics,
Lehigh University; senior urban strategist, Parson
Brinckerhoff.
Gavin Kearney
VISITING A S SISTING PROFES SOR
J.D., University of Minnesota; B.A., Lawrence
University; director, Environmental Justice program,
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.
Katie Kendall
VISITING A S SISTING PROFES SOR
L.L.M., Vermont Law School; J.D., Brooklyn Law
School; B.A., Wittenberg University; general counsel,
Mayors Office of Environmental Coordination for the
City of New York.
Elliott Maltby
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.L.A., University of California at Berkeley; B.A.,
Kenyon College; principal, Thread Collective.
Paul Mankiewicz, Ph.D.
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., City University of New York; founding director,
Gaia Institute.
Michael Marella
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Director of Waterfront & Open Space Planning, NYC
Department of City Planning.
Gita Nandan
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.Arch., University of California at Berkeley;
principal, Thread Collective.
Carolyn Schaeberle
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.I.D., Pratt Institute; B.S., Engineering Science,
Smith College; Assistant Director, Pratts Center for
Sustainable Design Strategies.
David Seiter
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.A. Landscape Architecture, University of
Pennsylvania; B.A. Art History, Vassar College;
principal, Future Green Studio.
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Ronald Shiffman, FAICP, FAIA

PROFE S SOR
M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute; B.S. Arch., Pratt Institute.

Jaime Stein
C O ORDINATOR, SUSTAINABL E
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
M.S., Pratt Institute; B.S., Millersville University.

Ira Stern
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute; regional manager, Bureau
of Water Supply for the New York City Department of
Environmental Protection.

Gelvin Stevenson, Ph.D.

VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Ph.D. Economics, Washington University; B.A.,
Carleton College; director, Clear Skies Solar.

Samara Swanston
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
J.D., St. Johns University; counsel to the
Environmental Protection Committee, New York
City Council.

Evren Uzer, Ph.D.

VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., B.A. Urban Planning, Istanbul Technical
University; Founder of socially engaged art collective
roomservices and design interventions initiative
imkanmekan.

Edward Perry Winston

VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.A., Harvard University; M.Arch, Rice University;
B.A., Princeton University; Senior Architect, MAP
Architects.

Catherine Zidar
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S.C.R.P., Pratt Institute; B.S., University of
Colorado at Boulder; Executive Director, Newtown
Creek Alliance.
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Facilities Management Faculty
Lennart Andersson
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.Arch., Savannah College of Art and Design; M.B.
Engr., Wasa Gymnasium, Stockholm, Sweden;
associate, The LiRo Group, New York, NY.
Matthias Ebinger
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S., Construction Management, New York University;
LEED; Dpil.Ing.FH, Konstanz University of Applied
Science; development cooperation and consulting,
German Foundation for International Development;
public administration, University of South Africa; PMP,
American Project Management Institute.
William Henry
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., New York University; Advanced Information
Systems Institute Training, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology; president and CEO of Millennium
II Consulting Group, Inc. which he founded in
1997; 30 years prior experience in the information
technologies (IT) industry; managing principal of
HENREY Consultants, Inc., an IT services firm he
co-founded in 1994; employed at Bristol-Myers
Squibb Company 19871994; appointed director of
corporate telecommunications in 1989.
Stephen LoGrasso
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S., New York Institute of Technology; 25 years
experience in facility and construction management;
has provided services for various clients including
Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, McGraw-Hill, and Hertz.
Harriet Markis
CHAIR, ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; M.Eng., Cornell
University; member of IFMA, CMAA, ASCE, ACI, SECB,
and SEONY; partner at Dunne & Markis Consulting
Structural Engineers, PLLC since 1990; 30 years
experience as a structural designer in a variety of
projects; licensed to practice structural engineering
in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Delaware, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
Mary Matthews
PROFES SOR EMERITA
B.A., Concentration in Sociology and Education
Management, Emmanuel College; M.S. Social Work,
Boston College; M.B.A. Candidate, NYU Stern
School of Business; consistent career advancement
specializing in safety, training, government
compliance, environmental issues, and insurance
programs in the construction management and
facilities management industries in the public
and private sector; professor and former chair
in the Construction Management and Facilities
Management departments at Pratt Institute.
Gerald F. McGowan
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.B.A., Management, New York University; ALM
Media, Inc., director, Real Estate and Purchasing;
professional affiliations: IFMA, CoreNet.
Martin McManus
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.B.A., Accounting, Pace University; CPA; financial
principal and registered representative with NASDl;
member of the NYS Society of CPAs; American
Institute of CPAs.
Russell Olson
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., M.S. Urban Environmental Systems, Pratt
Institute; awarded IFMA 2002 Educator of the Year
Award; president and CEO of R.O.I. Consulting
Group; specializes in the technology aspects
associated with design, construction, and facilities
management; responsible for providing staff, as well
as business and technology consulting for numerous
Fortune 500 companies.
John Osborn
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Political Science and Economics, SUNY-New
Paltz; J.D., University of South Carolina Law Center;
John Osborn, P.C. Attorneys and Counselors at Law;
practice areas include environmental law, construc-
tion law, surety law, healthcare law, commercial
litigation, hospitality law, and professional liability
defense; author and frequent speaker on construc-
tion and environmental law, risk management,
and dispute resolution; 2000 Member of the Year,
Greater New York Construction User Council.
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Edward Re
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
A.A.S., Construction Technology, NYC Technical
College; B.S., Construction Management; M.S.,
Facilities Management, Pratt Institute; AIA;
certified professional constructor; certified real
estate appraiser (NAREA); certified environmental
inspector (EAA); certified occupational safety and
health director; knighted, Government of Italy-
Legions of Merit; qualified continuing education
instructor, State of New York Department of State/
Division of Licensing for Architecture and Real
Estate Appraising; arbitrator, American Arbitration
Association (AAA).

Norman Rosenfeld
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute, 1956; Norman Rosenfeld
Architects LLC.

Audrey L. Schultz
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Built Environment, Concentration in
Lean Facilities Management, The University of
Salford, 2014; M.S. Architecture, Concentration in
Construction Management, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, 2002; FMP; Member
IFMA, Lean Construction Institute, ASC, CIB.

Marjorie St. Elin

VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S., Construction Management, Pratt Institute;
LEED-AP; assistant project manager, Turner
Construction Co.

Mira Tsymuk
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S., Economics and Computer Science, University
of Business Management, Moscow, Russia; M.B.A.,
University of Economics and Finance, Moscow,
Russia; M.A., Economics, CUNY Hunter; member,
American Economic Association and International
Institute of Public Finance.
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Historic Preservation Faculty
Lisa Ackerman
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.B.A., New York University; M.S., Pratt Institute;
B.A., Middlebury College; C.O.O., World
Monuments Fund.
Eric Allison, Ph.D., AICP
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., Columbia University; M. Phil., Columbia
University; M.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Shimer College;
chair, National Council for Preservation Education;
author of Historic Preservation and the Livable City
(Wiley, 2011).
Carol Clark
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.S., Columbia University; B.A., University of
Michigan; assistant commissioner, N.Y.C. Department
of Housing Preservation and Development.
Pat Fisher-Olsen
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Thomas Edison State
College; coordinator, Historic Preservation Certificate
Program, Bucks County Community College.
Bill Higgins
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S., Columbia University; B.A., Boston College;
partner, Higgins & Quasebarth Historic Preservation
Consultants.
Alison Hirsch
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Ph.D. Architecture, University of Pennsylvania; M.L.A.,
University of Pennsylvania, M.S. Historic Preservation,
University of Pennsylvania; B.A., Wesleyan University;
Founder, Foreground Design Agency.
Jeanne Houck, Ph.D. Lacey Tauber
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University; founder, History Works. M.S., Pratt Institute; B. Journalism, University of
Texas at Austin; interim academic coordinator, Pratt
Anne Hrychuk, Ph.D. Institute Historic Preservation.
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Alberta; M.A., New York University; Vicki Weiner
Ph.D., New York University. ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.S., Columbia University; B.A., Drew University;
Ned Kaufman, Ph.D. director of planning and preservation, Pratt Center
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR for Community Development.
Ph.D., Yale University; heritage conservation
consultant; formerly director of preservation, Kevin Wolfe
Municipal Art Society; author: Place, Race, and Story: VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation M.Arch., Columbia University; M.A., Clark University;
(Routledge, 2009). B.L.A., City College of New York; B. A., Holy Cross
College; principal, Kevin Wolfe Architect.
Jon Meyers
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.B.A., Columbia University; B.A., Dartmouth
College; vice president and director of real estate,
Governors Island Preservation and Education
Corporation.
Norman Mintz
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.S., Columbia University; B.A., Industrial Design,
Pratt Institute; design director, 34th St. Partnership;
founder, New York Main Street Alliance.
Theodore Prudon, Ph.D, FAIA
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Columbia University; M.A., Columbia
University; M.S., Columbia University; M.S., University
of Delft, the Netherlands; partner, Prudon &
Partners, LLP; president, DOCOMOMO U.S.; author:
Preservation of Modern Architecture (Wiley, 2008).

Art and Design Education Faculty
Lisa Baumwell
VISITING A S SO CIATE INSTRUC TOR
B.S. Psychology, Union College; M.A. Counseling and
Guidance, New York University; Ph.D. Developmental
Psychology, New York University. Dr. Baumwell is a
research affiliate at New York Universitys Center for
Research on Culture, Development, and Education.
Her work focuses on the relational and environ-
mental factors influencing the development of
at-risk children, and the refinement of intervention
programs for families with infants and toddlers. She
has authored journal articles, chapters, and entries
regarding the impact of psychosocial circumstances
on children and families.
Lisa Capone
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
M.F.A. Sculpture, Pratt Institute; B.F.A. and B.A.,
Marymount College, New York and Chelsea School of
Art, London, England. With an expertise in Sculpture
and 3-D art-making, she has taught a range of
courses in a variety of private and public educational
venues, including the afterschool teaching
practicum with children living in shelters. Her most
recent exhibition took place at the Oklahoma City
Museum of Art 2012 in Fusion/A Century Of Glass. In
2011 she received a Pratt Faculty Development Fund
Award for her ongoing series Beauty + The Beast.
Mary Elmer-Dewitt
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., New York University; M.S., Art and Design
Education, Pratt Institute. An elementary school art
educator and mentor, Elmer-Dewitt taught with
Studio in a School for seven years and is currently a
facilitator with the Arts Achieve, a Federal i-3 research
project investigating the role of assessment in
student achievement in the arts. She has conducted
workshops for Studio in a School artists, trained
Department of Education art teachers in the
implementation of the NYC Blueprint, and collabo-
rated with fellow Studio in a School artists to bring
children from diverse areas of the city together
through artmaking. She has investigated how different
materials and processes enable second graders to
make their learning visible, as well as what occurs when
kindergarten students are directed away from
storytelling in the art room. Elmer-Dewitt works
across several disciplines, primarily photography and
painting, and exhibited Not (2) Big at the MS Renzy
Gallery in Lexington, Ky.
Shari Fischberg
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Shari Fischberg
B.F.A., The School of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston;
B.A., Tufts University; M.F.A., CUNY Queens College.
With more than 15 years of experience as an urban art
educator New York City, Boston, and Oakland,
Fischberg was honored by the New York City Board of
Education as Teacher of the Year in 2000. A previous
director of special programs for the Studio in a School
Association, she has created professional develop-
ment programming for teaching artists with MoMA,
Queens Museum, and Asia Society. She has conceived
and implemented grant-funded after-school
programs and curated exhibitions for the Edward
Hopper House Art Center. Currently a teaching artist
with the aging population in Washington Heights and at
The Anne Frank Center USA, Fischberg continues her
practice in sculpture and encaustics at her studio in
the lower Hudson River Valley.
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Borinquen Gallo
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Cooper Union, M.F.A., Hunter College; Ed.D.
candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University,
NY. Areas of expertise include contemporary art
practices and contemporary art-based education,
studio-based education, and the intersections
of curation and education. Born in Rome and
currently living in NYC, she has 10+ years of planning,
development and management experience in the
education sector. She has organized and facilitated
professional development workshops for art
educators city-wide, and designed curricula for a
host of organizations including Studio in a School and
the NYC Department of Education. Widely exhibited
locally and nationally, including, most recently, at The
National Academy Museum, Site 110 Gallery, and the
Queens Museum of Art in New York. In November
2013 she had a residency at the Vermont Studio
Center in Johnson, Vermont.
Tonya Leslie
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A, University of New York, New Paltz College;
M.A., New York University; Ph.D. candidate at
New York University and a research fellow at the
Metropolitan Center for Urban Education. Her
research interests include urban education and
literacy. She has worked in all levels of childrens
publishing and educational program development
and has been a member of organizations such as
Scholastic Inc., Girl Scouts of the USA, Sesame
Workshop, and the Schomburg Center for Research
and Black Culture. She is also the author of several
childrens books including True You: Sometimes I Feel
Ugly and Other Truths about Growing Up, available
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online through Doves Campaign for Real Beauty. In
2013, she received a grant for the Empowering Boys
Initiative (EBI) Pilot program from the New York City
Department of Education.
Heather Lewis
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University. Dr. Lewiss research
explores the intersection of urban social movements
and institutional reform in education and the arts. Her
book, New York City Schools from Brownsville to
Bloomberg: Community Control and its Legacy, was
published by Teachers College Press in 2013. She is
currently working on a study of Harlems public
schools as part of a scholarly research community
studying the history of education in 20th-
century Harlem. She serves on Pratts Middle States
Steering Committee and is actively engaged in efforts
to improve teaching and learning in higher education.
Theodora Skipitares
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.S., University of California at Berkeley; M.F.A., New
York University. An interdisciplinary artist, Skipitares has
exhibited work and performed throughout Europe,
Asia, and South America. She has received grants from
the NEA, NYFA, UNIMA, and the Guggenheim, Fulbright,
and Rockefeller Foundations, among others; twice, The
New York Times has named her plays among the 10 best
of the year, and her production Iphigenia won two New
York Innovative Theater Awards. She has created
performances in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Korea, and
travels frequently to India to develop new projects.
She has taught workshops to diverse populations with
Hospital Audiences, Inc. and has developed classes and
performances at Rikers Island Prison. Her most recent
performances and exhibitions include the Ionesco
Project at the Long Island University Gallery and Rituals
of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance and
the New PsychodramaManhattan, 197080 at the
Whitney Museum.
in art education. In addition to consulting in arts
education, she has lectured in the United States,
Canada, and Great Britain, designed educational
programs, conducted staff development workshops,
organized international study projects in Italy and
Amsterdam, written articles for juried publications,
curated exhibitions, organized panels and
conferences, collaborated with an architectural
firm, and served on the Beginning with Children
Charter School Board. She was invited to develop
and supervise Saturday workshops for children at the
Scandinavia House. In 2010, she received a Fulbright
Specialist Grant.
Aileen Wilson
PROFES SOR
M.A., Chelsea School of Art, London; Ed.D., Art/Art
Education, Teachers College, Columbia University,
New York; she was a recipient of a Fulbright specialist
grant, 2011, 2012 ; recent projects include Building
Space with Words, a multimedia, interactive
installation, March 2009, NYU-Poly; a curatorial
project, Neo-Nomads: What Travels With You? at
BRIC Rotunda Gallery, JanuaryFebruary, 2011, both
with Anne-Laure Fayard. In February 2013 she
co-curated with Tara Kopp the group exhibition
Studio Pedagogy: The Imperative of Teaching at
Gallery Bergen, NJ.

Amy Brook Snider

PROFE S SOR
B.A., Queens College, City University of New York;
M.S., University of Wisconsin at Madison; Ph.D., New
York University; Chair, Art and Design Education,
Pratt Institute, 19812010. Dr. Sniders approach to
the profession is exemplified by the range of her
interests, i.e., narrative, childrens picture books,
self-taught artists, and the integration of design

Arts and Cultural Management Faculty
Catherine Ashcraft
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Catherine Cacho-Leary
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., Dance, The George Washington University;
M.B.A., Public Administration, Keller Graduate
School of Management; Cacho-Leary worked in
the Finance Department at Dia Art Foundation and
served as financial and administrative consultant
for QIIQ Productions, a literacy-based youth
theater organization. She also worked as a budget
analyst at Brooklyn Academy of Music and was
instrumental in restructuring and advancing the
internal operations of the Finance Department.
After earning her undergraduate degree in dance,
she studied at The Alvin Ailey American Dance
Center. She is the founder of Community Arts
Works, an arts management company that provides
arts management services and brings a broader
understanding of business to emerging performing
arts organizations.
Tyra Nicole Dumars
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.P.S. Design Management, Pratt Institute; Associate
Creative Director, Intermedia.net.
Richard Green
PROFE S SOR
Former director of new products and joint ventures,
Citibank-Diners Club; consultant specializing in
developing organizational change strategies and the
improvement of internal team processes.
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Jeffrey Klein JoJo Spiker
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR M.P.S. Design Management, Pratt Institute;
Klein gives workshops for Volunteer Lawyers for Consultant, Proof Integrated Communications;
the Arts. Practicum Professor, Boston University Center for
Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA).
Mary McBride
PROFES SOR AND CHAIR OF ARTS AND CULT UR AL Denise Tahara
MANAGEMENT
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University; Partner, Strategies for Ph.D., New York University Robert F. Wagner
Planned Change, an international consulting group Graduate School of Public Service; CPA, M.B.A, New
specializing in creating excellence by design; visiting York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business;
professor international universities including Esade, Program Director, Health Policy and Management
Spain; Koc University, Turkey; ISG, France; European MPH Program, New York Medical College School of
University, Russia; former director, Management Health Sciences and Practice.
Decision Lab, Stern School of Business, New York
University. Kelly Kocinski Trager
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Susan Schear J.D., Brooklyn Law School; Attorney and Founder,
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
the Law Office of Kelly Kocinski Trager, P.C.
Schear is the founder and president of ArtIsIn,
L.L.C. ArtIsIn focuses on business development, Alicia Whiteman
management, facilitation, consulting, and coaching M.P.S. Design Management, Pratt Institute; Client
services to arts and cultural organizations. Development Manager, GCS, Marc Jacobs.
Christopher Shrum
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Public Administration, New York University;
Shrum is the Director of Community Services
for Eastern Maine Development Corporation in
Bangor, Maine. His background includes community
economic development, healthcare, tourism,
and the arts. He served as a fellow at the National
Endowment for the Arts in policy, planning,
and research, focusing his attention on public
participation patterns in the arts.
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Creative Arts Therapy Faculty
Claudia Bader
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
LCAT, LP, NCPsychA, ATR-BC; M.P.S., Pratt
Institute, licensed creative arts therapist, licensed
psychoanalyst; executive director emerita, Institute
for Expressive Analysis (20022008); board member
19932002, IEA; courses: Art Diagnosis; Symbolism
in Art Therapy; Alchemy, Symbolism, and Creativity;
Dream Analysis; Mandala; MARI certification,
Projective Drawing Institute Certification; private
practice, Manhattan.
Joachim Boenig
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
LCAT, ATR.
Shannon Bradley
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
LCAT, ATR-BC; M.S. Art Therapy and Creativity
Development from Pratt Institute; Bradley currently
works at Interfaith Medical Center, and maintains
a private practice in Manhattan where she has
experience working with anxiety, depression,
trauma, life transitions, addiction, eating disorders,
mental and medical illness.
Corinna Brown
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
LCAT, BC-DMT; B.A.; M.A., State University of New York
at Albany; M.S., Hunter College City University of New
York; Certified Alcoholism Counselor; Certificate in
Neo-Reichian Psychotherapy; current vice president
and former editor of the New York State Chapter of
the American Dance Therapy Association newsletter;
ADTA Research Subcommittee; experience in
addictions, adults with multiple sclerosis, adult
inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, geriatrics, and
men with AIDS/HIV; private practice.
Kimberly Bush
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
LCAT, ATR-BC; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.F.A.,
Parsons the New School of Design; Adv. Cert.,
Pratt Institute; Adv. Cert., Westchester Institute
for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; has been
working creatively with children, teachers, and
parents for over 20 years. She is a visual artist, a
NYS licensed Creative Arts Therapist, and Certified
Child Life Specialist. In addition, she is completing
her training as psychoanalytic candidate at the
Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy
and Psychoanalysis.
Jean Davis
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
LCAT, ATR-BC; M.P.S., Pratt Institute; private
practice; former director, Transitional Living
Community-Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service;
former clinical director, Greenwich Village Youth
Council; postgraduate training in group therapy,
environmental psychology, and gestalt therapy;
published in Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art
Therapy Association and The Arts in Psychotherapy.
Christina Devereaux
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., LCAT, LMHC, BC-DMT; B.A., Kent State
University; M.A., University of California Los Angeles;
Ph.D., Santa Barbara Graduate Institute; Board of
Directors, chair of Public Relations, and Newsletter
Editor, American Dance Therapy Association; past
president, Southern California Chapter, ADTA;
former Executive Board member, California Coalition
for Counseling Licensure; experience in trauma,
domestic violence, attachment in child development,
family work, and prenatal and perinatal psychology.
Ted Ehrhardt
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
LCAT, BC-DMT, CMA; M.S. Hunter College; faculty,
Laban-Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies;
Director: Creative Arts Therapies department and
dance/movement therapist, Woodhull Medical and
Mental Health Center; private practice in NYC.
Alison Gigl-George
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
LCAT, ATR-BC.
Valerie Hubbs
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
LCAT, BC-DMT; B.A., Hofstra University; M.S., Hunter
College, City University of New York; certified group
psychotherapist; founder/director, Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Therapy-North General Hospital;
approval committee, American Dance Therapy
Association; administrative, clinical, consulting,
supervisory, and teaching experience in multiple
psychiatric facilities.
Melissa Klay
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Ph.D., LCAT, ATR-BC; B.A., Stephens College; M.P.S.,
Pratt Institute; Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute;
has worked with children, adolescents, and adults
in inpatient and outpatient settings. Between 1998
and 2001 she attended the Institute for Expressive
Analysis and participated in a number of courses in
play therapy and sandplay therapy. Currently, has a
private practice and works with adolescents at St.
Lukes Hospital Center.

Fred Landers
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
Ph.D., LCAT, RDT; Landers is a licenced creative
arts therapist who publishes on the relationship
between play (as it appears in a Developmental
Transformation Drama Therapy Session) and violent
behavior outside of session. He has worked with
sexually abused children and adolescents as well as
combat veterans with PTSD and violent behavior as a
result of military service. Ha has developed a form of
activism called Urban Play that involves mutual play
with people in public places, and has taught drama
therapy in South Korea, Thailand, China, Japan, New
Zealand, Uganda, Kenya, Canada, and the U.S.
Judith R. Levy
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
LCAT, LMFT, LP, ATR-BC.
Judith Luongo
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
LCAT, LP, ATR.
Julie Miller
CHAIR
LCSW, LCAT, BC-DMT; M.A./M.S., Hunter College
Dance Therapy Masters Program and the Hunter
School of Social Work; maintains a private practice in
dance/movement and verbal psychotherapy and is
co-director of the New York Center for the Study of
Authentic Movement; teaching Authentic Movement
and DMT nationally and internationally in China.
Deborah Rice
VISITING PROFE S SOR
LCAT, LMHC, ATR; B.S., University of Pittsburgh,
Psychology and Studio Arts; M.P.S. Pratt Institute,
Creative Arts Therapy and Creativity Development;
Faculty, Pratt Institutes Creative Arts Therapy
Department; Private Practice; Clinical Supervisor,
Counseling In Schools; Former Clinical Supervisor,
Artistic Noise.
Maria Romani de Goes
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
LCAT, ATR; M.P.S., Pratt Institute; One-year training
in family therapy, Roberto Clemente Center;
Postgraduate training in group psychotherapy,
Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society; Co-founder,
Art of Parenting since 2008; private practice;
provides group and individual psychotherapy;
special interest in migration and acculturation as well
as parenting;
Sara Rothstein
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
LCAT, ATR; M.P.S., Pratt Institute, Creative Arts
Therapy and Creativity Development; licensed
and registered creative arts therapist; earned a
certificate of completion from Eastern Group
Psychotherapy Society; in private practice
co-founded and co-facilitates Art of Parenting,
providing individual and group work and
psychotherapy for parents with young children and
their families.
Madeline Rugh
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., ATR-BC; M.A., University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor; B.F.A., Columbus College of Art and
Design; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma; specializing
in providing healing art experiences to disabled
children and older adults and developing
programming at the interface of art, ecology and
spirituality; uses the arts to serve as the container
and primary vehicle for expressing synthesized
knowledge and for addressing the health and healing
needs of the individual or group.
Dina Schapiro
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
LCAT, ATR-BC; M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Faculty in
Creative Arts Therapy Department since 2003
in both the Academic Year and Low Residency
programs, teaching Dynamics of Art Materials, Family
therapy and supervision courses; Coordinator,
Fieldwork/Practicum for the Art Therapy
department placing and coordinating all art therapy
students in internships; faculty, Private Practice in
Sag Harbor and NYC, specializing in eating disorders,
addictions, and anxiety.
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Jean Seibel
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
LCAT, BC-DMT.
Linda Siegel
DIRECTOR OF GR ADUATE ART THER APY PRO GR AM ;
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
LCAT, ATR-BC; Certificate in Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapy, Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy
and Psychoanalysis; Certificate in Parent Infant
Psychotherapy, Ani Bergaman Parent Infant Training
Program in Parent Infant Psy; previous director of Art
and Creative Therapy Program at New Directions, out-
patient substance abuse program; co-founder, Park
Slope Counseling Center since 1990; exhibiting artist.
Jennifer Frank Tantia
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Ph.D., LCAT, BC-DMT; M.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D.,
The Chicago School for Professional Psychology;
advanced training in somatic experiencing; past PR
chair, New York Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies;
past program director, New York State Chapter,
ADTA; current research committee, United States
Body Association for Body Psychotherapy; published
in the U.S.A. Body Psychotherapy Journal and
several ADTA national and state chapter newsletters;
national and international conference presenter;
private practice: leading authentic movement
groups and specializing in trauma and somatic
disorders; areas of research interest: embodied
epistemology and dance/movement therapy and
somatic psychology pedagogy.
Laurel Thompson
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., LCAT, ATR-BC, BC-DMT; M.P.S., Pratt
Institute; Ph.D., Union Institute & University;
board member, American Dance Therapy
Association; chair of Education, Research &
Practice; Education Committee, American Art
Therapy Association; board member, USA Body
Psychotherapy Association; editorial board for
Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy: The American
Journal of Art Therapy, and Body, Movement and
Psychotherapy; numerous publications and extensive
presentations, credentialed dance movement
therapist, credentialed art therapist, focusing
trainer; private practice specializing in eating
disorders, dissociative disorders, and trauma.
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Susan Tortora
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., LCAT, BC-DMT.

Elissa White
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
LCAT, BC-DMT; Charter member and past president
of American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and
other board positions since 1964. Former co-editor
and editorial board member of the American Journal
of Dance Therapy. Co-founder of the Dance Therapy
Program at Hunter College, CUNY; author, articles on
dance therapy and Lab analysis, extensive teaching
and presenter of Marian Chace theory and practice.

Joan Wittig
DIRECTOR OF GR ADUATE DANCE /MOVEMEN T
THER APY PRO GR AM; A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
LCAT, BC-DMT; B.S., University of Wisconsin at
Madison; M.S., Hunter College, City University of New
York; worked for New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation for 16 years, including seven years as
director of the Creative Arts Therapy Department
at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center. She
teaches and presents widely, serves on the Approval
Committee for the American Dance Therapy As-
sociation, is a member of the New York State Board
for Mental Health Professionals, and has a private
practice in Manhattan; co-director of the New York
Center for Authentic Movement; co-director, teacher,
IICAT program developing DMT in Bejing, Shanghai,
and Hong Kong, China.

Eva Teirstein Young

VISITING INSTRUC TOR
LCAT, ATR-BC; M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of
Chicago; M.P.S. Creative Arts Therapy, Pratt Insti-
tute; graduate, The William Alanson White Institutes
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
program; has worked with children, adolescents,
and families at the New York Foundling Hospital and
Bellevue Hospital; creative arts therapy consultant to
the Young Dancemakers Company and has a private
practice in NYC.

Design Management Faculty
Laurence DeGaetano
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
M.B.A., New York University; Financial Officer, Met
Life Financial Services; member, American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants.
Dyanis DeJess
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.P.S. Design Management, Pratt Institute; Partner/
Creative Director, Prototipo.Media; former Associate
Creative Director, Leo Burnett Milan
Tyra Nicole Dumars
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.P.S., Design Management, Pratt Institute;
Associate Creative Director, Intermedia.net
Roger Dunbar
VISITING PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., Cornell University; Professor of Management,
New York University, Stern School of Business
Administration.
Scott Fiaschetti
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
VP, Insights & Strategy, Questus, Inc.
Larry Gibbs
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Richard Green
PROFES SOR
Former director of new products and joint ventures,
Citibank-Diners Club; consultant specializing in
developing organizational change strategies and the
improvement of internal team processes.
Mary McBride
PROFES SOR AND CHAIR OF DESIGN MANAGEMENT
Ph.D., New York University; Partner, Strategies for
Planned Change, an international consulting group
specializing in creating excellence by design; visiting
professor at international universities including
Esade, Spain; Koc University, Turkey; ISG, France;
European University, Russia; former director,
Management Decision Lab, Stern School of Business,
New York University.
Jacqueline McCormack
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Communications Director,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York; former Chief
of Staff to New York State Banking Commissioner;
former Director of Communications and Employee
Engagement, TD Waterhouse.
James Murray
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; Vice President of Design/
Product Development/Visual Merchandising, Simon
Pearce; former Design Director, Bed, Bath and Beyond.
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Jo Ann Stonier
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
J.D., St. Johns University; Senior Vice President,
Global Privacy & Data Protection Officer, MasterCard
Worldwide; former Chief Privacy Officer, American
Express Company.
Marvin Waldman
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.B.A., Baruch College; President, The Shadow
Group, an advertising group specializing in strategy
for not-for-profit companies.
Denise Tahara
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University Robert F. Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service; CPA, M.B.A., New
York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business;
Program Director, Health Policy and Management
MPH Program, New York Medical College School of
Health Sciences and Practice.
Kelly Kocinski Trager
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
J.D., Brooklyn Law School; Attorney and Founder,
The Law Office of Kelly Kocinski Trager, P.C.
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Digital Arts Faculty
Peter Patchen
CHAIR
M.F.A., University of Oregon; Peter Frank Patchen
is a digital artist exhibiting and lecturing nationally
and internationally. He grew up in Colorado where
the natural environment had a profound influence
on his perception of the relationships that exist
between nature, humanity, culture, and technology.
In 1993, he founded the Cyber Arts (now New Media)
program at the University of Toledo. Recent work
includes interactive artworks, prints, web-based art,
and mixed media pieces.
Carla Gannis
A S SISTANT CHAIR
M.F.A., Boston University; B.F.A., University of North
Carolina at Greensboro; Carla Gannis is the recipient
of several awards, including a 2005 New York
Foundation for the Arts Grant in Computer Arts, an
Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and
a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in NYC.
She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both
nationally and internationally. Features on Ganniss
work have appeared in Res Magazine and Collezioni
Edge, and her work has been reviewed in The New
York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald,
the Daily News, and the Village Voice.
Rick Barry
PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; president, Desktop Design
Studio; past president of the Graphic Artists Guild of
New York; Board of Directors, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH;
chair SIGGRAPH 2003 courses program; chair
NYC MetroCAF 2005; ACM SIGGRAPH director for
education 200609; founding member of ACM
SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee; chair, Digital Arts
at Pratt Institute,19952000; interim chair, 200406.
Justin Berry
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Digital Arts
Thomas Bone
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Professional digital and traditional animator and
cartoonist with over 14 years of professional work
experience in film, television, illustrations, web,
advertising, and merchandising productions.
Liubomir Borissov
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Physics, Columbia University; M.P.S.,
Interactive Telecommunications, New York
University; B.S., Mathematics and Physics, California
Institute of Technology; Global Vilar Fellow, Tisch
School of the Arts, NYU; exhibitions: New Interfaces
for Musical Expression conference, Japan, 2004;
Canada 2005; Lincoln Center Summer Festival, NYC;
the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Borissov has
taught at Harvestworks, Parsons School of Design
and the Columbia University Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Bukvich grew up during the wildly active music
scene in Sarajevos 80s, with Arabian horses and
four major religions at her doorstep. Her signature
sound weaves deconstructivist dance suites
with polymicrotonal sympho-rock tone poems,
experimental prog rock/world jazz fusions with
musique concrte spirituals, and contemporary
art-song with electronica. A concert composer/
performer whose music defies boundaries,
(ASCAP) Bukvich has appeared in the U.S. and
internationally. She has received grants from the
Soros Foundation, the American Composers Forum,
ASCAPs Buddy Baker Film Scoring Scholarship, New
England Foundation for the Arts, and the Institute
on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University.
Bukvich is featured in the recently released book
In Her Own Words - Conversations with Composers
in the United States (University of Illinois Press). She
was artist-in-residence at Lafayette College, and
collaborated with Pomegranate Arts in New York
in support of Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and
Funeral Orchestras North American tour. Her score
Interior Designs was listed as one of the top 10 dance
events of 2013 (The Star-Ledger) and has received
the New Music USA, 2013 Live Music for Dance award.
Her album EVOLUTION was released on PARMAs Big
Round Records in April 2014. In July, she will be an
artist-in-residence at the historic Manley-Lefevre
House in Vermont. Bukvich is also on faculty at
NYU, and is a 2013 New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellow in Music/Sound.
Elliot Cowan
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Cowan was born in Melbourne, Australia, then
moved to the wilds of Tasmania, where he directed
thousands of commercials for regional television.
In 2006 he left for London where he mostly worked
with UIi Meyer animation. While in London he
began animating the award-winning Boxhead and
Roundhead shorts. Now he lives in New York with all
kinds of grown-up stuff like a wife and child and a
green card. He has recently completed The Stressful
Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead, his first
feature, and he did almost all of it himself in between
teaching, freelance animation gigs, and his family.

Edward Darino
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., UEU on New Technologies; M.F.A., Tisch
School of Art, New York University; designer, on-air
identification for Manhattan Cable, HBO, Calliope,
USA Networks, Con Edison, USA Olympics, Snoopy
and Superman specials; editor, director, and special
effects supervisor for Hollywood Stars, Grand
Entertainment, Disney Entertainment, Discovery,
Galavision, and many others. Darinos Special Effects
Library is used in 62 countries worldwide.
Marianna Ellenberg
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
M.A., Slade School of Art; B.A., Wesleyan University;
2009 LMCC Swing Space residency; exhibitions:
The N.Y. Underground Film Festival, 2007, The
Collectif Jeune Cinma, 2003, LA Freewaves, 2006;
exhibitions: The Pleasures Seekers, Chashama
Gallery, NYC, 2009, Hysteria, UC Long Beach, 2008.
Mike Enright
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
B.F.A., The University of the Arts; M.F.A., California
Institute of the Arts; curated national and
international animated shorts and features for the
Philadelphia Film Society (200208); also produced
animated campaigns for the Philadelphia Film
Festival and The Philadelphia International Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival; scenic painter for theater,
broadcast, and museum installations, whose credits
include work for NBC, VH1, Anheuser Busch theme
parks, and the Long Beach Opera; his works in
oil and acrylics are held by private collectors; his
independent animated films include Moo! (1995),
nominated for a Student Academy award, and Grit!, a
10-minute, hand-processed 16mm tribute to boxing
featured at MoMA (2006.)
Kay Hines
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
B.A., Art History, Barnard College; Cine Golden Eagle
Award, editor of 9/11: Response and Recovery for
Signet Productions and Bovis Lend Lease, 2003;
Greenwald Foundation Grant, 1995; New York
Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1992, 1985; National
Endowment for the Arts Creative Artist Fellowship
Grant, 1981; videographer and internationally exhibited
media installation artist; co-owner/founder of Dekart
Video, est. 1981.
Kenneth Hughes
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Stephen Jackett
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.F.A., School of Visual
Arts; works include award-winning commercial
animation for J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, with
clients such as the Oxygen and Discovery channels,
Saturday Night Live, Chef Boyardee, the Ad Council,
and the Chicago Tribune; additional work includes
animated Web advertisements for ESPN360.com for
W/M Animation and an anti-smoking 3-D animated
film for the C. Everett Koop Institute (199899);
web-based projects include 3-D animated e-cards
for online greeting card brand MyFunCards and
various popular Facebook applications, such as the
FlowerShop, My Own Superhero, and Smiley Creator.
Everett Kane
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Religion, Princeton University, 1993; B.F.A., with
distinction, Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design,
1997; M.F.A., Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design,
2001. Kane is an artist, 3-D animator, and technical
director whose clients include Nike, Klasky-Csupo,
Reel FX, Location One, CalTech, Sloan-Kettering,
Rockefeller College, Pixel Blocks, New York Festivals,
Mirabell Films, and DZI; exhibitions include Location
One, White Box, Animamus Art Salon, Los Angeles
Arboretum, Art Center College of Design, Hotel
Grifou, Pillers Gallery, Envoy Enterprises, Nezla
Productions, L.A. Municipal Gallery. For the last
16 years, he has taught 3-D modeling, animation,
drawing for animation, character design, character
modeling, 3-D lighting and rendering, VFX, dynamics,
programming for animators, character rigging,
technical direction, digital compositing, digital
painting, digital imaging, web design, interface
design, fine art, critical theory, and experimental
digital media.
Hyunsuk Kim
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Digital Arts
Lara Kohl
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Performance Studies, New York University;
M.F.A. Time Based Arts, The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago; B.A., Barnard College,
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Columbia University; residencies: EdLab digital
artist in residence, Teachers College, Columbia
University, 2008; Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff,
Canada, 2008; Queen Street Digital Studios, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, 2008; selected exhibitions: P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY; Artists Space,
NYC; Triple Candie, NYC; Exit Art, NYC; Lehmann
Maupin Gallery, NYC; Alona Kagan Gallery, NYC; Black
and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Jack the Pelican
Presents, Brooklyn, NY; Repetti Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Linda Lauro-Lazin
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Lauro-Lazin is a cross-disciplinary artist, curator,
lecturer and educator. Her work explores
impermanence, perception and vehicles of
communication. She has been using digital media in
her practice since 1986 and is considered a pioneer
of digital art. Lauro-Lazin began her career as a
painter and photographer. She is a Fulbright scholar
in art. Her work is included in Art in the Digital Age
by Bruce Wands. She has been teaching for many
years and has organized and moderated many guest
lectures and panel discussions. She has served
on international art juries and has curated some
provocative exhibitions. Lauro-Lazin has a great
passion for building community and sharing her ideas
about art. She also loves a good story.
Peter Mackey
PROFES SOR
B.A., Syracuse University; M.F.A., University
of Southern California; has nearly 40 years of
experience writing and directing award-winning
films, videos, multi-image, and interactive programs
and installations for companies such as GE, Apple,
and Simon and Schuster Interactive. He has taught
and lectured in South Korea and Turkey, writes
speculative fiction, and enjoys pushing the limits of
three-dimensional interactivity, player-mediated
generative art, and artist-friendly microelectronics.
David Mattingly
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.F.A., Colorado State University; M.F.A. Art Center;
headed the Matte Department at Walt Disney
Studios where he worked on The Black Hole, Tron,
Dick Tracy, Stephen Kings The Stand, and I, Robot
for Weta Digital in New Zealand; has produced over
500 covers for most major publishers of science
fiction and fantasy, including Baen, Bantam, DAW,
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Del Rey, Dell, Marvel, Omni, Playboy, Signet, and Tor;
for Scholastic Inc., he painted 54 covers for K.A.
Applegates Animorphs series, along with the last
five covers for the Everworld series; illustrated the
popular Honor Harrington series for author David
Weber; painted the latest repackaging of Edgar
Rice Burroughs Pellucidar books for Ballantine
Books; two-time winner of Magazine and Booksellers
Best Cover of the Year award, and winner of the
Association of Science Fiction Artists Chesley award;
other clients include Michael Jackson, Lucasfilm,
Universal Studios, Totco Oil, Galloob Toys, R/
Greenberg Associates, Click 3X, and Spontaneous
Combustion; author of The Digital Matte Painting
Handbook (Sybex, 2011), the first guide to digital
matte painting.
Ramsey Nasser
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
M.F.A., Design and Technology, Parsons The New
School for Design; B.S., Computer Science, American
University of Beirut; fellow at Eyebeam Art +
Technology Center; residency at Karaj Beirut; works
featured in Kellen Gallery, Babycastles gallery.
NIcholas OBrien
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
OBrien is a net-based artist, curator, and writer
whose research revolves around the exploration
of digital self and the relevance of landscape
representation within network culture. His work
has appeared internationally in Mexico, Berlin,
London, Dublin, Italy, and throughout the U.S.
He has also been featured in several publications
including ARTINFO, Art F City, Sculpture magazine,
Dazed Digital, The Creators Project, DIS, ilikethisart,
Frieze d/e, the Brooklyn Rail, Rhizome at the New
Museum, and The New York Times. In 2011 he was
awarded a Turbulence Commission Grant funded
by the NEA and curated a top 10 exhibition of 2011
as noted by Paddy Johnson for L Magazine. Last
year he premiered a new work in collaboration with
Rashaun Mitchell at the Baryshnikov Art Center in
New York as well as mounting an exhibition at the
Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. He is currently living
in Brooklyn working as a visiting artist professor and
gallery director for the Department of Digital Art at
Pratt Institute.
Genevieve Okupniak
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Digital Arts
Michael ORourke
PROFES SOR
M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ed.M., Harvard B.F.A., Ringling School of Art and Design. She is a
University; artist, author, and educator; selected
exhibitions include: Kennedy Center for the Arts,
Washington, D.C.; Muse dArt Moderne, Paris;
Isetan Museum, Tokyo; Laumont Editions, NYC;
Hong Gah Museum, Taipei; Uma Gallery, NYC.
His artwork encompasses printmaking, murals,
sculpture, drawing, and animation, and frequently
combines digital and traditional techniques.
Recent work focuses on large-scale multimedia
murals, multimedia sculpture, and digital prints. The
interactive multimedia works combine static imagery,
drawing, video, and 3-D animation. In the 1980s,
he worked at the world-famous NYIT Computer
Graphics Lab, with many of the pioneers and
inventors of computer imaging and animation. In the
late 1980s and early 1990s, he did extensive work for
the artist Frank Stella, producing sculptural models,
graphics, and animation. He has consulted on digital
imaging for a number of artists, including Jenny
Holzer, and is the author of two books and numerous
articles about digital art. His teaching experience
includes teaching kindergarten, conversational
French, and English as a foreign language in Birkina-
Faso, Africa.
Mira Scharf
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.S., University of California, San Diego; M.F.A.,
University of California, Los Angeles; animated for
television programming including Dilbert, Queer
Duck, Assy McGee, Wonder Pets, Sesame Street
shorts and Pinky Dinky Doo; also animated many
webisodes for General Mills, Postopia, and PBS Kids,
and animated computer games for Dreamworks
Interactive, Knowledge Adventure, and others;
illustrated 25 educational workbooks for U.R.J.
Press andhas written copy for computer games and
created story and graphic content for computer
game play as well; her cartoons have appeared in
Harvard Business Review, Readers Digest, Funny
Times, and Narrative magazine.
Jamal Sullivan
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Claudia Tait
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County;
digital artist and media theorist whose works explore
the meaning of technology in the construction
of gender. Her critical inquiries focus on the
social, political, and economic role of computer
programming and contextualize technologys
languages as a form of writing and literacy.
Katherine Torn
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Digital Arts
Lukas Wadya
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Digital Arts
Gregory Webb
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Daniel Weisbard
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Digital Arts
Elizabeth White
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
White is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has
been exhibited nationally and internationally, most
recently in The Balloon, a group show at Rawson
Projects curated by Jessamyn Fiore. Other recent
exhibitions include A Map is Not the Territory at
FiveMyles, the fourth annual Artisterium International
Contemporary Art Exhibition in Tbilisi, No Soul For
Sale at the Tate Modern in London, and Surveil, a
two-person show with Anne Elizabeth Moore at the
Center for Endless Progress in Berlin. White curated
Culturehalls Feature Issue 95, and her work was
recently published in The State (UAE). She has been
awarded residencies in Leipzig, Tbilisi, Marfa,TX, and
on Governors Island, and has received support from
CECArtsLink, the Hattie Strong Foundation, and
the Davis Educational Foundation. She holds a B.A.
from Vassar College and an M.F.A. in photography,
video, and related media from the School of Visual
Arts, where she was the recipient of an Aaron Siskind
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Fellowship. Based in Brooklyn, she teaches in the

graduate program in digital arts at Pratt Institute, and
at Bennington College in Vermont.

Bryan Zanisnik
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
M.F.A., Hunter College; attended the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture. He has recently
exhibited and performed at PS1, Sculpture Center,
and the Queens Museum of Art; in Philadelphia at
the Fabric Workshop and Museum; in Miami at the
De La Cruz Collection; in Chicago at the Museum
of Contemporary Photography; in Los Angeles at
LAXART; and internationally at the Istanbul Museum
of Modern Art, the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna
and the Futura Centre for Contemporary Art in
Prague. Zanisniks work has been reviewed in The
New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews,
Modern Painters, and Time Out New York. He has
completed residencies at the Macdowell Colony, the
Art Omi International Artists Residency, the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program,
and the Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou,
China. Currently he is an artist in residence at the
Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY,
and will present a newly commissioned project at the
Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in the
spring of 2014.
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Fine Arts Faculty
David Alban
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute; M.F.A., Cranbrook
Academy of Art; selected group exhibitions: Clay
Art Center, Port Chester, NY; Josaphat Arts Hall
& Convivium33 Gallery, Cleveland; Lill Street Art
Center, Chicago; Wrocaw National Gallery, Poland;
selected grants and residencies: Ksiaz Factory,
Poland; Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts;
Panevezys Glass Works, Lithuania; International
Ceramics Symposium, Hong Ik University, Seoul,
Korea; Jerome Foundation Grant Residency, St.
Johns University; other professional: master kiln
builder; art fabricator, Polich Art Works, Newburgh,
NY; collections: The Decorative Arts Museum,
Prague; International Museum of Ceramic Arts,
Czech Republic; Ceramic Arts Museum, Poland; The
Bemis Foundation; The Butler Museum of Art.
Adam Apostolos
SCUL P T URE TECHNICIAN , VISITING INSTRUC TOR
Karen Bachmann
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1982; exhibitions: Museum of
Arts and Design, New York; Philadelphia Museum of
Art; Oregon College of Arts and Sciences; Greene
and Greene Gallery, Lambertville, NJ; Miyo Oto, San
Francisco; Flushing Council of the Arts and Sciences,
Flushing, NY; Craze Gallery, London;
www.karenbachmanndesigns.com
Lisha Bai
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
B.A., Washington University, St. Louis; M.F.A, Yale
University; exhibitions: National Academy, New York,
NY; MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, Mass.; Bravin
Lee Programs, New York, NY; Zone Chelsea Center
for the Arts, New York, NY; Jose Bienvenu Gallery,
New York, NY; Tyler Estate, New York, NY; Muse
dArt Amricain Giverny, Giverny, France; awards
and residencies: S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award,
National Academy, New York, NY; Vermont Studio
Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, Vt.; Terra Summer
Residency Fellow, Giverny, France; publications: The
New York Times; The New Yorker; New York Sun;
www.lishabai.com
Hannah Barrett
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Boston University, 1998; B.A., Wellesley
College, 1989; has spent a decade developing and
exhibiting an oeuvre of androgynous portraiture;
had recent solos in New York City at the Stephan
Stoyanov Gallery and in Boston at the Childs Gallery
and Howard Yezerski Gallery; has exhibited at the
Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; recipient of an
Artadia Award and Travel Fellowships from the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts and Wellesley College.
Rick Barry
DIGITAL ARTS, PROFES SOR
Donald Pierce School of Painting; Pratt Institute;
founded Rick Barry/Desktop Studio in 1987, prior design
work at William Etsy Company, Craig Adams Associates,
Helitzer Advertising, and Robert Whitehall Advertising.
Lisa Bateman
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., East Carolina University; M.F.A., Virginia
Commonwealth University; recent exhibition and
curatorial projects: Location One New York; P.S.1,
New York; public arts projects: MTA Arts for Transit,
BACA, and PACC; special projects manager, P.S.
1 Center for Contemporary Art; Teme Celeste
magazine; national and international exhibitions;
recipient of Pollock-Krasner fellowship;
lisabateman.tumblr.com/post/3622546208
Michael Brennan
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1992; B.A., University of
Florida, 1987; exhibited with minusspace, Thatcher
Projects, Lucas Schoormans, Anthony Meier Fine
Arts, Yoshii Gallery and others; exhibited interna-
tionally in Brussels, Paris, Shanghai, Sydney; group
exhibitions include PS1/MoMA, Vassar College, St.
Peters College; has written extensively for The
Brooklyn Rail, ArtNet, and numerous catalog essays;
reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, etc.; collected in the National
Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, San Jose
Museum of Art, American Express, General Dynam-
ics; also teaches at Hunter College and has taught at
Cooper Union; www.michaelbrennan.info
Deborah Bright
CHAIR
M.F.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Wheaton College;
photographic projects have been exhibited interna-
tionally, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum;
the Museet for Fotokunst, Copenhagen; Nederlands
Foto Instituut, Rotterdam; Museum Folkwang, Essen;
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Ottawa; Cambridge Darkroom; Vancouver Art Gal-
lery; her photographs are included in the collections
of the Whitney Museum; National Museum of Ameri-
can Art, Smithsonian; Addison Gallery of American
Art; Fogg Art Museum; Boston Athenaeum; Rose
Art Museum; University Art Museum at Binghamton
University; California Museum of Photography and
the RISD Museum of Art; www.deborahbright.net

Mona Brody
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., Vermont College of Art; M.S., Massachu-
setts College of Art; B.F.A., Moore College of Art
and Design; solo exhibitions: Aljira, Newark, NJ;
The Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Pleiades Gallery,
NY; group exhibitions: Southwest Minnesota State
University Art Museum, Marshall; Kunstlerhaus,
Graz, Austria; awards: Geraldine Dodge Foundation
Grant; National Association for the Advancement of
Psychoanalysis, NY; Printmaking Fellowship, Rutgers
Center for Innovative Print and Paper; collections:
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; The
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar; Boleshlawiec Art
Museum, Poland; publications: The New York Times,
Washington Art News; www.monabrody.com
Howard Buchwald
PROFE S SOR
M.A., Hunter College, 1972; B.F.A., Cooper Union,
1964; since 1971: numerous solo and group exhibi-
tions here and abroad; represented by Nancy
Hoffman Gallery nancyhoffmangallery.com; awards:
Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation, Pollock-
Krasner Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
CAPS (Creative Artists Program Services), Guggen-
heim Fellowship.
David Butler
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., University of Washington; B.F.A., Georgia
State University; sculptor, jeweler, designer, and
goldsmith; his work has been extensively exhibited
and is included in public and private collections;
www.davidbutlerco.com
William Carroll
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., C.U.N.Y. Queens College; B.F.A., Pratt Insti-
tute; director of the Studio Program at the Elizabeth
Foundation for the Arts; involved with the New York
art world for more than 25 years; held prior positions
at the Dia Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, and
as the gallery director for Charles Cowles Gallery and
the Elizabeth Harris Gallery; has lectured for the New
York Foundation for the Arts, Bard College, Cran-
brook Academy of Art, F.I.T., New York University,
and the School of Visual Arts.
Nanette Carter
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, CO ORDINATOR
FOR DR AWING
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.A., Oberlin College, studied
abroad in Perugia, Italy, and traveled through Europe
and North Africa; exhibits with the G.R. NNamdi Gal-
lery in Chicago, Miami, and Detroit; works and lives
in New York City; had solo show in Miami in October
2012 and will exhibit in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2013 and
Havana, Cuba in 2014; www.nanettecarter.com
Cammi Climaco
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Kent State University, Ohio; M.F.A., Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Mich.; Pilchuck Glass School,
Seattle; solo exhibitions: Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC.;
Garden Fresh, Chicago, Ill.; Silo, New York; Claude
Howell Gallery, University of North Carolina, Wilming-
ton; Duncan Art Gallery, Stetson University, Deland,
Fla.; group exhibitions include: Front Room, Brook-
lyn; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn; Spaces, Cleveland;
Redsaw, Newark; publications include: The New York
Times, The New York Sun, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and
flavorpill.net; www.brightsunnyfutures.com
David Cohen
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Hons (History of Art) University of Sussex; M.A.,
(History of Art) Courtauld Institute of Art, University
of London.
Alexia Cohen-Tortoledo
JE WEL RY TECHNICIAN, VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art and Design; her
art jewelry pieces have been shown with Mobilia Gal-
lery and Gallery Loupe, both prominent galleries in the
Art Jewelry world; recently, her work was shown as
part of the Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry exhibi-
tion at the Hunterdon Art Museum in New Jersey;
www.alexiacohen.com
James Costanzo
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.A., M.F.A., The University of Iowa; has shown his
work in the U.S. and in Europe; founding member
of REPOhistory, an artist collective that makes
site-specific public artwork based on issues of race,
gender, class and sexuality; last fall created a multi-
media installation titled datamap_2001.2 that dealt
with the social and political climate of the last two
years and was shown at the Annex, which is affiliated
with White Box; www.jimcostanzo.us
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Grayson Cox
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Columbia University; B.F.A., Indiana Univer-
sity; exhibitions include Exquisite Corpse Project,
Gasser Grunert Gallery, N.Y.; Short-term Devia-
tion, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, N.Y.;
One andThree Quarters of an Inch, curated by
Peter Clough,St. Cecilias Parish Art Space, Brooklyn,
N.Y.; Entropy Symphony, performance with Zefrey
Thorwell, Whitney Museum, N.Y.; B-Sides 68
Months Project Space, N.Y.; grants and residencies
include Rema Hort Mann Foundation Nominee;
Catwalk Artist Residency, Catskill, N.Y.; Montrose
Initiative for the Arts, Artist Residency program;
The Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts, awarded by The
American Austrian Foundation to study in Salzburg,
Austria; work held in the collections of Fisher Landau
Center for Art; John Friedman, Easton Capital, N.Y.;
Serra Sabuncuoglu, N.Y.; www.graysoncox.com
Peggy Cyphers
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Maryland Institute of Art; Towson State Uni-
versity; M.F.A., Pratt Institute; recipient of National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, P.S.1/ New York
Studio Award; Ingor Foundation Award; represented
by E. M. Donahue Gallery, NY; Solo Press, NY; Betsy
Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago; contributing writer to
Arts Magazine, Art Journal, and other publications;
www.peggycyphers.com
Pradeep Dalal
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., International Center of Photography/Bard
College; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Architecture; B.Arch., Center for Environmental
Planning and Technology, 1987;
www.pradeepdalal.com
Gregory Drasler
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., M.F.A., University of Illinois; solo exhibitions:
Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York; The Center for
Contemporary Art, Chicago; Queens Museum of Art,
NY, and the recent Tattoo Parlor, at California State
University at Fullerton, Santa Anna; group exhibitions
include New Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney
Museum of Contemporary Art/Champion, NY;
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; awards: National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, New York Foun-
dation for the Arts Fellowship; author of: Painting
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into a Corner: Representation as Shelter, in The
Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher
Bollas (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); represented
in New York by the Betty Cunningham Gallery;
www.drasler.com
Kelly Driscoll
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Plymouth University of England; M.F.A., City
College, New York; exhibitions: Kristen Frederickson
Gallery, New York; International Print Center, New
York; Greater New York (2000) P.S.1, New York;
Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, Ore.; D.A.P, New York;
Kaosiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan; artist books:
Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi (Vincent Fitzgerald &
Co, New York); Georges Batailles Story of the Eye
(The Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Calif.).
Brad Ewing
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; Teaching
Certificate, Brown University; B.F.A., Cornish College
of the Arts; exhibitions: IPCNY, New York, NY; Temple
University, Rome, Italy; 193c Gallery, Brooklyn; pro-
fessional activities: director and printer, The Grenfell
Press, New York, NY; Printer, Sienese Shredder
Editions, New York, NY; director and printer, Marginal
Editions, New York, NY; printer for artist Philip Taaffe.
New York, NY.
Patrick Fenton
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., Stanford University; B.A., University of
California at Los Angeles; Partner and co-founder
of Swayspace, Brooklyn, a custom design studio with
an emphasis on custom printing, letterpress, book
design, interface design, and identity design. Recent
exhibitions include International Print Center, Art
Directors Club, and Governors Island, in New York.
Featured in Made in New York: Handcrafted Works by
Master Artisans.
Allen Frame
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., Art History and English, Harvard University;
represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York where
he had solo exhibitions in 2005 and 2009; his book
Detour, a compilation of his photographs over a
decade, was published by Kehrer Verlag Heidel-
berg in 2001; recipient of grants from the Penny
McCall Foundation, the Peter Reed Foundation,
Creative Time, Art Matters, CECArtslink and others;
co-founder of the contemporary art center Delta
Axis in Memphis in 1992, and in 1990, co-created
Electric Blanket, an epic slide show about AIDS,
which toured throughout the U.S. and to Norway,
the U.K., Germany, Hungary, Japan, and Russia; has
been the curator of exhibitions at Art in General,
including Darrel Ellis in 1996 and In This Place in 2004;
at PS122 Gallery, including Bearings: the Female
Figure in 2006; and at the Camera Club of New York,
including Linda Salerno: A Selection of Experimental
Photographs from the Black Mirror Series; currently
serves as the president of the board of the Camera
Club of New York, and is an executive producer of
Joshua Sanchezs feature film Four, now playing at
film festivals; www.allenframe.net
Linda Francis
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
M.A., B.F.A., Hunter College; selected solo
exhibitions include Hal Bromm Gallery, Gallerie
Gislain Mollet-Vieville, PS 1, Damon Brandt Gallery,
Gallerie Per Sten, Wm. Paterson U., Nicholas
Davies Gallery, University of Alabama College of
Arts andSciences, Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
MinusSpace; selected group exhibitions include
Aldrich Museum, Studio La Citta, Moore College of
Art, Stadische GallerieIm Lenbachhaus, Kunsthalle
Basel, List Gallery MIT, Nordjyllands Kunst-museum,
The Kitchen, Louisiana Museet, Leubsdorf Art Gallery
Hunter College, Rogalund Kunstmuseum, Sydney
Non Objective, Vassar College, Academy of Arts and
Letters Invitational.
Michael Fujita
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
University; B.F.A., Ceramic Art, Kansas City Art
Institute; exhibitions include Periphery, Philadelphia
Art Alliance, Sightlines, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Green-
wich House Pottery, New Porcelain Work, Cross
Mackenzie Gallery, Artificially Flavored, The Evelyn
Shapiro Foundation Fellowship Solo Exhibition, The
Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Preserve Master of Fine
Arts Thesis Exhibition, Schein-Joseph International;
Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY,Michael Fujita,
New Work, Red Star Studios, Kansas City, Gyeonggi
International CeraMIX Biennale International
Competition, Icheon, Republic of Korea,Strangely
Familiar, NCECA, University of South Florida, School
of Art,Pretty Young Things, Lacoste Gallery, Midsum-
mer Eve, Meredith Gallery, Correlations, Red Star
Studios, Small Favors V, Philadelphia, Of This Century,
The Clay Studio; Conversations, Coincidences, and
Motivations: The Alfred Experience, Snyderman
Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.; www.michaelfujita.com
Joseph Fyfe
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., University of the Arts, Philadelphia College
of Art; selected solo exhibitions: JG Contempo-
rary, NYC; Ryllega Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam; Cynthia
Broan Gallery, NYC; selected group exhibitions
include Intersections, Meyer School of Art; Paint/
Not Paint, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, NYC;
Carton Rouge, Atelier Tampon-Ramier, Paris;
selected awards: Guggenheim Fellowship; McDowell
Fellowship; Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Award;
Pollock-Krasner Award; Fulbright Award; selected
publications: Art, das Kunstmagazin; Art in America,
Joe Fyfe at Nicholas Davies; www.joefyfe.com
Mariam Ghani
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., School of Visual Arts; B.A., New York Uni-
versity. Mariam Ghanis research-based practice
spans video, installation, photography, performance,
and text. Her recent exhibitions and screenings
include the Rotterdam and CPH:DOX film festivals;
dOCUMENTA (13) in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Kassel,
Germany; MoMA in New York, and the Sharjah Bien-
nial in the United Arab Emirates. Recent texts have
been published in Filmmaker, Mousse, the Radical
History Review, The New York Review of Books blog,
and dOCUMENTAs 100 Notes100 Thoughts book
series. Ongoing collaborations include Index of the
Disappeared (with Chitra Ganesh), Performed Places
(with Erin Kelly), and the Afghan Films online archive
(with pad.ma). Ghani has been awarded the New York
Foundation of the Arts and Soros Fellowships, grants
from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies
in the Fine Arts, CEC ArtsLink, the Mid-Atlantic
Arts Foundation, and the Experimental Television
Center, and residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council, Eyebeam Atelier, Smack Mellon, and the
Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

Anne Gilman
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., State University of New York, New Paltz;
M.F.A., Brooklyn College; solo exhibitions: Palacio del
Segundo Cabo, Havana, Cuba; Casa Cristo, Guada-
lajara, Mexico; Sala Polivanted, Matanzaz, Cuba; and
numerous group exhibitions and awards; collec-
tions: New York Public Library; Kresge Museum of
Art; Brooklyn Museum; National Museum of Women
in the Arts; Colegio de Arquitectos de Estado de
Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico; Library of Congress;
publications: Frayed Edges (Ediciones Vigia, Matan-
zas, Cuba, 2001); Facing Eviction and Dont Lose
Heart, ISCA; www.annegilman.com
Jonathan Goodman
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., University of
Pennsylvania; freelance writer and editor, various
publications, including Art in America, ARTnews,
Drawing, and Art Asia Pacific.
David Gothard
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Pratt Institute; freelance illustrator providing
conceptual images for major national and interna-
tional publications such as The Wall Street Journal,
Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times
and The New York Times; www.davidgothard.com
Toni Greenbaum
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.A., Hunter College; B.A., City College of New York;
curator and critic, Jewelry. Exhibitions include
Jewelry Beyond Jewelry: Five Contemporary
Artists, Hunterdon Museum of Art; Messengers of
Modernism: American Studio Jewelry, Montreal
Museum of Decorative Arts; Modernist Jewelry in
the Permanent Collection, American Craft Museum;
Contemporary American Jewelry: Sources and Con-
cepts, Victoria and Albert Museum. Essays include:
GAS Bijou: Adorning Bardot to J. Lo, Love in
Three Dimensions: Svetozar and Ruth Radakovich,
and Tea and Jewelry: Modernist Metalsmithing in
San Diego, 19401970, in Metalsmith. Recipient of
the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award and
the Sixteenth Annual Susan Koppelman Award for
Women Designers in the USA, 19002000 (2000).
Presently Acquisition Consultant for Jewelry and
Metalwork, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Exhibi-
tions Advisory Group, American Craft Museum.
Nancy Grimes
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Indiana University; M.F.A., School of the Art
Institute of Chicago; co-founder of the artists
space, West Hubbard Gallery, Chicago; exhibited
widely nationally; author of Jared Frenchs Myths;
writes for Art in America and ARTnews, for which she
has been an editorial associate since 1986;
www.nancygrimes.net
Dave Hardy
VISITING PROFES SOR
M.F.A., The Yale School of Art; B.A., Brown University;
studied at The Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture; selected group exhibitions include Make
It Now at Sculpture Center, Unbalance at Jack Shain-
man and Greater New York 2005 at PS1/MOMA. Solo
exhibitions include Art in General, 92Y Tribeca, and
La Mama Galleria in NYC and Southern Exposure in
San Francisco; recipient of New York Foundation for
the Arts fellowship in 2011; has a solo show upcoming
at Regina Rex in September 2013;
www.davehardystudio.com
Eric Heist
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., University of Delaware; Empire State College,
SUNY Studio Program in New York; M.F.A., Hunter
College; exhibitions: Schroeder Romero (solo exhibi-
tion), New York, NY; Max Protetch, New York, NY; Islip
Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Ronald Feldman Gallery,
New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum; Centre of Atten-
tion, London; publications: Contemporary Magazine;
The New York Times, Village Voice; Elle magazine;
founder and director of Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY;
www.ericheist.com
Martine Kacynski
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Parsons School of Design; B.F.A., Liver-
pool Polytechnic, England; exhibitions: Sculpture
Space, Utica, NY; Mary Dinaburg Studios, NY; Affinity
Archives, Dublin, Ireland; Jessica Murray Projects,
Brooklyn; Kent Gallery, NY; Art and Idea, Mexico City;
Davis Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY; public sculpture:
Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; The Rosen Sculpture
Park, North Carolina; Lipe Art Park in Syracuse, NY;
recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fel-
lowship; represented by Dinaburg Arts in New York;
www.martinestudio.com
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Shirley Kaneda
PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Parsons School of Design; recent solo exhibi-
tions: Danese Gallery, New York; Bernard Jacobson
Gallery, London; Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richards,
Paris; Feigen Contemporary, NY; Galerie Schuster
& Scheuerman; Berlin & Frankfurt; Centre dArt
Contemporain Rousilion-Languedoc, France;
Centre dArt dIvry, Paris; publications include: Art
in America, Art News, Contemporary, The New York
Times, Time Out; Beauty and the Contemporary
Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe; What is Abstraction
by Andrew Benjamin; Talking Painting: Dialogues with
12 Contemporary Abstract Painters by David Ryan;
awards: Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant,
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, NEA Regional Fel-
lowship, and The Elizabeth Foundation; contributing
editor for BOMB Magazine and has published articles,
catalogue essays, and reviews for various publications
and journals since 1989; www.shirleykaneda.com
Michael Kirk
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Rutgers University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute;
exhibitions: Norkse Grafikere, Oslo, Norway; Gimpel
and Wietzenhoffer, New York; and ArtWalk, New
York; collections: Brooklyn Museum; Library of
Congress, Washington, DC; Philadelphia Museum
of Art; DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln,
Massachusetts.
Vivien Knussi
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Ph.D., Columbia University; M.A., B.A., Tufts Univer-
sity; lectured at The Museum of Modern Art focusing
on photography; also worked for six years as curator
and head of acquisitions for the Dreyfus Mellon
Fund; since completing her Ph.D. has begun writing a
textbook on photography.
Benjamin La Rocco
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.A., Middlebury College; rep-
resented by Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in New York
and John Davis Gallery in Hudson; has exhibited in
Europe and America; has been a visiting professor at
Rutgers University and at Purchase College, and has
lectured and been a visiting critic at Rutgers, Mont-
clair, Hunter, and PS1; currently teaches in the Fine
Arts department of Pratt Institute; most recently,
participated as a panelist at Younger than Pontius
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Pilate at The National Academy Museum; recipient
of a Marie Walsh Sharpe residency (20052006) and
the S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award for Painting
from The National Academy of Design Museum;
is a contributing writer and editor at large for The
Brooklyn Rail.
David Lantow
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., City University of New York, Brooklyn College,
1987; B.F.A., University of Iowa, 1985; exhibitions
venues include Exit Art, Ruby Gallery, Nurture Art;
co-founded and curated exhibits at the former Cold
Fish Art Space in Brooklyn, and was the artist liaison/
Muse Fuse coordinator in 20012002 for NUR-
TUREart Non-Profit Inc.; from 20052009 served as
president of AGAST; since 2003 has taught printmak-
ing at Brooklyn College; www.dlantow.com
Catherine Lecleire
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., University of Southern California, 1985; M.A.E.,
Art Education, Philadelphia College of Art, 1981; B.F.A.,
Philadelphia College of Art, 1979; B.A., Political Sci-
ence, Ursinus College, 1974; selected solo and group
exhibitions at Montclair Art Museum, Hunterdon
Museum of Art, William Paterson University, College
of New Jersey, University of Wisconsin, Dana Library,
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, University
Council on the Humanities; has taught at MITs Visual
Arts Program, Hunter College, Bennington College,
and Maryland Institute of Art.
Jenny Lee
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Sculpture, The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art; has exhibited
extensively in galleries, arts organizations and muse-
ums; in fall 2002, had a retrospective at the Hoboken
(NJ) Historical Museum, sponsored by the NJ State
Council for the Arts and the NJ Council for the
Humanities, National Endowment for the Humani-
ties; in 2001, her work was featured in the first-ever
historical survey of 20th century welded sculpture
held at the Neuberger Museum; work is in public
venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Newark
Museum, and the Neuberger Museum of Art; private
collections include DeMenil and Borgenicht-Brandt;
www.ironmite.com
Colin Leipelt
WO OD SHOP TECHNICIAN
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute; an artist, educator,
and custom fabricator; has taught in the Interdisci-
plinary and Design departments at KCAI and served
as a visiting artist at the University of Chicago M.F.A.
program; work interrogates the ideal, system-
atized ontologies, structured belief, and collective
consciousness through multi-sensory immersion;
installations and videos have been shown nationally
at venues including The Smart Museum, SCOPE NY,
Okay Mountain, and Bemis Center for Contemporary
Arts; has performed his sound works extensively
throughout the U.S.; in addition to his studio practice,
currently works at Pratt as the Fine Arts Woodshop
Technician and as an independent fabricator.
Marc Lepson
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997;
B.A., English Literature, State University of New York
at Albany, 1991; workhas been included in exhibi-
tions in New York; Chicago; San Francisco; Vienna,
Austria; Berlin,Germany; and Torino, Italy, among
others; recipient of a 2001 grant from thePollock-
Krasner Foundation; reproductions of his work have
appeared in the Septemberand October 2004
issues of Art in America; www.lepson.info
Frank Lind
PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1974; B.A., Georgetown Univer-
sity, 1970; selected solo exhibitions: Recent Paintings,
Gallery 210, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Ocean Paintings from
Long Island, Henry Gregg Gallery, DUMBO, New York;
selected group exhibitions: The New Hudson River
School, Riverstone Arts, Haverstraw, N.Y.; Mermaids,
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, N.Y.;
www.lindpaintings.com
Patricia Madeja
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A. Pratt Institute, 1985; recipient of an American
Vision Award, AJDC (American Jewelry Design Coun-
cil), Saul Bell Award, Jewelry Arts Award, and Niche
Award and has been featured in a variety of periodi-
cals and books including Adorn, 500 Necklaces, Art
Jewelry Today, The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry
and American Couture Jewelry and most recently
The New Jewelers; a strong advocate for jewelry
education, she has been teaching in the Fine Arts
Jewelry department at Pratt Institute since 1998, was
appointed jewelry coordinator in 2005, and received
a full-time appointment in 2011;
www.patriciamadeja.com
Ann Mandelbaum
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
M.A., Media Studies, The New School; M.F.A., Pratt
Institute; photographer, sculptor, and video artist
who has exhibited internationally, including solo
shows at The Grey Art Gallery, N.Y.; Center for Cre-
ative Photogaphy, Tucson; Galerie Francoise Paviot,
Paris; Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt; Westfalischer
Kunstverein, Munster, Germany; Fotomuseum,
Munich; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Stadt-
galerie Saarbruchen; Musee de lElysee, Lausanne;
Canal Isabel II, Madrid: Kunsthalle Goeppingen, Ger-
many; published in three hard cover monographs:
Ann Mandelbaum (1994), and Ann Mandelbaum, New
Work (1999), both published by Edition Stemmle and
Ann Mandelbaum, Thin Skin (2005), published by
Hatje Cantz; lives in Costa Rica and N.Y.C.;
www.annmandelbaum.net
Dennis Masback
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., M.F.A., Washington University School of Art;
recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Fel-
lowship; collections: Museum of Art, Rhode Island
School of Design; Emory University; AT&T; Prudential
Insurance Co.; Chemical Bank; and Fidelity Invest-
ments; publications: The New York Times, Artforum,
Art News; represented by Berry-Hill Galleries, New
York; www.dennismasback.com
Naohisa Matsumoto
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., B.S., Pitzer College; Biology Research Exchange,
Mweka National Wildlife University, Moshi, Tanzania;
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; exhibitions: International
Contemporary Art Fair, Scope East Hampton, New
York; Jacob Javits Center, International Contempo-
rary Furniture Fair, New York; Whitebox Gallery, New
York; Brooklyn Designs, New York; Baktun, New York;
designer and fabricator for Dennis Oppenheim, Keith
Edmier, James Turrell, Lesley Dill, and Woody Allen;
publications: The New York Times; Interior Design Maga-
zine; Time Out NY; Japion; www.naomatsumoto.com

J. Martin Mazzora
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., West Virginia University; M.F.A, American
University, DC; co-founder of Cannonball Press;
coordinator of Printmaking at Parsons School of
Design, New York; curator/coordinator of the cross-
institutional print exchange Swaptropolis.
Dennis McNett
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; designer of board graphics
for Anti-Hero skateboards; collaborates with Can-
nonball Press; master printer at Brand X editions;
www.howlingprint.com
Nat Meade
A S SISTANT TO THE CHAIR, VISITING INSTRUC TOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 2007; B.F.A., University of
Oregon, 2001; exhibited at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn,
NY, Spike Gallery, NYC, Rogue Space, NYC, Froelick
Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Bernabe Somoza Fine
Art, Houston, Texas; Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene,
Oregon; curated Artists Registries: Pierogi Flat
Files; publications: Berlin Journal, Tin House Maga-
zine, Portland Monthly,Northwest Review;
www.natmeade.com
Jennifer Melby
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., Arcadia University;
has taught at Yale University, LaGuardia Community
College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Lower
East Side Printshop, and the Robert Blackburn Print-
making Workshop, and has been a guest lecturer at
Brandeis University, Rhode Island School of Design,
Lehman College, and Cooper Union; currently
teaches Printmaking at Pratt; for more than 25 years
has operated her own studio which specializes in
intaglio editions, and has worked there with many
artists, including Donald Baechler, Brice Marden,
Suzanne McClelland, Sean Scully, Joanne Green-
baum, Joan Snyder, Julia Jacquette, Red Grooms,
and Amy Kao; prints from her studio have been
acquired by contemporary collections including
those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York Public
Library, Whitney Museum, Houston Museum of Fine
Art, and Tate Gallery; in 2007 she was in residence
at the American Academy in Rome on a visiting artist
fellowship; www.jennifermelby.com
Ann Messner
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1973; Henry Moore Foundation
Post Graduate Fellow; solo exhibitions: Zilkha Gallery,
Wesleyan University, Conn.; Dorsky Gallery, New
York; Bath International Arts Festival, UK; Fawbush
Gallery, New York; Worcester Art Museum, Mass.;
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles; numerous
public projects and installations include Eastern
State Penitentiary, Philadelphia; Grey Art Gallery,
NYU; Skulptur: Koln/Ehrenfeld, Cologne; awards:
NEA Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts,
Henry Moore International Fellowship; John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman
Award; Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship; Bunting
Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies,
Harvard University; www.annmessner.net
Curtis Mitchell
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Sculpture, Yale University School of Art,
1983; M.A. Sculpture, Goddard College, 1981; solo
exhibitions: P.S.1/MoMA Project Room, New York;
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Esso Gallery, New
York; AC Projects, New York; KX Galerie, Hamburg;
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Galerie Marc
Jancou, Zurich; White Columns, New York; selected
group exhibitions: Modeling the Photographic: The
End(s) of Photography, McDonough Museum of Art,
Youngstown, Ohio; Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New
York.; Copilandia, Seville, Spain; Andrew Kreps
Gallery, New York; Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea,
Turin, Italy; Feigen Contemporary, New York; Dorsky
Gallery Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, NY;
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Md.; essays and
article written for: M/E/A/N/I/N/G and Lusitania;
www.curtismitchellart.com
John Monti
PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1983; B.S., Painting, Portland
State University, 1980; solo exhibitions include:
Synthetic Pleasures, Bentley Projects, Phoenix,
Ariz.; Fancy and Rondo, Elizabeth Harris Gallery,
N.Y.C.; Amatory Bodies, Sarah Moody Gallery of
Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and many
group exhibitions; public art projects include Fancy
for Boston; Changing Places, Metro Tech Center
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Brooklyn, N.Y.; Neuberger Museum of Art; Museum
of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Instituteof Art;
recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, The
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and New
York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant; work
is included in the collections of American Telephone
& Telegraph; the Arkansas Arts Center, The Eli and
Edythe Broad Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the
Castellini Art Museum of Niagara University, and the
Chase Manhattan Bank, among others;
www.johnmonti.com
Donna Moran
PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Painting/Printmaking, Pratt Institute, 1971;
B.A., Art Education, C. W. Post College, 1969;
exhibitions include Instituto Cultural Peruano
Norteamericano, Lima, Peru; Taller Galleria Forte,
Spain; McGraw Gallery; The Rabbet Gallery; Art
Source L.A.; collections include Noyes Museum, New
Jersey State Museum of Art, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Hyatt Corporation, Johnson & Johnson; various solo
and group shows, corporate and private collections;
represented by The Rabbet Gallery, Art Source,
L.A; visiting artist:the Victorian College of Art, Mel-
bourne, Australia; publications include Monoprinting
(Jackie Newell, A & C Black, Great Britain); Water-
Based Screen Printing (Steve Hoskins & C. Black,
Great Britain); The Complete Printmaker (John Ross
& Clare Romano, Free Press); www.dlmoran.com
Robert Morgan
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
P.hD., New York University; M.F.A., University of Mas-
sachusetts; E.D.M., Northeastern University; B.F.A.,
University of Redlands.
Carlos Motta
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
at Bard College; B.F.A., School of Visual Arts;
multidisciplinary artist whose work draws upon
political history in an attempt to create counter
narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed
histories, communities, and identities. Mottas work
has been presented internationally in venues such
as Tate Modern, London; The New Museum, the
Guggenheim Museum and MoMA PS1, New York;
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museo
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de Arte del Banco de la Repblica, Bogot; Museu
Serralves, Porto, Portugal; National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; CCS Bard Hessel
Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York;
San Francisco Art Institute and Hebbel am Ufer,
Berlin. Motta recently prepared a faade project
for the Sala de Arte Pblico Siqueiros in Mexico
City, was an artist in residency at The Institute for
Art, Religion and Social JusticeUnion Theological
Seminary in New York during spring 2013, and had a
solo exhibition at Galeria Filomena Soares in Lisbon,
Portugal, in May 2013. Motta is a graduate of the
Whitney Independent Study Program, he was named
a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2008, and he
received grants from Art Matters in 2008, New York
State Council on the Arts in 2010, and the Creative
Capital Foundation in 2012.
Cyrilla Mozenter
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., B.F.A., Pratt Institute; has exhibited at The
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Drawing
Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Neuberger
Museum of Art; has been artist-in-residence at
Dieu Donne Papermill, the Kohler Arts Center, and
Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura-Rioarte, Rio de
Janeiro; recipient of grants from NYFA and The Fifth
Floor Foundation; represented in collections of the
Arkansas Arts Center, Birmingham Museum of Art,
Brooklyn Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Walker Art
Center, and Yale University Art Gallery;
www.cyrillamozenter.com
Dominique Nahas
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.A., Art History Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1985;
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, 1980; independent cura-
tor and critic; contributor: Art in America, Flash Art,
dart Intl, Artnet, and Trans; co-curator with artist
Margaret Evangeline in upcoming One-to-One exhi-
bition of contemporary work at The Rose Art Museum;
selected exhibitions curated include: Inadmissible,
HP Garcia Gallery New York; BROOKLYN! Palm
Beach ICA; ClenchClutchFlinch, Paul Rodgers, New
York; Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York; Plural Speech,
White Box; PopSurrealism, Aldrich Museum; Open
Salvo, White Box, 1998; Bypass, Kunstmuseum-
Bonn, 1997; Nancy Spero: Retrospective, New
Museum of Contemporary Art; extensive service
as resident and guest critic: RISD, Art OMI, Parsons
School of Art; including lectures at Reykavik National
Museum, Iceland, and the Brooklyn Museum; selection
panelist: ArtOmi International Residency Program
and Henry Street Settlement Residency Program.
Mario Naves
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1987; B.F.A., University of
Utah, 1984; recipient of grants from The National
Endowment for the Arts, The E.D. Foundation, The
Sugarman Foundation, and The Pollock-Krasner
Foundation; his paintings and works-on-paper are
represented by the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chel-
sea and have been covered by The New York Times,
The New York Sun, The Village Voice, ArtCritical.Com,
ArtNet and other publications; his criticism has been
published in The New York Observer, Slate, The New
Criterion, New Art Examiner, The Wall Street Journal
and City Arts; lives and works in New York City;
www.mnaves.wordpress.com
Ross Neher
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1975; B.F.A., Washington
University School of Fine Arts, 1971; exhibitions
include Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, Howard
Scott/M-13 Gallery, New York, NY; Through Our
Eyes: Belfast/New York, Belfast Northern Ireland;
Painting Abstraction, New York Studio School, New
York, NY; Preview, Howard Scott Gallery, New York,
NY; The Fanelli Show, OK Harris Gallery, New York,
NY, Interior Landscapes: Art from the Collection of
Clifford Diver, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington,
Del.; www.rossneher.com
Thirwell Nolen
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.Arch., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985;
B.Arch., Auburn University, 1983; a studio artist who
trained as a painter and architect, whose current
body of work is composedof sculptural objects and
architectural installations in clay and other materials;.
his work has been exhibited internationally and can
be found in numerous private and public collec-
tions including The Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum (Smithsonian), NYC; The Newark Museum, NJ;
The Everson Museum of Art, NY; The Houston Museum
of Fine Arts, Texas, and the De Young Museum, San
Francisco; other awards include NYFA Fellowship and
NEA Fellowship; www.nolenstudios.com
John OConnor
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skow-
hegan, 2000; M.F.A., Pratt Institute; M.A., Theory,
Criticism, and History of Art, Pratt Institute, 1995;
B.A., Graphic Design, Westfield State College; exhibi-
tions include: Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Sarah
Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; So Different, So
Appealing, Gramercy Park, NYC; curated by Rachel
Churner, The Death Affect, Artblog Artblog, NYC; The
Way Things Work, Athens Institute of Contemporary
Art, Athens, Ga.; Spiral Bound, Notebooks from New
York to San Diego, UC San Diego, Calif.;
www.johnjoconnor.net
Bethany Pelle
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Ceramics, Tyler School of Art, 2012; B.F.A.,
Ceramics, University of Miami, 2007; sculptor and
installation artist, whose exhibitions include: Give the
Cat a Name, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Temple Gallery,
Philadelphia, Pa.; BANG, Power Plant Productions,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Jumbalaya, Elkins Tyler Galleries,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Four from Philly, Cedar Crest Col-
lege, Allentown, Pa.; www.bethanypelle.com

Sheila Pepe
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts
University; B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art;
selected solo exhibitions: Istanbul International
Arts Fair; Carroll and Sons, Boston; Dust Gallery,
Las Vegas; Fluent~Collaborative, Austin, Texas;
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton,
Massachusetts; The Drawing Center and Susan
Inglett Gallery, New York; selected group exhibitions:
Galleria NOPX, Turino, Italy; Participant, Inc., New
York; Inman Gallery, Houston; Andrew Edlin Gallery,
New York; Sue Scott Gallery, New York; Artisterium,
Tbilisi, Georgia; Manheim Kunstverein, Germany;
MoMA PS1, New York; LACE, Los Angeles; Museum of
Arts and Design, New York; Palm Beach Institute of
Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida. Grants and
fellowships: Anonymous Was a Woman Award; Art
Matters Grant; Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist
Grant; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award;
Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship.
Catherine Redmond
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Art Students League of New York, 1974; Harpur
College, SUNY, 1965; Cornell University, 1962; Art
Students League of NY; selected solo and group exhi-
bitions at David Findlay Jr., N.Y.; M B Modern, N.Y.;
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Butler Institute
of American Art; Babcock Galleries, N.Y.; Cleveland
Museum of Art; Jerry Soloman Gallery, Los Angeles;
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Ill.; collections include:
Art Students League of N.Y., Butler Museum of
American Art, Citibank of N.Y., Cleveland Clinic Foun-
dation, Dreyfus Corporation, Luther College Museum,
Progressive Corporate Collection, and Reading Public
Museum; www.catherineredmond.com
Max Reinhardt
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
2006; B.F.A., University of Colorado at Boulder,
2001; www.maxreinhardtart.com
William Richards
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., University of New Mexico, 1970; M.A.,
University of Iowa, 1968; B.F.A., Pratt Institute, 1966;
selected solo exhibitions: Nancy Hoffman Gallery,
NY; Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville,
Ky.; Tomasulo Gallery; Union County College,
Cranford, N.J.; Moravian College Gallery, Bethlehem,
Pa.; selected group exhibitions: National Academy
Museum, NY; Brooklyn Museum; Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts, Richmond; Art Institute of Chicago;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila.;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthalle,
Nuremberg, Germany; Salas de Exposiciones de
Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; NEA Grant and CAPS
Grant; awarded a gold medal by the Society of
Illustrators, 1968; Represented by Nancy Hoff-
man Gallery, NY, since 1974; works in the following
public collections, among others: Whitney Museum
of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National
Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; recipi-
ent of grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts and the Creative Artists Public Service
Program, New York.
Howard Rosenthal
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., Rhode Island School
of Design; recipient of grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting; commissions from Snug Harbor
Cultural Center in New York and Crosby Gardens
in Toledo, Ohio; his work has been the subject of
one-person exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Tokyo, and
has been included in group exhibitions throughout
the United States and Europe; a documentary film
about his work has been broadcast nationwide by
the Public Broadcasting System, and can currently
be viewed on YouTube by typing in his name; reviews
of his work have appeared in The New York Times,
Newsday, Artsmedia, Art and Space Magazine, The
Long Island Traveler Watchman, The News Review,
Cover Magazine, and L Nine Magazine.
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Mary Beth Rozkewicz
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., State University of New York; a studio jeweler
working in sterling silver and gold vermeil, who fre-
quently sandblasts intricate patterns on the surfaces,
adding a subtle but eye-catching detail.
Stuart Sachs
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Works in sculpture with metals and other materials
to create work that is sometimes environmental,
sometimes performance, and often involves a lyrical
dance with steel and stone; also designs and creates
furniture and architectural metalwork.
Analia Segal
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Studio Art, New York University; B.A., Graphic
Design, University of Buenos Aires; exhibitions: Gal-
lery Kobo Chika, Tokyo, Japan; PS1, Long Island City,
New York; DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Galleri
Tapper, Popermajer, Teckomatorp, Sweden; Galeria
Alberto Sendros, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Plus Ultra
Gallery, New York; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio,
Texas; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro,
North Carolina; Galeria Animal, Santiago de Chile,
Chile; White Columns, New York; Dumbo Arts Center,
New York; Centre de Recherche Imaginaire et
Creation, Chambery, France; awards: Guggenheim
Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
Foundation for the Arts; public collections: El Museo
del Barrio, New York; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin,
Texas; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires,
Argentina; selected bibliography: Restroom Design
(Loft), Made for Love (Stichting Kunstboek, Belgium,
2010); Simply Material (Victionary, Hong Kong, 2008);
published by Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Helsingborgs Dagblad; www.analiasegal.com
Beverly Semmes
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Yale University School of Art, 1987; B.F.A.,
Boston Museum School, 1982; B.A., Art History,
Boston Museum School; Skowhegan School of Art;
her first exhibitions were two concurrent project
rooms at PS1 and Artists Space in New York City;
other early exhibitions included a large installation
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at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
in Winston-Salem, N.C. and a room-scaled work
made for the Institute of Contemporary Art in
Philadelphia; by the mid-1990s, she was exhibiting
work across the United States and in Europe;
European projects at this time included solo shows
at such major venues as the Camden Arts Centre in
London; the Pecci Museum in Prato, Italy; and the
Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; also included
in several important group shows early in her career,
such as Plastic Fantastic Lover at the Blum Helman
Warehouse in New York City, Bad Girls at New York
Citys New Museum, and Bad Girls West at the UCLA
Art Museum in Los Angeles; numerous solo museum
shows, including major exhibitions at the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill., the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.,
the Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Va., the
Whitney Museum Philip Morris Gallery, New York,
NY, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus,
Ohio; exhibited large-scale projects in Japan in
1999 and in 2003; more recently, she has been
included in several international shows such as
Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, Holland, Regarding Beauty at
the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., Rapture
at the Barbican Museum, London, England, New
Material as New Media at the Fabric Workshop and
Museum, Philadelphia, Pa., and Dresscodes, St.
Gallen, Switzerland; participated in a major survey
exhibition called Dirt on Delight organized by the ICA
Philadelphia, which traveled to the Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis; www.beverlysemmesstudio.com
Carla Shapiro
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
International Center of Photography, 1979; B.F.A.,
Syracuse University, 1978; Central London Poly-
technic, London England, 1977; Exhibitions include:
Timeless Tasks, Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Texas; Virtual Visits, Delhi Cultural Museum, Delhi,
NY; Virtual Visits, The Eeph Gallery, Arkville, NY;
Obituaries to Prayer Flags, Pace University Gallery;
Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY;
Timeless Tasks, Teahouse Gallery, Rochester, NY;
DRESS, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY; Mind/
Full, Working with artists, 910 Art Gallery, Denver,
Colo.; www.carlashapiro.com
Sarah Shebaro
PRIN TMAKING TECHNICIAN, VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.F.A, Printmaking, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville; B.F.A University of Iowa; Non-Degree
Assistantship, Bucknell University; exploring
the communities she lives in (often in search of
second-hand artifacts) is the primary ritual that
influences her work; the objects obtained and
the experiences surface in the prints, installation,
sound, drawings, painting and objects she pro-
duces; www.sshebaro.com
Jean Shin
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; Shins work has been
widely exhibited in major national and international
museums, including in solo exhibitions at the Scotts-
dale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona (2010),
Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington,
DC (2009), the Fabric Workshop and Museum in
Philadelphia (2006), and Projects at The Museum
of Modern Art in New York (2004); other venues
include the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the
Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Asia Society and Museum, The Brooklyn
Museum, Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture
Park, and Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York City;
site-specific permanent installations have been
commissioned by the U.S. General Services Admin-
istration Art in Architecture Award, New York Citys
Percent for the Arts, and MTA Art for Transit; numer-
ous awards, including the New York Foundation for
the Arts Fellowship in Architecture/ Environmental
Structures (2008) and Sculpture (2003), Pollock-
Krasner Foundation Grant, and Louis Comfort
Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award; works have
been featured in many publications, including Frieze
Art, Flash Art, Tema Celeste, Art in America, Sculp-
ture Magazine, Artnews, and The New York Times;
www.jeanshin.com
media, allowing them to play off one another as a type
Gerald Siciliano
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.S., B.F.A., Pratt Institute; on completion of
his studies at Pratt Institute, he began working
in foundries, marble, and fabrication studios in
NY and Tuscany on both his own work and that
of a broad range of international sculptors; has
maintained an ongoing record of exhibitions, sales,
and commissions as well as pursuing projects in
architecture, design, and sculpture restoration; has
been an honored guest at international sculpture
symposium in Korea and North Africa; teaching
background includes appointments on all levels of
education from elementary to post-graduate in a
broad range of two- and three-dimensional media;
class offerings include Life Study, Foundry, and
Stone Carving; www.geraldsicilianostudio.com
Robbin Silverberg
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Sculpture and Art History, Princeton University;
founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-paper-
making studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative
artist book studio; artwork is divided between artist
books and installations; the work conceptually
focuses on word cognition and interlinearity, with
an emphasis on process and paper as activated
substrate; has exhibited and taught extensively
in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, South Korea,
Mexico, and Europe; her artwork is found in numer-
ous collections, such as the Museum Meermanno,
The Hague, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and
Yale Universitys Art of the Book; on the boards of
the Center for Book Arts, Ampersand Foundation,
Brooklyn Artist Alliance and Alma on Dobbin;
www.robbinamisilverberg.com
Keith Simpson
CER AMICS TECHNICIAN, VISITING INS TRUC TOR
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute; M.F.A., The Ohio
State University; awarded a residency at The Archie
Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts; his work is
about craft, material consciousness, and taste; he
contrasts fired ceramic materials with synthetic
of warm-hearted cultural critique, which works with
and against his own taste; www.keithwhitecloud.com

Joseph Smith
PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., Painting,New York University; B.F.A., Graphic
Arts and Illustration/Fine Arts, Pratt Institute;
1965,1966: Drawing, Wagner Coll. 1969-1971: Ptg
Workshop, Art Alliance of Cent. Pa. 1975: Visualization
Workshop, Wainwright Center, Rye, NY; 1984:
painting, Richmond Coll., London 1987-91: painting
and drawing, ATI, Stocton State College, NJ; 1990:
Art Institute of Chicago, Oxbow, MI; 1992, 1998:
Painting: MS Art Colony 2000; 2001: U. of Rio Grande,
grad. Childrens Bk Illus., Visualization, Drwg; 1962 to
present: Pratt Undergrad: painting, drawing, figure
drawing, sculpture Illus. and Symbolic Imagery; Sr.
Ind. Proj. Grad: Drawing seminar, MFA Thesis Ptg.
2007: Walter Gropius Master Artist, Huntington Mus.
of Art. WV; 22 solo exhibitions and over 100 group
exhibitions around the U.S.; collections: Rutgers
U., U. of MS; NY Stock Exch; PAFA, Lauren Rogers
Museum, Laurel MS; Library of Congress; Kassel
Documenta Archiv; Koln Ludwig Mus; Stuttgart
Staatsgalerie, Huntington Mus. of Art, WV; Author:
The Pen & Ink Book (Watson-Guptill); Circus Train
(Abrams); The Train a work in series, Watercolor
Mag., Sp. 2006; illustrated 27 childrens books, (Hon.
Men. Orbis Pictus Award 2007); editorial illustrator
for Time, Newsweek, Harpers, NY Times; Watergate
courtroom artist for Newsweek; www.josasmith.com
Judith Solodkin
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Solodkin was the first woman to graduate from the
Tamarind Institute as a Master Lithographer; she
founded Solo Impression, a publisher and printer of
fine art multiples; works published have appeared in
museums and exhibitions throughout the world, and
can be found in private and public collections such
as The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan
Museum, the Whitney Museum, the New York Public
Library Print Collection, the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery
of Art, the Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, and the Tate
Gallery, London.
Tim Spelios
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1978; Brooklynite Spelios takes photos, assembles
collage, plays drums, cuts up sounds, makes sculp-
ture, and builds cabinets; has shown his collage and
installations at Exit Art, the Drawing Center, Sculpture
Center, Smack Mellon Studios, Long Island University,
Pierogi Gallery, and Parkers Box among others; has
also taught at the University of Illinois at the Phillips
Collection in D.C.; as part of the Friday Gallery Talks
at the Hirshhorn Museum Spelios discussed Bruce
Nauman; has played drums internationally with the
bands No Safety and Chunk; during the burgeon-
ing Williamsburg art scene of the 90s Spelios, with
Caroine Cox, co-founded and ran Flipside Gallery
from 1996-2001, showing a wide range of innovative
art forms; www.timspelios.com
Joseph Stauber
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., SUNY Purchase; B.F.A., Pratt Institute; master
printer and chromiste at Brand-X Editions, NY in
collaboration with artists including: Chuck Close,
Howard Hodgkin, Robert Motherwell, and Helen
Frankenthaler; his mail art objects and collaborations
have been sent around the world.
Anthony Tammaro
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Tyler School of Art; M.I.D., Domus Academy,
Milan; B.F.A., The University of the Arts; new
media artist who works at the intersection of art,
design, and craft. Tammaros most recognizable
work leverages his expertise with 3-D software
and additive manufacturing processes. He creates
novel solutions to design problems related to the
body as site. Selected exhibitions: Gallery Noel
Guyomarch, Montreal; Friends of Carlotta Gallery,
Zurich; Alliance, Philadelphia; Mulvane Art Museum,
Topeka, Kansas; Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul,
Korea; Facere Gallery, Seattle; Wexler Gallery,
Philadelphia; CraftLand, Providence; Quirk Gallery,
Richmond, Virginia; Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San
Francisco; Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Masachusetts;
Luke & Elroy Gallery, Pittsburgh; State Museum of
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.
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Irvin Tepper
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., University of Washington; B.F.A., Kansas City
Art Institute; NEA artist fellowship and Agnes Bourne
Fellowship Award in sculpture from the Djerassi
Foundation; exhibitions: St. Louis Art Museum;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; and Victoria and
Albert Museum; collections: Victoria and Albert
Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles; Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland;
www.irvintepper.com
Christopher Verstegen
NON-ACADEMIC ST UDIO AND G AL L ERY
SUPERVISOR, VISITING INS TRUC TOR
B.A., The College of Wooster, 2003; M.F.A., Pratt
Institute, 2010; current work is mostly sculptural and
often consists of machines that perform simple tasks;
the tasks are conceived from thoughts/observations
on the role(s) of mundane repetition in the human
condition; currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY;
www.christopherverstegen.com
Emily Weiner
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, 2011; B.A., Studio Art,
Barnard College, 2003; a painter and a writer whose
art reviews have appeared in Artforum.com, Time
Out New York, Domus, ArtSlant, ARTnews, ducts.org,
MUSEO, RES Art World/World Art (Turkey), Setup
(Vancouver), and The Visual Arts Journal, among
other publications; a guest instructor at Barnard
College, and a workshop leader at Dia:Beacon;
in 2012, she was a recipient of the Cooper Union
Teaching Artist Residency, and has been an artist-in-
resident at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and
Camac Centre DArt in Marnay-sur-Seine, France;
www.emilyweiner.com
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Dina Weiss
ACTING A S SISTAN T CHAIR
M.F.A., Parsons The New School for Design; B.S.,
Studio Art, New York University; Weiss has held
many positions in non-profit arts education and
museum education, as well as teaching and lecturing
at universities and museums such as the Dia Art
Foundation, The Drawing Center, the New Museum,
Museum of Arts and Design, and Parsons The New
School for Design; professional practice is in a variety
of mediums with works in the Viewing Program slide
registry at The Drawing Center; exhibition venues
include the James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Center,
NY; San Diego Contemporary Museum of Art, Calif.;
Mixed Greens Gallery, NY; City Without Walls,
Newark, NJ; Hudson Valley Contemporary Center
for Art, Peekskill, NY; The LAB, San Francisco, Calif.;
Untitled Space, New Haven, Conn.; Art in General,
New York City; artworks included in selected public
collections at the Brooklyn Museum and the New
York Public Library; www.dinaweiss.com
Christopher White
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., Harvard University; numerous solo gallery
and museum exhibitions; works in major public
collections: Guggenheim Museum, Johnson Art
Museum, and others; honors include Tiffany Award
for Painting; nominee, National Artists Award;
visiting artist, American Academy in Rome; criticism
published in national arts journals; instructor/
lecturer, Metropolitan Museum of Art; represented by
Andre Zarre Gallery, New York; www.kitwhiteart.com
Rachel Wiecking
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.A., Art History, Purchase College, New York, 2011;
M.F.A., Studio Art, Purchase College, New York, 2010;
B.F.A., Book Arts, Oregon College of Art and Craft,
Portland, Oregon, 2002; B.A., American Studies,
Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1995;
www.rachelwiecking.com/home.html
Martha Wilson
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery
director, who over the past four decades created
innovative photographic and video works that
explore her female subjectivity through role-playing,
costume transformations, and invasions of other
peoples personae; she began making these videos
and photo/text works in the early 1970s while in
Halifax in Nova Scotia, and further developed her
performative and video-based practice after moving
in 1974 to New York City, embarking on a long career
that would see her gain attention across the U.S.
for her provocative appearances and works; in 1976
she also founded and continues to direct Franklin
Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the
exploration, promotion and preservation of artists
books, installation art, video, online and performance
art, further challenging institutional norms, the roles
artists play within society, and expectations about
what constitutes acceptable art mediums;
www.marthawilson.com
Chris Wright
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., Pacific NW College of
Art;exhibitions: Hunter College; Martin Art Gallery,
Muhlenberg College; New York University; Phillips de
Pury & Company; Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art;
published: Contemporary American Oil Painting (Jillin
Fine Arts Publishing House, Changchun, China); New
American Paintings (Northeastern Edition) gallery
affiliation: George Billis Gallery, New York;
www.chriswrightpaintings.com
Robert Zakarian
PROFES SOR
B.F.A., M.F.A., Pratt Institute; exhibitions: Brooklyn
Museum; Riverside Museum; Alan Stone Gallery,
New York; Royal Mark.

Communications Design Faculty
Santiago Piedrafita
CHAIR, A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.S., Communications Design, Pratt Institute;
B.I.D., Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Before joining Pratt, Piedrafita was associate
professor in the Department of Graphic and Industrial
Design at the College of Design, North Carolina State
University, teaching at both undergraduate and
graduate levels. From 2006 to 2012, he served as head
of the department. Piedrafita chaired the Design
Department at MCAD, Minneapolis College of Art and
Design, from 2004-2006. He was senior designer at
the Walker Art Centers Design Department. At the
Walker, he designed a diverse array of exhibitions,
communications, and publications for the museums
multidisciplinary curatorial and institutional
departments. In New York, he worked in renowned
studios such as the Museum of Modern Arts in-house
Design Department, J. Abbott Millers Design/Writing/
Research, and Chermayeff & Geismar Inc. Presently a
solo practitioner, from 2002 to 2012 Piedrafita worked
under the name TWO, a studio focusing on identity
and editorial design projects for various design,
architecture, and art-related cultural institutions.
Chava Ben-Amos
PROFE S SOR
B.A., Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, Israel;
served two years in the Israeli Army, then returned
to school and began her design career upon
graduation; won several awards, including one for
a Holocaust memorial postage stamp, and moved
to the U.S. in 1964, produced posters for Broadway
productions; served as art director at several
prestigious New York design firms before founding
her own studio.
Barry Berger
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; founder, owner, and creative
director of Barry David Berger + Associates, Inc.,
established in 1977, specializing in merchandising,
packaging, product design, graphic design,
and commercial interiors; Fulbright Grant
recipient, member of AIGA, IDSA, and APDF; had
previously taught at Pratt for many years before
taking a sabbatical.
Warren Bernard
A S SISTANT CHAIR, ADJUNCT A S SISTANT
PROFES SOR
B.A., Hampton University; M.S., Pratt Institute;
currently freelances with Dwight Johnson Design while
maintaining his established clients; has worked with
Time Magazine and Vibe; several start-up magazines
have solicited his help in development; has designed
book covers for labels such as BET Books and Simon &
Schuster Inc.; creates corporate identities including
Abyssinian Development Corporation; has written for
the AIGAs Journal of Graphic Design; honored by Pratt
as a Distinguished Student.
Jennifer Bernstein
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Yale; has worked for the
New York firms Wechsler & Partners and Balsmeyer
& Everett Inc.; while senior designer at Balsmeyer
Everett, originated the concepts and design for title
sequences for such feature films as Fargo, Girl 6,
The First Wives Club, and Waiting To Exhale; in 1998,
established her own New Yorkbased firm Level
Design Group to focus on design for print and motion;
clients include The New York Foundation for the Arts,
Deutsche Bank, P.O.V. on PBS, The Nature Conservancy,
and MetLife; film work has been featured at The
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Sundance Film Festival, New Directors, New Films
at MoMA, The New York International Documentary
Film Festival, and on PBS; work has been published in
The New York Times, Type In Motion, I.D. Magazine, and
in Zed, The Virginia Commonwealth University Design
Journal; work has won Best of Category in the I.D.
Magazine Design Annual and a 2008 Create Award; has
been on the faculty at UArts since 2000, and has also
taught at NYU and SVA.
Eric Bintner
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Missouri State University; M.F.A., Cranbrook
Academy of Art; Eric is an animator, artist, designer,
developer and musician; has worked for the past four
years as a freelance motion graphics designer and
interactive developer in New York; client list includes
JPMorgan, Macys.com, The Rockefeller Group,
Cushman & Wakefield, and Opie & Anthony.
Jean Brennan
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; B.F.A., M.S.,
Pratt Institute; upon graduation from the Graduate
Communications Design program went to work as a
broadcast designer at Lee Hunt Associates, working
with clients such as PBS, Oxygen, and Arte; continued
with the LHA team after they were acquired by
Razorfish in late 1999; in 2002, became the Nick Jr.
Art Director, where she worked on in-house graphics
for the 25 age programming of Nickelodeon;
currently freelances as an art director in broadcast,
online, and print projects.
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Tom Delaney
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
Senior Design with Muts&Joy& Design and Identity
Consultants; has extensive experience in the
packaging design industry, including Senior Creative
Director at EastWest Creative, Design Director at
Deskey Associates, and designer for Charles Biondo
Design Associates and ESPRIT de Corps.
Antonio DiSpigna
PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; designer at Bonder
and Carnase; Lubalin Smith and Carnase; in 1973,
opened Artissimo, Inc.; in 1978 joined Herb Lubalin
Associates as vice president and partner; in 1980
opened Tony Di Spigna, Inc.; has designed numerous
typefaces, most notably Serif Gothic and exclusive
typefaces for PBS Channel WNET 13, The Coca Cola
Co., and The Louis Dreyfus Corp.; in 2007, became
co-founder and design director of THINSTROKE,
INC., a complete service design firm.
Thomas Dolle
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, C CE
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; principal,
Tom Dolle Design, a strategic design, marketing, and
branding firm in New York; clients have included
Citibank, Dun & Bradstreet, ESPN, Charles Schwab,
Northern Trust, RH Donnelly, Verizon, Reed Elsevier,
and Time Warner; Tom Dolle Design is now focusing on
branding, communications, and packaging for retail,
arts, and non-profit organizations; recent projects
include the Getty Trust, Doe Fund, Baruch College,
Foundation Center, and National Urban Fellows.
Ned Drew
VISITING PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University;
founding partner and creative director of the
New York-based design firm, BRED and co-editor
of Design Education in Progress: Process and
Methodology, Volumes 1, 2, and 3, an academic book
series dedicated to the study of design pedagogy; in
2005, co-authored BY ITS COVER: Modern American
Book Cover Design; work has appeared in Graphic
Design Referenced, Typographic Design: Form and
Communication, Graphic Design Solutions and US
Design 19752000 among others; work has been
recognized by the AIGA, the Type Directors Club, The
Art Directors Club, and the American Association of
Museums; work has appeared in Graphis, Print, HOW,
and Creativity magazines; as a professor at Rutgers
University at Newark, heads the graphic design
program, teaches design and the history of design,
and is the director of The Design Consortium, a
student/teacher run design studio that focuses on
non-profit, community-based projects.
Dennis Dugan
VISITING PROFES SOR
B.S., Creighton University; Ph.D., Brown University;
has extensive experience in economic analysis,
market assessments, and business and intellectual
property valuations; is currently president of
Management and Economic Strategy Analysis, Inc.
and senior VP of Intellectual Capital Growth, Inc.;
has served as chair of the Department of Economics
at the University of Notre Dame, and has been an
Economic Policy Fellow at The Brookings Institution;
has conducted research and taught graduate
and undergraduate courses in economics at
Georgetown, American, and Polytechnic Universities.
Tyra Nicole Dumars
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.F.A., Northwestern State University; M.P.S., Pratt;
design editor at Northwestern State University;
brand designer at Plattform Advertising; founder
and design strategist at tyra.nicole LLC, where her
clients include American Cancer Society, Chimp
Haven, ACE, Colgate-Palmolive, Extra Space Storage
and NAACP.
David Frisco
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago; M.F.A., Yale
University; co-director of Design Corps, a studio
course that encourages the relationship between
design practice and design education, where
Communications Design students provide pro-
bono design work for non-profit organizations; in
his independent studio practice, has completed
work for a variety of clients in the art, architectural,
cultural, and non-profit sectors including Pratt
Institute, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The College Art
Association, Yale School of Architecture, TASC: The
After-School Corporation, and the films Lumo, Fully
Awake: Black Mountain College, The Situation, Chop
Shop, and Man Push Cart.
Kevin Gatta
PROFES SOR
B.A., Rhode Island College; M.S., Pratt Institute;
Pietrasanta Italian Studies Program, Providence
College; design director, Gatta Design & Co.,
specializing in corporate communications, identity,
and branding; design experience: the Pushpin
Group, 198188; David Pocknells Company (Pushpin
UK), 1984; Herb Lubalin Associates, 197981;
author of Foundations of Graphic Design TE (Davis
Publications, 1994); co-author of Foundations of
Graphic Design, Communicating Through Graphic
Design (Davis Publications, 1990, 2009); Distinguished
Teacher Award, 1997.
J. Roger Guilfoyle
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, CCE
B.A., Creighton University; has appeared on design
and packaging panels in the U.S., Mexico, and
Japan; has lectured before small and large design
groups, including Carnegie-Mellon and Cooper
Hewitt National Design Museum; has worked under
grants from the NEA, the NEH, and the New York
State Council on the Arts; his work has appeared in
newspapers and magazines, including ID, Interiors,
and USAir; has been on the Pratt faculty since 1968.
J. Graham Hanson
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Iowa State University; Graham Hanson,
previously with Vignelli Associates, is principal
of Graham Hanson Design, an internationally
recognized multidisciplinary design agency active in
all areas of strategic design. The firm collaborates
with a diverse group of corporate clients and cultural
institutions on a wide variety of integrated design
projects. Long-time corporate clients include Saks
Fifth Avenue, American Express, Dun and Bradstreet,
and Macklowe Properties, a New York real estate
developer. The firm works on a number of exhibition
projects for museums and cultural organizations in
the United States and abroad.
William Hilson
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, CCE
Originally trained in architecture, but turned to
graphic design and illustration for professional focus;
introduced desktop publishing to some of the largest
ad agencies in NYC; as creative director to the HiFi
Color Project, helped introduce the new HiFi Color
printing techniques; was first to design and print using

an experimental 7-colorant process, the first to use
Pantones Hexachrome in a commercial application,
and also the first designer to print using frequency-
modulated (stochastic) screening systems.
Michelle Hinebrook
A S SISTANT CHAIR, ADJUNC T A S SISTAN T
PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., College for Creative Studies; M.F.A.,
Cranbrook Academy of Art; has exhibited nationally
in galleries and museums in New York, Washington
D.C., Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, and abroad
in Copenhagen, Denmark; maintains a studio at
X Projects Inc., Brooklyn; currently teaches and
lectures at various institutions around the U.S.
Allen Hori
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.F.A. University of Hawaii; M.F.A. Cranbrook
Academy of Art; Fulbright recipient to study in the
Netherlands; principal at Bates Hori, New York,
a graphic design and visual research studio; his
work has earned recognition from New York Type
Directors Club, AIGA, American Center for Design,
I.D. Magazine, Emigr, Eye, IDEA, and has appeared
in many domestic and foreign exhibitions and
publications; named an I.D. Top Forty Influential
Designer; has lectured widely at design schools
and professional symposia; currently a critic at Yale
University School of Art; 2008 Frank Stanton Chair in
Graphic Design at Cooper Union.
Thomas Klinkowstein
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, C CE
M.S., Syracuse University; President and Creative
Director of Media A, LLC, an internationally
recognized design and consulting group with clients
such as Cond Nast, IBM and NASA; has spoken to
over 100 business, political and academic groups;
previously was a professor in the graphic design
department at the West Brabant Art and Design
College in the Netherlands. His work has been shown
in art centers, museums and galleries throughout the
world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and
the Venice Biennale in Italy.
Gusty Lange
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, C CE
B.F.A., Denison University; M.S., M.P.S., Pratt
Institute; has had several professions which have
come together in her teaching in the Graduate
Communications Design Department since 1985;
her psychology background as an art therapist
and design background as a graphic designer have
unified her teaching of Visual Perception (focusing
on perception, creative process, and archetypal
symbolism in design and creativity development), as
well as advising thesis students to develop their own
vision and critical thinking.
Eunsun Lee
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts; M.S., Pratt Institute; in
2004, founded CMYK+WHITE, Inc., a multidisciplinary
studio focusing on design solutions for interiors,
fashion, print, and motion graphics; long-time
corporate clients include Este Lauder, Readers
Digest Association, Inc., Hearst Magazines, Cond
Nast, Hollywood Life, Fairchild Fashion Group and
Meredith; previously worked as a senior art director
at Glamour magazine, where her team directed photo
shoots and developed the visual style of the magazine.
Alex Liebergesell
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Kent State University; M.F.A., Yale University;
principal, QNA Design, New York, providing web,
brand, and communications solutions for corporate
and institutional clients; previously held teaching
appointments in graphic design at University of
Akron and State University of New York at Purchase.
Brenda McManus
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Rutgers University; M.S., Pratt Institute;
founding partner and creative director of the
design firm BRED; previously design manager for
Prudential Retirement, senior designer for Skouras
Design, and designer for Leibowitz Communications,
Inc.; has been recognized by Print, Graphis and
HOW Magazine and the Art Directors Club, the
Type Directors Club, the University and College
Designers Association, the Museum Publications
Design Competition, and the Creativity Design
Competition; work has been included in the TDC46
Awards Exhibition, Summit AIGA/NY Exhibition, the
37th ADCNJ Awards Show, the UCDA Conference
Exhibition and the American Association of Museum
Design Exhibition; has also taught at Rutgers
University and F.I.T.
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Scott Menchin
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Pratt Institute; Arts Students League; as art director
worked for HOW Magazine and Seven Days; as
illustrator worked for Intel, Sun Microsytems,
Toyota, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Wired, GQ, Fast
Company, Bloomberg, Saveur, Rolling Stone, The
New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston
Globe; work has appeared in American Illustration,
Print Magazine, The Society of Illustrators and The
Society of Publication Designers; his first illustrated
childrens book, Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other
Things That Make Me Happy, won the Christopher
Award and was voted A Best Book of the Year by
The Bank Street College.
Kelli Miller
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., College for Creative Studies; M.F.A.,
Cranbrook Academy of Art; independent art director
and designer working in motion, digital media, and
print design; work has run the gamut of independent
print publications to startup websites to network
branding; has worked on projects for Nickelodeon,
Sundance Channel, Disney, TV Guide Network, PBS,
Coke, Wrigley, Reuters, IFC, and MTV; as design
director for Interbrand, has worked as art director
for Thornberg and Forester and as art director at
College for Creative Studies; artwork has been
shown, performed, and screened internationally; has
taught undergraduate classes at Pratt and College
for Creative Studies; has lectured at Cooper Union,
SVA, Portland State University, SUNY at Purchase,
Maryland Institute College of Arts,and College for
Creative Studies.
Katya Moorman
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., SUNY at Purchase; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy
of Art; co-founder and principal partner of
Studio2k, a design and video studio that blurs the
boundaries between art and design, materiality,
and the ephemeral nature of technology; published
and received awards from both Output06 design
annual and I.D. Magazine; widely shown at PS122 and
Williamsburg Art Nexus in New York City, as well as in
Detroit, Durham, Toronto, and the Sarai New Media
Center in India.
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Ann Morris
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.A., M.A., Hunter College of CUNY; creative director,
design: Ann Morris; worked for 16 years in corporate
America as creative director of TV Guides Advertising
and Marketing Department; her own graphic design
business has included a variety of clients: The New
York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, The Museum
of the City of New York, Columbia University, The
New York City Opera, Elizabeth Arden, The Alan
Guttmacher Institute, Dunhill Tailors, The Learning
Annex, Dino Di Laurentiis Productions, and Stanley H.
Kaplan Educational Centers.
Gala Narezo
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.A., Yale University; B.F.A., Art Center College
of Design; photographer, art director, NGO
representative, and co-founder of What Moves
You?, a company that creates platforms for social
issues through design, story, and art; has exhibited
work internationally and recently had a book
of photographs published in Mexico City, titled
Locales, Portraits of the Colonia Roma; has been
an NGO representative with the United Nations for
Designmatters, locating opportunities for design
students to collaborate on a UN issue, building bridges
to connect the world of design and social impact.
Eric OToole
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR, C CE
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; Principal, Exhibit A Design
Group; oversees all aspects of design and
development work produced by his design firm for a
broad array of cultural institutions and national parks
across the country; his firm is the recipient of several
awards for design excellence from professional
design and museum organizations for his exhibition
design work.
Alan Rapp
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
M.F.A. Design Criticism, School of Visual Arts;B.A.
English, Loyola Marymount University; editor, writer,
and book developer, a former senior editor at
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, where he acquired
and developed dozens of titles in the art, architec-
ture, design, and photography lists; former managing
editor of the New City Reader, whose office operated
on the gallery floor of the New Museum in fall 2010,
and former U.S. editor of DomusWeb International in
2011; has taught at Parsons the New School of Design
and leads a graduate thesis seminar at RISD; currently,
he operates a visual book consultancy and packager,
ARstudio, where he works with authors, visual artists,
photographers, and designers to develop visual book
projects and bring them to publication.
Marc Rosen
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Pratt
Institute; president, Marc Rosen Associates.
Ashish Shah
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., M.S., University-Baroda,
India; multimedia art director for Burnett Group,
NYC; previously worked in India as a partner/creative
director for Third Eye Advertising, senior graphic
designer for Solution One, and visualizer for Adroit
Advertising and Marketing; awards include Neenah
Paperworks Letterhead Competition, Gold Award,
HOW International Design Award, Gujarat State Lalit
Kala Award for Photography; professional affiliation
with Usability Professionals Association, New York
City Chapter.
Andrew Shea
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.F.A. Maryland
Institute College of Art; founding partner at MANY,
a multidisciplinary graphic design studio; his
book, Designing for Social Change: Strategies for
Community-Based Graphic Design was published by
Princeton Architectural Press in 2012; has also written
about design for numerous publications, including
Core77, AIGA, Design Observer, Entrepreneurial
Magazine, Designers Review of Books, and GOOD;
solo and collaborative design work has been featured
by Print, Fast Company, HOW, Communication Arts,
Adbusters, and Metropolis Magazine, among others;
he regularly speaks about design.
Ryan Waller
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A.,
Yale; joined Pratt after returning from a research
fellowship in Switzerland on a Fulbright Award, cole
Cantonale dArt de Lausanne, and Federal Office of
Culture, Bern; received the Mark Whistler Memorial
Prize at Yale; a Design Distinction Award from I.D.
Magazine; an ADC Young Guns Award; and was
recognized by Print magazines 20 Under 30the
20 best artists and designers under the age of 30,
selected each year; clients have included The New
York Times, Bloomberg, Virgin Records, Yale School
of Art, Hunter-GathererNYC & Co., Mother NY
Cond Nast, Art Directors Club, Nike, MTV, Damiani;
has taught at Pratt and held workshops at CalArts,
RISD, and Yale.
Pirco Wolfframm
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, C . C . E.
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; C.C.E. in
Visual Communication, Hochschule fr Gestaltung,
Offenbach (Germany); has gathered varied
experiences to become a versatile designist; has
lived and worked in Frankfurt, London, New York,
and Bangkok; list of clients ranges from corporate
juggernauts to niche cultures; while her passion and
expertise lie in brand and identity development, has
applied her research-based methodology across
all media to projects from small scale to complex in
scope; recipient of a Faculty Development Grant and
her work as well as her writings about design have
been published and exhibited internationally.
Alisa Zamir
PROFES SOR
B.A., Central School of Arts and CraftsLondon;
B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; Executive Vice President
and Design Director at Taylor and Ives, Inc. since
1981; having worked as a design professional in Israel,
London, and America, she has over four decades of
experience as a designer of annual reports, corporate
literature and corporate identity programs; graduated
from the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London
and earned her post-graduate degree from Pratt
Insititute, where she has been a professor in the
Graduate Design Department since 1971.

Industrial Design Faculty
Harvey Bernstein
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, C CE
B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; design consultant whose
practice spans the disciplines of interior, industrial,
graphic, exhibit, and retail design; clients include
JCPenney, Sony, Hallmark, Knoll, Chase, Calvin Klein,
Speedo; recipient of numerous design awards: Gold
and Silver Awards from IDSA and ID Magazine for
product design, as well as awards for lighting design,
retail, office, exhibit, and graphic design; exhibited
at MoMA, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum,
and more; published in Architectural Record, Domus,
Abitare, International Design, ID, The NY Times,
Forbes, Journal, Business Week, Metropolis, and the
Design Encyclopedia of MoMA.
Meri Bourgard-Rohrs
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, C CE
A.A., Suffolk Community College; B.A., Hunter
College; M.F.A., Painting, Pratt Institute; teacher
at Pratt Institute since 1985; faculty member in the
Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design,
and Architecture departments; worked as a graphic
designer and illustrator for a variety of publications;
studied and worked in a variety of media with such
artists as Charles Reid, Jean Dobie, Louise Giles,
Daniel Greene, Barbara Necchis, Jim Jensen, Frank
Mason, Frank Webb, Lawrence Goldsmith, and
Nathan Goldstein; featured in The New York Times,
Arts & Antiques and more; has exhibited her work in
galleries around the North East as well as Europe.
Gina Caspi
VISITING PROFES SOR
B.A., Graphic Design, Hofstra University; M.I.D.,
Pratt Institute; Caspi has been a professor in both
Foundation 3-D and Graduate Industrial Design since
1986; was the first recipient of the Rowena Reed
Kostellow Award, given for excellence in teaching
three-dimensional design; participated in the
Premio Internazionale di Scultura Gioia Lazzerini in
Pietrasanta, Italy, where she was awarded a prize
for her bronze and ruby sculpture, Torre di San
Francesco.
Gihyun Cho
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
M.I.D., Syracuse University; industrial design
educator, professional, and writer; has held the
position of chief industrial designer at Bell Labs
and Lucent Technologies and has served as a
design consultant for Goldstar, Samsung America,
Ken Carter, Loveland Toy, and the Kohl Group;
during his time at Bell Labs he was awarded the
AT Excellence Award, Distinguished Member of
Technical Staff, Quality Award, and the Golden
Thread Award; Cho has been a visiting professor
and lecturer at Korea National University of Art,
Pratt Institute, CIDA in Taiwan, and The New
School; holds seven design patents.
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Kevin Crowley
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; Lowell Technical Institute,
polymer chemistry; has 40 years experience in
the design and manufacturing of deep-sea diving
equipment, high-level radiation suits, proximity and
approach fire suits as well as chemical protective
clothing; is also a lifelong shoe designer having
designed both performance and fashion shoes for
such companies as Converse, FILA, Wilson, Prince,
and Keds in the U.S. and Geox and Block in Europe.
Lucia DeRespinis
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, CCE
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; academic appointments:
adjunct professor, 1995-present; selected
awards, recognition, and published works:
Metropolis magazine, Vitra Design Book Cold
War Confrontations, Women Designers in the USA
19002000, ID Magazine Annual Review, Pratt
Manhattan and Schafler Gallery, 20 Women in Design;
Rowena Reed Kostellow Award (2007) for excellence
in teaching; Three Dimensional Design, Vitra Museum
exhibition on George Nelson Office; Women
Designers in the USA Exhibition, High Style: Twentieth
Century American Designers in the USA; and High
Style: Twentieth Century American Design, Whitney
Museum Exhibition (aluminum clock).
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Steve Diskin
CHAIR
B.A. Visual Studies, Harvard College; M.Arch.,
Harvard University; Ph.D., cole Polytechnique
Fdrale de Lausanne; began his professional career
with the architecture firm of Kenzo Tange in Tokyo,
the establishment of his studio in Los Angeles, and
the design of the HELIX clock, which is now in the
permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum; was a professor of advanced
product design and founder of the grad ID program
at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena; visiting
professor at the University of Ljubljana (20022010);
and visiting professor at the Academy of Art,
Architecture, and Design in Prague (20042005);
has taught and lectured at a number of institutions,
notably in Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway,
Denmark, Estonia, Poland, Cyprus, Israel, and Turkey.
Peter Erickson
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
A professional prop builder who lives in New York
City, Erickson works out of a garage workspace
in Brooklyn; is a professional maker of all sorts;
freelance work includes the fabrication of custom
furniture and props for advertising. He teaches
model-making processes at Pratt.
Assaf Eshet
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., Vital-Tel Aviv Center for Design Studies, Israel;
Eshet strives for innovative designs that create a
balance between the playful and the functional; his
creations are led by his detail-oriented, whimsical
curiosity that allows him to push the boundaries
of mediums; projects range from toy design to
conceptual art; opened Assaf Eshet Design Studio
in 2000, specializing in toy design and inventions
for leading toy manufacturers such as Fisher-Price
and Hasbro; many of his designs are patented and
have won numerous prizes, while being enjoyed by
children worldwide; led a notable toy workshop held
in Anji, China, in 2000 to research and create eco-
friendly toys made of bamboo.
Patrick Fenton Bruce Hannah
VISITING INSTRUCTOR PROFES SOR
B.A., Visual Communications, UCLA; M.F.A. Design, B.I.D., Pratt Institute; his Hannah Desk System for
Stanford University; partner at Swayspace, a design Knoll named Design of the Decade by IDSA (1990);
studio that tackles a diverse array of design projects named first designer in residence at the Cooper-
for a wide variety of clients, collaborating with Hewitt, National Design Museum (1992); awarded
technology companies, non-profit organizations, the Bronze Apple by IDSA for conference, Universal
hospitals, fashion designers, musicians, professors, Design (1993); authored Access by Design with
artists, and publishers; portfolio includes design George Covington (John Wiley and Sons, 1996);
logos, marketing collateral, websites, user interfaces, received National Design Education Award from the
books, CD cases, software packaging, tradeshow IDSA (1998); Federal Design Achievement Award for
booths, and building signage. exhibition Unlimited By Design (2000) named one of
12 most influential exhibitions by Metropolis magazine
Colin Gentle (2006); authored Becoming a Product Designer (John
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR Wiley and Sons, 2004).
B. Eng., University of Connecticut; has worked with
firms like SolidWorks Corporation, Martha Stewart
Kate Hixon
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, C CE
Living Omnimedia, CADD Edge Inc., SA Baxter
Design principal of Hixon Design Consultants, Hixon
Architectural Hardware, and Hutzler Manufacturing;
comprehensive background in 3-D CAD modeling
teaches 3-D design fundamentals and studio classes
at Pratt. Her consultancy specializes in architectural
technology, rendering expertise, and mechanical
branding, environmental design, exhibit and event
processes; serves as ProductSparks lead designer,
design, editorial design, and graphic design, and has
where he is instrumental in developing new product
had a diverse body of clients, including Pfizer, FAO
lines, and providing SolidWorks 3-D CAD consulting
Schwarz, Eziba, Ernst & Young, GT Interactive, and
services; work has been published in a variety of
the United Nations.
publications, including Array Magazine, House
Beautiful, Dwell, Interior Design, Forbes Life, and
Jay Levy
CNBC; Certified SolidWorks Professional and a
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Certified SolidWorks Instructor.
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; M.Arch., Columbia University;
Mark Goetz Levy began his professional career working for 12
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
years under two men influential in 20th-century
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; design faculty since 1993.
art and design: the New York architect, Charles
Goetz has taught Sophomore ID Studio, and has
Gwathmey, and the esteemed Japanese sculptor,
taught the Graduate Furniture Design Studio
Isamu Noguchi. In 1996 Jay Levy Architects was
since 1997. He has organized several exhibitions of
established. The firm specializes in residential design
student work at the International Contemporary
and has been widely published. Other personal
Furniture Fair, Cologne Furniture Fair, as well as
pursuits include painting, sculpture, and as an
industry-sponsored projects with companies such
educator at Pratt Institute, the study of abstract
as Herman Miller and Wilsonart. Goetz is also the
visual relationships.
owner of TZ Design, an industrial design firm founded
in 1988, which specializes in furniture for the retail,
hospitality, and contract furniture industry.

Jong S. (Mark) Lim
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, C CE
B.F.A., Seoul National University; M.F.A., Pratt
Institute; Jong S. Lim (a.k.a. Mark Lim); Glomar
Explorer ship project; First Place Award, Orange
County Engineering Council (1977/1978); engineering
specialist at Holmes and Narver Inc.; manager of
industrial design research and development and
author of design patents (U.S. and Europe) at the
Conair Corporation; has exhibited at Gallery Korea,
and Hyundai Art Gallery.
Scott Lundberg
A S SISTANT CHAIR; ADJUNC T A S SO CIATE
PROFES SOR, CCE
B.S., B.Arch., North Dakota State University; M.I.D.,
Pratt Institute; a designer and educator who teaches
industrial design at Pratt Institute and exhibit design
at the Fashion Institute of Technology, he recently
became IDSA section vice chair for communicative
environments; designed the Gossner College
Campanile in Bihar Ranchi, India; a shower shelf
based on DARPA technology for Shelfworks; and
a display-driven, wine-finding experience for
Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit that got an A+ from Zagat.
Frank Millero
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S. Molecular Cell Biology, University of California
at Berkeley; M.I.D., Pratt Institute; has worked at
the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco (1991
2001) where he developed numerous biology-
based exhibits and programs, similar to the way
his graduate thesis explored ways of connecting
people to the natural world; has taught courses
on color and ecological design since 2004; now a
practicing designer currently focusing on tableware
and table linens.
Katrin Mueller-Russo
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Dipl Des, Industrial Design, Hochschule fr Bildende
Knste Hamburg, Germany; has practiced with
Hoberman Associates as a design director, working
on the Hoberman Sphere toy line, on educational
applications; and as a consultant collaborating on
foldable products for a major childrens product
manufacturer; in 1997, she founded Specific Objects
Inc., an interdisciplinary, sustainability oriented
design practice in New York; her work as been
exhibited internationally and her awards include
the Ideas Competition Design Plus at the Frankfurt
International Fair Ambiente for her hearing aid
design; with her partner, she was chosen as a finalist
for the Newark Visitors Center competition in 2009.
Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A. Fashion Design, Pratt Institute; M.I.D., Pratt
Institute; Computer Graphics and Graphic Design,
School of Visual Arts; Millinery Design, Fashion
Institute of Technology; experience as design
director of Starter for Nike; Champion Athletic
Apparel; C-9 by Champion for Target; Fila U.S.A.;
accessories designer for Liz Claiborne, art director,
Everlast, BUM Equipment, and Nautica kids; freelance
product, graphic, and interior designer; has taught
fashion and industrial design at Pratt since 1998.
Jeanne Pfordresher
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Industrial Design, B.F.A., Sculpture, Cleveland
Institute of Art; experienced in teaching product
studios in the undergraduate, graduate, and design
research classes; a founding partner of Hybrid
Product Design and Development, her projects
have included housewares, consumer electronics,
personal care, medical devices, and sustainable
transportation systems.
Russell Robertson
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., Cleveland Institute of Art and Design; his
focus incorporates a comprehensive balance of
academic theory and professional practice; has
worked on corporate design staffs in Korea and The
Netherlands for Samsung, LG Electronics, and Philips
Electronics, and for design consultancies such as
Brook Stevens Design, Insight PD LLC, ECCO Design,
and 4Sight; participates and designs within a wide
range of product segments: POP displays, exhibits,
recreational sports equipment, medical equipment,
agricultural equipment, housewares, personal care
products, structural packaging, and home audio/
video equipment; a founding partner of Hybrid
Product Design + Dev. Inc., which develops innovative
product solutions and meaningful experiences for
global consumer culture; from 20022004, he served
as chair of the IDSA/NYC chapter and director of
the design magazine POPSICLE, which highlighted
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the NYC design scene and schools; has built
curriculum and taught at Pratt for more than 10 years:
Sophomore and Junior Design Studio, Experimental
Transportation, Drawing for Design, Portfolio and
Professional Practice, and Internship courses; infuses
strategic design process with the students unique
vision, resulting in clear and direct presentations.
Arthur Sempliner
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, CCE
B.S. Industrial Design, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; M.B.A. Marketing, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; has taught the Production Methods classes
in the Industrial Design department for more than 15
years; varied work experiences early on in his career
include being a designer at Dorwin Teague and later
rising to the position of vice president; president of
Construciones Sempliner in Spain for three years,
before founding Chelsea Design Associates in New
York; relationship with the Pratt Institute began
in 1969 when he was the assistant to Professor
Gerald Gulotta, a visual literacy instructor; in 1995
developed and taught two Production Methods
courses for the Industrial Design department; is
recognized for his vast knowledge and experience
in all areas of design and manufacturing; holds over
35 US patents; winner of several awards including
first prize at the Popai Show for his Vacuum Coffee
Dispensing System; has worked on a large variety
of projects in several different fields, including
architecture, packaging design, exhibit design, point
of purchase, and industrial design.
Martin Skalski
PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Toledo; M.I.D., Pratt Institute;
teaches transportation design, color theory,
three-dimensional design, and drawing; director
of Pratt Transportation Design Program; received
grants from the NEA, Ford, General Motors, Honda,
Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Daimler Chrysler; directed
design projects for Northrup Grumman, BASF/Mearl,
Black and Decker, NASA, NEC, Corning, Nissan, Ford,
and GM.
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Irvin Tepper
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, C CE
M.F.A., University of Washington; B.F.A., Kansas
City Art Institute; Teppers works are in many
museum collections around the world including the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland;
and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Teppers
work is the subject of a book, titled When Cups
Speak: Life with the CupA Twenty-Five Year Survey
(Silver Gate, 2002).
William Jeffrey Tolbert
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.S. Biology, Millsaps College; B.F.A., Museum Art
School; M.F.A., Yale University; a visual artist living
in Brooklyn, N.Y. who has taught at Marylhurst
College, Yale University, Parsons The New School
for Design, Pratt Institute, and The Cooper Union;
from 19932000, he was the president and owner
of ArtPanel Inc., which manufactured high-quality
wood supports for fine artists; since 2006, has
been project manager for the Way2Go tandem car
project; a revolutionary, lightweight, fuel-efficient
vehicle for the transportation industry; has exhibited
his work in New York and across the country; in 2010,
worked with Philip Riley at Skink Ink Editions to create
a portfolio of Gicle prints, which were featured in a
group exhibition at Skink Ink Editions.
Ignacio Urbina Polo
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.S., Product Engineering, Universidad Federal de
Santa Catarina, Brazil; Venezuelan industrial designer
with over 20 years of experience specializing in
the field of bionics: he has worked on consumer
products, street furniture, signage systems,
exhibition design, and visual communication systems
for many companies, manufacturers, institutions,
and government agencies; in the late 1980s worked
at the prestigious Brazilian Laboratory of Industrial
Design on Florianopolis Island where he had the
opportunity to work in many different and diverse
product design projects, as well as support his
passion of surfing the waves; in 1999, while living in
Caracas, he co-founded Metaplug, a multidisciplinary
design firm and workshop; worked as an industrial
designer in the foundation of La Estancia Art Center
in Venezuela and the Andean Amazon Pavilion at the
Aichi World Expo 2005 in Japan; former associate
professor and director of Prodiseo, School of Visual
Communication and Design in Caracas, where he
was involved in academic projects and research in
minimal structures, consumer products, interface
and information design, and thesis projects;
co-publisher of Objetual, a website focusing on
design issues in Venezuela, he has published design
articles in both national newspapers and specialized
magazines; participates in projects and activities
as advisor member of the Ibero-American Design
Biennial in Madrid.
Tanya Van Cott
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; M.I.D., Pratt Institute; an
award-winning architect and industrial designer,
who received both degrees from Pratt Institute,
she has dedicated her career to interdisciplinary
design, seeking out projects that span her interests
in psychology, theory, structure, color, detail,
materiality, and especially whimsy, to create unique
design solutions; established her own architecture
and design practice after working as a project
architect with Pentagram Design, NYC; recently
completed her first work of fiction, a novel written
for every man and especially every woman, called
Woman Be Cool; writing and performing the spoken
word publicly has led to a renewed interest in
teaching, where all her fascinations and training
come together.
Rebecca Welz
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, CCE
Boston Museum School; B.A., Empire State College;
Welz is a sculptor represented by June Kelly Gallery
in New York and galleries on the west coast; recipient
of Pollock Krasner and ED Foundation grants;
recipient of a fellowship at Urban Glass; founder of
Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID),
mounting first exhibition of product design by
women in the U.S.,Goddess in the Details; published
book on exhibition.
Henry Yoo
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR, CCE
B.B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison; M.I.D.,
Pratt Institute; Yoo has worked for BMW, Boeing,
Chrysler, Pepsi, Proctor and Gamble, General Mills,
Gucci, Herman Miller, McNeil Associates, Philip-
Morris, Samsung, Timex, Victorias Secret, Warner
Brothers, YSL, and Zegna.

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Doreen Adengo
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S., Catholic University; M.Arch., Yale University;
RA; project architect, Gruzen Samton Architects,
currently working on the design and construction
of affordable housing, educational, and government
projects; one of her projects recently won a design
excellence award from the U.S. General Services
Administration; previously worked for Robert A.M.
Stern Architects of New York City, Adjaye Associates
of London, and Ellerbe Becket of Washington, D.C.
Goil Amornvivat
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Carnegie Mellon University; M.Arch.,
Yale University
Brook Anderson
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., University of Kansas
Eric Ansel
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A.,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.Arch., Pratt
Institute; has worked as an architect at Cooper
Robertson and Partners and at Selldorf Architects;
as project architect, recently completed a two-year
renovation of a historic two-family building in lower
Manhattan; his paintings have been exhibited in New
York and Atlanta.
Tarek Ashkar
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.Arch.,
Harvard University; principal, Tarek Ashkar Studio.
Francesca Bastianini
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Smith College; M.S., Lesley University; M.F.A.,
Parsons the New School for Design
Harvey Bernstein
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; consultant on interior,
industrial, graphic, exhibit, and retail design; clients
include JC Penney, Sony, Hallmark, Knoll, Chase,
Calvin Klein, American Crafts Museum, Speedo,
Warnaco, and Franklin Mint; past chair, N.Y. Industrial
Design Society of America (IDSA); awards include
gold/ silver IDSA (product), Lumen, (lighting), Interior
Magazine (retail, office, exhibit), AIGA (graphics),
Roscoe, (furniture), and I.D. magazine; exhibited at
MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,
Gallery 91, AIGA, ADC, and ICSID.
Tania Branquinho
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., New York School of Interior Design; M.Arch.,
Pratt Institute
Barrett Brown
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Southern California Institute of
Architecture; M.S. Columbia University
Mary Burke
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Fordham University; M.S., Columbia University;
B.Arch., City College School of Architecture; RA;
directs Burke Design & Architecture PLLC in a broad
range of architecturally based residential, hospitality,
and commercial projects; registered architect
who has practiced in the field of interior design
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and architecture for over 35 years; previously held
leadership roles in prominent architecture firms
including Cetra Ruddy, Gruzen Samton LLP, HOK,
Swanke Hayden Connell, and Tihany International; led
KPF Interior Architects Singapore office, designing
major interior spaces for the headquarters of United
Overseas Bank, designed by Kenzo Tange; then
set up her own Singapore practice, Burke Design,
providing interior architecture services throughout
Asia and Australia; serves as vice president for design
excellence of the AIA New York Chapter, after a
five-year stint as the chair of the chapters Interiors
Committee; former board member of the New York
Chapter of IIDA, and is the 2012 chair of the Advisory
Group for the Interior Architecture Knowledge
Community of the AIA; serves annually as a juror in
the Best of NeoCon competition in Chicago, and is a
frequent contributor to design publications.
Ike Cheung
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; LEED AP; formerly senior
designer and design director at HOK and TPG
Architecture respectively; currently at Haworth as a
senior workplace design strategist collaborating with
clients to integrate their business needs, workplace
knowledge, and applied design to deliver knowledge-
based interior architecture workplace solutions;
recent projects include Penguin Publishing
Headquarters in New York City, Mullen Advertising
Headquarters in Boston, and Marchon Eyewear
Headquarters in Long Island;has been featured in
publications such as The New York Times, Contract
magazine, Interior Design magazine, Real Estate
Weekly, OfficeInsight and IIDA Newsletter.
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Melissa Cicetti
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania; RA; principal,
studio Cicetti architect pc; noteworthy projects
include the Reece Murphy Residence in Cutchogue,
N.Y., various projects for Richard and Clara Weyergraf
Serra, and the Brant Foundation Art Study Center
in Greenwich, Conn. (in conjunction with Gluckman
Mayner Architects), where she was a project manager;
former lead architect on all retail projects for
fashion designer Helmut Lang, many of which won
multiple awards; also a successful photographer/
artist, whose book Marking the Land 1 (University of
New Mexico Press, 2005) is a photographic essay
exploring the interaction between land forms in the
Southwest and the human-made interventions upon
them; photographic works have been exhibited
internationally, including at Ryerson University in
Toronto and Go Fish Gallery in New York City.
Annie Coggan
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., Bennington College; M.Arch., Southern
California Institute of Architecture.
James Conti
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Youngstown State University; M.F.A.,
Ohio State University; principal, Jim Conti
Lightworks; clients include the NYC Department of
Transportation, Battery Park Conservancy, Alliance
for Downtown New York, and Great Park in Orange
County, California; awards include the IES Lumen
Award, Glowing Topiary Garden, IALD, IES, AIA award
for Bronx Charter School for the Arts.
Anita Cooney
CHAIR
B.A., Brown University; B.Arch., Pratt Institute;
LEED AP; principal , acoo design, llc. whose work
includes residential and commercial interiors and
restaurant design; previously, cofounder of AC2, a
multidisciplinary design studio, whose notable works
included commercial and residential interiors as
well as product design; regular participant of and
serves on the board of the educational organization
DesignInquiry, a transdisciplinary educational
organization devoted to researching design issues
in intensive team-based gatherings; her work has
been published in Interior Design and I.D. as well as
in several design annuals.
James Counts Jr.
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Kansas State University; M.S., Columbia
University.
Carol Crawford
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.S., Pratt Institute; N.Y. Certified Interior Designer;
professional member ASID, IIDA, USGBC; since
1997, Carol Crawford Environments, Inc., has
combined sustainable interior design with fine art
for residential, commercial and healthcare clients;
her creative work in mixed media construction,
photography, lithography and drawing has been
shown in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S.,
Canada, Europe, and Japan.
Wendy Cronk
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Washington University; M.Arch., Harvard
University, RA; the work of Wendy Cronk Architect
includes new construction, interior design, custom
furniture design, and graphic design; her award-
winning graphic design work was published in HOW
Magazine and Two-Color Graphics, and her design
for a lighting fixture made out of a re-used industrial
object was featured in the exhibition Artists
Create Light; previously worked predominantly
in the offices of Tsao & McKown and Toshiko Mori
Architect; her design contributions were most
notably recognized in A+U for the Taghkanic
Residence for Toshiko Mori Architect.
Ron Eng
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.S.A.D., M.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; RA; director of design at Formactiv:
Architecture.Design.Technology. P.C. since 1999,
completing projects at scales ranging from retail
boutiques, galleries, and townhouses to large mixed-
use and institutional projects primarily in the New
York City area, though other sites have ranged from
the Hollywood Hills to the Bund in Shanghai;prior
to founding Formactiv, he worked in the offices of
Rafael Vinoly Architects, Davis, Brody, Bond and
Greenberg-Farrow Architects.
Philip Farrell
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; in practice since
1978 with Farrell Design Associates, a firm that
offers a broad range of professional services in
both residential and commercial design; major
organizations that have commissioned his firm
include Citibank, Warner/Amex Communications,
MCTV, Intelligent Office Franchise, Air France,
Sony, Revlon, and AT&T; illustrated or contributed
to a number of books, including Construction
Materials For Interior Design (Watson-Guptill, 1989),
Commonsense Design (Charles Scribner), Interiors
For The Handicapped (Pantheon Press), Putting It
All Together (Charles Scribner), and Space Planning
Basics (John Wiley and Sons, 1992).
David C. Foley
VISITING PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., University of
Illinois, Chicago; M.Arch., University of Notre Dame;
RA; registered architect with expertise in the luxury
retail and residential markets, whose studio, UR
Design, also provides urban design services for urban
and rural communities.
Pavlina Gantcheva
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B. Civil Eng., University of Architecture and Civil
Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria; B.Arch., Pratt Institute;
M.S., Columbia University.
Nancy Gesimondo
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Queens College; Certificate, Parsons School
of Design.
Jennifer Hanlin
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Princeton University; M.Arch., Harvard
University; Technical University, Berlin; principal,
Cooper Hanlin, her own interiors practice started
in 2003, which is known for its emphasis on a
collaborative relationship with clients; has designed
residential, office, retail, and gallery projects as
well as custom furnishings; previously developed
her interior design skills at Gabellini Sheppard
Associates, N.Y., whereshe earned the 2002 best of
competition award from the International Interior
Design Association (IIDA) for her work as project
architect for the Jil Sander, London flagship store;

currently collaborating with Cooper Joseph Studios
on retail and residential design as their interior
design principal.
John Heida
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S., University of Montana; B.Arch., California
College of the Arts.
Moira Henry
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
M.Arch., Southern California Institute of
Architecture.
Claudia Hernandez
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
B.Arch., California State Polytechnical; M.S.,
Columbia University; Plain Space Inc., Architecture
and Design.
Lindsey Homer
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., Bates College; M.S., Pratt Institute.
Ben Howes
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; M.S., Stevens Institute of
Technology.
Eric Kachelhofer
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
A commercial artist since 1977, with more than
15 years experience in the computer graphics field,
he has worked in advertising, publishing, and in the
comic industry.
Sheryl Kasak
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., B.Arch., Rhode Island School of Design; M.S.,
Columbia University; founder, Interim Design, an
architecture and interior design practice based upon
her undergraduate thesis An Interim Architecture,
which addressed the 15 Year War in Lebanon and
the proceeding redevelopment of the center of
Beirut; her practice focuses on thecommunication
of information through spatial design and the notion
that we are all living in an interim state, one which is
constantly evolving and reacting to our surroundings
and our lives; hasworked for I.M. Pei and Rafael
Violy; represents Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
in New York for U.S. projects; held the winning entry
for the international theoretical competition Unbuilt
Architecture with her Lightning House design in 1994
and has been published several times in Abstract, the
Columbia University annual design publication.
Komal Kehar
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Concordia University; M.Arch., Parsons School
of Design; project manager, SPaN LLC, New York, N.Y.
Poonam Khanna
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Brown University; M.Arch., Parsons New School
of Design; M.S., Columbia University.
Margaret Kirk
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Syracuse University; M.Arch., Pratt Institute.
Adam Koogler
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., M.Arch., University of Cincinnati.
Katerina Kourkoula
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.S.2, The Bartlett School of Architecture; B.Arch.,
M.Arch., The Cooper Union.
Archana Kushe
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Academy of Architecture, India; M.Arch., Ohio
State University.
Eugene Kwak
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Columbia
University; LEED AP; educator, architect, and an
urban designer who works for Dattner Architects,
focusing on technology-based green and sustainable
public work including New Housing New York Legacy
Project; his entry for the Reinventing Grand Army
Plaza Competition was selected as one of the top
30 ideas to be included in a public exhibition, and
his entry for Intersections: The Grand Concourse
Beyond 100 also earned an Honorable Mention.
Annie Kwon
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Rhode Island School of Design; M.S.,
Columbia University; principal, Serge Studio.
Scott Larrabee
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., University of Michigan; M.S., Pratt Institute.
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Chelsea Limbird
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Brown University; M.Arch., Rhode Island School
of Design.
Jason Livingston
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Miami; M.F.A., New York University;
LC; IES; IALD; principal, Studio T+L, LLC and an
accomplished lighting designer in architecture and
theater with over 20 years of experience; projects
range from offices and libraries to historic buildings
and unique installations; his work has been profiled
in Lighting Design + Application and Lighting & Sound
America; awards include a Lumen Citation and an
International Illumination Design Award; he was a
2010 finalist in the ESTA Rock Our World Awards.
Jennifer Logun
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Gettysburg College; M.Arch., University of
Florida.
Cam Lorendo
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Parsons the New School for Design; design
career as a carpenter and a contractor, which has
proven invaluable in providing a working knowledge
of methods and materials to his practice; principal
work has been in the furniture industry where he
has had extensive experience with Knoll, Herman
Miller, Steelcase, Vecta, and DesignTex for whom
he has worked nationally designing office systems
display, showrooms, market events, new product
introductions, and trade shows; commercial practice
covers a broad spectrum of projects including office
interiors, trading firms, advertising agencies, and
restaurants; residential work has spanned the gamut
from apartments to single-family homes in numerous
locations throughout the United States.
William Mangold
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.F.A., B.Arch., Rhode Island School of Design;
M.Phil., Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center (in process);
has taught at Pratt since 2007, and is also an adjunct
at Hunter College and Moore College of Art; as a
Ph.D. candidate in the Environmental Psychology
program at CUNY Graduate Center his research
looks at the role institutions play in architectural
production and utopian visions for transforming the
social and spatial environment; he has had various
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papers accepted for publication and is currently
preparing an edited volume bringing together key
readings related to space and place; as a designer, he
has worked on a number of renovation and adaptive
reuse projects, including the ongoing renovation of
an 1872 row house where he lives with his family.
T. Camille Martin
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., Miami University; M.Arch., Washington
University; principal, TCM Studio, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Anthony Mekel
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; professional career has
focused on corporate interior design with an
expertise in the application of digital design tools
for the process; has worked as a senior designer
and project manager at Mancini-Duffy, The Phillips
Group, and most recently at HOK.
Francine Monaco
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., University of Cincinnati; RA; registered
architect in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
whose work includes projects in the United States
and Europe; more than 25 years experience in
architecture as well as interior design; her early
work as a project architect for a highly respected
architectural firm designing homes and apartments
was followed in 1989 by a position as project
architect for the in-house design department of the
Guggenheim Museum; as a member of the museums
planning team her focus was in orchestrating several
design projects of the museums expansion in New
York City; she designed and supervised the creation
of administrative office space within newly excavated
space at the original Frank Lloyd Wright museum
building; over the years, she has pursued a mixture of
residential and non-residential work; her increasing
focus on the intersection between architecture and
interior design led her to establish DAquino Monaco
in 1997 with Carl DAquino; she was inducted into the
Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2007.
Robert Nassar
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Syracuse University; principal, Robert Nassar
Design, New York, N.Y.
Joseph E. Nocella
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.S., University of Missouri; M.Arch, The
University of Kansas; RA, AIA, LEED AP; practicing
architect,focusingon BIM technologies, since 1996;
previously worked for architectural firms SOM, HOK,
NBBJ, and FXFowle.
Tetsu Ohara
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., University of California at Berkeley;
Certificate of Architecture, Harvard University;
principal designer, SpatialDesignStudio, Inc. in NYC;
has engaged in design projects in both the East and
West ranging from product design, exhibition design,
interior design, to architectural services; recently
published project includes Japan Brand Unfolding
exhibition with Japanese Ministry of Trade at
Felissimo Design House in Manhattan.
Jon Otis
PROFES SOR
B.A., Moravian College; M.S., University of
Massachusetts; principal, OlA Object Agency,
a multidisciplinary design studio and design
strategy agency, whose work ranges from interior
architecture and design, exhibition design, branding
and visual communications, product design and
consulting; clients have included Tandus Flooring,
George Nakashima Woodworker, Scotts Inc., Vitra
Design Museum, Corning Glass, Contract Design, Tuva
Looms, and World Moto Cross; recipient of Fulbright
and Lusk fellowships to Italy; named Most Admired
Educator in Interior Design in DesignIntelligence in
2009.
Ilona Parkansky
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Cornell University; M.P.S., New York University,
Tisch School of the Arts.
Andrew Pettit
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Pratt Institute; RA; principal, Andrew L. Pettit,
Architect; firms work encompasses many residential
and renewal projects from single family homes and
brownstone restorations to multi-family dwelling
complexes; projects completed or in process include
renovated lofts, commercial offices, and custom
residences as well as industrial adaptive re-use
projects and restaurants, a night-club, and other
hotel and hospitality lifestyle designs, commercial
retail outlets, and high end design fashion shops;
clients include several corporate groups from General
Electric Plastics Division to a major international
publishing firm, an international insurance company,
a private legal firm, and a specialty paper goods
manufacturer; restored Memorial Hall on Pratts
Brooklyn campus with Philip Farrell.
J. Woodson Rainey
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., B.Arch., University of Utah.
Denise Ramzy
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Williams College; M.S. RED, Columbia University;
M.I.D., University of the Arts, LEED AP; designer
whose work bridges multiple disciplines within the
built environment; after working in architecture and
real estate development, she recently established
Field Dimension, a research-based practice
focused on sustainable urban redevelopment; also
teaches at New York University and Parsons The New
School for Design; a LEED AP BD+C, she serves as a
volunteer for the U.S. Green Building Council, advising
ontheir educational and research initiatives; also
curatesDesign Diversions, a series of design-related
tours and events in and around New York City.
Eduardo Rega
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.P.A.A., Polytechnic University of Madrid; M.S.,
Columbia University.
Christian Rietzke
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Diplom-Ingenieur, University of Applied Sciences,
Mnster, Germany; M.Arch., Pratt Institute; project
manager, McKay Architecture/Design; has designed
several single family residences located in the area
of New Paltz, N.Y., informed by the principles of
sustainability and has managed the construction
of several full building conversions in Lower
Manhattan and Newark, New Jersey; has worked for
a variety of firms in Germany, Sweden, and Spain on
large scale hotels, shopping centers, and industrial
complexes; work has been published in Domus and
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Mary-Jo Schlachter
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.S., M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania; RA; USGBC
committee member; co-founder, d3, an organization
committed to advancing innovative positions in art,
architecture, and design by providing a collaborative
environment for artists, architects, designers, and
students from throughout New York City through
a program of exhibitions, events, competitions,
and publications; prior to independent practice as
MJIT Studio, she worked extensively in affordable
housing and high-end residential design in various
New York architectural firms including Beth Cooper
Lawrence, Raffaella Bortoluzzi, and Bruno Kearney;
her architectural and installation work has been
exhibited in Philadelphia, New York, and Savannah.
Deborah Schneiderman
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.S., Cornell University; M.Arch., SCI-Arch; RA;
LEED AP; principal, deSc design/research; projects
include residential design, exhibition design such
as the Empire State Building audio tour and kiosk,
and collaborative work with the artists Kristin Jones
and Andrew Ginzel on Polarities at the Kansas City
International Airport and Metronome at Union Square
in New York City; previously taught at Parsons New
School for Design and Arizona State University;
author of the upcoming books Inside Prefab
(Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) and Integrating
Sustainability in Design Education (with Jacques Giard
in 2013); articles have appeared in Interiors: Design,
Architecture and Culture; Design Principles and
Practices: An International Journal; Home Cultures:
The Journal of Architecture Design and Domestic
Space; and International Journal of Environmental,
Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability.
Hazel Siegel
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Skidmore College; M.F.A., Hunter College,
City University of New York; Atelier Hazel Siegel Ltd.
Andrew Simons
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; partner,
Emphasis Design.
Sarah Strauss
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Duke University; M.Arch., Yale University;
founder, Bigprototype (2004), a practice that
operates at the intersection of design and building,
harnessing interests in making, testing, research,
and play, with offices inBrooklyn, N.Y.andRincn,
Puerto Rico; also founded LittlePrototype, a
furniture and product design company located in
Brooklyn, and Collider, an installation art project with
Lia Halloran that travels between New York City and
Los Angeles.
Keena Suh
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
M.Arch., Columbia University; RA; architect,
Reddymade Design, New York City; professional
experience includes a broad range of architecture and
interior projects including affordable housing, high-
end residential projects, retail, and hospitality designs.
Myonggi Sul
PROFES SOR
B.A., Valparaiso University; M.S., Pratt Institute;
interior designer in New York City for over 20 years;
principal, Myonggi Sul Design, which provides
interior design services to corporations, high end
residences, and major architectural firms; previous
appointments include director of interior design at
Marcel Breuer Associates, and work as an associate
at GN Associates/Carol Groh and Associates, where
her creative skills and leadership were instrumental
in the firms recognition as the 1988 Designer of the
Year by Interiors magazine; has taught at both Hongik
University and Gunguk University in Seoul, Korea, as a
visiting professor.
Yutaka Takiura
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B. Eng., Waseda University; M.Arch., University
of Pennsylvania; M.Arch., Illinois Institute of
Technology; RA; architect based in New York City
and focusing on interior architecture projects;
professional experience includes working with
prestigious designers such as Marcel Breuer and
becoming known as a specialist in modern design of
the 20th century.
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Madeleine Taylor
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.F.A., B.Arch., Rhode Island School of Design;
M.S., Columbia University; RA; principal, boutique
architecture and interior design studios MMTNYC,
New York City and MMTSLC, Salt Lake City; has
served as director of operations at Ace Gallery in
New York City, and worked as a designer at Skidmore,
Owings & Merrill, LLP.
Karin Tehve
A S SISTANT CHAIR, ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE
PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Pennsylvania State University; M.Arch.,
Harvard University RA; architect and founder,
KT3Dllc. (2001), a small interdisciplinary practice
pursuing projects in architecture, interiors,
multimedia design and site-specific art; awards
include a 2009 Building Brooklyn Award and a 2009
Lumen Citation and Regional Award (with Linnaea
Tillett) for This Way, a permanent light installation
under the Brooklyn Bridge; recent projects include
a test-kitchen for Every Day with Rachael Ray
magazine and collaboration with Linnaea Tillett
Lighting Design on a permanent light installation in
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Jack Travis
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.Arch., Arizona State University; M.Arch., University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; RA; since
establishing his namesake design studio in 1985, has
completed proposals or has been involved in over
100 projects of varying scope and size; to date, the
firm has completed several residential interiors
projects for such notable clients as Spike Lee,
Wesley Snipes, and John Saunders of ABC sports;
commercial and/or retail interiors clients have
included Giorgio Armani, Cashmere Cashmere, and
the Sbarro family of the famed pizza parlors; Travis
encourages investigation into Black history where
appropriate and includes forms, motifs, materials,
and colors that reflect this heritage in his work;
interests have broadened in recent years to include
design issues not only concerning cultural content
but sustainability in environmental design as well
as alternative educational practices that seek to
insure the entrance of more students of color into
the profession; editor, African American Architects:
In Current Practice, (Princeton Architectural Press,
1991) the first publication to profile the work of
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black architects in the United States; in 2004, he Michael Zuckerman

received his Fellowship in the AIA, and in 2006 was
inducted into the Council of Elders of the National
Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the
highest honor that each organization bestows upon
its individual members.
Kevin Walz
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
William Watson
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., Princeton University; M.Arch., University of Tex-
as at Austin; principal, Castro Watson, whose work
includes residential and design build projects as well
as winning entries to design competitions; Speak Up
for Small Farms, Stored Potential Competition, in
Omaha, Nebraska, was the winning entry in 2010.
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.S., B.Arch., City College of New York; RA, LEED AP;
principal, G.V.Z. Architects; recent work includes
projects for Saint Anns School, Enterprise Lighting
Sales, Arcus Foundation, Harlem United, The Bell
House, as well as many residential clients; prior work
included designing lobbies for residential co-ops
and retail stores and collaborating on restaurants,
residences, and offices with Judith Stockman and
Associates, The George Office, and Richard Bloch
Architect; has designed custom light fixtures and
furniture during the course of various projects;
formerly, project architect, project manager, and
senior designer with the firm of Jack L. Gordon
Architects (19741983), responsible for many
projects of varying scope and complexity including
building renovations and new construction.

Henry Weintraub
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; M.Arch.,
Harvard University; professional work has included
residential, town house renovations to rooftop
additions, to office and gallery renovations for offices
such as Ennead, Spivak Architects, and Daniel Rowen
Architects.

Alexandra Giffith Winton

VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts.

Corey Yurkovich
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.Arch., Kent State University; M.S., Harvard
University; a New York-based designer working
at the intersection of architecture, exhibition
design, product and furniture development, and
brand environments; has a wide variety of design
and production experiencesfrom initial creative
strategy through to construction management and
hands-on fabricationwhich have provided him the
opportunity to work closely with a range of clients
and collaborators; currently seeks to integrate
traditional craft-based production methods with
advanced digital fabrication to produce projects and
experiences that are conceptually rich, rigorously
designed, and efficiently constructed.

Library and Information Science Faculty
Selenay Aytac
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., Information Science, Long Island University,
C.W. Post Campus; M.B.A., Business and Total
Quality Management, Isik University; B.L.S., Istanbul
University.
Virginia Bartow
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Columbia University; B.A., William Smith
College; curator of the George Arents Collection and
head of Special Collections Cataloging, The New York
Public Library.
Carrie Banks
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Queens College, City University of New York;
Supervising Librarian, Childs Place for Children with
Special Needs, Brooklyn Public Library.
Johanna Bauman
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Queens College, City University of New York;
M.A., Ph.D., Art History, University of Virginia; B.A.,
History, George Mason University; Visual Resources
Curator, Pratt Institute.
Jason Baumann
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Queens College, City University of New York;
M.F.A., City College of New York; B.A., Eugene Lang
College The New School for Liberal Arts; Special
Assistant to the Director, NYPL Research Libraries.
John N. Berry III
VISITING PROFES SOR
M.S., Library Science, Simmons College; B.A., History,
Boston University.
Helen-Ann Brown-Epstein
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., B.S., University of Maryland at College Park;
M.S., University of Pennsylvania; Education and
Outreach Head, Weill Cornell Medical Library.
Charles Cuykendall Carter
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.S.L.I.S., Long Island University; M.F.A., Creative
Writing, New York University; B.A., English, Emory
University; Bibliographer, The Carl H. Pforzheimer
Collection of Shelley and His Circle, New York Public
Library.
Anthony Cocciolo
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ed.D., Ed.M., M.A., Communication, Computing
and Technology in Education, Teachers College,
Columbia University; B.S., Computer Science,
University of California at Riverside; research
interests are in the uses of emerging information
and communications technologies (ICTs) to enhance
libraries and education, especially in the social,
cognitive and affective dimensions of learning and
knowledge construction in digital environments;
former head of technology for the Gottesman
Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Anthony Cucchiara
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; M.B.A., Long Island University
at Brooklyn; B.A., St. Francis College; Archivist and
Associate Librarian for Distinctive Collections and
Information Services, Brooklyn College, CUNY.
Deirdre Donohue
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., State University of New
York at New Paltz; Librarian, International Center of
Photography.
Emily Drabinski
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Syracuse University; M.A., Composition
& Rhetoric, Long Island University; B.A., Political
Science, Columbia University.
Terence Fitzgerald
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.L.I.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., English, Iona College.
Nancy Friedland
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Rutgers University; M.A., New York University;
B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Head,
Butler Library Media Center, Butler Library, Columbia
University.
Barbara Genco
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Canisius College;
Director, Collection Development, Brooklyn
Public Library.
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Tula Giannini
DEAN OF THE SCHO OL OF INFORMATION AND
L IBR ARY SCIENCE
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College; M.L.S., Rutgers
University; M.M., B.M., Manhattan School of Music;
an interdisciplinary researcher, Dr. Giannini is a
leading scholar in French woodwind instruments
and cultural heritage in the digital world across
libraries, museums and archives. Recent publications
include: 22 articles in Groves Music Online (2013);
the book Great Flute Makers of France, published in
Japanese in 2007, described in Choice as a model
of archival research for all graduate students;
Core Competencies for Art Museum Librarianship,
ARLIS; and Frdric Triebert, Designer of the
Modern Oboe, Pendragon. She is writer and project
director for two current IMLS grants partnering
with leading NYC cultural institutions (see www.
brooklynvisualheritage.org and www.nyarc.org/
content/imls-funds-pratt-and-nyarc-partnership).
Sharareh Goldsmith
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Mt. Holyoke College;
Advanced Certificate in Library and Information
Studies, Pratt Institute.
Joshua Hadro
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Philosophy, Columbia
University; executive editor, digital products, Library
Journal and The Horn Book.
Alexis Hagadorn
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Columbia University, Advanced Certificate
in Library and Archives Conservation, Columbia
University; B.A., Barnard College; head of
conservation, Columbia University Libraries.
Jessica Lee Hochman
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Philosophy and Education, and Cultural Studies,
Teachers College, Columbia University; Diversity
Fellow 20012003 M.A., Instructional Technology and
Media in the Program of Scientific Foundations.
Jennifer Hoffman
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Higher Education, University of North Texas;
M.L.S., University of North Texas; M.A., Art History;
University of North Texas; B.A., Fine Art & English
Literature, Hardin-Simmons University.
David Alan Hollander
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
J.D., Fordham University; M.L.S., Pratt Institute;
Law and Legal Studies Librarian, Princeton
University Library.
Jennifer Hubert-Swan
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Wayne State University; B.A., English, Olivet
Nazarene University; Library Department chair, Little
Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School.
Sarah Jewell
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.I.S., Rutgers University; B.S., Biology; The
College of New Jersey.
Jesse Karp
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Journalism, New York
University; early childhood and interdimensional
librarian, Little Red School House and Elisabeth
Irwin High School.
Matthew Knutzen
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Abstract Cartography and Artists Books,
Pratt Institute; B.A., Geography, University of
California at Berkeley; geospatial librarian, New
York Public Library.
Elizabeth Kroski
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.L.I.S., Long Island University at Post; B.A.,
Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College; Manager
of Information Systems, New York Law Institute.
Tonya Leslie
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Education, New York University; B.A.,
Education, State University of New York at New Paltz.
Irene Lopatovska
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Information Science, Rutgers University;
M.L.S., University of North Texas; B.S., Kiev
State University.
Laura Lutz
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., University of Arizona; B.A., English, Willamette
University; consultant, Scholastic Book Clubs.
Craig MacDonald
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Information Studies, Drexel University; M.S.,
Applied & Mathematical Statistics, Rutgers University;
B.A., Statistics, The College of New Jersey.
Susan L. Malbin
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Ph.D., Comparative History, Brandeis University;
M.L.S., State University of New York at Albany; B.A.,
History, Barnard College; director of library and
archives, American Jewish Historical Society.
David Marcinkowski
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.A., Media Studies, The New School; B.A.,
Philosophy and Religion, Kean University; associate
professor, Associate Degree Program, Pratt Institute;
associate director of Computing Services, Pratt
Institute, Manhattan campus.
Hillias Martin
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., English and Drama,
University of Georgia; assistant director for young
adult programs, New York Public Library.
Seoud M. Matta
DEAN EMERIT US
D.L.S., Columbia University.
Abigail Meisterman
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.L.S., Queens College, City University of New
York; B.A., Dance and English, Rutgers University;
metadata specialist, New York Public Library.

Matthew Miller
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.S.L.I.S., Pratt Institute; M.S., History of Art,
Pratt Institute; B.A., History of Art, The Ohio State
University.
Jacob Nadal
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Indiana University at Bloomington; director
of library and archives, Brooklyn Historical Society,
Lisa Norberg
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.L.S., Indiana University; B.A., Political Science,
University of Wyoming; dean, Barnard Library and
Academic Information Services.
Maria Cristina Pattuelli
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
advanced degree (masters equivalent) in Cultural
Heritage Studies, University of Bologna, Italy;
advanced degree (masters equivalent) in Philosophy,
University of Bologna, Italy.
Slava Polishchuk
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., B.A., Brooklyn College, City University of
New York; conservator, Library Archives and Special
Collections, Brooklyn College Library, City University
of New York.
Deborah Rabina
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Rutgers University; areas of specialization
include reference resources (general, legal,
government), information law and policy,
government and NGO information sources and
scholarly communications; research focuses on
two major areas: how democratic micro and macro
organizations form and harbor information policies
that stem from and support their perception of
democracy, and the role of evolving patterns of
scholarly communications in academic and research
environments.
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Caroline Romans Brooke Watkins
VISITING PROFES SOR VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Drexel University. M.L.S., Certificate in Museum Studies, Pratt Institute;
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Brooklyn College, City
Charles Rubenstein University of New York; B.A., English Literature and
PROFES SOR Creative Writing, Ohio University; librarian, General
Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute NY; M.L.S., Pratt Research Division, Steven A. Schwarzman Building,
Institute; M.S., Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn; New York Public Library.
B.S., Richmond College, CUNY; visiting professor
of engineering at the Institute for Research and Christopher Weller
Technology Transfer, Farmingdale State College VISITING INSTRUCTOR
(SUNY); elected to the IEEE Board of Directors M.L.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Area Studies Asia, Trinity
serving as Director Elect in 20082009 and then College; consultant in information architecture, UX
as Director 20102011. design and linked data, Chris Weller Consulting.
Margaret Smith Kevin B. Winkler
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.L.I.S., Syracuse University; M.A., Evolutionary M.L.S., Columbia University; M.A., Hunter College,
Biology, Rice University; B.A., Physics & Studio Art, City University of New York; B.A., San Diego State
Rice University. University.
Kenneth Soehner
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.L.S., M.A., Columbia University; B.A., New York
University; chief librarian, Arthur K. Watson Library,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chris Alen Sula
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Certificate in International Technology and
Pedagogy, The Graduate Center, City University of
New York; M.Phil., Philosophy, The Graduate Center,
City University of New York; B.A., Philosophy and
English, Augustana College.
Elise Taylor-Swee
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S.L.I.S., Pratt Institute.
Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.L.S., Long Island University; B.A., Geography,
University of Washington.
Kyle Triplett
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.S.L.I.S., Pratt Institute; B.S., Political Science, Grand
Valley State University; rare books librarian, New York
Public Library.
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History of Art and Design Faculty
Lisa A. Banner
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University,
A.B. Princeton University; Lisa A. Banner is a specialist
in Spanish Baroque art, with a focus on the role of
the artist, patronage and collecting, and drawings.
She has held a Samuel H. Kress Curatorial Fellowship
at the Hispanic Society of America, and a Research
Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada, and
has written extensively about Spanish art. Banner
has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Frick Collection,
and the Morgan Library, among other venues in the
U.S. In addition, she has been an invited speaker
at international venues, including the Courtauld
Institute, London and the Consortium for the History
of Collecting of the Universitat de Barcelona. Banner
has curated exhibitions of drawings for The Frick
Collection and various international venues. Most
recently, she curated exhibitions of contemporary art,
including painting, sculpture, new media, installation,
and conceptual art.
Thomas Beachdel
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
M.Phil., Ph.D., Art History, Graduate School
and University Center, CUNY, M.A., Art History,
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Thomas
Beachdel is a specialist in nineteenth century art
and architectural history. He recently completed
his dissertation on landscape aesthetics and the
sublime in late 18th-century France. He has lectured
at the Dahesh Museum, and currently lectures at
the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim, the
New Museum and at contemporary galleries in
conjunction with the art education programs at the
92nd Street Y and Tribeca Y. He has taught courses
on art and architectural history at Hunter College
and at Spitzer School of Architecture (City College).
Agnes Berecz
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Universit Paris I, Panthon-Sorbonne, 2006;
teaches modern and contemporary art history
at Pratt and the Department of Graduate Studies
of the Fashion Institute of Technology and at The
Museum of Modern Art; New York correspondent of
the Budapest-based art monthly, Mrt, currently
writing a book about the cultural politics of painting
in postwar France; published in Art in America,
Artmargins, Praesens, Treca, and European and U.S.
exhibition catalogs.
Sam Bryan
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Howard University;
D.A., Carnegie-Mellon; a filmmaker and film archivist;
has taught courses in film history and production
at Brooklyn College, Fordham University and at
Pratt since 1983; since 1960 he has filmed for the
International Film Foundation in Africa and South
America; his films have been shown at the American
Film Festival, at the Museum of Modern Art and The
Metropolitan Museum of Art; hes a past president of
the New York Film Council and continues as executive
director of the International Film Foundation.
Corey DAugustine
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Art History, Advanced Certificate in Art
Conservation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University; B.A., Visual Arts and Biochemistry, Oberlin
College; specialist in 20th-Century Technical Art
History and the Conservation of Modern Paintings
and Sculpture; Special Project Conservator at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Lecturer at the
Museum of Modern Art; studio work in Painting and
Sculpture; selected publications: Taoism in the
Work of Agnes Martin, Kunst Nu, Laser Cleaning of
a Study Painting by Ad Reinhardt and the Analysis/
Assessment of the Surface after Treatment, Modern
Paints Uncovered; selected awards: Samuel H.
Kress Foundation grant, Dedalus Foundation grant;
selected papers: CAA, Yale University Materials of
Modern Art Symposium.
Edward DeCarbo
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.S., Foreign Service, Georgetown Univ; M.A.,
University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University;
has earned 2 degrees in international relations and 2
others in anthropology and African studies; his field
research is in West Africa with a focus on aesthetics,
the place and practice of the arts in everyday life.
Eva Diaz
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D.,
Princeton University; Curator for Art in General
and has served as faculty for the Whitney Museum
Independent Study Program, Parsons New School
for Design, and Sarah Lawrence College; in addition,
she is a freelance critic of contemporary and
modern art for publications such as Art in America,
Time Out New York, and Modern Painters.
Dorothea Dietrich
CHAIR
Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A., B.A., Yale University; Dietrich is
a modernist whose primary research areas are the
arts and culture of the Weimar Republic and the
post-WW II era in Germany; publications include The
Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition and Innovation
(Cambridge University Press, 1993) and German
Drawings of the 60s (Yale University Art Gallery and
Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982) as well as many essays
for exhibition catalogues and contributions to
scholarly volumes in the United States and Europe,

most recently a chapter on avant-garde magazines
in Hannover, Germany, for a comprehensive study
of modernist magazines (Oxford University Press);
she was also Contributing Editor to Art on Paper
and Critical Matrix; before coming to Pratt, Dietrich
was Chair of Arts and Humanities at the Corcoran
College of Art and Design and earlier, Curator of
Prints and Drawings and Director of the Morse
Research Center at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli
Art Museum at Rutgers. She taught modern art at
Princeton University (19841996) and held visiting
appointments at Yale University, MIT, Washington
University, Duke University, Boston University,
and Bryn Mawr College; she recently was a Senior
Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute
in Leeds, England; she also serves on the board
for Kurt Schwitters Merzbarn in England; she is
currently working on art and technology in the
former German Democratic Republic.
Mary Edwards
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.S., M.A., Ph.D., M.L.S., Columbia University; Edwards
grew up in Oklahoma and lives in Manhattan; studied
at the Art Students League and Columbia University;
received a Columbia University Kress Fellowship for
198283; a National Endowment for the Humanities
Travel-to-Collections Grant for 1988; a Gladys
Krieble Delmas Grant for 2000; and travel grants
from Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and the
School of Visual Arts; has been a fellow at the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation,
the Cummington Community of the Arts, the Mary
Anderson Center, and the Hambidge Center.
Diana Gisolfi
PROFE S SOR
B.A., Manhattanville, Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., Yale,
University of Chicago; Gisolfis research and teaching
focus is on Italian Renaissance Art, art historical
methodology, the context of the Catholic Reform
in Italy, and art by women; she has published
particularly on sixteenth-century Venetian and
Veneto art, including that of Veronese, Tintoretto,
and Zelotti; current work looks at materials and
techniques of such artists in relation to workshop
practice; lectures in national and international
venues and has reviewed books and exhibitions;
chaired the art history department and is director of
the Pratt in Venice Program.
Dimitri Hazzikostas
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Athens University, Greece; M.A.; Ph.D., Columbia
University; an art historian and archaeologist;
member of the Hellenic Archaeological Society;
participated in excavations at Ancient Corinth,
Troezen and Lechaion; areas of special interest
include Greek, Roman, and early Medieval art,
iconography and interpretation; he is a Whiting
Fellow and received the Sears Distinguished
Professor Award; a contributor to the Encyclopedia
of Comparative Iconography; as a member of the
Pratt Academic Senate since its inception, he chaired
the Senates Programs and Policies Committee; also
teaches in the Pratt-in-Venice program.
Frima Fox Hofrichter
PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Rutgers University; M.A., Hunter College; B.A.,
Brooklyn College; as a specialist in Art of the Early
Modern period, issues of gender and class have
informed Hofrichters writings and teaching; author
of a monograph on Judith Leyster, numerous articles,
and has curated several exhibitions; besides gradu-
ate courses in Dutch still-life painting and Vermeer,
Hofrichter also teaches undergraduate Survey; she is
a co-author of the major text, Jansons History of Art:
The Western Tradition; a member of the College Art
Associations Committee on Women in the Arts.
Heather Horton
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University;
B.A., DePauw University; Heather Horton specializes
in Medieval and Renaissance art and architectural
history. Her current research focuses on questions of
authorship, originality, and imitation, especially in the
career of the pivotal writer and architect Leon Battista
Alberti. She recently published a new interpretation
of Albertis treatises on painting and is completing a
book manuscript titled Leon Battista Alberti and the
Renaissance Crisis of the Author. She has taught at
New York University, the City University of New York,
Purchase College, and The Cloisters Museum, where
she remains a frequent guest lecturer.
Il Kim
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., M. Phil., and M.A., Columbia University,
Architectural History; M.A. and B.A., Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music, Architecture; Il
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Kims work and studies focus on architecture and
architectural history. His dissertation entitled,
Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, and the Cult
of Light in Fifteenth-Century Italian Renaissance
Architecture, discusses how the mutual understand-
ing between Cusa and Alberti led to the creation of
unprecedented Renaissance buildings. He is in the
early stages of developing his dissertation into a book.
His publications include studies of the Italian Renais-
sance, an essay on Isamu Noguchi, and several books
on contemporary architecture. Il Kim is an architect as
well, and his work has been published in the U.S.
Vivien Knussi
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Columbia
University; upon moving to New York City from
Boston in 1986, Knussi lectured at the Museum
of Modern Art focusing on photography; she
also worked for six years as curator and head of
acquisitions for the Dreyfus Mellon Fund; since
completing her Ph.D. she has begun writing a
textbook on photography.
Gayle Rodda Kurtz
A S SISTANT CHAIR
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Hunter College,
City University of New York; Ph.D., The Graduate
CenterCity University of New York; concentration
in European art of the 18th and 19th centuries;
from 1995 to 2013Contractual Lecturer at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art with a focus on the
African art galleries.
Marilyn Kushner
VISITING PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; M.A.,
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; Ph.D.,
Northwestern Univ; Curator and Head, Department
of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections
at the New-York Historical Society (2006-Present);
previously she was Department Chair, Prints,
Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Prints and
Drawings at the Brooklyn Museum (19942006); also
served as Curator of Collections at the Montclair Art
Museum, New Jersey, and Research Associate at the
Whitney Museum of American Art; has published and
lectured extensively on works on paper and served
on juries and guest-curated exhibitions nationwide.
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Anca Lacs
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Art History Department, University of Southern
California (Dissertation: Before Art Nouveau: The
Invention, Commercialization, and Display of the
Modern Interior in Nineteenth-Century France);
Graduate Certificate in History and Theory of
Collecting and Display; Graduate Certificate in
Visual Cultural Studies; M.A., University of Southern
California; B.A., Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany;
Lascs work focuses on the invention and
commercialization of the modern French interior
and on the development of the profession of interior
designers in the 19th century. She has published
articles in Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture and
the Journal of Design History and has presented at
numerous conferences, including those organized
by the College Art Association, the Society of
Architectural Historians, and the Society for French
Historical Studies. In addition to the modern interior,
she also studies the art of commercial window
dressing in 19th-century France and America.
Michele LiCalsi
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.A., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts,
Certificate in Art Conservation; B.A., New York
University; studied art at the New York Academy of Art,
the Art Students League, and the National Academy
of Design; she has been teaching drawing, color, and
composition at the National Academy of Design from
1994 to the present; taught fresco painting at the
Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU from
1993 to 2005; has also worked in Art Conservation at
the Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum
of Art; worked as a conservator on sites in Florence,
Rome, Parma, and Sardis.
William Lorenzo
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Fine Art, Art Education, Brooklyn College;
Independent artist, researcher, film archivist, and
programmer; publications include museum notes and
articles in Animation Magazine, AnimaFilm, and others;
author: Lillian Friedman AstorPioneer Woman
Animator; Executive Board Member ASIFA-East, the
International Animated Film Association; Curator,
Animation Over Broadway, Museum of Modern Art,
1993; other areas of interest: film and illustration.
Elizabeth Meggs
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.A., Painting (with distinction), Pratt Institute, 2008;
B.A., Communication Arts and Design, Illustration
(Summa Cum Laude), Virginia Commonwealth
University, 1999; a Brooklyn-based artist, illustrator,
and designer, whose most recent work includes
paintings, photography, and hand-bound artist
books; inducted into the Visual Lunacy Society; has
worked as a graphic designer at Hearsts Victoria
Magazine, as a writer at The Los Angeles Daily News,
at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, as an instructor at
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, as an adjunct faculty
member at Virginia Commonwealth University, and
now as a visiting faculty member at Pratt Institute.
Marsha Morton
PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University;
M.A., University of Chicago; primary area of research
is 19th-century German art, with published articles
on interdisciplinary topics in Neoclassicism,
Romanticism, Biedermeier, Impressionism,
and Symbolism; currently finishing a book on
the printmaker Max Klinger that explores his art
within the context of Darwinism, anthropology,
psychology, and the grotesque; books include The
Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth
Century (Garland, 2000) and Pratt and Its Gallery:
The Arts and Crafts Years (1998); she has served as
the secretary of Historians of German and Central
European Art (HGCEA) since 2005.
Evan Neely
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Art History, M.A., Art History, Columbia
University; B.F.A., Fine Arts, Parsons School of
Design; studied both 20th-century and Northern
European Renaissance Art, as well as post-
Enlightenment political and aesthetic theory;
recent work investigates the relationships between
19th-century American literature and 20th-century
painting and new genres; has taught courses at
Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, and
the Museum of Modern Art, on a variety of subjects,
including modern and postmodern art, the history
of ethical and political theory, and Enlightenment
aesthetics; currently Core Lecturer for Art
Humanities at Columbia University in addition to
teaching at Pratt.
Joyce Polistena
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., M.Phil., CUNY; TESOL, Columbia University;
published articles in Religion and the Arts, The Van
Gogh Museum Journal, Italian Americans and the Arts
and Culture; has presented several papers at the
College Art Association, also the Museum of Biblical
Art, the North East Popular Culture Association, and
many scholarly venues; current work is focused on
Eugne Delacroix, and 19th-Century European and
American Art.
Katarina Posch
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.A., University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria;
Ph.D., National University of Fine Arts and Music,
Tokyo, Japan; publications: Design: Isamu Noguchi
and Isamu Kenmochi (Noguchi Museum, New York,
2007); About Creativity (Querdenker Magazin 2007,
European Forum Alpbach 2007, the University of
Applied Sciences, Salzburg, 2007); Isamu Noguchi
Sculptural Design (Vitra Design Museum, Germany,
2001); curatorial work for the Pompidou Center in
Paris, the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, and the
Noguchi Museum in NYC.
Janice Robertson
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Art History, M.A., Art History, Columbia
University in New York City; B.A., Art History,
California State University at Fresno; specialist in
Pre-Columbian art with research and pedagogical
interests that revolve around writing technologies;
publications: Pictures Silenced by Words:
Rethinking the Problem of Aztec Picture-Writing,
Quaderni di THULE (2006); selected awards: FIT
Faculty Development Grant for VoiceThread Pilot
Project (2009-10), Columbia University Presidents
Fellowships, CSU Fresno Deans Medal of Honor
in the School of Humanities; selected papers:
Between Painting and Writing: The Problem of
Aztec Picture-Writing and the Paragone at the Root
of the Problem, Renaissance Society of America
(2008); Art><Writing Border Crossings: a Nahua
Riddle Sparks an Interactive Reading and Renewed
Vision of Aztec Picture-Writing, CSU, Sacramento
Art History Symposium (2009); Alive with Movement:
The Pulse of Aztec Picture-Writing, Columbia
University Seminar in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and
the Americas (2010).

Ann Schoenfeld
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A.,
University of Chicago; Ph.D., City University of
New York, Graduate Center; recipient of CUNY
Dissertation Fellowship, Pratt Institute Faculty
Development Fund grant; lecturer, S.U.N.Y. at
Purchase; nominator, Joan Mitchell Foundation
for Painting and Sculpture; curator, Get Close,
Marymount Manhattan College gallery; published
in Arts Magazine, I.D., Eye.
Dorothy Shepard
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College; B.A., Sweet Briar College;
M.A., Southern Methodist University; specialist in
Medieval Art, especially Romanesque manuscripts;
author of Introducing the Lambeth Bible (2007);
AAUW American Fellowship; Haakon Traveling
Fellowship; invited lectures include College Art
Association (1998), Medieval Academy (2000);
Symposia on the History of the Bible (19952000),
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Frick
Symposium (1987).
Jack Toolin
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.F.A., Ohio University; M.F.A., San Jose State
University; an artist working in new media, digital
imaging, and performance, who also teaches at
Polytechnic Institute at NYU and lectures at Rhode
Island School of Design and University of California
at Berkeley; his work considers contemporary
life in light of changing political, economic, and
technological landscapes.
Borhua Wang
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.A., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,
ROC; M.A., University of Kansas at Lawrence; Ph.D.,
Columbia University; Wang specializes in Chinese
painting and calligraphy and in particular the Song
dynasty; other areas of research: Contemporary
Chinese Art, Buddhist Art of Southeast Asia, and
Western art theory; curator of Contemporary Korean
Art, Abstract Chinese Art, Taipei Fine Art Museum;
presented Pan Yuliangs Life and Art: Alienation to
Freedom of Expression, CAA, 2001.
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Sarah Wilkins
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey;
M.S., Pratt Institute; B.A., Vanderbilt University;
Sarah Wilkins is a specialist in late medieval and
Renaissance art in Italy. Her research interests include
mendicant patronage, Angevin Naples, interactions
between text and image, and the cult of the saints
especially the veneration of female saints. Dr. Wilkins
dissertation, She Loved More Ardently than the Rest:
The Magdalen Cycles of Late Duecento and Trecento
Italy, investigating the iconography and patronage
of six Italian narrative cycles depicting the life of Mary
Magdalen, was completed in 2012. Among the grants
and fellowships that she has received are a Fulbright
fellowship at the Kunsthistorishes Institut in Florenz
Max-Planck-Institut (2010-11) and a Mellon Finishing
Grant (2011-12). Her article, Imaging the Angevin
Patron Saint: Mary Magdalen in the Pipino Chapel in
Naples, was just published in California Italian Studies
3 (2012). Another article, Adopting and Adapting
Formulas: The Raising of Lazarus and Noli Me Tangere
in the Arena Chapel in Padua and the Magdalen Chapel
in Assisi, in La Formule au Moyen ge, edited by Elise
Louviot, is forthcoming in early 2013. Her current
research investigates Magdalen Eucharistic imagery.
Karyn Zieve
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University;
M.A., University of Pennsylvania; B.A., Wellesley
College; Zieve is a specialist in 19th- and early
20th-century art, with a focus on Eugne Delacroix,
orientalism, the history of photography, and the
graphic arts. In addition to teaching at various NYC
institutions and museums, she has written about
and organized exhibitions of prints, drawings, and
photographs on various topics including symbolism
and German Expressionism.
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Media Studies Faculty
Donald Andreasen
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., New School; Don earned his Masters of Fine
Arts degree in Playwriting from the Actors Studio,
New School University. He has had one-act plays
produced at the HERE Theatre and Access Theatre
in New York City and was co-writer of a short film
produced by Fox Searchlab Pictures. Don has
also worked as a voice-over artist doing various
commercial work in addition to network television.
Saul Anton
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Emily P. Beall
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Professor Bealls academic interests include
20th- and 21st-century experimental poetry and
poetics, with a focus on experimental writing by
women. A poet herself, she is also interested in the
intersections of poetics and modern dance, and the
ways that such intersections generate concepts of
space, meaning, and the body.
Jonathan Beller
PROFE S SOR
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University;
Interests:Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race
Theory, Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization,
Aesthetics and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema,
Philippine Culture and Politics.
Caterina Bertolotto
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Laurea in Pedagogia, University of Turin, Italy;
Caterina Bertolotto, a graduate of the University
of Turin, Italy, has received eight certificates in
different language teaching methodologies in both
Italy and in New York, as well as a Distinguished
University Teaching Award from The New School.
She is the author of four books, two audio and two
PowerPoint CDs. She has also taught seminars to
language teachers and undergraduates at The New
School, Sarah Lawrence College, Montclair State
University, Eugene Lang and Baruch College.
Stephanie Boluk
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Warren Burdine
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Melissa Buzzeo
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Diana Cage
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Philip Carroll
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Pamela Casey
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Lis Cena
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Peter Chamedes
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Peter Chamedes is a person with 60s values and
an abiding love of literature and art. Following a
doctorate in English Literature (poetry), family
obligations redirected him into an extended career
in advertising. This was at last succeeded by a return
to scholarship and pedagogy. His students have
ranged from at-risk adolescents to aspiring artists
(including many remarkable Pratt scholars). His
consuming interests include his two babies, poetry,
contemporary art, and African art.
Priya R. Chandrasekaran
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Youmna Chlala
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Diane Cohen
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Ellen Conley
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., Wagner College; B.A., Penn State; MTMS
ASCP, Jefferson Medical College; Ellen Conley
is a published writer of four books with national
reviews:The Chosen Shore (Univ. of Calif. Press),
Bread and Stones (Mercury House), Soon to Be
Immortal (St. Martins Press) and Soho Madonna
(Avon Original Fiction).
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
A S SISTANT CHAIR
B.A., New York University; M.F.A., Goddard College;
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont is the author of the
Encyclopedia of Womens History In America (Facts
on File, 1996, rev. ed., 2000) and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton (Facts on File, 1992); co-author of Womens
Suffrage in America (Facts on File, 1992, rev. ed.,
2005) and Womens Rights on Trial: 101 Historic Trials
from Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute
Cadets (Gale Research, 1997); and editor of American
Women Activists Writings: An Anthology, 16372002
(Cooper Square Press, 2002). She is currently
working on a book about human trafficking.
Maria Damon
CHAIR, HUMANITIES AND MEDIA S T UDIE S

Amanda Davidson
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Don Doherty
VISITING INSTRUC TOR; T U TOR
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York;
M.A., New York University; Don Doherty has been an
instructor at Pratt since 1996, teaching Freshman
Composition and Literature and English as a Second
Language. He did Foundation Year at Pratt before
moving into a Liberal Arts program at Hunter College,
so Pratt was his first home-away-from-home. His
interests include writing short fiction, writing and
producing music, video production, animation,
collage and drawing. He rides an Alien Workshop
deck with Tensor trucks and Darkstar wheels. His
YouTube account is papakilatube.
Steven Doloff
PROFES SOR; L ECT URER, IN TENSIVE ENGL ISH
B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook;
M.phil., City University of New York Graduate Center;
Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center;
TESOL Certificate, Columbia University Teachers
College; Steven Doloff was named a Pratt Institute
Distinguished Professor (200102) and received the
Institutes Student Government Association Faculty
Excellence Award in 1990.
Helen Easterly
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Rachid Eladlouni
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR; L EC T URER,
INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
Laura Elrick
VISITING INSTRUC TOR; L EC T URER, IN TENSIVE
ENGL ISH; T U TOR
B.A., University of Southern California; Laura Elrick
teaches in the English and Humanities Department
and the Intensive English Program. She has published
two books of poetry and numerous essays on
contemporary literature, culture, and politics, and
regularly performs her work nationally. She holds
a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication from the
University of Southern California and is currently
pursuing a Masters in Liberal Studies at the CUNY
Graduate Center in Manhattan. Her interests
include the intersection between poetics and the
production of social space, spatiality, and scale.
Elizabeth Fow
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR ; T U TOR
B.A., University of Waikato, New Zealand; M.F.A.,
Brooklyn College.
Sacha E. Frey
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
John Gendall
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Daniel Gerzog
PROFES SOR
Daniel Gerzog (B.A. 53, M.A. 54, A.B.D. 58, NYU) with a mother who was a descendant of Jamaican
is Professor of English and Humanities and has
been teaching at Pratt since 1959. He is currently
working with his second generation of fledgling
artists, designers and architects, introducing them
to the joys and stimulations of good reading and
clear expression. He also supervises thesis corollary
statements in the MFA program.
Elizabeth Grinnell
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Brown University; B.A., Mills College; E. Tracy
Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O Books,
2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001). She is the
founding editor of Litmus Press, a nonprofit publisher of
new American poetry and works in translation.
Amy Guggenheim
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Amy Guggenheim is a filmmaker and writer. Her work
in theater and film focuses on violence, intimacy, and
sexuality, and has been presented internationally
with support from the New York State Council on the
Arts, the American Embassy, Fulbright Foundation,
Mellon Fund, and others. Her work has been
published in American Letters and Commentary, and
in the Italian literary journal Storie. Her 2008 artistic
residency in Japanin development for her first
feature filmrelates to her work as founder of the
Center for Artistic Engagement.
Christian Hawkey
PROFES SOR
Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-
winning books of poetry, including The Book of
Funnels (Wave Books, 2004), which won the 2006
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, HourHour (Delirium
Press, 2005), and Citizen Of (Wave Books, 2007). His
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poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Volt, Denver
Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, BOMB, Chicago Review,
and Best American Poetry. He has received awards
from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry
Fund, and in 2006 he received a Creative Capital
Innovative Literature Award. In 2008, he was a DAAD
Artist-in-Berlin Fellow.
Kwame Heshimu
VISITING INSTRUCTOR ; T U TOR
B.A. in English (with a specialization in writing), New
York University; Kwame Heshimu grew in the shadow
of the Blue Mountain. Son of a Cuban expatriate, and
maroons, he spent his childhood in one of the
most inaccessible communities on the island. His
grandfather, a saxophonist with dance bandleader
Ray Coburn, frequently accompanied Rastafarian
drummers. Kwame not only became enthralled with
the music, but with the Rastafarian vocabulary, or
Iyaric, an intentionally created dialect of English,
reflecting their desire to take forward language and
confront Babylon system. His romance with word,
sound, and power had begun.
Jeffrey Hogrefe
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., U.C. Berkeley; Jeffrey Hogrefe is an author,
architectural critic, and coordinator of Pratt School
of Architectures Writing Program: Language/Making.
He is a studio critic at Parsons the New School for
Design, Cooper Union, and Columbia; a contributor
to Harpers, the New Yorker, Smithsonian, New York
Observer, Washington Post, and Vanity Fair; and the
author of OKeeffe: The Life of an American Legend, a
biography focused on the artists rights of seclusion
and personal identity politics.
Samantha Hunt
PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College; Samantha Hunt is
the author of two books, The Seasfor which she
was awarded a National Book Foundation award for
writers under 35and The Invention of Everything
Else, a novel about the life of Nikola Tesla. Her stories
have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeneys, A
Public Space, Cabinet, Seed Magazine and on the
radio program This American Life.
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Dexter Jeffries
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Queens College, City University of New York;
M.A., City College of New York; Ph.D., City University
of New York, Graduate Center; Dexter Jeffries was
born and raised in New York City. In between his
academic studies he was a taxi driver and served in
a United States Army combat engineer battalion in
West Germany. Jeffries came to Pratt in 1993, and in
1996, in conjunction with the Media Arts department,
he produced and directed the documentary film,
Whats Jazz? In 2003, Kensington Press published
his autobiographical memoir, Triple Exposure: Black,
Jewish and Red in the 1950s. Jeffries lives in Brooklyn.
May Joseph
PROFES SOR, GLOBAL ST UDIE S
Sean Kelly
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
B.A., Loyola College University of Montreal.
David D. Kim
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
Elizabeth Knauer
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Christoph Kumpusch
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Krystal Languell
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Rachel Levitsky
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Professor Levitskys first full-length volume, Under the
Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003.
She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an
event and publication series of feminist avant-garde
poetics. She is also the author of five chapbooks
of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356,
Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures
of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999), 2(11) Portraits
(Baksun, 1998), and a series of poetry plays.
Ellen Levy
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Ira Livingston
PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Stanford University; Ira Livingstons primary
field is cultural theory. He is the author of
Between Science and Literature: An Introduction
to Autopoetics (2006) and Arrow of Chaos:
Romanticism and Postmodernity (1997), and coeditor
of Posthuman Bodies (1995, with Judith Halberstam)
and Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader (2009, with
Maria Damon).
Jennifer Miller
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Circus Amok founder and artistic director Jennifer
Miller has been working with alternative circus forms,
theater, and dance, for over twenty years. Her work
with Circus Amok was awarded a Bessie in 1995
and an OBIE in 2000. Circus Amok is the subject of a
French documentary film, Un Cirque a New York 2002
and Brazilian documentary, Juggling Politics 2004
She has taught at Cal Arts, NYU, and UCLA.
Tracie Morris
PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University; M.F.A., Hunter College,
City University of New York; Tracie Morris is an
interdisciplinary poet who has worked extensively
as a sound artist, writer and multimedia performer.
Her installations have been presented at the Whitney
Biennial and the Jamaica Center for Arts and
Learning. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter
College and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from
New York University.
Cecilia Muhlstein
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Cecilia Muhlstein was born in Texas, but grew up in
Los Angeles. Her work and interests reside in fiction,
critical theory, art, and eco-poetics. Her current
work can be found in the pages of NYArts magazine
and in the archives of Safe-T-Gallery.
Mendi Lewis Obadike
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Duke University.
Robert Obrecht
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Sarah Lawrence Coll; TESOL Certificate,
Columbia University Teachers College; Obrecht was
born in New York City in 1951. His compositions have
premiered in New York at Lincoln Centers State
Theater and Alice Tully Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, Merkin Hall and LaMama E.T.C., among others.
He has scored exhibition videos for the Museum
of Modern Art, the Museum of Natural History, the
Jewish Museum and the Queens Museum of Science.
His theme song for the Disney/Henson Bear in the
Big Blue House is broadcast worldwide. Obrecht has
been teaching at Pratt since 1988.
Rosemary Grebin Palms
PROFES SOR
B.A., College of St. Teresa (MN), English; M.A., University
of Texas at Austin, English; Ph.D., University of Texas at
Austin, American Literature; Rosemary Grebin Palms
was born in Minnesota; she has been a New Yorker
since 1970 and on the Pratt faculty since 1973.
Kristin A Pape
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Jean-Paul Pecqueur
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., University of Washington; B.A., Evergreen
State College; Jean-Paul Pecqueur is a poet and
writing instructor who has published poems,
critical reviews, and essays in a number of national
publications. He has taught creative writing, critical
writing, and literature courses at The University of
Washington and The University of Arizonas Poetry
Center. Jean-Paul has been teaching Introduction to
Literary and Critical Studies courses at Pratt Institute
since 2006. His first book of poems, The Case Against
Happiness, was the winner of Alice James Books
Kinerth Gensler award in 2006.
Alba Potes
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
D.M.A. in Composition, Temple University; Alba
Potes was born in Colombia. Her compositions
have been performed by the Montreal Chamber
Orchestra, National Symphony of Colombia,
Darmstadt 2000 Internationale Ferienkurse fr
Neue Musik, the Institute for New Music in Freiburg,
The New York New Music Ensemble, and by music
festivals in Latin America, South Korea, Germany,
Canada, and the USA. Connected to her creative
work based on Spanish literature, she has also
taught Spanish in CUNY and Columbia University.
She teaches music at The Mannes College of Music,
College Preparatory Division.

Evan Rehill
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
Eric Rosenblum
VISITING INSTRUC TOR; L EC T URER, IN TENSIVE
ENGL ISH
B.A., English, Ohio University; M.F.A., Fiction Writing,
Syracuse University; Erics fiction and non-fiction
have appeared in Guernica Magazine, the Chicago
Tribune and the Chicago Reader.
Carole Rosenthal
VISITING PROFE S SOR
B.A., Penn State; M.A., New York University; M.A.,
Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social
Research; Carole Rosenthal is the author of a short
story collection in which characters inner lives
collide explosively with external reality. Her fiction
has been translated into 11 languages and dramatized
for radio and television networks, including Italys
RAI and South Africas Springbok Broadcasting.
Widely anthologized, she teaches modern and
contemporary ideas in literature and film at Pratt.
She is also a former psychotherapist whose art work
has appeared in shows and magazines.
Sydney Scott
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Sydney Scott is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies
and holds an MA in Communication Studies. Her
philosophies: Life may be painful, but learning
doesnt have to be; Whoever walks away with the
most candy wins; and Love is far more pragmatic
than its cracked up to be (stolen from Ally McBeal).
Her interests include art, theater, comedy, TV/film,
Seinfeld, Knicks, Yankees, bagels, black coffee, pizza,
black and white cookies and anything else thats
totally New York.
Matthew Sharpe
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Heidi Singer
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Heidi Singer holds a Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate
Center (1983) in German Languages and Literatures,
an M.A. in German from Syracuse University (1973),
and a B.A. in Psychology from San Francisco State
University (1969). She has taught at Queensborough
College (19811991) and Hunter College (19862000)
and at The New School (since 1995) and Pratt (since
2001). She was a translator for The Rockefeller
Archive Center, translated numerous books and
articles, and wrote a book for Living Languages:
German All the Way (Crown, 1994).
Sharon Snow
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Vassar College; Master of Arts, French
Literature, Columbia University; spent her junior
year in Paris, and following graduation, received a
fellowship to study at the University of Lausanne,
Switzerland. After receiving her Masters in French
at Columbia, she worked at an art gallery and for the
United Nations. She taught at Manhattans Hewitt
School for 14 years and is now visiting instructor at
Pratt and at St. Josephs College.
Ethan Spigland
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University;
Matrise, University of Paris VIII; has made numerous
films and media works including: Luminosity Porosity,
based on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator
Moods, featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and
The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won
the Gold Medal in the Student Academy Awards.
Gloria Steil
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., New
York University. Professor Steil has also taught English
in Tokyo for the Japanese Ministry of Education;
a summer intensive course in English literature and
composition in Seoul; and English literature at the
College of New Rochelle, Medgar Evers College,
Hostos Community College, and Borough of
Manhattan Community College.
Yijue Sun
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Holly Tavel
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Barbara Turoff
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University; Laurea, Universita di
Bologna.
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Suzanne Verderber
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania; Suzanne Verderbers teaching
and research focus on the relationship between
subjectivity and power, and on the relation between
pre-modern periods (medieval, Renaissance,
Baroque) and contemporary concerns. Specific
fields of study include politics, literature, art, critical
theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.
Christopher Vitale
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton;
Ph.D., New York University; his areas of
specialization include continental philosophy,
comparative modernist literary and cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, queer studies, theories of race and
ethnicity, radical political thought, and film and
film theory. Currently, he is writing a book about
complexity studies and theories of networks. He has
taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, and Hunter College.
Elizabeth Williams
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Middlebury College.
Thad Ziolkowski
CO ORDINATOR, THE WRITING PRO GR AM ;
PROFES SOR
B.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Yale
University; Ziolkowski is the author of a novel,
Wichita, a memoir, On a Wave, and a collection
of poems, Our Son, the Arson.; his journalism has
appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Bookforum,
Travel & Leisure, and the Village Voice; among other
honors, he is the recipient of a fellowship from the
John S. Guggenheim Foundation.
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Writing Faculty
Youmna Chlala
Youmna Chlala is a writer, an artist, and the founding
editor of Eleven Eleven {1111} Journal of Literature
and Art. She is the author of the poetry manuscript
The Paper Camera, and recipient of the 2009
Joseph Henry Jackson Award. Chlalas prose and
poetry has appeared widely, including in Guernica,
Bespoke, CURA, XCP: Journal of Cross-Cultural
Poetics, MIT Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and
in the book Nation, Gender, and Belonging: Arab
and Arab American Feminist Perspectives. She has
exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
London, Rotterdam International Film Festival,
Camera Austria, MOCAD, and San Jose Museum of
Art and participated in the Performa Biennial and
roaming Tehran Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions
include the Cultuurcentrum, Belgium, and Art
In General, New York. Chlala has been awarded
residencies and fellowships from the Henie Onstad
Art Centre Norway, Headlands Center for the Arts,
Hedgebrook, CAMAC: Center for Art and Technology,
Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, Triangle Arts
Fund, European Cultural Foundation, and Goethe-
Institut Cairo. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing
from the California College of the Arts.
www.youmnachlala.com.
Laura Elrick
Laura Elrick is the author of three books of poetry,
including Propagation (Kenning Editions, 2012),
Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory
School, 2005), and sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003).
Her psychogeographically inspired research and
performance works include the oppositional
cartography Blocks Away, exhibited at The Skybridge
Art & Sound Space in 2010, and the video-poem
Stalk, commissioned by the Positions Colloquium
in Vancouver in 2008 and exhibited in the Social-
Environmental Aesthetics Series at Exit Art (New
York, 2009) and the Rustbelt Sightsound Collision at
the SPACES gallery (Cincinnati, 2013). A sound work,
5 Audio Pieces for Doubled Voice, was commissioned
by New Langton Arts for the Performance Writing
Series in San Francisco in 2005. Her work also appears
in several anthologies, including Viz. Inter-Arts
Intervention: A Trans-Genre Anthology (forthcoming),
Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual
Writing, and Eco Language Reader, and has been
translated into Spanish, French, Italian and Norwegian.
James Hannaham
James Hannaham, author of the novel God Says
No (McSweeneys), has published stories in One
Story, Fence, Open City, The Literary Review, and
BOMB. For over 20 years, he has contributed
reviews and profiles, etc. to the Village Voice and
other publications, including Spin, Out, and Details.
He co-founded the performance group Elevator
Repair Service and worked with them from 1992 to
2002, and he has collaborated with Ralph Lemon,
Kara Walker, Diller+Scofidio, The Wooster Group,
Clarinda Mac Low, and others. More recently he has
exhibited text-based visual art at Samsn Projects in
Boston, Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, 490 Atlantic
in Brooklyn, and at the Center for Emerging Visual
Artists in Philadelphia. His upcoming second novel is
entitled Delicious Foods. He has also taught creative
writing at The New School and Columbia University.
www.jameshannaham.com.
Christian Hawkey
Christian Hawkey has written two full-length poetry
collections: The Book of Funnels (Wave Books,
2005) and Citizen Of (Wave, 2007); four chapbooks:
Hour Hour (Delirium Press, 2005), Petitions for
an Alien Relative (Hand Held Editions, 2009), Ulf
(Factory Hollow Press, 2010), and Sonette mit
Elizabethanischem Maulwurf (Hochroth Verlag,
2010); and the cross-genre book Ventrakl (2010,
Ugly Duckling Presse). A new book, Sonne from
Ort, a collaborative bilingual erasure made with
the German poet Uljana Wolf, appeared in 2013
(kookbooks verlag, Berlin). In 2006, he received a
Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008
he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin fellow. He translates
contemporary German poetry, as well as the late
short prose of the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger,
and his own work has been translated into over a
dozen languages. He is an officer of the Office of
Recuperative Strategies.
Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunts novel about Nikola Tesla, The
Invention of Everything Else was a finalist for the
Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize.
Her first novel, The Seas, won a National Book
Foundation award for writers under 35. Hunts work
has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeneys,
The New York Times, Tin House, A Public Space,
Cabinet, Blind Spot, The London Times, and in a
number of other fine publications. Her books
have been translated into ten languages. She has
performed with Jim Jarmusch and Luc Sante at
All Tomorrows Parties, at Los Angeless Hammer
Museum and REDCAT, with the National Theater
of the United States of America (NTUSA) at PS122,
in the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, at Seattles
Bumbershoot Festival, and as part of BAMs Next
Wave Festival. Her work has been performed on
WBEZs This American Life and on WNYCs Selected
Shorts program. A novel titled Mr. Splitfoot and a
collection of short fictions titled Beast and Other
Stories are forthcoming. www.samanthahunt.net.

Rachel Levitsky
Rachel Levitsky is the author of a novel, The Story of
My Accident Is Ours (Futurepoem, 2013), two books
of poetry, Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2003) and
Neighbor (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009) and a number
of chapbooks including Renoemos (Delete, 2010).
She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative,
a feminist avant-garde hub for interventions in
writing, reading, engaged discourse, and activism. In
2010 with Christian Hawkey, she started The Office
of Recuperative Strategies, a mobile research unit
variously located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boulder,
Brooklyn, Cambridge, New York City, and Leipzig. She
lives in Brooklyn.
Tracie Morris
Tracie Morris is a poet, performer and scholar. She
holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter College,
a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York
University and has trained at The Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art (RADA). Her latest poetry collection is
Rhyme Scheme (Zasterle Press, 2012) with several
books and recordings forthcoming. Tracie frequently
tours as a sound poet/vocalist around the country
and internationally and collaborates often with
other experimental artists. She is Professor of
Performance and Performance Studies at Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn. www.traciemorris.com.
Anna Moschovakis
Anna Moschovakis is the author of two books of
poetry, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
and I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone,
and the translator of several novels from the French,
most recently The Jokers, by Albert Cossery. She is a
longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing
collective Ugly Duckling Presse.
Mendi Obadike
Mendi Lewis Obadike is an artist and scholar who
works across media. She is the author of Armor
and Flesh (Lotus Press), which won the Naomi Long
Madgett Prize, Phonotype (writings on audio art),
and the forthcoming books Big House / Disclosure
and Four Electric Ghosts (1913 Press). Mendi
collaborates with her husband Keith Obadike.
Their 2001 work Blackness for Sale has been widely
cited in the press and in new media art surveys.
Recent installations include Big House / Disclosure,
American Cypher (Studio Museum in Harlem &
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Samek Art Gallery of Bucknell University), and
African Metropole (MoCADA & Pascal Gallery of
Ramapo College). Other conceptual media artworks
have been commissioned by and exhibited at the
Whitney Museum, the New Museum, Yale University,
Electronic Arts Intermix and the New York African
Film Festival, among other institutions. Their albums
include The Sour Thunder, an Internet Opera (Bridge
Records, 2004) and Crosstalk: American Speech
Music (Bridge Records, 2008). Mendi has been
awarded a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship and a
postdoctoral fellowship in Race and Ethnicity from
Princeton University, as well as fellowships from the
Cave Canem Foundation for Poetry and the New
York Foundation for the Arts. Mendi is a poetry editor
at Fence Magazine and an Assistant Professor in
Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. She
earned a B.A. in English from Spelman College and
a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University.
www.obadike.com.
Thad Ziolkowski
Thad Ziolkowski is the author of Our Son the Arson, a
collection of poems, the memoir On a Wave, which
was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in
2003, and Wichita, a novel. In 2008, he was awarded
a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. His essays and reviews have appeared
in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum,
Travel & Leisure, Interview magazine and Index.
Since 2001, he has been coordinator of the Writing
Program at Pratt Institute.
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Liberal Arts Faculty
Andrew W. Barnes
DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND
SCIENCES
Gloriana Russell
A S SISTANT TO THE DE AN
Erich Kuersten
ACADEMIC ADVISEMEN T CO ORDINATOR
Intensive English
Natasha Dwyer
A S SISTANT TO THE DIREC TOR
Rachid Eladlouni
COMPU TER-ASSISTED L ANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL)
COORDINATOR; LECT URER, INTENSIVE ENGLISH
B.A. Ibn Tofail University (Morocco);
M.A. Hunter College.
Cynthia Elmas
L EC T URER, INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
Master of Arts in TESOL Hunter College, B.A. in
French Literature from Rutgers University, where she
also studied Art History at the graduate level. She has
over 15 years experience of teaching ESL to adults in
New York and was also Assistant Editor for the multi-
disciplinary journal, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics
for eight years. In addition to ESL, she is also a dancer
who performs regularly in the New York area.
Laura Elrick
VISITING INSTRUCTOR ; L ECT URER,
IN TENSIVE ENGL ISH; T U TOR
B.A., Arts Rhetoric and Communication, University
of Southern California; Laura Elrick teaches in
the English and Humanities Department and the
Intensive English Program. She has published
two books of poetry and numerous essays on
contemporary literature and politics, and regularly
performs her work nationally. She holds a B.A. in
Rhetoric and Communication from the University
of Southern California and is currently pursuing a
Masters in Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate
Center in Manhattan. Her interests include the
intersection between poetics and the production of
social space, spatiality, and scale.
Dana Gordon
CEP CO ORDINATOR ; L ECT URER, INTENSIVE
ENGL ISH
M.A., University of California at Berkeley; Dana
Gordon has two decades of experience teaching
English as a Second Language, including eleven years
in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Folly (Roof
Books); Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker Than Night
Swollen Mushrooms? (Spuyten Duyvil), foriegnn bodie
(Voces Puerulae); V. Imp (Faux Press); and with Gary
Sullivan, Swoon (Granary Books).
Using Role Play as a Metacognitive Tool for Writing,
Thomas Healy
L EC T URER, INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
M.A., University of Ireland; Thomas has an M.A.
in English Literature from the National University
of Ireland, and a certificate in TEFL from the
Galway Language Centre, Ireland. He has studied
at the Takabijustu School of Art, Tokyo and the
Massachusetts Institute of Art, Boston. He has
taught English in Ireland, Japan, and the U.S.
Since 1992, Thomas has worked on a number of
curriculum development projects, involving English
for Academic Purposes in Japan and Korea, English
Language Training for the Beijing Olympic Games
2008, and in middle schools in the Peoples Republic
of China. He has conducted in-service teacher
training in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Brazil.
With Ken Wilson, he is the author of First Choice, an
integrated skills coursebook published by Oxford
University Press.
Helen McNeil
L ECT URER, INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
M.A. in TESOL, New York University; Helen earned
her ESL certificate from the New School in Social
Research in 1990. She taught in the summer program
at Nanjing University, China in 1993. She won her
M.A. in TESOL from New York University in 1998 while
teaching in their intensive English program. She has
also taught at Columbia University and La Guardia
Community College. She has been teaching in the
IEP for the past six years at Pratt. She is currently
singing in a chorus which performed in Carnegie Hall
in 2007.
Jennifer Ostrega
L ECT URER, INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
B.A., Theater Arts, Rutgers University; M.A., English
as a Second Language, Hunter College; Publications:
NYS TESOL Idiom Magazine Winter 20072008. Con-
ferences: 2008 National TESOL conference, English
for Artistic Purposes; 2007 NYS TESOL Applied
Linquistics Conference and NYS TESOL Technology
Conference; Corporate: Facilitator and Consultant
of Social Dynamics Workshops Through Improvi-
sational Theater; Pfizer Inc., Columbia University;
Awards: National Endowment of the Arts, Southern
Council, and PSNBC grants for Writing/Performance.

Nancy Seidler
DIRECTOR, INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A. in TESOL, Monterey
Institute of International Studies. She was an
exchange student at the University of Paris and
taught at the Sichuan Union University in China.
She has been working at Pratt since 1999, where,
in addition to administering various aspects of the
IEP and CEP, she has taught in the Intensive English
Program and the English Department and has
tutored in the Writing and Tutorial Center. During
all this time, she has learned a great deal about art,
design, and architecture, and has wholly enjoyed
working with the international students at Pratt!
Humanities and
Media Studies
Donald Andreasen
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., New School; Don earned his Masters of Fine
Arts degree in Playwriting from the Actors Studio,
New School University. He has had one-act plays
produced at the HERE Theatre and Access Theatre
in New York City and was co-writer of a short film
produced by Fox Searchlab Pictures. Don has
also worked as a voice-over artist doing various
commercial work in addition to network television.
Saul Anton
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Emily P. Beall
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Professor Bealls academic interests include
20th- and 21st-century experimental poetry and
poetics, with a focus on experimental writing by
women. A poet herself, she is also interested in the
intersections of poetics and modern dance, and the
ways that such intersections generate concepts of
space, meaning, and the body.
Jonathan Beller
PROFE S SOR
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University;
Interests:Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race
Theory, Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization,
Aesthetics and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema,
Philippine Culture and Politics.
Caterina Bertolotto
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Laurea in Pedagogia, University of Turin, Italy;
Caterina Bertolotto, a graduate of the University
of Turin, Italy, has received eight certificates in
different language teaching methodologies in both
Italy and in New York, as well as a Distinguished
University Teaching Award from The New School.
She is the author of four books, two audio and two
PowerPoint CDs. She has also taught seminars to
language teachers and undergraduates at The New
School, Sarah Lawrence College, Montclair State
University, Eugene Lang and Baruch College.
Stephanie Boluk
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Warren Burdine
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Melissa Buzzeo
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Diana Cage
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Philip Carroll
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Pamela Casey
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Lis Cena
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Peter Chamedes
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Peter Chamedes is a person with 60s values and
an abiding love of literature and art. Following a
doctorate in English Literature (poetry), family
obligations redirected him into an extended career
in advertising. This was at last succeeded by a return
to scholarship and pedagogy. His students have
ranged from at-risk adolescents to aspiring artists
(including many remarkable Pratt scholars). His
consuming interests include his two babies, poetry,
contemporary art, and African art.
Priya R. Chandrasekaran
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Youmna Chlala
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
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Diane Cohen
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Ellen Conley
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.S., Wagner College; B.A., Penn State; MTMS ASCP,
Jefferson Medical College; Ellen Conley is a published
writer of four books with national reviews: The
Chosen Shore (Univ. of Calif. Press), Bread and Stones
(Mercury House), Soon to Be Immortal (St. Martins
Press) and Soho Madonna (Avon Original Fiction).
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
A S SISTANT CHAIR
B.A., New York University; M.F.A., Goddard College;
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont is the author of the
Encyclopedia of Womens History In America (Facts
on File, 1996, rev. ed., 2000) and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton (Facts on File, 1992); co-author of Womens
Suffrage in America (Facts on File, 1992, rev. ed.,
2005) and Womens Rights on Trial: 101 Historic Trials
from Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute
Cadets (Gale Research, 1997); and editor of American
Women Activists Writings: An Anthology, 16372002
(Cooper Square Press, 2002). She is currently
working on a book about human trafficking.
Maria Damon
CHAIR, HUMANITIES AND MEDIA S T UDIE S
Amanda Davidson
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Don Doherty
VISITING INSTRUCTOR ; T U TOR
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York;
M.A., New York University; Don Doherty has been an
instructor at Pratt since 1996, teaching Freshman
Composition and Literature and English as a Second
Language. He did Foundation Year at Pratt before
moving into a Liberal Arts program at Hunter College,
so Pratt was his first home-away-from-home. His
interests include writing short fiction, writing and
producing music, video production, animation,
collage and drawing. He rides an Alien Workshop
deck with Tensor trucks and Darkstar wheels. His
YouTube account is papakilatube.
Steven Doloff
PROFES SOR ; L ECT URER, INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook;
M.phil., City University of New York Graduate Center;
Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center;
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TESOL Certificate, Columbia University Teachers
College; Steven Doloff was named a Pratt Institute
Distinguished Professor (200102) and received the
Institutes Student Government Association Faculty
Excellence Award in 1990.
Helen Easterly
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Rachid Eladlouni
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR; L EC T URER,
INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
Laura Elrick
VISITING INSTRUC TOR; L EC T URER, IN TENSIVE
ENGL ISH; T U TOR
B.A., University of Southern California; Laura Elrick
teaches in the English and Humanities Department
and the Intensive English Program. She has published
two books of poetry and numerous essays on
contemporary literature, culture, and politics, and
regularly performs her work nationally. She holds
a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication from the
University of Southern California and is currently
pursuing a Masters in Liberal Studies at the CUNY
Graduate Center in Manhattan. Her interests
include the intersection between poetics and the
production of social space, spatiality, and scale.
Elizabeth Fow
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR; T U TOR
B.A., University of Waikato, New Zealand; M.F.A.,
Brooklyn College.
Sacha E. Frey
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
John Gendall
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
Daniel Gerzog
PROFE S SOR
Daniel Gerzog (B.A. 53, M.A. 54, A.B.D. 58, NYU) York University; Kwame Heshimu grew in the shadow
is Professor of English and Humanities and has
been teaching at Pratt since 1959. He is currently
working with his second generation of fledgling
artists, designers and architects, introducing them
to the joys and stimulations of good reading and
clear expression. He also supervises thesis corollary
statements in the MFA program.
Elizabeth Grinnell
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Brown University; B.A., Mills College; E. Tracy
Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O
Books, 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001).
She is the founding editor of Litmus Press, a nonprofit
publisher of new American poetry and works in
translation.
Amy Guggenheim
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Amy Guggenheim is a filmmaker and writer. Her work
in theater and film focuses on violence, intimacy, and
sexuality, and has been presented internationally
with support from the New York State Council on the
Arts, the American Embassy, Fulbright Foundation,
Mellon Fund, and others. Her work has been
published in American Letters and Commentary, and
in the Italian literary journal Storie. Her 2008 artistic
residency in Japanin development for her first
feature filmrelates to her work as founder of the
Center for Artistic Engagement.
Christian Hawkey
PROFES SOR
Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-
winning books of poetry, including The Book of
Funnels (Wave Books, 2004), which won the 2006
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, HourHour (Delirium
Press, 2005), and Citizen Of (Wave Books, 2007). His
poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Volt, Denver
Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, BOMB, Chicago Review,
and Best American Poetry. He has received awards
from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry
Fund, and in 2006 he received a Creative Capital
Innovative Literature Award. In 2008, he was a DAAD
Artist-in-Berlin Fellow.
Kwame Heshimu
VISITING INSTRUCTOR ; T U TOR
B.A. in English (with a specialization in writing), New
Triple Exposure: Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s.
of the Blue Mountain. Son of a Cuban expatriate, and
with a mother who was a descendant of Jamaican
maroons, he spent his childhood in one of the
most inaccessible communities on the island. His
grandfather, a saxophonist with dance bandleader
Ray Coburn, frequently accompanied Rastafarian
drummers. Kwame not only became enthralled with
the music, but with the Rastafarian vocabulary, or
Iyaric, an intentionally created dialect of English,
reflecting their desire to take forward language and
confront Babylon system. His romance with word,
sound, and power had begun.
Jeffrey Hogrefe
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., U.C. Berkeley; Jeffrey Hogrefe is an author,
architectural critic, and coordinator of Pratt School
of Architectures Writing Program: Language/Making.
He is a studio critic at Parsons the New School for
Design, Cooper Union, and Columbia; a contributor
to Harpers, the New Yorker, Smithsonian, New York
Observer, Washington Post, and Vanity Fair; and the
author of OKeeffe: The Life of an American Legend, a
biography focused on the artists rights of seclusion
and personal identity politics.
Samantha Hunt
PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College; Samantha Hunt is
the author of two books, The Seasfor which she
was awarded a National Book Foundation award for
writers under 35and The Invention of Everything
Else, a novel about the life of Nikola Tesla. Her stories
have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeneys, A
Public Space, Cabinet, Seed Magazine and on the
radio program This American Life.
Dexter Jeffries
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Queens College, City University of New York;
M.A., City College of New York; Ph.D., City University
of New York, Graduate Center; Dexter Jeffries
was born and raised in New York City. In between
his academic studies he was a taxi driver and
served in a United States Army combat engineer
battalion in West Germany. Jeffries came to Pratt
in 1993, and in 1996, in conjunction with the Media
Arts department, he produced and directed the
documentary film, Whats Jazz? In 2003, Kensington
Press published his autobiographical memoir,
Jeffries lives in Brooklyn.
May Joseph
PROFES SOR, GLOBAL ST UDIES
Sean Kelly
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Loyola College University of Montreal.

David D. Kim
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
Elizabeth Knauer
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Christoph Kumpusch
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Krystal Languell
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
Rachel Levitsky
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Professor Levitskys first full-length volume, Under the
Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003.
She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an
event and publication series of feminist avant-garde
poetics. She is also the author of five chapbooks
of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356,
Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures
of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999), 2(11) Portraits
(Baksun, 1998), and a series of poetry plays.
Ellen Levy
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Ira Livingston
PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., Stanford University; Ira Livingstons primary
field is cultural theory. He is the author of
Between Science and Literature: An Introduction
to Autopoetics (2006) and Arrow of Chaos:
Romanticism and Postmodernity (1997), and coeditor
of Posthuman Bodies (1995, with Judith Halberstam)
and Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader (2009, with
Maria Damon).
Jennifer Miller
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Circus Amok founder and artistic director Jennifer
Miller has been working with alternative circus forms,
theater, and dance, for over twenty years. Her work
with Circus Amok was awarded a Bessie in 1995
and an OBIE in 2000. Circus Amok is the subject of
a French documentary film, Un Cirque a New York
2002 and Brazilian documentary, Juggling Politics
2004. She has taught at California Institute of the
Arts, New York University, and the University of
California at Los Angeles.
Tracie Morris
PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University; M.F.A., Hunter College,
City University of New York; Tracie Morris is an
interdisciplinary poet who has worked extensively
as a sound artist, writer and multimedia performer.
Her installations have been presented at the Whitney
Biennial and the Jamaica Center for Arts and
Learning. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter
College and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from
New York University.
Cecilia Muhlstein
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Cecilia Muhlstein was born in Texas, but grew up in
Los Angeles. Her work and interests reside in fiction,
critical theory, art, and eco-poetics. Her current
work can be found in the pages of NYArts magazine
and in the archives of Safe-T-Gallery.
Mendi Lewis Obadike
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Duke University.
Robert Obrecht
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Sarah Lawrence Coll; TESOL Certificate,
Columbia University Teachers College; Obrecht was
born in New York City in 1951. His compositions have
premiered in New York at Lincoln Centers State
Theater and Alice Tully Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, Merkin Hall and LaMama E.T.C., among others.
He has scored exhibition videos for the Museum
of Modern Art, the Museum of Natural History, the
Jewish Museum and the Queens Museum of Science.
His theme song for the Disney/Henson Bear in the
Big Blue House is broadcast worldwide. Obrecht has
been teaching at Pratt since 1988.
Toni H. Oliviero
PROFES SOR
A.B., English, Brown University; Ph.D., English and
American Literature, Brown University
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Rosemary Grebin Palms
PROFES SOR
B.A., College of St. Teresa (MN), English; M.A.,
University of Texas at Austin, English; Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Austin, American Literature;
Rosemary Grebin Palms was born in Minnesota; she
has been a New Yorker since 1970 and on the Pratt
faculty since 1973.
Kristin A Pape
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Jean-Paul Pecqueur
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., University of Washington; B.A., Evergreen
State College; Jean-Paul Pecqueur is a poet and
writing instructor who has published poems,
critical reviews, and essays in a number of national
publications. He has taught creative writing, critical
writing, and literature courses at The University of
Washington and The University of Arizonas Poetry
Center. Jean-Paul has been teaching Introduction to
Literary and Critical Studies courses at Pratt Institute
since 2006. His first book of poems, The Case Against
Happiness, was the winner of Alice James Books
Kinerth Gensler award in 2006.
Alba Potes
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
D.M.A. in Composition, Temple University; Alba
Potes was born in Colombia. Her compositions
have been performed by the Montreal Chamber
Orchestra, National Symphony of Colombia,
Darmstadt 2000 Internationale Ferienkurse fr
Neue Musik, the Institute for New Music in Freiburg,
The New York New Music Ensemble, and by music
festivals in Latin America, South Korea, Germany,
Canada, and the USA. Connected to her creative
work based on Spanish literature, she has also
taught Spanish in CUNY and Columbia University.
She teaches music at The Mannes College of Music,
College Preparatory Division.
Evan Rehill
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
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Eric Rosenblum
VISITING INSTRUC TOR; L EC T URER, IN TENSIVE
ENGL ISH
B.A., English, Ohio University; M.F.A., Fiction Writing,
Syracuse University; Erics fiction and non-fiction
have appeared in Guernica Magazine, the Chicago
Tribune and the Chicago Reader.
Carole Rosenthal
VISITING PROFE S SOR
B.A., Penn State; M.A., New York University; M.A.,
Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social
Research; Carole Rosenthal is the author of a short
story collection in which characters inner lives
collide explosively with external reality. Her fiction
has been translated into 11 languages and dramatized
for radio and television networks, including Italys
RAI and South Africas Springbok Broadcasting.
Widely anthologized, she teaches modern and
contemporary ideas in literature and film at Pratt.
She is also a former psychotherapist whose art work
has appeared in shows and magazines.
Sydney Scott
VISITING A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
Sydney Scott is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies
and holds an MA in Communication Studies. Her
philosophies: Life may be painful, but learning
doesnt have to be; Whoever walks away with the
most candy wins; and Love is far more pragmatic
than its cracked up to be (stolen from Ally McBeal).
Her interests include art, theater, comedy, TV/film,
Seinfeld, Knicks, Yankees, bagels, black coffee, pizza,
black and white cookies and anything else thats
totally New York.
Matthew Sharpe
VISITING A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
Heidi Singer
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
Heidi Singer holds a Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate
Center (1983) in German Languages and Literatures,
an M.A. in German from Syracuse University (1973),
and a B.A. in Psychology from San Francisco State
University (1969). She has taught at Queensborough
College (19811991) and Hunter College (19862000)
and at The New School (since 1995) and Pratt (since
2001). She was a translator for The Rockefeller
Archive Center, translated numerous books and
articles, and wrote a book for Living Languages:
German All the Way (Crown, 1994).
Sharon Snow
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Vassar College; Master of Arts, French
Literature, Columbia University; spent her junior
year in Paris, and following graduation, received a
fellowship to study at the University of Lausanne,
Switzerland. After receiving her Masters in French
at Columbia, she worked at an art gallery and for the
United Nations. She taught at Manhattans Hewitt
School for 14 years and is now visiting instructor at
Pratt and at St. Josephs College.
Ethan Spigland
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University;
Matrise, University of Paris VIII; has made numerous
films and media works including: Luminosity Porosity,
based on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator
Moods, featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and
The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won
the Gold Medal in the Student Academy Awards.
Gloria Steil
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., New
York University. Professor Steil has also taught English
in Tokyo for the Japanese Ministry of Education;
a summer intensive course in English literature and
honors, he is the recipient of a fellowship from the
composition in Seoul; and English literature at the
College of New Rochelle, Medgar Evers College,
Hostos Community College, and Borough of
Manhattan Community College.
Yijue Sun
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Holly Tavel
VISITING INSTRUCTO r
Barbara Turoff
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., New York University; Laurea, Universita di
Bologna.
Suzanne Verderber
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania; Suzanne Verderbers teaching
and research focus on the relationship between
subjectivity and power, and on the relation between
pre-modern periods (medieval, Renaissance,
Baroque) and contemporary concerns. Specific
fields of study include politics, literature, art, critical
theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.
Christopher Vitale
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton;
Ph.D., New York University; his areas of
specialization include continental philosophy,
comparative modernist literary and cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, queer studies, theories of race and
ethnicity, radical political thought, and film and
film theory. Currently, he is writing a book about
complexity studies and theories of networks. He has
taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, and Hunter College.
Elizabeth Williams
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Middlebury College.
Thad Ziolkowski
CO ORDINATOR, THE WRITING PRO GR AM ;
PROFES SOR
B.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Yale
University; Ziolkowski is the author of a novel,
Wichita, a memoir, On a Wave, and a collection
of poems, Our Son, the Arson.; his journalism has
appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Bookforum,
Travel & Leisure, and the Village Voice; among other
John S. Guggenheim Foundation.
Mathematics and Science
Damon Chaky
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; B.S.,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Chakys research
focuses on the sources, transport and fate of
pollutants in the urban environment, particularly that
of New York City. He regularly teaches Ecology for
Architects, Toxics, and the elective course Science
and Society. Dr. Chaky is active in Sustainable Pratt,
a group of students, faculty and staff that works to
position Pratt as a leader in sustainable, ecologically-
aware design and architecture.
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Barbara Charton Richard Leigh Gerson Sparer

ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.S., Pratt Institute; M.L.S.,
Pratt Institute; Adv. Cert., Pratt Institute; Barbara
Charton is still doing chemistry and extending it in
several new directionsinto art conservation and
environmental studies.
Eleonora Del Federico
PROFE S SOR
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000;
Licenciada (equivalent to MS degree), University of
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991.
Anatole Dolgoff
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
M.S., Miami University; B.S. Hunter College, CUNY.
Margaret Dy-So
A S SISTANT TO THE CHAIR
Aman Gill
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.S., Integrative Biology and History, University of
California at Berkeley; Ph.D. candidate in Ecology
and Evolution, Stony Brook University.
Christopher Jensen
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Stony Brook University;
he teaches courses in Ecology, Human Evolution,
and the Biology of Cooperation. He is active in
Sustainable Pratts efforts to bring ecologically-
conscious practices to our campus and beyond.
Those activities are complemented by his research,
which focuses on the stability of systems of
interacting organisms.
Cindie Kehlet
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., M.S., University of Aarhus; Dr. Kehlet teaches
Introductory Science and the Chemistry of
Pigments. Her research interests are in the field of
Conservation Science.
Steve Kreis
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR
M. A., Hunter College, CUNY; B.S., University of
Missouri.
VISITING PROFES SOR
B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Columbia University;
P.E. (Mechanical), New York State LEED AP; Practiced
laser spectroscopy at City College of NY and lEcole
Normale Superieure (Paris); joined Brookhaven
National Laboratory and switched to energy analysis
and development of energy-efficient technologies;
taught full time at Pratt 198793; back to BNL,
acquired NYS Professional Engineering license; then
into the non-profit sector first as Senior Engineer
at the Community Environmental Center, making
existing and new buildings more energy efficient in
the NYC metro area, now as director of advocacy and
research at the Urban Green Council, (NY Chapter of
the US Green Building Council, managers of LEED),
working to improve energy efficiency in building
codes and on worker education.
Joel Levitt
ADJUNCT PROFES SOR
B.S.E.E.; M.S.E.E., Columbia University School of
Engineering; M.A. (Physics), Columbia University;
Professional Degree (E.E.), Columbia University
School of Engineering; He is the Director of the
Anxiety and Hypoglycemia Relief Institute and the
Chairman of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society (New York chapter), part of the non-profit
IEEE. He has lectured at Rockefeller University and
elsewhere on software and health (anxiety and
hypoglycemia).
Tiffany Liu
L AB TECHNICIAN
gnes Mcsy
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
Ph.D., University of Minnesota; M.Sc., University of
Bergen, Norway; Dr. Mcsy performs research on
the fundamental nature of matter, specifically on
the interactions of subatomic particles within the
nucleus of the atom. She has held research positions
at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen; Theoretical
Physics Institute, Frankfurt; and Brookhaven National
Laboratory. Dr. Mcsy teaches Introductory Physics
and Astronomy.
Carole Sirovich
CHAIR
Ph.D., New York University; M.S., New York University;
B.S., Brooklyn College.
PROFES SOR
B.S., Brooklyn College; M.S., Courant Institute; Ph.D.,
Courant Institute.
Oscar Strongin
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Columbia University; Independent Consulting
Geologist engaged in oil/gas development as
well as environmental impact of extraction of
unconventional fossil fuel resources; also served as
Energy Consultant to U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Vincent Tedeschi
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.S., Stony Brook University; B.A., Stony Brook
University.
James Wise
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Hunter College; M.A., Brooklyn College.
Alexandra Wright
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
Daniel Wright
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Ph.D., Stanford University; M.S., University of
California at San Diego; B.S., Pennsylvania State
University.
Social Science and
Cultural Studies
Sameetah Agha
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, HISTORY
B.A., Smith College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale
University.
Dory Aghazarian
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, HISTORY
B.A., Columbia University; M.A. Fordham University;
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Center, City University
of New York
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Alheli Alvarado-Diaz
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, HISTORY
B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.,
Columbia University
Saul Anton
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, CULT UR AL ST UDIE S
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Graduate Center,
City University of New York; Ph.D., Princeton
University
Mariana Assis
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, HISTORY
J.D. and M.A., Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil; Ph.D. Candidate, New School for Social
Research
Robert Ausch
ADJUNCT A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR, PSYCHOLO GY
B.A., New York University; M.A., City College, City
University of New York; Ph.D., Graduate Center,
City University of New York
Josh Blackwell
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, FA SHION AND DE SIGN
HISTORY
B.A., Bennington College; M.F.A., California Institute
of the Arts
Francis Bradley
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, HISTORY
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Sarah Pearl Brilmyer
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, PHILOSOPHY, FIL M AND
L ITER AT URE
B.A., University of Scranton, M.A. and Ph.D.
Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
B. Ricardo Brown
CO ORDINATOR AND PROFE S SOR, CRITICAL AND
VISUAL ST UDIES, CULT UR AL ST UDIE S
B.A., Bard College at Simons Rock; M.A., Syracuse
University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, City
University of New York
Josiah Brownell
CO ORDINATOR AMD A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR,
WORL D HISTORY PRO GR AM, HISTORY
B.A., Western Michigan University; M.A., London
School of Economics; J.D., University of Virginia Law
School; Ph.D. Political Science, School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London
Caitlin Cahill
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, P OL ITICS AND
GEO GR APHY
B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., Hunter College;
M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of
New York
Matthew A. Carlin
VISITING PROFES SOR, ANTHROP OLO GY
B.A., M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., Columbia
University
Paul Dambowic
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
B.A., New York University; M.A., Yale University
Mareena Daredia
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, CINEMA ST UDIES
B.F.A., York University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute
Corey DAugustine
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, THEORY AND PR ACTICE
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Institute of Fine Arts at
New York University
Lisabeth During
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.Th., King College,
University of London, London, U.K.; Ph.D., Trinity
College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.
Taylor Easum
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, HISTORY
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Barbara Duarte Esgalhado
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, P SYCHOLO GY
B.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Bernard Flynn
VISITING INS TRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Duquesne University
John Frangos
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, HISTORY
B.A., M.A., Queens College; M.A., C.W. Post Campus,
Long Island University; Ph.D., New York University
Eric Godoy
VISITING INS TRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Rollins College; M.A., The New School for
Social Research
P.J. Gorre
VISITING INS TRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Villanova University; M.A. and Ph.D. Candidate,
The New School for Social Research
Monica A. Grandy
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, P SYCHOLO GY
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; Ph.D., City University
of New York
Mitchell Harris
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, HIS TORY
B.F.A., State University of New York at Purchase;
M.A., M.Phil, City University of New York
Gabriel Hernndez
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, HISTORY
B.A., City College of New York; M.A. and Ph.D.
Candidate, State University of New York at Stony
Brook
Ann Holder
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, HISTORY
B.A., Hampshire College; Ph.D., Boston College
Travis Holloway
VISITING INS TRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Belmont College; M.A., Boston College,
M.F.A., New York University; Ph.D. Candidate, State
University of New York at Stony Brook
Estelle Horowitz
PROFES SOR EMERITA, ECONOMICS
Gregg M. Horowitz
CHAIRPERSON & PROFES SOR OF PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Boston
University; Ph.D., Rutgers University
May Joseph
PROFES SOR, GLOBAL ST UDIES
B.A., M.A., Madras Christian College; M.A., Ph.D.,
University of California at Santa Barbara
Shelley Juran
PROFES SOR, P SYCHOLO GY
B.A., M.A., Brooklyn College; Ph.D., City University of
New York

Marina Kaneti
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, HISTORY
B.A., Columbia University; M.S., Columbia University
School of Social Work
Josh Karant
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR, PHILOSOPHY &
FO OD ST UDIES
B.A., Pomona College, M.A., New School; M.A.,
Rutgers University; Ph.D., University of Maryland
Kathleen C. Kelley
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., St. Johns College; M.A. and Ph.D. Candidate,
New School for Social Research
Todd Kesselman
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Trinity College; M.A., The New School for
Social Research
Annie Khan
B.A., Columbia University; M.A. City College of New
York; Ph.D. Candidate, State University of New York
at Stony Brook
Hunter Kincaid
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, PSYCHOLO GY
B.S., University of Washington; M.A., University of
Chicago
Elizabeth Knauer
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, CULT UR AL ST UDIE S
Gerald Levy
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, EC ONOMICS
B.A., New York University; M.A., The New School for
Social Research
Luka Lucic
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, PSYCHOLO GY AND
DIA SP OR A ST UDIE S
B.A., City College of New York; M.Phil., The Graduate
Center of The City University of New York
Bettina Mathes
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, QUEER ST UDIE S
State Examination (M.A equivalent), Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; D. Phil,
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Habilitation,
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Alex McCown
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, P OL ITICAL THEORY
Ph.D. Candidate, New School University
John McGuire
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., New York University; M.A., The New
School University
Liam Moore
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, HISTORY
B.A., Reed College; M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D.,
Columbia University
University
Erum Naqvi
VISITING INS TRUCTOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.Sc. Hons., Philosophy and Economics, London
School of Economics; M.A. and Ph.D. Candidate,
Temple University
Darini Nicholas
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR, ANTHROP OLO GY
B.A., University of Louisville; M.A., Goddard College
(Kentucky); Ph.D. Candidate, The New School
University
Cheol-Soo Park
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, ECONOMICS
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Seoul National University; Ph.D.,
The New School University
Irving Perlman
PROFES SOR EMERIT US, HISTORY
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.B.A., J.D., New York
University
Robert Richardson
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Wheaton College; M.A., ABD, Pennsylvania State
University
Uzma Z. Rizvi
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, ANTHROP OLO GY AND
URBAN ST UDIES
B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania
Adam Rosen-Carole
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, PHILOSOPHY
B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.A., Ph.D., The New
School University
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Matthew Sanger
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, HISTORY
B.A., Colorado College; M.A., Hunter College; M.Phil,
Columbia University
John Santore
PROFES SOR EMERIT US, HISTORY
B.A., M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., Columbia
University
Zachary Sapolsky
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, P SYCHOLO GY
B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., Long Island
Ritchie Savage
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, SO CIOLO GY
B.S., Bradley University; M.A., Ph.D., The New School
for Social Research
Jeff Surovell
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, HIS TORY
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Kumru Toktamis
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, SO CIOLO GY
B.A., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;
M.A., Ph.D., The New School University
Basil Tsiokos
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, THEORY AND PR AC TICE
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., New York University
Murtaza Vali
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, ART THEORY
B.S., The Johns Hopkins University; M.A. Institute of
Fine Arts, New York University
Sal A. Westrich
PROFES SOR, HIS TORY.
B.A., City College of New York; M.A., University of
Wisconsin; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Columbia
University
Rebecca Winkel
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, P SYCHOLO GY
M.A., Columbia University; M.A., Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The New School for
Social Research.
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Ivn Zatz-Daz
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, GLOBAL IZ ATION
B.A., State University of New York at Purchase;
M.F.A., New York University; Ph.D., Graduate Center,
City University of New York.
Carl Zimring
A S SO CIATE PROFE S SOR, HISTORY AND
SUSTAINABIL IT Y
B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz; M.A.,
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Critical and Visual Studies
Jonathan Beller
PROFE S SOR
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University;
Interests: Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race
Theory, Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization,
Aesthetics and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema,
Philippine Culture and Politics.
B. Ricardo Brown
CO ORDINATOR, CRITICAL AND VISUAL ST UDIE S,
PROFES SOR, CULT UR AL ST UDIE S
B.A., Simons Rock College of Bard; M.Phil., Ph.D.,
Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Nelson Hancock
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR, AN THROP OLO GY
Ph.D., Columbia University; B.A., Princeton University.
May Joseph
PROFES SOR, GLOBAL ST UDIE S
B.A., M.A., Madras Christian College; M.A., Ph.D.,
University of California at Santa Barbara.
Ethan Spigland
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University;
Matrise, University of Paris VIII; has made numerous
films and media works including: Luminosity Porosity,
based on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator
Moods, featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and
The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won
the Gold Medal in the Student Academy Awards.
Kumru Toktamis
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR, SO CIOLO GY
B.A., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;
M.A., Ph.D., The New School University.
Suzanne Verderber
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, HUMANITIES
AND MEDIA ST UDIES
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania; Suzanne Verderbers teaching
and research focus on the relationship between
subjectivity and power, and on the relation between
pre-modern periods (medieval, Renaissance,
Baroque) and contemporary concerns. Specific
fields of study include politics, literature, art, critical
theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.
Christopher Vitale
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton;
Ph.D., New York University; His areas of
specialization include continental philosophy,
comparative modernist literary and cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, queer studies, theories of race and
ethnicity, radical political thought, and film and
film theory. Currently, he is writing a book about
complexity studies and theories of networks. He has
taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, and Hunter College.
Ivn Zatz-Daz
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR, GLOBAL IZ ATION
B.A., State University of New York, Purchase; M.F.A.,
New York University; Ph.D. Graduate Center, City
University of New York.
The Writing Program
Priscilla Becker
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.F.A., Columbia University; Beckers first book of
poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book
prize, and was published in 2003. Her poems have
appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, Small
Spiral Notebook, Boston Review, Raritan, American
Poetry Review, Verse, and The Swallow Anthology of
New American Poets; her music reviews in The Nation
and Filter Magazine; her book reviews in The New
York Sun; and her essays in Cabinet magazine and
Open City. Her essays have also been anthologized by
Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She
teaches poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University,
and in her apartment. Her second book, Stories That
Listen, was released from Four Way Books in 2010.
Gabriel Cohen
VISITING L ECT URER
B.A., Wesleyan University; Gabriel Cohen is the
author of five novels and a nonfiction book and has
written for The New York Times, Poets & Writers,
Shambhala Sun, Gourmet.com, Time Out New York,
and many other publications. He has taught fiction
and nonfiction writing at New York University,
mentors writing students at The New School, and
lectures and gives workshops frequently. His website
is www.gabrielcohenbooks.com.
Jon Cotner
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Humanities, Shimer College; M.A., St. Johns
College; Ph.D. candidate in Poetics, SUNY Buffalo.
Professor Cotner is co-author of Ten Walks/Two
Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) and has worked on
a collaboration titled Conversations over Stolen Food
and projects for The Believer, the BMW Guggenheim
Lab, Elastic City, and the Poetry Society of America.
Steven Doloff
PROFES SOR, L ECT URER IN INTENSIVE ENGL ISH
B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook;
Steven was named a Pratt Institute Distinguished
Professor (20012002) and received the Institutes
Student Government Association Faculty Excellence
Award in 1990.
John Glassie
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University. Professor Glassie is
a former contributing editor for The New York Times
Magazine, where for several years he edited the weekly
Lives column. He has written for The New York Times,
The Believer, Salon, Wired, The Dallas Morning News,
and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other
publications and a non-fiction book about a
17th-century polymath, published in the fall of 2012. He
is also the author ofa book of photographs, Bicycles
Locked to Poles (McSweeneys, 2005).

David Gordon
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
M.F.A., Writing, M.A., English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University; David Gordon was
born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence
College and has worked in film, fashion, and
publishing. His first novel, The Serialist, was published
by Simon and Schuster in March 2010.
James Hannaham
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR
M.F.A., University of Texas; B.A., Yale University;
James Hannahams first novel, God Says No
(McSweeneys, 2009), was a finalist for a Lambda
Book Award, named an honor book by the American
Library Associations Stonewall Book Awards, a
semi-finalist for a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award,
and made the shortlist for the Green Carnation Prize
in the UK. His stories have been published in The
Literary Review, Open City, JMWW, One Story, and will
soon appear in Fence. His criticism and journalism
have appeared in The Village Voice, Spin, and Salon.
com, where he was on staff, and have been reprinted
in Best African American Essays 2009 and Best Sex
Writing 2009. He has received fellowships from
The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Blue Mountain
Center, The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for
the Arts, Chateau de Lavigny, Fundacin Valparaso,
Bread Loaf, and a NYFFA Fellowship in Fiction.
Ryan Fischer-Harbage
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.F.A., Bennington College.
Professor Fischer-Harbage, a literary agent who runs
The Fischer-Harbage Agency, represents several
New York Times bestselling authors and has placed
books with all major publishers in the U.S. and the
U.K. He previously served as an editor at Simon &
Schuster, Little, Brown & Company as well as The
Penguin Group (U.S.A.).
Christian Hawkey
PROFE S SOR
Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-
winning books of poetry, including The Book of
Funnels (Wave Books, 2004), which won the 2006
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, HourHour (Delirium
Press, 2005), and Citizen Of (Wave Books, 2007). His
poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Volt, Denver
Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, BOMB, Chicago Review,
and Best American Poetry. He has received awards
from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry
Fund, and in 2006 he received a Creative Capital
Innovative Literature Award. In 2008, he was a DAAD
Artist-in-Berlin Fellow.
Jason Helm
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Sarah Lawrence College;
Jasons first book, Exposure, a YA sci-fi fantasy novel,
is currently on the market. He is at work on a
collection of short stories about mid-nineties
gutterpunk culture in Minneapolis.
Samantha Hunt
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College; Samantha Hunts
second novel The Invention of Everything Else
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) was a finalist for
the Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction
Prize. Her first novel, The Seas (Picador, 2005) won
a National Book Foundation award for writers under
35. Hunts work has appeared in The New Yorker,
McSweeneys, A Public Space, Cabinet, Esquire,
jubilat, The Believer, Blind Spot, Tin House, New York
Magazine, on the radio program This American Life
and in a number of other fine publications.
Mary-Beth Hughes
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Marymount Manhattan College. Professor
Hughes stories have appeared in A Public Space,
Ploughshares, The Paris Review, and are collected in
the book Double Happiness. Her novel is Wavemaker
II (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002).
Sean C. Kelly
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., University of Montreal; Sean was editor of
National Lampoon and a founding editor of Heavy
Metal. He has been a staff writer for Saturday
Night Live, and as a freelance writer he has written
for numerous television productions and for
periodicals, including Bazaar, Colors, Interview,
Playboy, Spy, The Village Voice and The New York
Times. He is the author and editor of numerous
books and anthologies.
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Rachel Levitsky
ADJUNCT A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
Professor Levitskys first full-length volume, Under the
Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003.
She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an
event and publication series of feminist avant-garde
poetics. She is also the author of five chapbooks
of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356,
Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures
of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999), 2(11) Portraits
(Baksun, 1998), and a series of poetry plays.
Robert Lopez
VISITING PROFES SOR
M.F.A., The New School for Social Research; Robert
Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World
(Calamari Press, 2007) and Kamby Bolongo Mean
River (Dzanc Books, 2009), and a collection of stories,
Asunder (Dzanc Books, 2010). He has taught at The
New School and Columbia University and is a 2010
New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in fiction.
Max Ludington
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., University of
Minnesota; Ludingtons novel Tiger in a Trance was
a New York Times Notable Book; his short fiction
has appeared in Tin House, Meridian, HOW Journal,
Nerve, Outerbridge, On the Rocks, The KGB Bar
Fiction Anthology, and others.
Laura Minor
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
M.A., University of Florida; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence
College; Laura Minor is a Brooklyn-based poet,
professor, and singer/songwriter. Her work has most
recently appeared in Sixers Review, Lungfull, JMWW:
A Journal of Quarterly Writing, and Mantis/Stanford
University. She has released two international and
critically acclaimed records, Salesmans Girl for
Hightone Records (2002) and Let Evening Come,
(Ocean of Sound Recordings, 2009). Her prize-
winning chapbook is forthcoming on Pudding House
Press and her second solo record is forthcoming on
Ocean Sound Recordings. She is currently publishing
towards her first collection of poems, The Ossicles,
and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in womens studies and
fine arts at Rutgers University.
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Tracie Morris
PROFE S SOR
B.A., M.F.A., Hunter College; M.A., Ph.D., New York
University; Tracie Morris is a multidisciplinary poet,
performer, and scholar who works extensively as a
sound artist, writer, bandleader, and actor. Her
installations have been presented at the Whitney
Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, the Jamaica
Center for Arts and Learning, and the New Museum.
She recently completed her latest poetry
manuscript, Rhyme Scheme and is working on an
academic work, Who Do with Words on the
significance of philosopher J.L. Austin. She is also
developing two audio projects: an untitled CD with
music with her band and another CD in collaboration
with composer Elliott Sharp.
Anna Moschovakis
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFE S SOR
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.F.A.,
Bard College; She is the author of a book of poems, I
Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, and
a translator of poetry, fiction, and theory from the
French. She is also an editor, designer, and printer
at Ugly Duckling Presse, a nonprofit publishing
collective based in Brooklyn. She is pursuing
graduate studies in Comparative Literature at the
CUNY Graduate Center.
Cecilia Muhlstein
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, T U TOR
California State University, Los Angeles. Cecilia was
born in Texas, but grew up in Los Angeles. Her work
and interests reside in fiction, critical theory, art,
and eco-poetics. Her current work can be found in
the pages of NYArts magazine and in the archives of
Safe-T-Gallery.
John OConnor
VISITING INSTRUC TOR
B.A., University of Michigan; M.F.A., Columbia
University. Professor OConnors food and travel
writing has appeared in The New York Times, Mens
Journal, The Financial Times, and Gastronomica, and
he has contributed essays to the literary journals
Open City, The Believer, and Quarterly West, and to
the anthologies The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 1,
The Gastronomica Reader and Theyre At It Again: An
Open City Reader.
Shelly Oria
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.A., Tel Aviv University; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence
College. Professor Orias fiction has appeared in
McSweeneys, Quarterly West, cream city review, and
fivechapters. She is a recipient of the 2008 Indiana
Review Fiction Prize, among other awards, and
curates the monthly series Sweet! Actors Reading
Writers. Her first novel, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, is
forthcoming in 2014.
Nelly Reifler
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Hampshire College; M.F.A. Sarah Lawrence
College; She authored See Through (Simon &
Schuster, 2006). Her work has appeared in many
publications including McSweeneys, Bomb, Post
Road, Jubilat, Taxi, Black Book and Nerve.com.
Her plays have been performed in the U.S. and
Australia, and she is the recipient of honors including
a Henfield Prize and a Rotunda Gallery Emerging
Curator grant.
Eric Rosenblum
VISITING INSTRUCTOR ; L ECT URER, INTENSIVE
ENGL ISH
B.A., English, Ohio University; M.F.A., Creative
Writing-Fiction, Syracuse University; Erics fiction and
non-fiction have appeared in Guernica Magazine, the
Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader.
Jonathan Santlofer
VISITING INSTRUCTOR
B.F.A., Boston University School of the Arts;
M.F.A., Pratt Institute; Santlofer is the author of
five bestselling crime novels, short stories in many
anthologies and collections, winner of the Nero
Wolfe Award for Best Crime Novel, co-author/
contributor to The Dark End of the Street anthology
(Bloomsbury USA, 2010); recipient of two National
Endowment for the Arts grants, Rome Prize; and
on the board of directors of Yaddo, the oldest arts
community in the United States.
Justin Taylor
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., University of Florida; M.F.A., The New School.
Professor Taylor is the author of the story collection
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever (Harpers
Perennial, 2010) and the novel The Gospel of Anarchy
(Harpers Perennial, 2011). He is the editor of The
Apocalypse Reader, Come Back Donald Barthelme,
and co-editor (with Eva Talmadge) of The Word Made
Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide
(Harpers Perennial, 2010). With Jeremy Schmall, he
publishes The Agriculture Reader, a limited-edition
arts annual.
Holly Tavel
Visiting I nstr uc t or
B.A., The New School; M.F.A., Brown University;
recipient of a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship in Creative
Writing to the Czech Republic.
Ellery Washington
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR
D.E.U.G., Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Ellery
Washingtons writing has appeared in the French
publication Nouvelles Frontires, Out Magazine,
The Berkeley Fiction Review and various literary
anthologies, including Griots Beneath the Baobab
(IBWA Press), Geography of Rage (RGB Publisher),
and State by State (Harper Collins). He is a recipient
of the PEN Center WestRosenthal Emerging Voices
Fellowship and the IBWA Best Short Fiction Award.
Thad Ziolkowski
CO ORDINATOR, THE WRITING PRO GR AM ;
PROFES SOR
B.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Yale
University; Ziolkowski is the author of a novel,
Wichita, a memoir, On a Wave, and a collection
of poems, Our Son, the Arson.; his journalism has
appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Bookforum,
Travel& Leisure, and the Village Voice; among other
honors, he is the recipient of a fellowship from the
John S. Guggenheim Foundation.
Gina Zucker
VISITING A S SISTANT PROFES SOR
B.A., Washington University; M.F.A., New School;
Gina Zucker has published fiction and nonfiction
in magazines and journals such as Tin House, Salt
Hill, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Post,
Elle, Glamour, GQ, Rolling Stone, Redbook, and
Cosmopolitan, as well as on various online journals.
Her writing has been anthologized in two collections:
ALTARED (Vintage, 2007) and BEFORE (Overlook Press,
2006). She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center
Fellowship and a New School Merit Scholarship.
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Writing and Tutorial Center

Randy Donowitz
DIRECTOR OF THE WRITING AND T U TORIAL CEN TER

Terri Bennett
T U TOR

Priya Chandrasekoran
T U TOR, WRITING, THE SIS

Diane Cohen
A S SISTANT TO THE DIREC TOR

Maura Conley
T U TOR, WRITING, THE SIS

Brian Cook
T U TOR

Amanda Davidson
T U TOR

Elizabeth (Lol) Fow

ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR, T U TOR, THE SIS,
GR ADUATE WRITING

Dominica Giglio
T U TOR, WRITING, ART HISTORY

Heather Green
T U TOR, WRITING, THE SIS, C ON VERSATION

Joseph Herzfeld
L ECT URER INTENSIVE ENGL ISH, T U TOR, WRITING

Kwame Heshimu
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, T U TOR, WRITING

Cecilia Muhlstein
ADJUNCT A S SISTAN T PROFE S SOR, T U TOR,
WRITING, THESIS

Evan Rehill
VISITING INSTRUC TOR, T U TOR, WRITING, THE SIS

Zachary Slanger
T U TOR
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Graduate Admissions

VICE PRESIDENT Applications are welcome from all qualified at 718.636.3779 or 800.331.0834, or email
FOR ENROLLMENT students, regardless of age, sex, religion, us at visit@pratt.edu. Prospective graduate
Judith Aaron
race, color, creed, national origin, or applicants or students are encouraged to
718.636.3743
jaaron@pratt.edu disability. Admissions committees base contact their academic department directly
their decisions on a careful review of all to discuss the program and see the facilities.
DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE AND credentials submitted by the applicant.
INTERNATIONAL ADMISSIONS
Although admission standards at Pratt are Graduate Merit-Based Scholarships
Young Joo Hah
high, extraordinary talent may sometimes Incoming students will be evaluated by
718.636.3683
yhah@pratt.edu offset a lower grade point average or test their academic department for merit-based
score. If a student is not accepted, this scholarships upon acceptance. Beginning
GRADUATE ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR decision is not a negative reflection on the with fall 2014 incoming students, these are
Russell Tyler
students chances for successful completion renewable for the duration of the program
718.636.3551
rtyler@pratt.edu
of similar studies at another institution, with a 3.0. There is no application form.
nor does it preclude the students eventual Assistantships are awarded to some second-
GRADUATE ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR admission to the Institute. year students.
Ryan Gottschling The Office of Graduate Admissions
718.230.6891 Graduate Admissions
is open weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm from
rgottsch@pratt.edu
September through May, and from 9 am to 4 All applicants to graduate programs at Pratt
OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS pm during June, July, and August. must have received a bachelors degree from
Myrtle Hall, 2nd floor an accredited institution in the United States
Tel: 718.636.3514 or 800.331.0834 Guided Campus Tours or have been awarded the equivalent of the
Fax: 718.399.4242
Guided campus tours of the Brooklyn bachelors degree from an international
www.pratt.edu/admissions
campus are scheduled Monday and Friday institution of acceptable standards.
QUESTIONS? at 10 am, 12 pm, and 2 pm. Tuesday and International students should see the
Ask Pratts Virtual Advisor Thursday tours are scheduled at 10 am and international student section for additional
at www.pratt.edu/ask
2 pm. Schedule a campus tour online at www. requirements.
pratt.edu/visit, call the Office of Admissions
260 GRADUATE ADMISSIONS
Deadline for Applications
Completed applications for most programs
(including letters of reference, statement of
purpose, transcripts, and portfolio) should
be submitted by January 5 for fall entrance.
Some programs will accept applications
after the deadline if there is room. See the
department requirements section on
page 284 for specific deadline information as
well as for programs that accept students in
the spring. Applicants for the spring semester
must apply by October 1 (September 1 for
international applicants). Applications
received after that time will be considered
only if there is room in a particular program.
General Credentials
Application Forms
Graduate applicants are required to apply
online at www.pratt.edu/apply. Please use
your full name on all documents and do not
use nicknames or middle names.
Application Requirements
The online application, hosted by
College.net, as well as various requirements
may be found at www.pratt.edu/apply.
Please note: Pratts application enables
applicants to request recommendation
letters and upload transcript(s) online.
Writing samples, for those departments
that require them, will be uploaded
on the application. Visual portfolios are
submitted at https://pratt.slideroom.com.
See www.pratt.edu/apply for instructions
on submitting your application and
supporting documents.
Candidates for graduate admission must
submit the following:
1. Online graduate application with
nonrefundable $50 application
fee at www.pratt.edu/apply.
(International students must
pay a $90 application fee.)
Graduate students are required to
apply online.
2. Unofficial transcripts from all
institutions attended after graduation
from secondary school. Make sure
your manuscript contains the school
name and your name before uploading
it to the application.
International students must have all
transcripts officially translated into
English. (Both the unofficial original
and the English translated version must
be uploaded online at our application
site.) Students who have studied
outside the U.S. in an educational
structure different from the U.S. (three-
year degrees, for example) are asked
to submit a World Education Services
(WES) (www.wes.org) evaluation to
expedite their application processing.
WES evaluations do not include
translations. The documents must
be officially translated into English
before submitting to WES or any other
reputable education evaluation service,
e.g., your embassy.
3. Supporting Documents
The following documents should be
submitted electronically on the online
application site at www.pratt.edu/
apply. Please include the following:
a. Two letters of recommendation
from employers, professors, or
others able to judge your potential
for graduate study in the specific
program. Recommendation letters
are submitted online. See www.
pratt.edu/apply. (If your references
refuse to submit online, please
ask them to seal the envelope,
sign across the flap, and mail their
references to Pratt at Pratt Institute,
Office of Graduate Admissions, 200
Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY.)
Make sure you contact your
references and request a
recommendation letter from them.
Let them know the process
is online.
b. Additional writing sample (required
by City and Regional Planning,
Sustainable Environmental
Systems, Historic Preservation,
Media Studies, Theory, Criticism,
and History of Art, Design,
Architecture, and Writing only) may
be uploaded at the application site.
c. Rsum (required for Design
Management; optional for all
graduate programs) should be
uploaded at the application site.

d. Statement of purpose giving your
long-range goals and interest in
the chosen discipline and reason
for applying to the program: The
statement of purpose, which must
be 250500 words, should be
uploaded to the application site.
4. Department requirements, including
portfolio if required. These are listed
later in this section.
5. TOEFL score or IELTS score for
international applicants whose
native language is not English. Unless
otherwise indicated under each
department, the minimum required
TOEFL score is 550 (paper)/213
(computer)/79 (Internet) and the
required IELTS score is 6.5. Please
make sure that you register for a
TOEFL or IELTS test that will enable
you to submit your scores by the
application deadline. It generally takes
four to six weeks to receive the scores.
The Pratt Institute code for TOEFL
is 2669. Check www.toefl.org for
information on testing sites.
Submit any print documents in one envelope
if possible and mail to:
Graduate Office of Admissions
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
admissions@pratt.edu
Tel: 718.636.3669 or 800.331.0834
Fax: 718.399.4242
If you plan to messenger your documents,
please do so before December 24 or after
January 2. Pratt closes for winter break
during that time.
We strongly suggest making photocopies
of all mailed forms for your own records.
Please use your full name on the
application and on all documents and not
nicknames or middle names so that we are
able to match TOEFL scores, transcripts, etc.
with your application.
Department Requirements
Graduate programs have different
professional requirements. See the
following section for particular programs
requirements.
School of Architecture
Applicants to the MASTER OF
ARCHITECTURE (first-professional)
program (fall entrance only) must have
received a bachelors degree from an
institution in the U.S. that is accredited
by a recognized regional association
or have been awarded the equivalent of
the bachelors degree from an international
institution of acceptable standards.
Applicants must present a portfolio
providing evidence of their interest in
architecture or their visual sensibility
through the media of their choice
photography, drawing, essays, videos, etc.
Portfolios must be submitted online at
https://pratt.slideroom.com. The GRE is
required. The GRE code is R2669.
GRADUATE ADMISSIONS 261
Applicants for admission to the
POST-PROFESSIONAL MASTER OF
SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE or the POST-
PROFESSIONAL MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
programs (summer entrance only) must have
received a Bachelor of Architecture (five-
year program) from an accredited school
of architecture. These programs are three
semesters, beginning in summer and ending
in spring. Applicants must have earned a
Bachelor of Architecture (five-year B.Arch.)
from an accredited school of architecture.
Applicants should submit all materials as
early as possible in order to ensure enough
time to review and make decisions and in the
case of international students to get the I-20.
Ideally, applicants (particularly international
applicants) should submit all materials,
including their portfolio, by December 1.
Applications will be accepted after the
deadline of January 5 only if there is room.
Portfolios should be submitted at https://
pratt.slideroom.com.
Post-professional applicants for both
the M.S. IN ARCHITECTURE and the M.S.
IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
must present a portfolio (online at https:/
pratt.slideroom.com) providing evidence
of qualifications to participate in advanced
studies. In exceptional circumstances,
licensed architects with extensive
professional work experience but without
the five-year professional degree may ask
for special consideration and review of
their portfolio to establish proficiency for
admission. Portfolios should be submitted at
https://pratt.slideroom.com.
262 GRADUATE ADMISSIONS
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF SCIENCE IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION
(fall and spring entrance) must have a
bachelors degree from an accredited
institution. Applications will be accepted
after the deadline until the program is full.
TOEFL of 575 (90 Internet) is required for
international students. An additional writing
sample is required and should be uploaded to
the online application.
CIT Y AND REGIONAL PL ANNING M.S.
(FALL AND SPRING) BROOKLYN CAMPUS
applicants should have received a bachelors
degree from an accredited institution in the
U.S., or the equivalent from an international
institution of acceptable standards, and must
submit, in addition to the general application
requirements: (1) a rsum and (2) an
extended piece of writing to support their
application for advanced study. The writing
sample may be a term paper or report done
for work and is not required to be related
to planning. Applicants may also submit
additional material that they feel contributes
to their application, such as a work sample
or portfolio. All documents but a visual
portfolio may be uploaded to the application.
Visual portfolios should be uploaded to
SlideRoom at https://pratt.slideroom.com.
Applications will be accepted after the
deadlines for fall and spring provided that
there is room.
Applicants for admission to the
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS (fall and spring
entrance) program are welcome from all
fields of study. They must submit a writing
sample or visual portfolio, depending on
their specific backgrounds. The writing
sample or visual portfolio should indicate
an interest in or awareness of issues to be
addressed in this program. Applications
will be accepted after the deadline if there
is room. The GMAT is optional. Visual
portfolios should be submitted at https://
pratt.slideroom.com.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF SCIENCE IN FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
should have a bachelors degree in
architecture, construction management,
engineering, business, or interior design.
Applicants in other fields are eligible but
may be required to take non-credit courses
in building technology unless they have
acquired equivalent knowledge through
non-academic experience. The GRE or
GMAT is optional; neither is required.
Applications will be accepted after the
deadline if there is room.
School of Art
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF FINE ARTS degree program in Fine Arts
(fall entrance only) are not required to have
majored in studio art in their undergraduate
studies, but must demonstrate their
readiness for the challenges of M.F.A.
studies. The 60-credit M.F.A. program
in Fine Arts comprises four consecutive
15-week fall/spring semesters and begins in
the fall. Accepted students may defer entry
for one year. Those considering applying are
strongly urged to visit Pratt, and department
tours can be arranged by contacting Nat
Meade, Assistant to the Chair, 718.636.3634
(nmeade@pratt.edu). In addition to Pratts
general graduate admissions requirements,
applicants to the M.F.A. in Fine Arts are
required to upload the following materials
to https://pratt.slideroom.com. 1) A portfolio
of up to 20 well-selected images (including
detail views) of recent works made in the
last 23 years. The graduate admissions
committee is looking for portfolios that
show a serious exploration of an idea
through a body of work rather than showing
a disconnected sampling of concepts and
styles. Applicants may show work in diverse
media as long as all of the work shows
evidence of a guiding sensibility or idea.
2) Information in the details section for
each image indicating the title, dimensions,
materials used, and date of completion for
each work submitted. Applicants who are
notified that they have reached the semi-
finalist stage of the admissions process will
be interviewed on Skype. For international
applicants whose first language is not
English, a minimum TOEFL score of 550
(paper)/80 (Internet) is required.
Applicants to the MASTER OF FINE
ARTS IN DIGITAL ARTS (fall entrance only)
should have an undergraduate degree or
considerable background in the digital arts
and should submit a strong visual portfolio
demonstrating a conceptual and aesthetic
focus. No reviews are done in person, but
applicants are encouraged to arrange a visit
to the department by calling 718.636.3411.
Applicants must submit 1215 pieces of work
in traditional or digital media (1) online at

https://pratt.slideroom.com (preferred
format), or (2) in slide format or prints, or
(3) in DVD or CD-ROM format. CDs and
DVDs must be Macintosh compatible and
must be in addition to slides, print, or online
submissions. The graduate admissions
review committee is interested in work that
reflects creativity, technical facility, and the
conceptual skills to develop a sophisticated
body of work. A TOEFL score of 550
(paper)/213 (computer)/or 79 (Internet) is
required for international students.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES IN ART
THER APY AND CRE ATIVIT Y DEVELOPMENT
(fall and spring entrance) program must
present a bachelors degree, preferably in
studio art or psychology. Applicants must
have 18 undergraduate credits in studio art,
to include coursework in drawing, painting,
and 3-D media to include ceramic/clay
work, and 12 credits in psychology, to
include coursework in general, personality,
abnormal, and developmental psychology.
Half the credits in each are required
before acceptance; half may be taken
during the program. A portfolio of 1215
slides or digital images is required of all
applicants. Applicants may be contacted
for an interview when all credentials have
been received. A TOEFL score of 600 (250
computer or 100 Internet) is required of all
international students. No TOEFL waivers
for Art/Dance Therapy will be issued
unless students first language is English.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF SCIENCE IN DANCE/MOVEMENT
THER APY (fall and spring entrance) must
have a bachelors degree, preferably in
dance or psychology. Prerequisites are 12
credits in psychology, to include general,
personality, abnormal, and developmental
psychology; and coursework in anatomy/
kinesiology. Students must also have
extensive experience in at least two idioms
of dance, one of which must be modern
dance. Students must have experience in
body/mind modalities, such as meditation,
yoga, and body therapy. A written synopsis
of dance training and experience must be
submitted with the application. A personal
interview will be required, part of which will
include movement. A TOEFL score of 600
(250 computer or 100 Internet) is required of
all international students unless students
first language is English.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES IN ARTS AND
CULTUR AL MANAGEMENT (fall entrance
only). Applicants should demonstrate
substantial experience in a related field or
activitysocial community engagement
involving the arts. The required statement
of purpose should reflect the applicants
personal vision of how this program fits in
with his/her personal and professional goals
including how the applicant hopes to use
the skills he/she acquires in this program.
The statement should be no more than 500
words or two pages. A TOEFL score of 600
(250 computer or 100 Internet) is required
of international students. Applications are
accepted throughout the semester. The
GMAT is optional.
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Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES IN DESIGN
MANAGEMENT (fall entrance only) should
ideally present an undergraduate degree
in one of the design disciplines, with a
minimum of three years professional
experience. A rsum is also required.
Applications are accepted until June 1.
A TOEFL score of 600 (250 computer or
100 Internet) is required for international
students. The GMAT is optional.
The MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ART
AND DESIGN EDUCATION (INITIAL /
PROFESSIONAL) (fall entrance only,
Brooklyn campus) is a 38-credit program
open to individuals with a minimum of
25-credit hours in art, design and/or the
history of art from an accredited college or
university or the international equivalent.
The MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ART AND
DESIGN EDUCATION (PROFESSIONAL) is
a 34-credit program open to applicants who
already have their Initial Certification as a
Teacher of Visual Arts and have taught full-
time for three years.
The ADVANCED CERTIFICATE is a
24-credit program open to individuals with
an M.F.A. degree or those currently enrolled
in the M.F.A. program at Pratt.
All applicants must submit a portfolio
of 15 images of work (submit online at pratt.
slideroom.com). The required written
statement of purpose included on the
application is given significant consideration.
Applicants are contacted for a Skype interview
when all credentials have been received.
A TOEFL of 600 (250 or 100 Internet) is
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required for international students. All
applicants are encouraged to schedule a visit
to the department by calling 718.636.3637
or emailing awilson2@pratt.edu.
The Art and Design Education
Programs are New York State Education
Department (NYSED) approved teacher
preparation programs and meet the new
requirements for New York State Initial
Teacher Certification in Visual Arts Pre-K12.
However, in order to be recommended
for New York State Initial/Professional
Certification in Visual Arts Pre-K12,
candidates must also have completed a
three-credit course in child and adolescent
psychology and a three-credit course in a
foreign language. These courses may be
taken at Pratt or transferred from another
post-secondary school. Candidates must also
have completed the following workshops:
Child Abuse Identification Workshop;
School Violence Prevention and Intervention
Workshop; and Training in Harassment,
Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Discrimination
in Schools: Prevention and Intervention. These
workshops must be taken with a provider
approved by NYSED. Passing scores on the
following tests and assessments are also
required: Educating all Students (EAS);
Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST);
Content Speciality Test (CST); and edTPA.
School of Design
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN program (fall
entrance only) should submit a portfolio
online at https://pratt.slideroom.com,
including both text (descriptions, problem
statement, etc.) and images (from
development sketches to finished work). The
portfolio must contain examples of drawing
as a communication tool, three-dimensional
objects, and a basic understanding of graphic
design, executed through presentation
and layout. Showing both the process and
execution of a project, along with problem
solving and research, is recommended.
Please include any additional materials that
tell the story of who you are as a creative
person. The M.I.D. program is highly
collaborative and includes students from a
wide variety of backgrounds; therefore, in
your written statement, discuss aspects of
your personal character and background
that would contribute to and benefit from
a collaborative learning environment. A
TOEFL of 575 (paper)/233 (computer)/90
(internet) is required.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF SCIENCE IN INTERIOR DESIGN (fall
entrance only) with an undergraduate degree
in interior design, architecture, or other
closely related design fields are eligible for
the 48-credit two-year graduate program.
A portfolio is required (see guidelines
for submission below.) A two-semester
Qualifying Program of an additional 20
credits is required for applicants whose
undergraduate backgrounds are unrelated
to interior or architecture but whose
applications indicate a strong aptitude for
graduate study. These students complete
68 credits in three years. It should be noted
that applicants to the Qualifying Program
are not required to submit a portfolio. We
do encourage applicants to the Qualifying
Program to submit a portfolio of work
from other disciplines and interest such
as fine arts, fashion, industrial design, or
communications design.
Portfolios may be uploaded at https://
pratt.slideroom.com (preferred) or in print
format, sized at 8.5 x 11. For students
applying to the two-year program, the
portfolio must demonstrate skills from
previous education and/or professional
experience. Please make sure to notate
attributions in group projects and/or
professional work. Students applying to the
three-year graduate program who choose to
submit a portfolio should provide evidence
of their visual sensibility and experience in
other fields. We do not schedule interviews
in person, but applicants are encouraged
to arrange a visit to the department by
calling 718.636.3630. A TOEFL score of
575 (paper) /90 (Internet) is required of
international students.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF FINE ART IN COMMUNICATIONS
DESIGN (fall entrance only) must be
highly motivated individuals who hold an
undergraduate degree in graphic design or
related design fields such as industrial or
interior design, architecture, fine arts, or
media arts. Exceptional individuals from
disparate disciplines may be admitted
provisionally and required to take design
foundation courses. All applicants must
submit a portfolio of work to be reviewed
by an Admissions Committee composed
of faculty. Work included in the portfolio
may be personal work, professional
assignments, or course assignments done in

an undergraduate or graduate program. Your
portfolio should contain between 12 and 20
examples of your best work in traditional or
digital media. In addition to the portfolio,
the written statement of purpose is given
significant consideration. The intent of this
portfolio review is for you to demonstrate
creative potential and provide enough
information about you to determine whether
or not this program is appropriate for you.
Most important, the Admissions Committee
will determine if you demonstrate the
potential to successfully complete the M.F.A.
in Communications Design.
Submit online at
https://pratt.slideroom.com.
6. For international applicants whose
first language is not English, a
minimum TOEFL score of 575
(paper))/90(internet) is required.
Typically applicants for admission to the
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PACK AGING
DESIGN (fall entrance only) hold an under-
graduate degree in graphic design or related
design fields such as industrial or interior
design, architecture, fine arts, or media arts,
but we welcome applications from individuals
with degrees/backgrounds from non-design
fields such as business, liberal arts, and the
sciences who demonstrate a strong aptitude
for graduate study. A qualifying program of an
additional six credits of prerequisite classes
may be required for these applicants.
All applicants must submit a portfolio
of work to be reviewed by an admissions
committee composed of faculty. Work
included in the portfolio may be personal
work, professional assignments, or course
assignments done in an undergraduate or
graduate program. Your portfolio should
contain between 12 and 20 examples of your
best work in traditional or digital media.
In addition to the portfolio, the written
statement of purpose is given significant
consideration. The intent of this portfolio
review is for you to demonstrate creative
potential and the potential to successfully
complete the masters degree program
in Communications or Package Design.
Submit online at https://pratt.slideroom.
com. For international applicants whose first
language is not English, a minimum TOEFL
score of 575 (paper)/233 (computer)/90
(Internet) is required.
School of Information
and Library Science
Applicants for admission to the MASTER OF
SCIENCE IN LIBR ARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE (fall, spring, and summer entrance)
must have a superior scholastic record or
otherwise give evidence of ability to perform
work on the graduate level. Applicants are
expected to offer evidence of maturity and
leadership potential for the profession. An
in-person or telephone interview may be
required; applicants will be contacted by the
School of Information and Library Science
if an interview is deemed necessary. The
school may request that applicants take the
Graduate Record Exam (GRE). Applicants
may apply for non-matriculated status and
take up to 6 credits. International students
whose first language is not English must
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submit a TOEFL score of at least 600 (250
computer or 100 Internet). Students who are
not international but whose first language is
not English must submit the TOEFL or GRE.
Students may continue to apply after the
January 5th deadline until the department
is full. SILS accepts applications on a rolling
basis. If courses are full, applicants will be
moved to the following semester.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF SCIENCE ADVANCED CERTIFICATES
IN LIBR ARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
(fall, summer, and spring entrance) must
hold a masters degree in library and
information science. A TOEFL score of 600
(250 computer, 100 Internet) is required.
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF ARTS IN MEDIA STUDIES must submit
1020 pages of relevant writing sample(s),
with emphasis on analytical writing on any
subject. The sample should be uploaded to
the online application. A TOEFL score of 100
Internet is required.
Applicants for admission to the MASTER
OF FINE ARTS IN WRITING must submit 10
to 20 pages of relevant writing samples of any
genre with an emphasis on creative work.
Upload your writing sample to your online
application. A TOEFL score of 100 Internet
is required.
Applicants for admission to the
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN HISTORY OF ART
AND DESIGN (fall entrance only) must
demonstrate the skill of observation and
description, analysis and criticism, and
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the potential to successfully complete the
coursework and to design and present a
graduate thesis of merit. Undergraduate
study in art and/or design history is
encouraged, and at least an introduction
in those fields should be included in the
completed undergraduate curriculum. The
application package must contain a personal
statement explaining the selection of Pratt
and motivation for the degree, a writing
sample (510 pages) that demonstrates
analytic and communication skills, and
recently earned scores from the Graduate
Record Examination (GRE code R2669).
Applicants for whom English is not their
first language must submit the results of
the TOEFL Examination and score at least
600 (250 computer or 100 Internet.)
General Requirements
Deficiencies in
Undergraduate Preparation
Domestic applicants with deficiencies in
their undergraduate preparation of not
more than six credits may be admitted,
at the discretion of the department, on a
nonmatriculating basis for not more than
18 graduate credits. These students may
become matriculated upon completion of at
least eight graduate credits with a grade of
B or better. Applicants with deficiencies of
more than six credits should apply as special
students on the undergraduate level and
may apply on the graduate level once these
deficiencies are satisfactorily removed.
Graduate Record Examination
Although Pratt Institute does not require
the Graduate Record Examination for
most programs, students who already have
taken this examination should have the
results forwarded to the Office of Graduate
Admissions. The GRE is required for
Architecture (first professional), Art History,
and the combined Art History/Library
Science and combined Art History/Fine Art
programs. Pratts Institutional Code is R2669.
Accepted International Students
All enrolling international students need to
submit International Student forms to the
Office of International Affairs. International
Students include both students who need
an I-20 for the F1 student visa as well as
international students in other immigration
statuses. Students will not be permitted
to register for classes until the forms are
submitted. (U.S. permanent residents are not
considered international students.)
Requesting the I-20
To request the I-20, first submit your
enrollment deposit to the Office of
Admissions. Then you will receive your
OneKey, which is a login and password. This
can take up to seven days to receive. After
you receive your OneKey, go to MyPratt at
www.pratt.edu/mypratt. Log in with your
OneKey. Under Pratt Resources, go to Web
Services, then International Student Forms.
Submit your I-20 Request online and print
out the PDFs to send with the supplemental
documents by express mail directly to
the Office of International Affairs. For
information, go to www.pratt.edu/oia/I20.
For questions, write to oia@pratt.edu.
Enrolling International Students for
Admission to Pratt
In addition to providing the TOEFL or IELTS,
for admission to Pratt, all international
students who enroll whose first language is
not English are required to take an English
examination before they register for classes.
Students who do not pass will be required to
complete Intensive English at Pratt. Students
who are otherwise acceptable but have
low English scores on the TOEFL may be
accepted provisionally and may be required
to take only English classes until they
achieve the TOEFL score required by their
department, at which time they may enroll
in their degree courses. These students will
receive an I-20 for English only. Students
who are accepted with a possibility of
needing English language study indicated on
their I-20 and their acceptance letter will be
tested for English when they arrive at Pratt.
Students who need to take English will take it
with their academic program unless they do
not meet the required score.
In calculating their expenses, students
should budget the tuition equivalent of
two credits per semester for Intensive
English courses.
TOEFL requirements: Most
departments require a TOEFL score of
550 (paper)/213 (computer)/ 79 (Internet),
although some require 600 (paper)/250
(computer)/100 (Internet).

Health Requirements
All new students need to submit
documentation, in English, of all
immunizations (including two measles,
one mumps, and one rubella immunization
received after the first birthday) to the
health services office prior to registration.
All students should submit the completed
Health Form, parts A and B. The form is
available in the Enrollment Guide and online
at the Graduate Accepted Student page
at www.pratt.edu/apply. All students are
required by Pratt Institute to carry health
insurance providing acceptable coverage.
Some countries have health insurance plans
that are valid in the United States. If a student
cannot present evidence of acceptable
coverage, he or she will be required to
subscribe to a health insurance plan provided
by the Institute. To request a waiver of health
insurance or enroll for health insurance
through Pratt, use the online waiver process
found online at www.pratt.edu/health.
Notification and Deposit
Applicants for fall with complete applications
by the deadline are generally notified of the
decision of the admissions committee by
April 1. Applicants for spring are notified by
November 15. Accepted students who plan
to enroll in the fall semester are required
to make a deposit of US $500 by April 15 or
two weeks following acceptance, whichever
comes later. Deposits should be paid online
at https://payments.pratt.edu . Accepted
students who plan to enroll in the spring
semester are required to make a deposit
of US $500 by December 1 or two weeks
following acceptance, whichever comes
later. The full amount of this nonrefundable
deposit is deducted from the students
first-semester tuition. The US $500, if
not paid online, must be in the form of an
international money order or via credit card
for international students and can be paid
on the phone by calling graduate admissions.
A space will not be held for students who do
not send the deposit.
Other Graduate
Admissions Services
Readmission
Graduate students must apply for
readmission if they were not in attendance
for two consecutive semesters (excluding
summer session). Master of Science
students in the Graduate School of Art
and Design who attend four consecutive
summer sessions do not have to apply for
readmission each summer. If they do not
attend one session of the four sessions
offered, they must apply for readmission.
Students applying for readmission must
pay a $50 readmission application fee. A
graduate student who wishes to register
after an absence of two or more consecutive
semesters, excluding summer session,
must apply to the Office of the Registrar for
readmission. The form is available at www.
pratt.edu/admissions/apply. Deadline
dates for application are August 15 for the
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fall semester, December 15 for the spring
semester, and May 1 for the summer
session. A graduate student who was
accepted for admission but never registered
must reapply in writing to the Office of
Graduate Admissions.
Transfer Credits
The number of credits toward the masters
degree that may be transferred from another
recognized graduate institution varies within
the schools and programs, but generally it
will not exceed 25 percent of the total credits
required. The First-Professional Master
of Architecture Program has a residency
requirement of 66 percent, which permits
33 percent of transfer credits. Students
interested in receiving graduate transfer
credits should arrange for an appointment
with their department chair. Credit will
be allowed for graduate courses that are
appropriate to the curriculum at Pratt and
that have been passed with a grade of B or
better. Transfer credit is provisional until the
student has completed at least 15 semester
hours of credit at Pratt Institute. Credit for
courses taken, with permission, at another
graduate school while matriculated at Pratt is
limited to a maximum of six credits.
Nonmatriculated/Special Students
Nonmatriculated (nondegree) students may
take courses for graduate credit, providing
the department approves the registration,
but they may not be admitted to candidacy
for a degree without first gaining admission
to a graduate degree program. No more
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than a total of 18 credits may be taken by a
student with nonmatriculated/special status
(no more than six credits per semester).
The nondegree form and procedures can be
found at www.pratt.edu/apply.
Mailing Address
Graduate Office of Admissions
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
admissions@pratt.edu
Tel: 718.636.3669 or 800.331.0834
Fax: 718.399.4242
Withdrawal After Deposit
Applicants who decide not to enroll after
submitting a deposit must notify the
admissions office by email (yhah@pratt.edu)
or mail as soon as possible. Deposits
are non-refundable.
Deferring
Students may request a deferral to the next
available term by emailing Young Hah
at yhah@pratt.edu. Only one deferral is
permitted. The deposit must be submitted
for a deferral to be approved.
TITLE IX STATEMENT
It is the policy of Pratt Institute to comply with
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972,
which prohibits discrimination (including sexual
harassment and sexual violence) based on sex in
the Institutes educational programs and activities.
Title IX also prohibits retaliation for asserting
claims of sex discrimination. Pratt Institute has
designated its Title IX Coordinator as Mai McDonald
Graves to coordinate Pratt Institutes compliance
with and response to inquiries concerning Title IX.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
PRAT T INSTIT UTE
DISABILIT Y SERVICES CENTER
215 Willoughby Avenue (WH-1)
Suite 117
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Tel: 718.802.3123
Fax: 718.399.4544
A person may also file a written complaint with
the Department of Educations Office for Civil
Rights regarding an alleged violation of Title IX by
visiting www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/
complaintintro.html or calling 800.421.3481.

Financial Aid
Pratt offers various kinds of assistance,
ranging from academic merit-based
scholarships to assistantships and loans.
Entering Graduate Students
Graduate students who are interested in
applying for federal aid must complete and
submit the Free Application for Federal
Student Aid (FAFSA) to the Department of
Education electronically by March 1.
File electronically using the FAFSA or
renewal application at www.fafsa.ed.gov or
Pratts website. Do not submit more than one
application!
The FAFSA should be submitted no later
than March 1 if the student wishes to receive
timely notification of financial aid. Other
documents, such as federal
tax transcripts, may be requested and must
be submitted by May 15.
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If financial need has been established OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID
and adequate funding is available, students INFORMATION CENTER
Myrtle Hall, 6th Floor
are considered for federal loan programs.
Tel: 718.636.3599 | Fax: 718.636.3739
Graduate students are not eligible for Federal finaid@pratt.edu
Pell Grants and Federal Supplemental www.pratt.edu/financing
Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOGs),
and Subsidized Stafford Loans.
Currently Enrolled
Graduate Students
Students who are interested in applying
for federal aid must submit the FAFSA to
the Department of Education. The FAFSA
should be filed no later than March 1 if the
student wishes to be advised of aid in a
timely fashion. Documents such as IRS tax
transcripts may be requested. If requested,
they must be submitted by May 15.
The Office of Financial Aid, upon receipt
of student grades, evaluates the eligibility of
each applicant and sends email notifications
of the awards to continuing students in
early summer, if the student has applied by
March 1.
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Grant and
Scholarship Programs
Graduate Scholarships
What is the purpose of the program?
To provide funds to full-time students based
on merit. These are awarded by academic
departments; all incoming students are
considered. There is no application form.
They may be awarded for one year or may be
renewable.
Pratt Restricted Awards
and Scholarships
What is the purpose of the program?
To provide funds derived from Institute
endowments and restricted gifts that are
granted to students according to the wishes
of the donor and on the recommendation of
the appropriate dean or departmental chair.
How much are the awards?
The awards range from $1,000 and up for the
academic year, for one year only.
Who can receive this money?
Full-time students who have applied for aid
and have demonstrated financial need and
are making satisfactory academic progress.
Some awards are based on academic merit
only, and all are based on departmental
recommendations.
How much do I have to pay back?
No repayment is required.
How do I apply?
There are no special application forms for
restricted and endowed scholarships. Each
department determines its own application
process. Recipients are selected by deans
or department chairs based on criteria
established by donors. These awards are
made for one year only and are based on the
availability of funds in any given year.
Pratt Assistantships/Fellowships
What is the purpose of the program?
To provide funds and professional
experience to help meet a students costs
from institutional sources.
How much are the awards?
The assistantship awards range from
approximately $500 to $7,200 for the
academic year and are paid directly to the
student and are not deductible from the
Bursars bill. Fellowships are credited to the
Bursars bill.
Who can receive this money?
Graduate students with demonstrated
proficiency in their area of study.
How much do I have to repay?
No monetary repayment is required;
students must complete assigned tasks.
How do I apply?
Through your department chair.
Rights and Responsibilities
of Recipients
For assistantships or fellowships to be
awarded in successive years, the student
must make satisfactory progress toward a
degree and show financial need. Students
must not owe any refunds on Federal Pell
Grants or any other awards paid, and not be
in default of any student loan.
Other Pratt Programs
Pratt Student Employment Program
Student employment is funded entirely by
Pratt Institute and offers an opportunity
for qualified students to work part time on
campus. Applicants for student employment
must complete and submit all required
financial aid documents in order to qualify.
These funds are paid directly to students
for campus job assignments and are not
deductible from the Bursars bill.
Students are responsible for submitting
signed time sheets electronically to the
Office of Student Employment. Employment
forms such as the W4, I-9, and Employment
Authorization Form must be completed prior
to working or getting paid.

Federal Programs
Federal College
Work-Study (FCWS)
What Is FCWS?
Federal College Work-Study is a federally
assisted employment program that offers
qualified students a chance to earn money
to help pay for educational expenses. These
funds are paid directly to students for job
assignments and are not deductible from the
Institutes bill.
APPL ICATION PRO CEDURES
All students must submit the FAFSA before
a determination of eligibility will be made.
Eligible candidates will be notified by the
Office of Financial Aid of job assignments
and the forms required before initiating
employment.
SEL ECTION OF RECIPIENTS AND
AL LO CATION OF AWARDS
The applicant must be enrolled full
time (nine credits) at Pratt. Pratt makes
employment reasonably available to all
eligible students who demonstrate need
as per federal guidelines. In the event that
more students are eligible for FCWS than
there are funds available, preference is
given to students who have greater financial
need and who must earn a part of their
educational expenses.
SCHEDUL E
Pratt arranges jobs on campus, for up to
20 hours per week. Factors considered by
the Office of Financial Aid in determining
whether the applicant may work under this
program are financial need, class schedule,
academic progress, and specific skills. Level
of salary must be at least the minimum wage;
maximum wage is dependent on the nature
of the job and the applicants qualifications.
Students may work for only one department
each semester.
RIGHTS AND RESP ONSIBIL ITIES
OF RECIPIENTS
Satisfactory academic progress must be main-
tained. Students must not owe any refunds on
Federal Pell Grants or any other awards paid,
and not be in default on any student loan.
Students are responsible for submitting signed
time sheets electronically to the Office of Stu-
dent Employment. Employment forms such
as the W4, I-9, and Employment Authorization
Form must be submitted prior to working.
Federal Unsubsidized
Stafford Loans
These loans have the same terms and
conditions as Stafford Loans, except that
the borrower is responsible for interest that
accrues during deferment periods (including
in-school) and during the six-month grace
period. Interest may be deferred while in
school but interest will be capitalized if the
student requests a deferment.
Program is open to students who may
not qualify for subsidized Federal Stafford
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Loans. (Combined total cannot exceed
Stafford limits.)
LOAN SCHEDUL E
Annual Loan Limit
$20,500graduate and professional
students (unsubsidized)
The annual loan limits for students enrolled
in a program of study for less than one
academic year in length are prorated.
Aggregate Loan Limits
$138,500undergraduate and graduate
combined.
1. All student loans will be disbursed in
two installments, one each semester.
2. A percentage (approximately
1 percent) of the loan amount will be
deducted from each disbursement as
an origination fee.
ORIGINATION/INSUR ANCE FEES
Borrowers pay an origination fee of
1.072 percent. Interest rate is fixed at
6.8 percent, but may change July 1.
RIGHTS AND RESP ONSIBIL ITIES
OF RECIPIENTS
All borrowers are required to submit a Master
Promissory Note (MPN) to apply for a Federal
Direct Loan (subsidized and unsubsidized).
The MPN is an application for the Stafford
Loan Programs and is valid for ten years from
the time that you originally submit. Please
keep in mind that you will still have to submit
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the Free Application for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA) each year by March 1.
The Office of Financial Aid will notify you
via your electronic financial aid award letter
of your loan eligibility. If any changes are
made to your financial aid, a new letter with
the most current information will be emailed
to your Pratt email address. You should keep
all the letters you receive from the Office of
Financial Aid in order to keep track of any
award revisions.
Along with your electronic award
letter you will be able to gain access to an
electronic master promissory note (MPN).
Prior borrowers may have different interest
and repayment terms based on when they
borrowed their first loan.
All borrowers must attend school at least
half time to be eligible to borrow any type of
loan. Students who are registered for Thesis
in Progress (TIP) also have a minimum
attendance requirement. The first year of
TIP, the student is considered full time for
financial aid purposes only; the second
year, the student is considered half time for
financial aid; and the third, the student must
be registered for at least six credits in the
major or electives to be eligible for aid.
Six months after ceasing to be at least a
half-time student, the borrower must make
formal arrangements with the Department
of Education to begin repayment. The
following regulations apply:
1. The minimum monthly payment will
be $50 plus interest.
2. The maximum repayment period is
10 years.
3. The maximum period of a loan from
date of the original note may not
exceed 15 years, excluding authorized
deferments of payments.
4. Repayment in whole or part may be
made at any time without penalty.
DISBURSEMEN T AND REF UND
OF CREDIT BAL ANCES
The Institute credits all loan disbursements
for graduate level students after the add/
drop period of each semester. Your loan
funds will be credited only if you file all your
required applications in a timely fashion. If
your loan funds do not credit to your account
as expected, please contact your financial
aid counselor or contact the Office of
Financial Aid at 718.636.3599 for assistance.
If your loan amounts exceed your balance,
then you will be written a refund check 14
days after this credit has been created on
your account. All refund checks are mailed
to students at the address submitted to the
Registrars Office. If you have any questions
regarding your refund checks, please
feel free to contact the Bursars Office at
718.636.3799.
Sources of Outside Scholarships
In addition to the Financial Aid Information
Center notices of outside scholarships and
scholarship workshops held each month
on campus, the Financial Aid Office has
lists of agencies to which you may also apply.
(Contact Peggy West-Barton-Feagin at
718.399.4489 for more information.)
Academic Progress
and Pursuit
Financial Assistance Standards
STANDARDS OF ACADEMIC PRO GRES S
FOR DE TERMINING EL IGIBIL IT Y FOR
PR AT T AND FEDER AL FINANCIAL AID
Pratt applies minimum academic progress
standards to all students receiving Pratt aid,
federal aid, and state aid (including loans).
CRITERIA
Measurable satisfactory academic progress
for a full-time graduate student means:
The student must complete a
minimum of 9 credits each semester
(TAP recipients must complete a
minimum of 12 credits each semester).
The students cumulative grade point
average (GPA) must not fall below 3.0.
Students receiving federal and Pratt
financial aid who drop credits will
be subject to adjustments in their
financial aid package.
RE VIE W P OL ICIES
The Office of Financial Aid will periodi-
cally review the GPA and number of credits
earned by each financial aid recipient using
his or her academic transcript. Credits
earned include only those for courses with
A through D grades.
A student not meeting these standards
will be placed on financial aid warning
for one semester. After the grades for
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the warning semester are calculated, the
students transcript will be reviewed. If the
student fails to meet the standards, all of his
or her financial aid will be revoked beginning
with the semester following the warning
semester. Once the student meets the
minimum standards, he or she may reapply
for financial aid.
A student may choose to continue to
study without Title IV aid if the department
grants approval. In this instance, the
student must apply and be approved for an
alternative loan prior to getting registration
approval from the Bursars Office.
S TANDARDS OF ACADEMIC
PRO GRES S FOR DE TERMINING
EL IGIBIL IT Y FOR ST UDENT AID
The following chart lists Pratt Institutes
standards of degree progress for determin-
ing eligibility. Note that each program type
shown on the chart requires that as you begin
each term shown:
Standards of Degree Progress VERMONT
Vermont Student Assistance Corporation
MA STERS DEGREE/P OST-MA STERS PO Box 2000
CERTIFICATE Winooski, VT 05404
800.645.3177
TERM GPA CREDITS
1 NA 0
VIRGIN ISL ANDS
2 3.00 12
Board of Education
3 3.00 21
PO Box 11900
4 3.00 30
St. Thomas, VI 00801
5 3.00 39
340.774.4546
6 3.00 48
7 3.00 57
WA SHINGTON, D.C.
8 3.00 66
Washington, D.C. Grant Program
9 3.00 75
Educational Assistance Office
2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue
Suite 401
Out-Of-State Programs
Washington, D.C. 20020
Other state or commonwealth scholarship 202.698.2400
programs and where to apply:
The above state and district programs are
MARYL AND available only to residents of the appropriate
Higher Education Commission state or district. Pratt knows of no other

You must have earned at least the
required number of credits listed; and
You must have achieved the minimum
GPA. Both of these requirements must
State Scholarship Administration states that make awards to students at a New
Jeffrey Building York college.
16 Francis Street, 219
Annapolis, MD 21401-1700

be met before loan certification can 410-260-4500

occur.
RHODE ISL AND

Rhode Island State Scholarship

560 Jefferson Boulevard
Warwick, RI 02886
800.922.9855
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United States Bureau of Veterans Administration C ONNEC TICU T

Indian Affairs Aid to Native Educational Benefits State Scholarship Program Commission
Americans Higher Education for Higher Education
Application forms are available at all
PO Box 1329
Assistance Program Veterans Administration (VA) offices, active
Hartford, CT 06115
duty stations, and American embassies.
860.713.6543
APPL ICATION PRO CEDURES Completed forms are submitted to the
Application forms may be obtained from the nearest VA office. (See Veterans Assistance DEL AWARE
Bureau of Indian Affairs office. An application under Registration.)
Delaware Post.Secondary
is necessary for each year of study. An Education Commission
official needs analysis from Pratts Office of Carvel State Office Building
Financial Aid also is required each year. State Education Agencies 820 North French Street, 5th Floor
Each first-time applicant must obtain Wilmington, DE 19801
tribal enrollment certification from the AL A SK A 800.292.7935
bureau agency or tribe which records
Alaska Commission
enrollment for the tribe. FLORIDA
on Post.Secondary Education
707 A Street, Suite 206 Bureau of Student Financial Assistance
SEL ECTION OF RECIPIENTS AND
Anchorage, AK 99567 325 W. Gaines Street
AL LO CATION OF AWARDS
907.269.7973 Tallahassee, FL 32399.0400
To be eligible, the applicant must:
850.245.0414
1. Be at least one-fourth American ARK ANSA S
IL L INOIS
Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut. Student Loan Guarantee Foundation
of Arkansas Illinois Student Assistance Commission
2. Be an enrolled member of a tribe,
10 Turtle Creek Lane 500 West Monroe, 3rd Floor
band, or group recognized by the
Little Rock, AR 72202 Springfield, IL 62704
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
800.622.3446 800.899.4722
3. Be enrolled in or accepted for
enrollment at Pratt, pursuing at least a CAL IFORNIA MA S SACHUSE T TS
four-year degree. American Student Assistance Corporation
California Student Aid Commission
4. Demonstrate financial need. 3300 Vinsandel Drive 100 Cambridge Street
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 Boston, MA 02114
888.224.7268 800.999.9080
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NE W HAMPSHIRE Restricted Grants DREAM BIG SCHOL ARSHIP

END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
New Hampshire Higher Education and Scholarships
Assistance Foundation The Dream Big Scholarship will award
There are no special application forms one annual partial scholarship to an
4 Barrell Court
for restricted and endowed scholarships. undergraduate in the School of Architecture,
Concord, NH 03302
Recipients are selected by deans or based on need and merit, with financial need
603.255.6612
department chairs based on criteria as primary consideration.
NE W JERSE Y established by the donors. These awards
are generally made to continuing students GO ODSTEIN DE VELOPMENT
New Jersey Higher Education
in the spring semester for one year only CORP OR ATION SCHOL ARSHIP
Assistance Authority IN HONOR OF JACK AND
and are based on the availability of funds in
PO Box 545 FLORENCE GO ODSTEIN
any given year. Notification of scholarship
Trenton, NJ 08625 Established by Pratt alumnus Steven H.
and fellowship availability will be made
800.792.8670 Goodstein, class of 1966, in memory of his
by individual departments in the spring of
parents, this scholarship benefits students
NE W YORK each year.
majoring in Construction Management.
New York State Higher Education
Services Corporation School of Architecture BENJAMIN GOL DBERGER
99 Washington Avenue MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
COL L ABOR ATIVE END OWMENT FOR
Albany, NY 12255 A scholarship established by Beatrice
ARCHITECT URE/PE TER SCHRE TER
888.697.4372 END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP Goldberger, class of 1934, in honor of her
father, Benjamin Goldberger, class of 1909.
PENNSYLVANIA The purpose of this scholarship endowment
shall be to provide recognition and financial
Pennsylvania Higher Education WIL L IAM R AND OL PH HEARST
assistance to undergraduate students SCHOL ARSHIP
Assistance Agency
enrolled at Pratt Institute in the School of
State Grant and Special Programs Division A fund established by the William Randolph
Architecture.
1200 North 7th Street Hearst Foundation for students in
Harrisburg, PA 17102 architecture. Financial need and academic
PATRICK F. CORVO 88 MEMORIAL
800.692.7392 SCHOL ARSHIP merit being equal, preference will be given to
minority students.
A scholarship established by the family and
TE X A S
friends of Patrick Corvo, class of 1988, in
AMY C. KOE END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
Texas Higher Education
his memory. An award to a student entering
Coordinating Board A scholarship for needy and deserving
the final year of study in the School of
1200 E. Anderson Lane students in the School of Architecture.
Architecture who has demonstrated a serious
Austin, TX 78752
commitment to the field of architecture.
800.242.3062
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CHARLES MACCHI SCHOL ARSHIP
This scholarship will provide one or more
full or partial scholarships to academically
qualified students in the School of
Architecture, with demonstrated
financial need.
DAVID MANDL MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established in memory of
David Mandl to support deserving and/or
academically qualified students in the
School of Architecture.
PATRONS PRO GR AM SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Pratt family
member Edmund S. Twining III to provide
support to outstanding architecture students.
PL ANNING SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established for students
in the graduate program in City and Regional
Planning.
PR AT T PL ANNING ALUMNI SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by Pratt Planning Alumni
for students in the Graduate Planning
Program in the School of Architecture.
FR ANK O. PRICE SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by friends of Professor
Price, longtime teacher of architecture,
awarded to a worthy student.
EDWARD RE JR. SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Professor
Edward D. Re Jr. to aid students
studying Architecture and Construction
Management.
LEE AND NORMAN ROSENFELD AWARD
To provide monetary awards to profession-
ally motivated, academically qualified, and/
or deserving undergraduate students in the
School of Architecture who have completed
one year of study. Preference will be given
to students who are honest and honorable,
as established by academic leadership
and character, who will use the funds to
perpetuate their educational, creative, and
professional goals.
CLYDE L INC OL N ROUNSE VIL L E
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
Awarded to deserving students in the School
of Architecture.
VINCENT A. STABIL E END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established by Vincent
A. Stabile, class of 1940, for students in the
School of Architecture.
GIHEI & SATO TAKEUCHI MEMORIAL
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A scholarship established by John M.
Takeuchi to honor his parents. It is awarded
to a full-time student in her or his second
year studying Architecture who shows
promise through academic achievement.
LUCINDA VEIKOS END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by William and Elizabeth
Pedersen in memory of Lucinda Veikos, class
of 1992, for a deserving student in the School
of Architecture.
VEIKOS TR AVEL SCHOL ARSHIP FOR
ARCHITECT UR AL ST UDY AND TR AVEL
A scholarship established by Kohn Pederson
Fox Associates in memory of Lucinda
Veikos, class of 1992, for travel abroad
for a deserving student in the School of
Architecture.
WINNEMORE ENDOWED SCHOL ARSHIP
Established by Augustine E. Winnemore,
this scholarship is awarded to outstanding
Architecture students.
School of Art and Design
D ON ARIE V MEMORIAL TERM AWARD
A term award for Pratt graduate students
enrolled in their second year in Graduate
Communications Design, in memory of Pratt
Professor Don Ariev, class of 1960. Award
will be based strictly on merit.
R AL PH APPEL BAUM END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A fund established by Ralph Appelbaum,
awarded to Industrial Design students on the
basis of need and merit.
ART ST UDENTS A S SO CIATION
SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund raised by the Art Students
Association over a period of years, awarded
by competition.
MARY PR AT T BARRINGER
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A scholarship established by Mary Pratt
Barringer, awarded annually to five Delaware
College of Art and Design students coming

to Pratt, selected by a joint committee of
representatives from both schools.
THE REGGIE BEHL DR AWING AWARD
The Reggie Behl Drawing Award will provide
a financial award annually to a student in
the School of Art and Design who exhibits
excellence in drawing.
BERNICE BIENENSTO CK SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship awarded to students pursuing
home furnishings-related studies.
SANDR A K. BENJAMIN-HANNIBAL
SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established in honor of
Sandra K. Benjamin-Hannibal, awarded
to two first-year students who are in the
process of completing their Foundation Year
studies and are candidates or finalists in the
Foundation Art Competition.
RU TH CAMPBEL L BIGELOW
AND DAVID E. BIGELOW SCHOL ARSHIP
F UND
Awarded to a student in Interior Design on
the basis of need and academic promise.
R AYMOND AND MABEL BOLTON
ART AND DESIGN SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established in honor of
Raymond and Mabel Bolton for deserving
students in the School of Art and Design.
AL MA H. BORGFEL DT SCHOL ARSHIP
A bequest by Alma H. Borgfeldt for
scholarships for worthy female students to
be selected by the dean of the School of Art
and Design. The scholarships are awarded
to applicants who have majored in the study
of art in a public high school located in Kings
County (Brooklyn) and who reside in Kings
County (Brooklyn).
MARY BUCKL E Y AND JOSEPH PARRIOT
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
Established by Mary Buckley, a former
professor at Pratt Institute who taught
in the Foundation Art Department, this
scholarship is awarded to Foundation
students who exhibit excellence in color
work and is intended to encourage work in
that discipline.
ROBERT F. CAL ROW MEMORIAL
SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established by Trudi
Calrow in memory of her husband, Robert
F. Calrow, a well-known painter and
inspirational teacher. A scholarship will be
awarded annually to a Fine Arts major on the
basis of merit and need.
FEDERICO CA STEL LON END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Hilda Castellon
in memory of her husband, Federico
Castellon, to be awarded on a yearly basis to
a promising student in Graphic Arts.
ANDREA M. CEL L A AND GR ACE HANSEN
CEL L A MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Robert and
Warren Cella to aid students in the School of
Art and Design who actively promote the arts
in their community.
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COYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A fund established from the Richard and
Jean Coyne Family Foundation for students
in Communications Design.
TOMIE DEPAOL A SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
An endowed scholarship to support students
majoring in Illustration, established by
alumnus Tomie dePaola,
class of 1956.
JOHN A. DRE VES ART AND DESIGN
SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established from the Estate
of John A. Dreves, class of 1935, to provide
support for students in the School of Art and
Design who demonstrate financial need.
FAITH EL L IS ART FINANCIAL AID
SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by Faith Ellis, class
of 1939, in memory of her son Rolan R.
Ellis, to enable students to access special
training as determined by the Art Education
Department.
WIL L IAM FO GL ER END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A scholarship established in memory of
Professor William A. Fogler, class of 1955, for
promising students in Industrial Design.
JACQUES AND NATA SHA GEL MAN
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Jacques and
Natasha Gelman awarded to undergraduate
students in studio arts who demonstrate
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exceptional talent in drawing or painting.
With the level of creative merit being equal,
preference will be given to those of Mexican
or Latino descent.
ANTHONY GENNAREL L I MEMORIAL
SCUL P T URE AWARD
Awarded to students enrolled at Pratt
Institute who are studying sculpture. The
award will be based on artistic and academic
merit, as well as quality of student work.
RICK GO ODWIN MEMORIAL
SCHOL ARSHIP
This scholarship fund is established with
gifts made in memory of Rick Goodwin, a
former faculty member in the Department
of Industrial Design. It will support an
Industrial Design student based on financial
need and academic merit.
CHARL ES L. GOSL IN END OWED
MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
To provide recognition and financial
assistance, based on need and merit,
to students enrolled in Pratt Institutes
Communications Design program in the
School of Art and Design.
RICHARD AND ANNE L. BOE T ZEL GUNN
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A scholarship awarded annually to a student
majoring in Communications Design on
the basis of scholarly achievement, with
preference given to students majoring in
Advertising Design or Illustration. Named
for and established by alumni from the
class of 1937.
HA SKEL L TR AVEL SCHOL ARSHIP MELVIN K. JUNG MEMORIAL
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A scholarship established for students in the
School of Art and Design for travel abroad Awarded to a worthy graduate student in
within two years from graduation. Industrial Design, named in memory of an
alumnus from the class of 1975.
JOHN AND JOAN HERL IT Z MEMORIAL
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP HEL EN OF KLUCHARK A
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
The purpose of this scholarship endow
ment shall be to provide recognition and A scholarship established by Pearl K.
financial assistance, based on need and Schwartz in honor of her mother, awarded to
merit, to undergraduate students enrolled students studying Fashion Design.
in the Industrial Design program in the
L EEDS SCHOL ARSHIP IN
School of Art and Design. Established in
INTERIOR DESIGN
memory of John Herlitz, class of 1964, and
A scholarship for Interior Design students,
Joan Herlitz.
established through a gift from the estate of
THE HILSON FAMILY F UND Harold Leeds.
A fund established by the Hilson Family
NAOMI L EFF E XCEL L ENCE IN
to enhance and strengthen the graduate INTERIOR DESIGN SCHOL ARSHIP
Communications Design program. Part of the
Established with a generous bequest from
fund will be used for scholarships for students
Naomi Leff, class of 1973, this full scholarship
in graduate Communications Design.
is awarded annually to one student who
exhibits excellence in Interior Design, who
STE VE HORN ART & DESIGN AWARD
is in good academic standing, and who
A scholarship established by Steve Horn
demonstrates financial need.
awarded annually to one outstanding
student studying Photography, Film, or HERSCHEL L E VIT SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
other media arts.
Founded in 1986 by a group of donors to
honor Professor Herschel Levits 31 years of
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SCHOL ARSHIP
service to Pratt, this scholarship is given to
A number of scholarships from a fund
talented Pratt students in their sophomore or
established by business contributions,
junior year majoring in Advertising, Graphic
awarded to students in Industrial Design
Design, and Illustration.
for experimental projects in the laboratory.

TED AND BE TSY L E WIN
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by Pratt alumni Ted
Lewin, class of 1956, and Betsy Lewin,
class of 1959, to provide support for
Illustration students.
WIL L IAM L. LONGYEAR SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by students, alumni,
and friends from the business world as a
tribute to William L. Longyear, associate
dean emeritus and former chair of the
Department of Advertising Design,
awarded annually to Communications
Design students and to graduate Package
Design students on the basis of need and
scholarship. The recipients are nominated
by the department chairs and two faculty
members for approval by the dean of the
School of Art and Design.
THE JOHN S. MARQUARDT AWARD IN
COMMUNICATIONS DE SIGN
An endowed scholarship fund established
by George Klauber, class of 1952, in memory
of John S. Marquardt, class of 1989. A
scholarship will be awarded annually to
outstanding undergraduates majoring in
Illustration, Advertising/Art Direction, or
Graphic Design, solely on the basis of merit.
PHYL L IS AND CONR AD MILSTER
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
Established by Conrad Milster, Pratt
Institutes Chief Engineer, the scholarship
will provide one or more annual partial
scholarships to undergraduate or
graduate students in the Industrial
Design Department.
GINO AND CL ARICE NAHUM
MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
The Gino and Clarice Nahum Memorial
Scholarship provides scholarships to
professionally motivated and academically
qualified students in undergraduate
Communications Design, who have
already completed one year of study at Pratt.
Preference will be given to undergraduate
students who show great potential, and the
scholarship will be awarded based on merit.
P OINT OF P URCHA SE SCHOL ARSHIP
The Point of Purchase Scholarship is funded
by grants from numerous companies with
significant interest in the design of displays
used at the Point of Purchase (POP). An
annual award to either undergraduate or
graduate Industrial Design students who
have demonstrated design leadership
potential in the field of POP design.
EL AINE GLUCKMAN P OP OWIT Z
MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
Established in memory of Elaine
Gluckman, class of 1981, a faculty member
of the graduate Art Therapy Department.
Scholarship to be awarded annually to a
second-year student in the graduate Creative
Arts Therapy Department who has exhibited
outstanding scholarship, integrity, and
concern for others.
CHARLES PRAT T, JR. AWARD FOR
EXCELLENCE IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Established by Pratt Institute Trustee
Mike C. Pratt in honor of his father, the
Charles Pratt, Jr. Award for Excellence in
Photography will be distributed annually to
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a student in the Photography Department
at Pratt Institute, based on a combination of
academic merit and need.
L IL L IAN PR AT T FA SHION SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship to benefit outstanding juniors
and seniors in Fashion Design, established
by Pratt family member Lillian Pratt.
WALTER ROGALSKI SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship awarded annually to a graduate
Fine Arts student on the basis of merit and
need, as selected by a faculty committee
that reviews candidates who exemplify the
creative ability that characterized the work of
former Pratt professor Walter Rogalski.
MARC ROSEN SCHOL ARSHIP
Funded by friends and associates of Marc
Rosen, class of 1970, in his honor, this
award is made to an outstanding graduate
Communications/Package Design student.
The winner is selected by the chair and
members of the faculty of the Department of
Graduate Communications/Package Design.
BARBAR A HAUBEN ROS S INTERIOR
DESIGN AWARD
A fund established to annually honor two
outstanding Interior Design juniors.
ANNA W. RUST ENDOWED SCHOL ARSHIP
FOR ST UDENTS IN ART AND DESIGN
A scholarship for students in the School of
Art and Design established by Leo Lewis
Rust in memory of his wife, Anna Klenke
Rust, class of 1938.
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DAVID SAYLOR SCHOL ARSHIP FOR DESIGN
A scholarship established to benefit
undergraduate and graduate students in the
School of Art and Design who are studying
either Industrial Design or Interior Design.
Preference will be given to students who
combine the fields of industrial design and
interior design in their studies, or who plan to
do so in their careers.
CHARL ES AND MARIE SCHADE
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Charles and
Marie Schade to aid students in either the
School of Art and Design or Architecture who
demonstrate good academic standing as well
as financial need.
D OROTHY G. SCHMIDT
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A scholarship established in honor of
Dorothy G. Schmidt, to be used for
elementary and junior high school teachers
seeking courses at Pratt for professional
enhancement in their work of teaching art
and related subjects in the public schools of
Brooklyn, to be awarded on the basis of need.
Other factors being equal, females shall be
given preference.
FREDERICK J. SCHUBACK
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
To be awarded to one Fine Arts
undergraduate each year who is in good
academic standing and who demonstrates
financial need, established in memory of
Frederick J. Schuback, class of 1975.
JAMES SEEMAN END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
Established by the family and friends of
interior design leader and muralist James
Seeman, this scholarship provides resources
for dedicated Painting students, with
preference given to those who recently
moved to the United States.
SEEMAN-BURSE F UND
A scholarship for students in the School of
Art and Design, specifically Fashion Design.
SEL MA SEIGEL MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund created by Morton Flaum, class of
1971, in memory of Selma Seigel, which will
provide scholarship aid to Interior Design
students in the School of Art and Design.
MONICA SHAY SCHOL ARSHIP
Established with gifts made in memory of
Professor Monica Shay, this scholarship
will be awarded to a deserving student who
meets the following criteria: a graduate
student in the Department of Design
Management and Arts and Cultural
Management with demonstrated financial
need, or dedicated and exemplary service
and commitment to the Department of
Design Management and Arts and
Cultural Management.
STARR FOUNDATION SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established by the Starr
Foundation for students in the Department
of Communications Design. Awards will be
made annually to three students majoring
in Illustration, Graphic Design, and
Advertising. Academic merit being equal,
preference will be given to Asian students.
RU TH P. TAYLOR SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by the estate of Ruth
P. Taylor, class of 1921, for students in the
School of Art and Design.
VIRGINIA PR AT T THAYER SCHOL ARSHIP
IN FINE ARTS
A fund created by Robert Thayer in memory
of his mother Virginia Pratt Thayer to
provide scholarship aid to an outstanding
student entering his or her junior year in the
Fine Arts program.
D OROTHY TO OL E SCHOL ARSHIP
Created through a bequest in the will of Mrs.
Dorothy Rodgers Toole, class of 1931, this
scholarship is for students who demonstrate
unusual interest and talent in the field of
fashion illustration.
MA X WEBER SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A gift given by Mrs. Max Weber and Miss
Frances Weber in memory of the well-known
artist who was a member of the class of 1900,
to be used annually to provide scholarship aid
for students in the School of Art and Design.
STEPHAN WEIS S END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
Awarded to Fine Arts students in good
academic standing, this scholarship, funded
by Donna Karans Karan-Weiss Foundation,
honors Stephan Weiss.
WIL L ARD SCHOL ARSHIP
This scholarship was established to aid
students in the School of Art and Design
who are graduates of Washington Irving
High School.

HENRY WOL F SCHOL ARSHIP
END OWMENT
An endowed scholarship fund, the income
of which will be used to award one or more
scholarships to support economically
disadvantaged students pursuing
B.F.A.s or M.F.A.s in Photography or
Communications Design.
IRMA HOL L AND WOLSTEIN END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established by Dr. Ben-
jamin Wolstein to aid gifted students with
financial aid in the Arts Education program.
School of Information and
Library Science
BE TA PHI MU SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established by Beta Phi
Mu, an honor society for elite graduates in the
School of Information and Library Science.
MABEL BO G ARDUS SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A fund established for graduate students in
Information and Library Science, named for
an alumna from the class of 1913.
D OROTHY M. CO OPER END OWED
FEL LOWSHIP
Established from the Dorothy M. Cooper
Trust to provide support for students in the
library school, named for an alumna from
the class of 1931.
MORTON D. FL AUM MEMORIAL
SCHOL ARSHIP
Established by Morton D. Flaum, class of
1971, through his estate, to benefit students
in the School of Information
and Library Science.
L IBR ARY SCHO OL GR ADUATES
A S SO CIATION
A fund established for graduate students in
Information and Library Science.
L IBR ARY SCIENCE F UND
A scholarship fund for graduate students in
Information and Library Science.
S. M. MAT TA END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLO GY
A fund established in honor of Seoud
M. Matta, former dean of the School of
Information and Library Science.
SYLVIA G. MECHANIC MERIT AWARD IN
BUSINES S L IBR ARIANSHIP
A scholarship for graduate students in
Information and Library Science.
PR AT T-SE VERN ST UDENT RESEARCH
AWARD IN INFORMATION SCIENCE
An annual award funded by a bequest from
alumnus David Severn, class of 1968, is
presented to a masters degree student
selected by the American Society for
Information Science (ASIS).
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MARVIN SCIL KEN END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established in memory of Marvin
Scilken, class of 1960, a former faculty
member in the School of Information and
Library Science.
GEORGE SIMOR SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established in memory of George
Simor, a former faculty member in the School
of Information and Library Science.
THE EDMUND S. T WINING III AND DIANA
T WINING SCHO OL OF INFORMATION
AND L IBR ARY SCIENCE FEL LOWSHIPS IN
FLORENCE
The fund is intended to provide two graduate
fellowships each summer for students
studying in the School of Information and
Library Science Florence Summer Program.
H.W. WILSON SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by the H.W. Wilson
Foundation for graduate students in
Information and Library Science or Liberal
Arts and Sciences.
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
IZCHAK FRIEDMAN END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
An endowed fund established by Pratt
alumna Estelle Friedman, class of 1969,
and her children in memory of her husband,
Pratt alumnus, professor, and dean of the
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Izchak
Friedman, class of 1962, for students with an
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interest in combining science and the arts,
based on merit and financial need.
MICHAEL M. MAHONEY WRITERS FUND
Awarded to undergraduate students
majoring in writing, specifically those
interested in writing for publication and
performance media, in memory of former
Pratt student Michael Mahoney. Recipients
will be chosen by the dean of the School of
Liberal Arts and Sciences.
H.W. WILSON SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by the H.W. Wilson
Foundation for graduate students in
Information and Library Science or Liberal
Arts and Sciences.
All Schools
ALUMNI SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established in 1957 by various alumni,
the income from which is to be used for
scholarship assistance to worthy students.
JAMES W. ATKINSON
MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
Created from the trust of Yvonne Atkinson, in
memory of her husband James W. Atkinson,
class of 1938, a generous and active alumnus
and graphic designer who headed Pratts
alumni branch in Detroit, this fund provides
resources for general scholarship purposes.
D OROTHY P. BARRE T T
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by the estate of Dorothy
P. Barrett for general charitable and
educational uses.
WIL L IAM BINGHAM II SCHOL ARSHIP
A trust for charitable purposes established
by the late William Bingham II for students
from Bethel, Maine, other towns in Oxford
County, Maine, or elsewhere in the state of
Maine (in that order).
BL ACK ALUMNI OF PR AT T
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established to provide scholarships
to students who have completed a year at
Pratt, are in good academic standing, and
demonstrate a need for financial assistance.
Academic standing and financial need being
equal, preference will be given to students of
African and Latino descent.
ELSA K. BRO OKS SCHOL ARSHIP
Created through a charitable gift annuity
from Elsa K. Brooks, class of 1939, this
scholarship is intended for incoming
freshmen students.
HEL EN R. FECKE END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP
Awarded to students in good academic
standing who demonstrate financial need,
named for an alumna of the class of 1926.
ESTHER BRIGHAM FISHER
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A scholarship fund established by Edward M.
Fisher, in memory of his wife, to assist Pratt
Institute students.
L E WIS H. FLYNN SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established under the will of Lewis H.
Flynn, class of 1916, for scholarship aid.
FORD-EEO C SCHOL ARSHIP
An endowment fund established by the Ford
Motor Company to provide scholarships for
students with demonstrated financial need.
Financial need being equal, preference
will be given to minorities, women, Ford
employees, their spouses, and their children.
GENER AL SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established in 1956 through gifts from
industries made as matching scholarships or
tuition grants, the income from which is to be
used for general scholarship purposes.
K ATHL EEN L . GERL A
END OWMENT SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by the Kathleen L. Gerla
Charitable Trust.
WILSON Y. HANCO CK
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship to provide general support for
students in good academic standing, created
through a bequest from the Estate of Elizabeth
Marie Hancock in memory of her late husband,
Wilson Y. Hancock, class of 1933.

COBY HOFFMAN SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established to support students
in the School of Art and Design.
FERDINAND M. JUNGE
MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established from the estate of
Ferdinand M. Junge for talented and
deserving undergraduates who demonstrate
financial need.
HERMAN Y. KRINSK Y SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
FOR DISABL ED ST UDENTS
A fund established for disabled students in
honor of former Pratt professor Herman Y.
Krinsky.
JACOB AND GWEND OLYN L AWRENCE
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established for general scholarship
support.
MACD ONAL D SCHOL ARSHIP
This scholarship, named in honor of Helen
Babbott MacDonald, will provide financial
resources to an undergraduate student at
Pratt Institute. The award will be granted
based on financial need and academic merit.
MARG ARE T A. MIDDL EDITCH F UND
A fund established anonymously to finance
scholarship or maintenance abroad, or the
travel itself.
L EO J. PANTA S RESIDENCE
CENTER SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Leo J. Pantas,
class of 1937, trustee emeritus, with a match-
ing grant from Eaton Corporation. Awarded
to a full-time student with financial need
living in Pantas Residence Hall.
PR AT T ART SUPPLY PRODUCT
SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established by the Pratt Art Supply
Shop to provide supply scholarships for
qualifying students. Scholarships will be
awarded annually during a scholarship and
fall trade show.
AL AN P OT TA SCH MEMORIAL
SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established by Lisa Pottasch,
honoring Alan Pottasch, that supports
undergraduate Communications Design
students, with a preference given to those
who have declared a concentration in
Advertising Art Direction and display
financial need.
CHARL ES PR AT T II
MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
This endowed scholarship was established
by Edmund Twining III in memory of his
grandfather, Charles Pratt II, to support any
full-time student at Pratt Institute who best
demonstrates the ideals of the founder of Pratt
Institute. These are defined as leadership,
community service, and self-motivation.
Additionally, the award should be made
to a student who demonstrates artistic
achievement at the college level.
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GEORGE D. PR AT T SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship fund established by Vera H. A.
Pratt in memory of her husband, George D.
Pratt, for worthy students.
RICHARDSON (JERRY) PR AT T
END OWED SCHOL ARSHIP
Funded by gifts from the Pratt family and
established in honor of Richardson Pratt Jr.,
former president of Pratt, this scholarship
is awarded to outstanding students with
financial need.
RICHARDSON AND MARY O. PR AT T
SCHOL ARSHIP
This scholarship, made possible by the gifts
of various donors, honors the legacies of
Richardson Pratt Jr., former president of
Pratt, and his wife, Mary O. Pratt.
PAIGE RENSE SCHOL ARSHIP
A scholarship established in honor of
Paige Rense.
R AOUL SE T TL E SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A fund established in memory of Raoul
Settle, class of 1952.
IRENE C. SHEA END OWED
SCHOL ARSHIP F UND
A fund established by Irene C. Shea, class of
1934, for students who demonstrate financial
need and are in good academic standing.
K ATHERINE PR AT T T WITCHEL L F UND
A fund established in memory of Katherine
Pratt Twitchell.
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U TRECHT SCHOL ARSHIPS
The Utrecht Scholarships will provide
four merit-based scholarships to support
undergraduate students at Pratt Institute.
J. SHERWO OD WEBER
MEMORIAL SCHOL ARSHIP
A fund established in memory of J. Sherwood
Weber, former provost and faculty member,
to be awarded annually to an outstanding
student in any school.
THE JAE KWAN WOO SCHOL ARSHIP
Established by former Pratt Trustee and
alumnus Young S. Woo (Architecture 80),
the Jae Kwan Woo Scholarship will provide
partial scholarships to Pratt Institute
undergraduate students, based on merit and
need. With the level of academic merit and
financial need being equal, preference will
be given to students from Korea or of
Korean descent.
International Student
Scholarships
The International Student Scholarship for
the academic year 201415 will be available
to those students who have encountered
financial hardship. Students must demon-
strate unforeseen economic need. A Financial
Aid Committee will determine the eligibility
of the applicant. The scholarship funds are
very limited. Since the award is based only on
unforeseen economic need, there is no appli-
cation deadline. The scholarship, if awarded,
is to be used for tuition and fees only.
You must follow these guidelines:
1. You must in be in good academic
standing and must submit the latest
copy of your transcript.
2. You must have been enrolled at Pratt
for at least one academic year.
3. You must have clearance from the
Office of the Bursar. Those who have
any outstanding debts with the Bursar
will not be considered.
4. You must submit copies of bank
statements for the past six months;
telephone, utility, and rent bills; and a
budget for the academic year.
5. If you are sponsored, you must submit
proof of your sponsors inability to
continue with the financial commit-
ment.
6. You must submit a statement outlining
your academic goals at Pratt, as well as
what contributions you have made as
an international student to the campus
life and why you need the scholarship.
7. You must submit a letter of recommen-
dation.
8. If you are receiving Pratts financial
assistance, your travels will be
restricted.
The above-listed documents must be
submitted as proof of unforeseen economic
need to the Office of International Affairs,
Attention: Jane Bush.
Financial Aid Instructions
and Schedule
All application materials are available at
www.pratt.edu/financing. You must submit
the following to be considered for federal,
state, and Pratt Institute aid (including bank
loans) for the next academic year:
1. Financial aid forms for 201415
Free Application for Federal Student
Aid (FAFSA). You send the FAFSA to
the federal processor. We strongly
suggest it be completed and be
submitted electronically, online at
www.fafsa.ed.gov or at the financial
aid section of Pratts website.
2. IRS tax transcript for 2013, if
requested. If you did not file a tax
return, you must submit a notarized
letter stating your source of income.
Mail to:
Office of Financial Aid
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205
718.636.3739 fax
Deadline: May 15, 2014, for requested
tax transcript.
3. Direct subsidized and unsubsidized loans
Continuing students who wish to apply
for a loan should file the FAFSA by
February 1. If you filed the Master
Promissory Note (MPN) last year, you
dont have to submit another MPN
loan application. We can only notify
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students of their loan eligibility levels

in the electronic award letter, which is
sent to your Pratt email address.
4. Other information we request
A financial aid counselor may ask for
additional information and or
documentation after your application
is reviewed. Respond quicklywe
cant finalize your aid until we receive
the requested information.

Mail early. We award financial aid only

when your file is complete! Call us with
questions at 718.636.3599 or email at
finaid@pratt.edu.

For the 20142015 academic year, please

refer to the financial aid section of the Pratt
website: www.pratt.edu/financing.

Tuition and Fees
Costs
The following approximate costs are in effect
at the time of publication. They are subject
to change by action of the Board of Trustees.
The Institute reserves the right to change
regulations at any time without prior notice.
It also reserves the right to change tuition
and fees as necessary. Tuition and fees are
payable in full at the time of registration.
Graduate
No flat rate. $1,530 per credit. Note:
The charge per credit for the School of
Information and Library Science is $1,229.
Fees
Fees vary according to program.
For a complete listing of fees, see next
page. Please refer to the undergraduate
bulletin for undergraduate tuition and fees.
287
Books and Supplies BURSAR
Yvette Mack
Approximately $2,500 per year, depending
ymack@pratt.edu
on program.
ASSOCIATE BURSAR
Other Expenses Loretta Edwards
For resident students (students living away ledwards@pratt.edu
from home in either on-campus or off-
OFFICE
campus housing), an estimated $600 per
Tel: 718.636.3539 | Fax: 718.636.3740
month (for a nine-month period) should
bursar@pratt.edu
be allowed for food, housing, clothing,
and other personal needs. For commuter ASSOCIATE BURSAR MANHAT TAN
students (students living at home), an Madeline Vega-Mourad
estimated $250 per month should be allowed mvegamou@pratt.edu
for personal expenses and transportation.
Students provide their own textbooks and
instructional and art supplies. These books and
supplies may be purchased either online or at
local art supply stores. Bookstore expenses are
not chargeable to the students Institute tuition
account. For those students who have a third
party book voucher, they must purchase their
books upfront and provide the voucher with
eligible copies of the receipt in order to
be reimbursed.
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Tuition Payment beginning with July 15 for the ten-month plan Pratt Institute Graduate Fees
Undergraduate and graduate students are for continuing students. The start date of

charged tuition according to their enrollment
status. An undergraduate student taking
a graduate course applicable to his or her
undergraduate degree is charged at the
undergraduate rate. A graduate student
taking an undergraduate course is charged
tuition at the graduate rate.
Terms of Payment
Bills are payable by personal or certified
check, money order, VISA, MasterCard,
August 15 for the nine-month plan or September
GENER AL FEES
15 for the eight-month plan is available for
new students. Brochures explaining this plan $50 Application fee
(including an application) are available through $90 Application fee/international
the Tuition Management Systems (TMS) firm. students
The fee is $105 for the year. There is also a $500 Acceptance deposit
semester-based plan for $97 each semester.
$300 Residence deposit
TMS will provide an easy-to-use work-
sheet to assist the student in budgeting
educational expenses for the year. ACTIVITIES FEES
A semester-based plan is also available. For $103 Graduate activities fee

American Express, Discover, debit cards further information, call or write: each fall and spring term: full-

featuring the NYCE symbol, or wire transfer time students

Tuition Management Systems
in advance of each term. Checks should be 171 Service Avenue, Second Floor $82 Graduate activities fee each
made payable to Pratt Institute. Payment Warwick, RI 02886 fall and spring term: part-time
is also accepted online. Payment for fall is 800.722.4867 students
due August 1 for all students. There is a 2.5% www.afford.com/PRATT
convenience fee charged with each credit card TECHNOLO GY FEES
transaction. Library fines, lost ID cards, and Please notify the Bursars Office if you are
$300 Each fall and spring term: full-
fees not charged to your student account do using TMS.
time students
not incur the fee. Pratt Card transactions also
Pratt Institute $150 Each fall and spring term: part-
do not incur the fee. E-checks are free.
Office of the Bursar/ time students
Student Financial Services
$150 Each summer term for all
200 Willoughby Avenue
Available Payment Brooklyn, NY 11205
students
Plan through Tuition Tel. 718.636.3539
Management Systems Bursar@pratt.edu

Deferred Plan Option

(Fall- and Spring-Based)
This deferred payment plan may be
implemented on a yearly basis or semester
basis. This plan enables the student to pay both
fall and spring over eight, nine, or ten months,

ACADEMIC FACILITIES FEES
$350 Each fall and spring term: full-
time students
$190 Each fall and spring term:
part-time students (This fee is
targeted to improve facilities,
equipment, and materials that
directly enhance instruction.)
$75 International student services
fee (This fee is targeted to
improve the quality of services
available to the international
student.)
$190 Each summer term for
all students
ARCHITECT URE FEES
$40 Architecture shop fee. Each
fall, spring, summer term: full-
time and part-time students
DIGITAL ARTS L AB FEES
$40 per course All 100/200/300-
level DDA courses
$50 per course All 400/500-level
DDA courses
$60 per course All 600-level DDA
courses
FINE ARTS SHOP FEE (PER COURSE):
FAL L AND SPRING
$50 All 200600-level courses in
Sculpture
$45 All 200600-level courses in
Ceramics
$45 All 200600-level courses in
Jewelry
$45 All 200600-level courses in
Printmaking
HEALTH INSUR ANCE FEES
TBD Mandatory fee per semester.
May be waived with proof of
personal health insurance.
THESIS-IN-PRO GRES S FEES
Each semester of In-Progress varies by
academic department.
TUITION AND FEES 289
L ATE PAYMENT FEES
A. A late fee of $80 will be charged for
any unpaid balance after the initial
disbursement of financial aid has
been applied for each semester.
B. A late registration fee of $55 will be
charged after the first 15 days of
each semester/session for students
who did not complete their
registration during their designated
registration period.
HEALTH SERVICES FEES
$180 Each fall and spring term:
full-time students
$92 Each fall and spring term:
part-time students
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MISCEL L ANEOUS FEES M.I.D. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN REF UNDABL E Auditing Courses
ST UDIO DEP OSIT
$100 Shop Safety Certification Class
$35 Fee for issuance of $50 Deposit for the entire program ST UDENTS AND COMMUNIT Y

duplicate diploma $25 Key deposit for entire year Pay 50 percent of the published per credit
$55 Re-admission fee for studios with key access tuition rate for each course.
$20 Leave of absence fee $25 Locker deposit for the entire
PR AT T ALUMNI
$100 Portfolio/work experience program
deposit Pay 40 percent of the published per credit
Deposits are paid to the Bursars Office
$369 Fee30 percent of per-credit tuition rate for each course.
and refunded by check.
chargeSILS
All persons auditing courses are charged
$459 Fee30 percent of per-credit RE T URNED CHECK FEES
100 percent of all fees.
chargegraduate $25 1.25 percent interest fee is
assessed on all delinquent
Zero Credit Internships
accounts one month or older
Zero credit internships may have billing
Fine Arts Studio credits which are charged at 30 percent of the
TR ANSCRIP T REQUEST FEE*
Refundable Deposits (PER COPY) per credit rate. All zero credit internships

$7.50 By Internet, are charged 100 percent of all fees.

M.F.A. FINE ARTS REF UNDABL E
www.pratt.edu/registrar
ST UDIO DEP OSIT
$10 By Internet,
$50 Deposit for the entire program
www.pratt.edu/registrar
Course Withdrawal Refunds
Deposits are paid to the Bursars Office (request leaves Pratt Procedures for official withdrawals are
and refunded by check. within one working day of as follows:
$25 Deposit for key replacement receipt on campus) Students who want to withdraw must fill
$15 In-person requests out the official withdrawal form (available in
the students academic department), have
$18.50 UPS Service
the form signed by the Office of the Bursar,
All fees are charged 100 percent when
and submit it immediately to the Office of
dropping classes during the add/drop
the Registrar. Refunds are determined by the
period.
date the add/drop or complete withdrawal
* Subject to change. form is signed by the Office of the Registrar.
For all students, the following course
withdrawal penalty schedules apply:

Pratt Institute Refund Policy
F UL L REF UND
Withdrawal prior to and including the
opening day of term
85 PERCENT T UITION REF UND
Withdrawal from the second through
eighth day of the term
70 PERCENT T UITION REF UND
Withdrawal from the ninth through 15th day
of the term
55 PERCENT T UITION REF UND
Withdrawal from the 16th through 22nd day
of the term
NO REF UND
Withdrawal after the 22nd day of the term
Individual fees are not refundable after
the first day of the term. Once a students
request is received, processing takes
approximately 10 working days. Liability is
computed from the date the form is signed
by the registrar staff. Withdrawals may not
be made by telephone. Check registration
schedules and the Institutes calendar for
exact liability deadline dates each semester.
Withdrawal from courses does not
automatically cancel housing or meal plans.
Penalties for housing and meal plans are
calculated based on the date the student
submits a completed Adjustment Form to the
Office of Residential Life.
Refunds for withdrawn courses are not
automatic and must be requested from the
Office of the Bursar.
Refunds on Students
Credit Balance
A credit balance on a students account after
applying Title IV funds (Federal Student Aid
Funds) will be automatically refunded and a
refund will be mailed or applied to the debit
card within 14 days of the later of any of the
following dates:
1. the date the credit balance occurs.
2. the first day of classes of a payment
period of enrollment.
3. the date the student rescinds his or her
authorization to apply Title IV funds to
other charges or for the institution to
hold excess funds.
Refund checks are valid for 90 days from
the date of the check issued. In keeping with
federal regulations, all Title IV (Federal
Student Aid) checks not cashed within the
time frame listed above will be considered
unclaimed and will result in funds returned
to the federal government.
Before such actions are taken, students
will be notified by email.
TUITION AND FEES 291
Banking Facilities
Arrangements have been made with a bank on
campus for students to open accounts, making
it possible to cash personal checks with the
Pratt ID (providing the students available
bank account balance covers the amount
of the check to be cashed) and a primary ID
(state-issued or passport). An automated teller
machine is also available on campus.
Billing
Bills are mailed to one address. One copy
of each bill will be mailed to the address the
student lists as his or her billing address on
registration records. A billing address may
be established, changed, or deleted at any
time by writing or visiting the Office of the
Registrar. Due dates cannot be extended
because bills have not been received.
If no billing address is specified, bills are
mailed to the permanent address.
You may also pay online at www.www.
pratt.edu/mypratt.
Billing Schedule
For those students who have registered, fall
semester bills are mailed during the first
week of July, and spring semester bills are
mailed during the first week of December.
All other bills including summer are available
online. Fall bills are available online after July
1, if registration has already occurred.
If you do not receive a bill, you may
contact the Office of the Bursar prior to
292 TUITION AND FEES
the due date to ascertain the amount due.
Please consult the costs section and your
housing license if you need an earlier
estimate. Consult the annual Academic
Calendar and Academic Guide for exact
payment deadlines.
Late Payment Fee and Interest
A late payment fee is assessed each semester
on all bills remaining unpaid, in whole or
in part, after the due date for the semester.
An interest fee of 1.25 percent per month
is assessed on all delinquent accounts one
month or older. Any cash amounts paid
totaling $10,000 or more made within a
12-month period, the IRS form 8300 will be
completed and sent to the IRS. Please be sure
to have Photo ID.
Payments
Payments must include the students
name and student ID number. Checks and
money orders should be made payable to
Pratt Institute in U.S. dollars and drawn
on a U.S. bank. Checks drawn on an
international bank may delay credit to the
students account and may be subject to
a collection fee imposed by Pratts bank.
Loan checks payable to the student or
parent must be endorsed.
Students may pay in person and receive
a receipt by presenting the invoice and
payment to the Bursars Office, Myrtle
Hall 6th Floor, between 10 am and 4 pm,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Evening hours are on Thursdays. Payment
by mail avoids waiting in line. Please allow
five working days for mail delivery and a
minimum of three weeks for processing.
A staff member is available for questions
in the Manhattan Campus Wednesdays
from 9 am to 5 pm, located on the second
floor in room 207. The office does not take
any forms of payment, nor does it distribute
refund checks.
Returned Checks
The Institute charges a processing fee of
up to $25 when a check is returned by the
students bank for any reason. Any check
in payment of an Institute charge that
is returned by the bank may result in a
late-payment charge, as well as a returned-
check charge.
Adjustments
We strongly recommend that you view
your bill online periodically. In addition,
we recommend giving parents or any third
party payer access to the Parent Module so
they can view/pay your bill online. A student
who contests a portion of the bill should pay
the uncontested portion by the due date and
immediately contact the appropriate office to
request an adjustment. Adjustments should
be pursued and resolved immediately to
avoid a hold on registration or grades.
Direct Loans (Stafford, PLUS)
Loan funds are sent to Pratt by the federal
government electronically (EFT). Funds
will be disbursed in accordance with federal
regulations, and a signature may be required.
Alternative Loan Checks
In some instances, lenders disburse
Alternative Loans in paper check form
which may require a signature. Loan checks
are made payable jointly to Pratt Institute
and the student. Payee must endorse the
checks before they can be applied to the
students account.
The student will be held responsible for
the loan portion of the balance on his or her
account whether or not he or she receives
the loan. It is the students responsibility
to contact the federal government when
delays occur. A student whose Institute bills
are overdue will not be allowed to register
in the Institute, receive grades, transcripts,
or diploma, or have enrollment or degrees
confirmed until financial obligations are
paid in full.
PLUS Loan checks are sent to the parent
directly unless a parent gives written consent
to have any PLUS loan excess returned to
the student.

Registration (First Day
of Class)
We reserve the right to restrict eligibility for
registration for students with high balances.
Collection Accounts
The student will be responsible for all
collection costs associated with delinquent
accounts forwarded to an outside collection
agency because of nonpayment.
Pratt Prepaid Discover
Debit Card
The Pratt Prepaid Discover Debit card is
a faster way for you to receive your tuition
refunds. Partnering with www.acceluraid.
com, students have the flexibility of
receiving their tuition refunds in a variety
of ways. You can now manage and receive
your funds faster than ever, plus have the
convenience of carrying a Discover branded
debit card. This card will serve as your
student refund card for the duration of your
studies at Pratt Institute. All future student
refunds will be disbursed through it so you
must be careful not to misplace the card.
The Accelluraid ATM located in the
Design Center is the FREE ATM where no
charges are assessed for withdrawing funds.
You may use the Sovereign Bank ATM
located by the guard booth; however, fees
will apply.
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You can also transfer the available Furthermore, students will be able to:
funds to your personal checking/savings
1. Track the progress of their payment
account or request a paper check be mailed
throughout the transfer.
to you, at no cost.
Included with your card are instructions 2. Be alerted when their payment is
on how to activate and use it. The received.
Acceluraid Company administers the card. 3. Track the progress of their tuition
All questions regarding your card can be payments via an online dashboard and
answered through the Acceluraid website, be assured that their payments are
www.acceluraid.com/pratt or for more going to the correct account.
information regarding the debit card please
You can find the link to the peerTransfer
see www.pratt.edu/debitcard. If you have
solution on the www.pratt.edu/bursar web-site
not received a card and would like one,
or by visiting www.peerTransfer.com.
please contact the Bursars office directly
at bursar@pratt.edu.
peerTransfer for International
Students
Pratt Institute is always looking for ways to
accommodate the busy lives of our students.
With you in mind, Pratt Institute has recently
partnered with peerTransfer Corporation to
offer an innovative way to streamline your in-
ternational tuition payments. Developed by
an international student, peerTransfer offers
a simple, secure, and cost-effective method
for transferring and processing education
payments in foreign currencies.
By offering favorable conversion rates
unmatched by larger financial institutions,
peerTransfer enables Pratts international
students to pay from any country and any
bank while saving a significant amount
of money.

Registration and Academic Policies
In order to attend any course at Pratt
Institute, a student must:
1. Be formally approved for admission.
Matriculated students will receive
an acceptance letter/email that
includes a OneKey (username)
and ID number (initial password).
It may also include additional
requisites required for admission to
a program.
All final and official college and
high school transcripts (indicating
date of graduation) must be
submitted to the Institute prior to
enrollment.
Non-matriculated students will be
provided this information once they
submit a non-matriculated student
application in the Registrars Office
and pay the fee. They do not have to
follow steps 2 and 3.
2. Meet with an academic advisor and
Students are fully responsible for tuition
have a program of courses approved by
and fees after they complete steps 1
that advisor on Academic Toolsthe
through 3 above. If students do not
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portion of www.pratt.edu/mypratt REGISTRAR
Lisle Henderson
that allows students to register for
lhenders@pratt.edu
classes, add or drop sections, view
their grades, and review their degree
ASSOCIATE REGISTRAR
audit. Your academic advisor and your John Matheus
appointment dates for advisement jmatheus@pratt.edu
and registration are listed on your
degree audit. Students should contact ASSISTANT REGISTRARS
their advisor for assistance. Marcia Approo
mapproo@pratt.edu
3. Register for the approved courses
online during the designated registra-
Cynthia Smith
csmith@pratt.edu
tion period. A students registration
date is displayed under the students
TAP CERTIFICATION OFFICER/
name when he or she logs in to www. VE TERANS ADVISOR
pratt.edu/mypratt. Online registration Charlotte Outlaw-Yorker
is done on Academic Tools. coutlaw@pratt.edu
4. Pay prescribed tuition and fees to
OFFICE
the Bursar. Studentsand persons Tel: 718.636.3663 | Fax: 718.636.3548
approved by that student via the reg@pratt.edu
Parent Modulecan view the bill
on www.pratt.edu/mypratt. See
the Tuition and Fees section of this
Bulletin for more information.
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complete Step 4 before the first day of class,
their unpaid registrations may be canceled
according to the payment schedule.
Responsibility for a correct registration and
a correct academic record rests entirely
with the student. Students are responsible
for knowing regulations regarding
withdrawals, refund deadlines, program
changes, and academic policies.
Instructors will not admit students
to classes in which they are not officially
registered. Proof of official registration may
be obtained in the Office of the Registrar or
through the Academic Tools. Any student
who attends a class without valid registration
(i.e., they are not on the official class roster)
will not have credits or a grade recorded for
that course.
Identification Cards
and Services
As part of orientation, new students are
issued identification cards. Students must
present their PrattCard to receive services
and privileges, to gain entry into campus
buildings, and to identify themselves to
Institute officers as necessary. People
who cannot or will not produce a student
identification card are not recognized as
students and are not entitled to student
services. To find out more about the
PrattCard, log in at www.pratt.edu/mypratt
(the PrattCard is on the left side of the
dashboard). The PrattCard Office is located
in the Activities and Resource Center (ARC),
Lower Level, Room A109.
Pratt Email Accounts
and My.Pratt Access
The portal www.pratt.edu/mypratt is
Pratts interactive student gateway. It
provides access to grades, schedules, bills,
applications for graduation, and transcripts,
as well as other academic information.
No additional applications or activations
are necessary.
All student user names are automatically
assigned by the Information Technology
Office. Pratt email and www.pratt.edu/
mypratt accounts are assigned to all
students at the time of admission. The
Admissions Office mails a letter to all
deposited students with their Pratt email
address and ID number.
Pratt online accounts must be used for
all official Institute communication through
the Internet as an individuals Pratt email
address is the only way to validate the
authenticity of the requester. No official
requests will be fulfilled from any email
address that does not end with a pratt.
edu suffix. Likewise, all official Institute
communications sent electronically are
emailed to this address. Some notices
are only sent electronically. Students are
responsible for the information sent to their
Pratt email.
Student Registration
New Student Initial Registration
New students should receive information
about registration in the mail once they
have paid their deposit. Each departments
advisement office provides detailed
academic advisement and curriculum
counseling for entering new students.
Contact your department for further
information.
Continuing Student Registration
Continuing students are assigned a
registration date based on their degree
progress. Official registration dates can be
found in the Academic Calendar or in the
Academic Guide for Students (emailed to
all students each fall). To avoid late fees, all
registered students who plan to continue
in subsequent semesters are required to
register during the open registration period.
This registration period closes at the end of
the previous semester. Failure to register
during the open registration period and make
payment in advance will both result in late
fees. Late registrations will also severely
jeopardize a students chances of obtaining
their preferred academic course schedule.
Late Registration
New and continuing students who do
not complete registration during their
designated registration periods are subject
to a late fee. The amounts and timing of

these fees are described in the Tuition
and Fees section of this bulletin and the
Academic Calendar. Registration or
reinstatement after the published add
period requires a written appeal to the Office
of the Provost. Only after the approval from
the Provost will students be registered and
allowed to attend classes.
Admission to Class
It is the responsibility of each student to
obtain an official schedule (printout of
registered course, section, credit, and time)
on www.pratt.edu/mypratt after completion
of the registration process. Students are
strongly cautioned to review and confirm all
data. If any course/section/credit correction
is necessary, the student can make advisor-
approved changes on www.pratt.edu/
mypratt through the first two weeks of
classes (drop/add period) only. Students may
also alter their schedule with the assistance
of their department or with a Drop/Add form
available in academic offices or the Office of
the Registrar.
Veterans Affairs
Pratt Institute participates in the following
Veterans Administration Benefits:
Chapter 33 Post 9/11 GI Bill
Chapter 30 Montgomery GI Bill
(MGIB)
Chapter 1606 Montgomery GI Bill
(MGIB-SR)
Chapter 31 Veterans Vocational
Rehabilitation
Because the New York Regional Veterans
Administration (VA) will not accept
certification of enrollment before the first
class day of any session, students planning
to enroll under any of the VA programs
should initiate the certification procedure by
making an appointment to see the veterans
advisor in the Office of the Registrar after
registration is completed. Depending on the
Chapter, students receive monthly checks
from the VA or the VA will send the check
directly to Pratt six to eight weeks after
certification. Failure to request certification
upon completion of registration may result
in a four- to six-week delay in the receipt
of the first benefit check. As of January
1976, those students receiving survivors
benefits (children of deceased veterans)
are no longer required to be certified by the
school. Appropriate forms may be obtained
at the students VA Regional Office. New
transfer students who have already received
educational benefits should bring their VA
claim number to the veterans advisor.
New students who have been in active
military service must submit a certified copy
of their DD 214 (discharge papers). Students
in Active Reserve should be certified by their
commanding officer, and the signature of the
Pratt veterans advisor should be obtained
from the Registrars Office. Students who
support spouses, children, or parents
should submit birth certificates or marriage
certificates as appropriate. Students in
the Reserve (Chapter 1606) seeking to
obtain educational benefits should see
their commanding officer for eligibility
counseling and forms and, if eligible, should
then see the Pratt veterans advisor for
REGISTRATION AND ACADEMIC POLICIES 297
certification. All students receiving benefits
under Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation
(Chapter 31) should contact their counselors
at the VA, who will forward an authorization
form to Pratts veterans advisor. These
veterans should then go to the Registrars
Office after having been programmed by
their respective departments in order to
present a signed copy of the authorization to
the Office of the Bursar. Only after receiving
this signed authorization will the Office
of the Bursar validate tuition payment.
Veterans receiving an allocation for books
should note that Pratt Institute does not
maintain the campus bookstore. The VA
should be notified accordingly. Final and
official authorization cannot be forwarded
to the VA until the student has completed
registration. Pratt Institute serves only as a
source of certification and information to the
VA Regional Office. The student must carry
out all financial transactions with the VA
directly. All transactions are carried out with
the Buffalo Office:
P.O. Box 4616
Buffalo, NY 14240
The New York Regional Office is at
245 W. Houston Street (at Varick Street)
New York, NY 10014
RE SIDENCY REQUIREMENT
Graduate students are expected to complete
a minimum of 75 percent of the programs
credits at Pratt, with the exception of the
first-professional (M.Arch.) program in
Architecture that requires 67 percent of the
credits to be completed at Pratt.
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Transfer Credits
Transfer Credit Prior
to Matriculation
Transfer credit is granted for courses that
are appropriate to the program curriculum at
Pratt from a regionally accredited institution
or the international equivalent. Institutions
accredited by the New York State Board
of Regents will be individually evaluated,
and credits will be awarded according to
articulation agreements.
Credits may be awarded for courses in
which (1) a grade of B or better is earned from
domestic institutions (or 80 or better from
international institutions as determined by
an official international credit evaluation
service) and (2) the courses correspond
to the specific course requirements of the
applicants program of study. Grades lower
than B (including B-) or less than 80 are not
transferable. Grades of transfer credits are
not included in the GPA.
The number of credits toward a masters
degree that may be transferred from another
graduate institution may not exceed 25
percent of the total number of credits
required for graduation, with the exception
of the first-professional (M.Arch.) program in
Architecture, which permits up to 33 percent
of the programs total credits to
be transferred. Courses that have been
applied toward an earned graduate
degree will not be considered for transfer
credit. Students seeking transfer credits
for professional courses in art, design,
or architecture are required to submit
a portfolio reflective of their studio
coursework completed in a prior institution
as part of the admission application.
International students may be
required to submit additional class hour
documentation to determine a U.S. semester
hour equivalency or have their credentials
of international credit hours evaluated by
an official international credit evaluations
service. Pratt accepts international credit
evaluation performed any member of the
National Association of Credit Evaluation
Services (NACES).
Credit evaluations will be completed
only after acceptance. Students petitioning
for transfer credit(s) must submit to the
Admissions Office an official transcript
from each college attended prior to
enrollment. Additional transcripts will not
be accepted for transfer credit evaluation
after the beginning of the students first
semester at Pratt.
Transfer Credit After Matriculation
Graduate students, once matriculated at
Pratt, are expected to complete their degree
requirements at Pratt. Students who are
in good academic standing may request to
take a course at another institution. These
students must get permission in advance
to take courses at other institutions for
transfer to their Pratt record. Credit for
courses taken, with permission, at another
institution while matriculated at Pratt is
limited to a maximum of six.
To be accepted for transfer credit, the
course must be recognized for graduate-level
credit by the institution attended and must
be passed with a grade of B or better. Grades
lower than B (including B-) are not trans-
ferable. Grades of transfer credits are not
included in the GPA.
Portfolio/Work
Experience Credit
Based on previous work experience and/
or portfolio, credit may be granted only
for work experience gained before initial
matriculation at the Institute. This is
available to all graduate students in the
School of Architecture, School of Art,
and School of Design. When applying for
admission the student should indicate
his or her intention to seek credits for
work experience. Students must submit
the following documentation for credit
consideration:
Rsum
Professional portfolio
Letters from employers detailing
responsibilities and areas of expertise
To apply for portfolio/work experience
credit, the following steps must be followed.
How to Petition
Petition in person at the office of
the appropriate chair before initial
enrollment for classes. You will be
advised as to the feasibility of your
request and given a statement of intent

to be completed. You should keep a
copy of the document and be sure
another is in your permanent file.
Present a copy of the Statement of
Intent to the Registrars Office with
a $100 deposit. The Office of the
Registrar will give you an application
form, which should be returned to
that office after completion. When
the entire process is complete, the
Registrars Office will apply the deposit
to a fee schedule of 30 percent of the
regular per-credit tuition rate per
credit evaluated.
Submit documentation as
described above to appropriate
departmental chair. Please allow
one week for evaluation.
Return the application with the proper
authorization to the Office of the
Registrar to complete the process.
You will be billed accordingly. Payment
is due upon billing. Credits earned
through this procedure are not
included in the GPA. They will not
count toward the Institutes minimum
residence requirement.
Student Status
Full-Time Graduate
To establish full-time equivalence,
graduate students must enroll for nine or
more semester credits (or an equivalent
REGISTRATION AND ACADEMIC POLICIES 299
combination of credits and activities
recognized as applicable). Graduate
students enrolled in their thesis course or
Thesis In Progress are considered full time.
Students registered for Intensive English
are considered registered in activities
equivalent to two credits for each section.
Part-Time Graduate
Graduate students are classified as part time
if they schedule or drop to fewer than nine
credits of registered course work.
Attendance Policy
Faculty members are encouraged to take
attendance. There are no excused absences
or cuts. Students are expected to attend all
classes. Any absences may affect the final
grade. Three absences may result in course
failure at the discretion of the instructor
Enrollment Verification
Letters
Students can generate a watermarked
PDF record of their periods of enrollment
and current status at Pratt Institute online
through the National Student Clearinghouse.
This service can be accessed at any time
through www.pratt.edu/mypratt.
1. Log in with your OneKey at
www.pratt.edu/mypratt;
2. Click on Academic Tools on the left
side of the page. Click on log in under
Verifications and Transcripts.
Through the Self-Service menu, a student
may also:
Obtain a Good Student Discount
Certificate.
View the enrollment information
on file with the National Student
Clearinghouse. (Enrollment
information is provided to the National
Student Clearinghouse by many post-
secondary institutions. Enrollment in
those schools is included.)
View the student loan deferment
notifications that the Clearinghouse
has provided to your loan holders
(lenders and guarantors).
View the proof(s) of enrollment that
the Clearinghouse has provided
to your health insurers and other
providers of student services or
products.
Order or track a transcript.
View specific information about your
student loans.
A student may request an enrollment
verification letter on Pratt Institute
letterhead several ways:
Through the Academic Tools student
menu (under My Courses).
A written request including ID number
and mailing/fax destination from a
students Pratt email account.
In person at the Registrars Office with
a Pratt ID.
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A written request by fax with copy of
student ID and signature.
In all cases that the student is not the direct
recipient, that student must provide written
permission to release the information
as well as the name and address of the
company or person that is to receive the
verification letter.
Changes and Withdrawals
Program/Major Changes
Each student must follow the program and
major for which she or he has been admitted
to Pratt. The Institute will not recognize a
change of major as official unless the change
is processed with the appropriate approvals
and recorded in the student information
system. A student who wants to change
his or her major must first meet with the
department chair and then notify Graduate
Admissions. Course requirements for the
new major reflect the current catalog year.
Hence, a change in major may result in more
credits being required to graduate. It may
also have an effect on the number of transfer
credits allowed.
Course/Section Changes
The Institute recognizes no change of
course(s) or section(s) as official unless
the change is processed online through
Academic Tools or with a drop/add form
submitted to the Registrars Office. Courses
and course sections may be changed online
during the first two weeks of each semester. during the first 11 weeks of the fall or spring
Once this add period is over no courses may semesters. A class that is dropped from a
be added to the students schedule. Students students schedule after the second week of
paying by the credit who drop a course on or the semester will remain on the students
after the first day of the term will be charged academic record with the noncredited desig-
a percentage of the course fee. (See refund nation of WD (withdrawal). No course with-
period schedule below.) drawal will be accepted after the published
deadline. WD grades earned via the official
FALL SPRING SUMMER withdrawal procedure cannot be changed.
Last day to add a Sep. 8 Feb.2 May 24
class or change (tentative)
sections Complete Withdrawal
Last day to drop Aug. 25 Jan.20 May 18 from the Institute
a class with 100%
refund Students who are leaving Pratt without
Last day to drop Sep. 1 Jan. 27 N/A graduating are required to fill out a Complete
a class with 85%
refund Withdrawal form in the Registrars Office.
Last day to drop Sep. 8 Feb. 3 N/A This form permits the Registrar to drop
a class with 70%
refund
or withdraw a student from all registered
Last day to drop Sep. 15 Feb. 10 May 25 classes (a student cannot do this online). The
a class with 55% form also serves to advise relevant offices
refund
that a student is no longer enrolled. Students
It is the responsibility of the student to who withdraw need to be advised about
officially withdraw from any registered any financial obligations and any academic
course or section. This decision must be repercussions of their actions. They will also
completed online through Academic Tools be required to complete an Exit Interview.
or by filing a properly completed drop/add The date that the Complete Withdrawal
form with the Registrars Office. Failure form is turned into the Registrars Office
to attend classes, to notify the instructor, is the official date used for withdrawal.
or to make or complete tuition payment This date determines eligibility for WD
does not constitute an official withdrawal. grades and a students charges for the term
A student who does not officially withdraw of withdrawal. Only the submission of a
Complete Withdrawal form will deactivate
from a registered course will receive a WF
for nonattendance. Students who stop your status as a currently enrolled student.
attending a course without having officially Until that time, registration and billing stay
dropped the course during the published in effect and grades of WF will be issued for
refund period will not be eligible for a class absences.
retroactive refund.
Students may withdraw from a course

None of the following actions cause
an official withdrawal or reduce financial
liability for a semester:
Notifying a faculty member,
department chair,
or academic advisor.
Failure to pay the student account.
Failure to attend classes.
The Complete Withdrawal form must be
signed by the student, their departments
chair or academic advisor, a financial aid
counselor, the bursar, and the Director of
Residential Life (if living in a residence hall).
International students should also obtain
the signature of the Office of International
Affairs. Students who are not enrolled during
either the fall or the spring semester and
have not completed a Complete Withdrawal
or Leave of Absence form will be officially
withdrawn from the Institute and will need
to apply for readmission.
Leave of Absence
A student in good academic and financial
standing may request a leave of absence for
not more than two consecutive semesters
(excluding summer sessions). Students must
apply with a Leave of Absence Request form
in the Office of the Registrar.
Students must apply for a leave of
absence on or before the last day
to withdraw from classes for any
given semester.
Only students in good academic and
financial standing will be approved.
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A leave of absence will not be granted Personal Data Changes
once a students thesis is in progress.
All personal data changes must be made
International students must obtain in written form only by the student.
authorization from the Office of
Students are responsible for reporting the
International Affairs.
following personal data changes to the Office
Students applying for a leave of of the Registrar:
absence must pay a $20 processing fee.
Change of name (requires legal
A student who wishes to register after documentation)
an undocumented absence must apply
for readmission.
Change of address
Change of major
Students requesting leave for medical
reasons must obtain authorizations Note: Consult the Office of the
from Health and Counseling Registrar for procedural details on
reporting these changes.
Readmission
Students who do not attend Pratt for
a semester or more without receiving an
official leave of absence must apply for
readmission. Applications for readmission
are available from the Registrars Office.
Those applying for readmission must
submit a $55 application fee payable to
Pratt Institute.
Degree requirements are updated to
reflect the current catalog when a student is
readmitted to a program (rather than the one
used in the initial acceptance).
The readmission application deadlines
for each semester are below.
FALL SPRING SUMMER
Application Aug. 15 Dec. 15 May 1
Deadline
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Parent Module
Students can authorize parents, guardians,
or sponsors to view current schedules,
grades, degree progress, and/or access the
tuition bill to see the current balance and
make payments. Students manage (grant
or rescind) these permissions through their
Academic Tools. Parents and sponsors can
then access the system and log in at parents.
pratt.edu. To access the module:
1. Log in with your OneKey at
www.pratt.edu/mypratt;
2. Click on Academic Tools on the left
side of the page, and click log in;
3. After the system logs you in, click on
the Students menu on the sidebar;
4. Through Grant Parent/Sponsor
Rights (listed under My Personal
Information), students decide which
information they allow each account
to see or rescind previously given
access. Students can request to add
people not listed on this screen by
returning to the Students menu
and clicking Request New Parent/
Sponsor (under My Personal
Information). If a person is missing
an email address or other important
information, a request to update their
account can be made through the
same process.
Transcripts
Unofficial Transcripts are available for
viewing and printing through the online
Academic Tools at www.pratt.edu/mypratt.
1. Log in with your OneKey at
www.pratt.edu/mypratt;
2. Click on Academic Tools on left side
of page, and click log in;
3. After the system logs you in, click on
the Students menu on the sidebar;
4. Click on the Unofficial Transcripts
option under My Grades and
Transcripts.
Official Transcripts may be ordered online
by students and alumni through www.
getmytranscript.com. Official transcripts
may also be ordered in person or by mail
at the Office of the Registrar. Records
containing financial holds will not be
processed until the hold is cleared. More
information can be found at www.pratt.
edu/registrar. Your request must have the
following information to be processed:
Name while attending Pratt Institute.
Nine-digit Social Security or seven-
digit student ID number.
Date of birth.
Telephone number.
Dates of attendance and/or
graduation.
Destination information where
transcript is to be mailed.
Online Orders
Official transcripts may be ordered online
through the National Student Clearinghouse
with a valid major credit card at www.
getmytranscript.com. You will receive a
confirmation sheet that must be signed and
returned by one of the following methods:
Fax it to 1.703.742.4238 (remember to
dial 1.703 first).
Scan and email to transcripts@
studentclearinghouse.org (scanned
attachment must be a GIF, JPEG, BMP,
or TIFF).
Mail it to: National Student
Clearinghouse 2300 Dulles Station
Boulevard, Suite 300 Herndon, VA
20171. Payment is by credit card only.
There is a $2.25 transaction fee per
destination. Regular service (mailed first
class from Pratt in three to five business days)
is $5 per copy. Rush service (mailed first
class from Pratt in one business day) is $10
per copy. Express service with UPS shipping
(mailed via UPS from Pratt in one business
day) is $18.50 per copy.
Orders at the Registrars Office
Official transcripts may be picked up in
person or ordered for delivery during office
hours. The office can only accept cash or
checks made out to Pratt Institute. Requests
for immediate processing and pick up are $15
per copy. Requests to send official transcripts
by regular service (mailed first class from

Pratt in three to five business days) are $10
per copy.
U.S. Mail Orders
To order an official transcript by mail, please
send a written request and check or money
order (no cash) to:
Pratt Institute
Office of the Registrar
Myrtle Hall, Sixth Floor
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Payment is by check or money order only.
Only regular service (mailed first class from
Pratt in three to five business days)
is available using the mail service. The
charge is $15 per copy. Records containing
financial holds will not be processed until the
hold is cleared.
General Policies on Transcripts
The Registrars Office must have
the students written request or
authorization to issue a transcript.
Parents cannot authorize the
Registrars Office to mail a transcript.
Official transcripts bear the Institutes
seal and Registrars signature.
Partial transcripts are not issued. A
transcript is a complete record of all
credit work completed at Pratt.
Allow five business days from receipt
of the transcript request for the
transcript to be mailed. At certain
peak times, such as registration and
commencement, the processing time
may be longer.
Transcripts are not released
until a students account has been
paid in full.
Copies of transcripts from other
schools that you may have attended
must be requested directly from those
schools. We cannot release or copy
transcripts in our file.
Organization of
Course Offerings
Courses Numbered 100 through 499 are
primarily reserved for undergraduates.
Graduate students will not receive credit
toward graduation for taking these courses.
Courses Numbered 500 through 599
may be open to both undergraduates
with junior or senior class standing and
graduate students. Courses in this range
are considered either 1) Technical Elective;
least three hours of student work per week,
2) Qualifying; or 3) Graduate courses
whose content complements advanced
undergraduate studies. Credit earned
within the 500-numbered courses by
undergraduate students may not be applied
REGISTRATION AND ACADEMIC POLICIES 303
toward a graduate degree. Graduate students
enrolled in 500-level courses are expected
to perform with greater productivity and
capacity for research and analysis than their
undergraduate colleagues enrolled in the
same courses. Significantly more is expected
of graduate students in course projects,
papers, and conferences.
Courses Numbered 600 and above
are generally for graduate students only. A
graduate course embraces highly developed
content that demands advanced qualitative
and quantitative performance and
specialization not normally appropriate to
undergraduate courses.
Courses Numbered 9000 and above are
elective internship courses.
Semester Hour Credits
In accordance with Federal regulations, a
credit/semester hour is the amount of work
represented in intended learning outcomes
and verified by evidence of student
achievement. Pratt Institute operates on a
semester calendar and awards credit on a
semester basis. Each semester is a minimum
of 15 weeks. One credit is awarded for at
or the equivalent amount of work over a
different amount of time. Student work
may take the form of classroom time, other
direct faculty instruction, or out-of-class
304 REGISTRATION AND ACADEMIC POLICIES
homework, assignments, or other student
work. A minimum of one clock hour per
week, or equivalent time in variable-length
courses, represents classroom or direct
instruction time.
To determine the appropriate amount
of classroom time required for each course,
Pratt follows the standards established by
its accrediting agencies. Typically, for each
credit hour awarded to lecture or seminar
courses, the students receive 15 clock hours
of direct instruction and are required to
perform an additional 30 hours of out-of-
class work. For each credit awarded to a
studio course, undergraduate students
typically receive 22.5 clock hours, and
graduate students receive 15 hours of direct
instruction and are required to complete
a minimum of 30 additional hours of
out-of-class work.
Grading System
Letter Grades That Affect the
Academic Index
A, A E X CEL L ENT
The student has consistently demonstrated
outstanding ability in the comprehension
and interpretation of the content of the
course. (Numerical Value: A = 4.0; A = 3.7)
B+, B, B AVER AGE
The student has acquired a comprehensive
knowledge of the content of the course.
(Numerical Value: B+ = 3.3; B = 3.0; B = 2.7)
C+, C, ACCEP TABL E
The student has shown satisfactory
understanding of the content of the course.
C is the lowest passing grade for graduate
students. (Numerical Value: C+ = 2.3;
C = 2.0)
F FAILURE
The student has failed to meet the minimum
standards for the course. (Numerical Value:
0.0)
Note: The highest grade acceptable for
recording is A (4.0) and not A+; C (2.0), not
C, is the only grade preceding F (0.0). The
+/ grading system went into effect as of the
fall 1989 semester and is not acceptable for
recording purposes for prior semesters.
Grades That Do Not Affect
the Academic Index
AUD (AUDIT, NO CREDIT)
Students must register for courses they plan
to audit by contacting the Registrars Office in
person or by way of their Pratt email account.
CR (CREDIT)
Indicates that the students achievement
was satisfactory to assure proficiency in
subsequent courses in the same or related
areas. The CR grade does not affect the
students academic index. The CR grade is to
be assigned to all appropriately documented
transfer credits.
The CR grade is applied to credit earned
at Pratt only if:
The student is enrolled in any course
offered by a school other than the one
in which the student is matriculated,
and had requested from the professor
at the start of the term a CR/NCR
option as a final grade for that term.
The instructor has received approval to
award CR grades from the Office of the
Provost. (This does not apply to liberal
arts courses within the School of Liberal
Arts and Sciences.)
IP (IN PRO GRES S )
Designation used only for graduate student
thesis, thesis project for which satisfactory
completion is pending, or Intensive English
course for which satisfactory competence
level is pending.
INC (INCOMPL E TE)
Designation given by the instructor at the
written request of the student and available
only if the student has been in regular atten-
dance, to indicate the student has satisfied all
but the final requirements of the course, and
has furnished satisfactory proof that the work
was not completed because of illness or other
circumstances beyond his or her control. The
student must understand the terms necessary
to fulfill the requirements of the course and
the date by which work must be submitted. If
the work is not submitted by the understood
date of submission, the incomplete will be
converted to a failure. If unresolved at the end
of following semester, the grade is changed to
failure with a numerical grade value of 0.

NCR (NO CREDIT)
Indicates that the student has not
demonstrated proficiency. (See CR for
conditions of use.)
NG (NO GR ADE REP ORTED)
Indicates that the student was properly regis-
tered for the course but the faculty member
issued no grade. The student should contact
the professor. Students cannot graduate with
an NG on their record.
NR (NO RECORD)
Grade given for no record of attendance in an
enrolled course. (All NR designations must be
resolved by the end of the following term or
the grade is changed to a letter grade of F with
a numerical value of 0.)
WD (WITHDR AWAL FROM
A REGISTERED CL A S S)
Indicates that the student was permitted to
withdraw from a course in which he or she
was officially enrolled during the drop period
for that semester.
WF (WITHDR AWAL FAIL ING)
Grade given to a student with a failing grade
due to lack of attendance.
Grade Reports
Grade reports are not mailed to students.
Grades may be obtained via www.pratt.
edu/mypratt (see instructions below).
Professors submit final grades online and
students are able to view their grades as
soon as the instructor enters them. If there
are any questions about the grade received,
a student should contact the instructor
immediately. Only the instructor can change
a grade by properly completing, signing,
and submitting a Change of Grade form
directly to the Office of the Registrar. Time
limits have been allotted for resolving grade
problems. Spring and summer grades may
not be changed after the last day of the
following fall semester. Fall grades cannot
be changed after the last day of the following
spring semester. Once this time limit has
passed, all INC and NR grades will convert to
Fs. To view grades online:
1. Log in with your OneKey at
www.pratt.edu/mypratt;
2. Click on Academic Tools on left side
of page, and click log in;
3. After the system logs you in, click on
the Students menu on the sidebar;
4. Choose from the options offered under
My Grades and Transcripts.
Final Grades, Grade Disputes, and
Grade Appeal Policies
All grades are final as assigned by the
instructor. If a student feels that a grade
received is an error, or that he or she
was graded unfairly, it is the students
responsibility to make prompt inquiry of
the instructor after the grade has been
issued. Should this procedure not prove
to be an adequate resolution, the student
should contact the chair of the department
in which the course was taken to arrange
REGISTRATION AND ACADEMIC POLICIES 305
a meeting and appeal the grade. If this
appeal is unsuccessful, a further and final
appeal can be made to the dean of the
school in which the course was taken. It is
important to note that the faculty member
who issued the grade holds the authority to
change the grade unless appeal is granted
by Department Chair or Dean. If a grade is
to be changed, the student must be sure that
the change is submitted within the following
semester. Petitions of change of any grade
will be accepted only up to the last day of
the semester following the one in which the
grade was given. Other than resolution of an
initially assigned incomplete grade or of a
final grade reported in error, no letter grade
may be changed following graduation.
Repeated Courses
A repeated course must be the same course
as the one for which the previous final
grade was awarded. No graduate student
may choose to repeat a course that was
passed with a grade of C or higher without
specific authorization from the chair or
dean. Graduate students must repeat all
required courses in which F is the final grade.
The initial grade will remain, but only the
subsequent grade earned will be averaged
in the cumulative index from the point of
repeat onward.
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Grade Point Average
A students grade point average is calculated
by dividing the total Grade Points received
by the total Credits Earned. A Grade Point
is computed by multiplying the Credits
Attempted for each class by the Quality
Points earned for completing that class.
Only credits evaluated with letter grades
that earn quality points (see table below) are
used in GPA calculations. Each semester has
a minimum length of 15 weeks. In courses
that are passed, a credit is earned for each
period of lecture or studio work, each week
throughout one term or the equivalent.
QUAL IT Y P OINTS
A = 4.00 B = 2.70
A = 3.70 C+ = .30
B+ = 3.30 C = 2.00
B = 3.00 F = 0.00
(If unresolved at the end of the
following semester, INC = F = 0.00
and NR = F = 0.00)
In the following example the GPA is 3.33:
GR ADE = QUAL IT Y P OINTS
CREDITS EARNED =
GR ADE P OINTS
A = 4.00 3 = 12.00
B+ = 3.30 3 = 9.90
B = 2.70 3 = 8.10
= 30.00
TOTAL GR ADE P OINTS
TOTAL CREDITS AT TEMP TED =
GR ADE P OINTS
30 9 = 3.33
30 (total grade points) divided by 9 (total
credits) makes a GPA of 3.33.
INC (incomplete) and NR (no record)
carry no numerical value for one semester
after the grade is given. Thereafter, if
unresolved, the INC and NR grades convert
to an F and carry a numerical value of 0.
The following grades do not carry
numerical values and are never calculated in
the GPA:
P Pass
CR Credit
U Unsatisfactory
WD Withdrawal
WF Withdrawal Failing
AUD Audit
NCR No Credit
IP In Progress
Final grades for credit transferred from other
institutions to the students Pratt record are
not computed in the GPA.
notification will be furnished to the student
by the dean.
Academic Standing
Pratt Institutes policies on academic
standing intend to ensure that all students
receive timely notification when they are
subject to academic discipline or achieve
academic honors.
Each student is responsible at all times
for knowing his or her own standing. These
standings are based on the published
academic policies, regulations, and
standards of the Institute. Students subject to
academic discipline are encouraged to take
advantage of support services available
to them, including academic advisement,
in an effort to help them meet Institute
academic standards.
All students records are reviewed at the
end of each semester to determine whether
any student who has failed to remain in good
standing may continue in the program.
Good Standing
All graduate students must maintain a
cumulative GPA of at least a 3.0 (equivalent
of a B) to remain in good standing. A
graduate student whose GPA falls below a
3.0 at any time may be subject to academic
dismissal. The specific conditions under
which this policy will be invoked are as set
forth by the dean of each school. Written

Maximum Time for Graduate Study
All work for the masters degree should be
completed within seven (7) calendar years
from initial registration in graduate courses
as a graduate student at Pratt Institute. The
departments will not approve registration
after seven years without the written approval
of the provost.
Degree Audits
Degree audits are computerized checklists
of graduation requirements. These reports
are similar to transcripts because they list all
academic activity. They are different from
transcripts, however, because they organize
the coursework attempted into logical blocks
that represent what is required. They also
clearly flag what has been taken and what has
yet to be taken.
THERE ARE FOUR PARTS TO AN AUDIT:
1. Student Information
The top of the first page lists the stu-
dents name, the academic program
being evaluated, the catalog year that
the requirements are being checked
against, and the students anticipated
graduation date (based on the date of
admission). This section may also con-
tain one or many text messages specific
to the student, depending on his or her
status at Pratt.
2. Credit and GPA Information
This area lists the total credits required
for graduation, the number required to
be taken at Pratt (residency), and the
GPA required for graduation.
3. Required Course Information
This section is usually the longest. It
lists the entire range of requirements
and electives specific to the academic
program being evaluated. Fulfilled
requirements will be listed with the
grade earned (or CR for transfer
credit). Missing requirements are also
noted with credits needed.
4. Other Courses
Courses that usually do not count
towards a programs requirements
are listed in this bottom section.
Sometimes a course will not count
toward graduation because it was
dropped, or carries a grade that
makes it ineligible for consideration,
such as an F or an INC. Also, some
students choose to take an extra
class for additional knowledge even
though it doesnt fulfill any particular
degree requirement.
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How to Get a Copy
of a Degree Audit
Students may view or print an audit at any
time using their Academic Tools.
1. Log in with your OneKey at www.pratt.
edu/mypratt;
2. Click on Academic Tools on left side
of page, and click log in;
3. After the system logs you in, click on
the Students menu on the sidebar;
4. Click on Degree Audit under
Course Planning;
5. In order to review an audit for the
current academic program (major),
click OK. In order to see what the
results would look like in a different
program, use the drop down list of
majors next to Evaluate New Program
to select a potential major to review.
Students may go online and receive a
degree audit at any time. If you do not have a
computer or access to a computer lab, come
to the Office of the Registrar. Students that
have questions about how to read the audit
should visit their academic advisors office
or stop by the Office of the Registrar during
office hours for an explanation.
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Thesis Enrollment
Thesis must be completed within three
years, the duration of which equals the
initial semester of thesis registration plus
five (5) consecutive semesters of Thesis In
Progress. Graduate students must register
without interruption and pay the Institutes
tuition and fees for each additional semester
of continued thesis work following the
initial semester of thesis registration. Any
extension beyond the three-year duration
is subject to an acceptable demonstration
of extenuating circumstances from the
candidate and a written approval from the
department chair and the dean.
First Registered Thesis
Credit Semester
Graduate students will register for their
thesis course. If the student does not
complete the thesis by the end of that
first semester, completion of the thesis is
pending and the student will receive an IP (In
Progress) grade. The student must enroll in
Thesis In Progress the following semester.
Subsequent Semesters of
Thesis in Progress
Registration for Thesis In Progress must
be made for each consecutive semester
following enrollment in Thesis. A student
is expected to complete his or her thesis
within the next 5 consecutive semesters. If
at the end of 5 semesters the Thesis is still
pending completion, the student will be
withdrawn from the original Thesis course.
Re-enrollment in the Thesis course will only
take place with the written permission of the
department chair.
Certification of Enrollment for
Registered Thesis Work
For certification purposes, Pratt considers
students taking Thesis or Thesis In Progress
to be full time.
Thesis Submission and Final Grade
Students should refer to the latest version
of the Graduate Theses Library Guidelines,
available at the Pratt Library. Questions
concerning organization and formatting
of materials should be discussed with the
Information/Reference department of the
Pratt Library before final typing.
File on or
Graduation before:
Summer Term/October September 15
Fall Term/February January 15
Spring Term/May May 15
Students must submit their own
thesis in person, unless it is
submitted by a representative from
the academic department.
For the Pratt Libraries to accept a thesis
submittal after the deadline date, a Late
Thesis Submittal Permission form must
be submitted to the Library. The form is
available at the Library Reference desk. The
department chairs signature is required to
allow a late thesis submission.
Thesis and Thesis In Progress are
graded IP. Thesis will remain IP until
the Thesis advisor assigns a final grade
upon completion of the Thesis project.
A failing grade may be assigned if the
student fails to remain in proper progress
or communication, or fails to complete a
satisfactory thesis.
Academic Integrity Code
When a student submits any work for
academic credit, he/she makes an implicit
claim that the work is wholly his/her own,
done without the assistance of any person
or source not explicitly noted, and that the
work has not previously been submitted
for academic credit in any area. Students
are free to study and work together on
homework assignments unless specifically
asked not to by the instructor. In addition,
students, especially international students,
are encouraged to seek the editorial
assistance they may need for writing
assignments, term papers, and theses. Our
Writing and Tutorial Center staff is always
 REGISTRATION AND ACADEMIC POLICIES 309

available to clarify issues of academic 5. Plagiarism. (See statement following footnote; in informal papers, it may be put
standards and to provide writing and tutorial which defines plagiarism.) in parentheses, or made a part of the text:
help for all Pratt students. In the case of 6. Copying or allowing copying of Robert Sherwood says...
examinations (tests, quizzes, etc.), the assigned work or falsification of This first type of plagiarism, using
student also implicitly claims that he/she has information. without acknowledging the language of
obtained no prior unauthorized information someone, is easy to understand and to
7. Unauthorized removal or unneces-
about the examination, and neither gives avoid. When a writer uses the exact words
sary hoarding of study or research
nor obtains any assistance during the of another writer, or speaker, he or she must
materials or equipment intended
examination. Moreover, a student shall not put those words in quotation marks and give
for common use in assigned work,
prevent others from completing their work. their source.
including the sequestering of library
Examples of violations include but are A second type of plagiarism is more
materials.
not limited to the following: complex. It occurs when the writer presents,
8. Alteration of any materials or appara- as his or her own, the sequence of ideas,
1. The supplying or receiving of com-
tus that would interfere with another the arrangement of material, or the pattern
pleted papers, outlines, or research for
students work. of thought of someone else, even though he
submission by any person other than
9. Forging a signature to certify comple- or she expresses it in his or her own words. The
the author.
tion of a course assignment or a language may be his or hers, but he or she is
2. The submission of the same, or presenting as his or her work, and taking credit
recommendation and the like.
essentially the same, paper or report for, the work of another. He or she is,
for credit on two different occasions. therefore, guilty of plagiarism if he or she fails
Plagiarism*
3. The supplying or receiving of unau- to give credit to the original author of the
Plagiarism means presenting, as ones pattern of ideas.
thorized information about the form or
own, the words, the work, information,
content of an examination prior to its
or the opinions of someone else. It is
first being given, specifically includ-
dishonest, since the plagiarist offers, as
ing unauthorized possession of exam
his or her own, for credit, the language or
material prior to the exam.
information or thought for which he or she
4. The supplying or receiving of partial or
deserves no credit.
complete answers, or suggestions for
Plagiarism occurs when one uses the
answers, of assistance in interpretation
exact language of someone else without
of questions on any examination from
putting the quoted material in quotation
any source not explicitly authorized.
marks and giving its source. (Exceptions are
(This includes copying or reading of
very well-known quotations, from the Bible
another students work or consultation
or Shakespeare, for example.) In formal
of notes or other sources during
papers, the source is acknowledged in a
examinations.)
* Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing
Company from Understanding and Using English
by Newman P. Birk, 1972.
310 REGISTRATION AND ACADEMIC POLICIES
Graduation and Degrees
Degrees are conferred by the Institute upon
the recommendation of the dean and faculty
of the various schools. This is done three times
a year: October 1 (summer term), February 1
(fall term), and June 1 (spring term).
Commencement Ceremony
One commencement ceremony is held
each year at the end of the spring semester.
Students who successfully complete their
studies in October or February are invited to
attend the ceremony that is held following
their graduation. Students who anticipate a
Summer/October completion date should
attend the ceremony that is held the May
following their graduation. Students who
will graduate in Summer/October and
cannot attend commencement the following
spring may apply for Permission to Walk
in May Commencement in the Registrars
Office. Their names will not appear in the
commencement program, nor will they
receive their diplomas early. Attendance
at commencement does not guarantee
graduation from the Institute.
Graduation with Honors Using the application, candidates indicate:
To be graduated with distinction, a graduate
1. Their anticipated graduation term.
student must have earned a final cumulative
2. The exact spelling and punctuation
GPA no lower than 3.85 in all work. To be
of their name as it is to appear on the
considered for distinction, a student must
diploma.
have completed a minimum of 50 percent of
degree credits at Pratt. These credits must be 3. Their hometown and state/country as
in semesters evaluated with a GPA. it is to appear in the commencement
program.
Graduation Procedures
4. The Diploma Mailing Address to be
To be eligible for a degree, the student must used to mail diplomas.
satisfy all Institute, school, and department
Information can be updated before the
requirements as stated in announcements.
application deadline by simply filling out
Where applicable, students must also meet
and submitting the graduation application
specific academic requirements concerning
again. If the candidate is not cleared for the
prerequisites, course sequences, or program
announced graduation, a new application
options as posted by academic departments.
must be filed for each subsequently
requested graduation. Only after the
Application for Graduation
application has been submitted to the Office
Students wishing to be considered
of the Registrar will the candidates name be
for graduation must file a Graduation
placed on a tentative graduation list. At that
Application. The application is available
time, the graduation review is scheduled.
on the students online Academic Tools
available through www.pratt.edu/mypratt.
Graduation Clearance
Applications must be filed on or before the
Within the schedules mentioned earlier, the
following deadlines:
candidate must check for clearance at the
File on or following offices:
Graduation before
Summer Term/October March 25
Fall Term/February August 25
Spring Term/May December 15

OFFICE OF THE BURSAR:
Outstanding Balance on
Tuition Account
L IBR ARY:
Outstanding Materials or Account
All financial indebtedness to the Institute
must be cleared prior to graduation. Students
who have completed their academic
requirements but who have outstanding
financial obligations to the Institute will be
graduated; however, the diploma will be held
and no transcript will be released until their
financial account is cleared in full.
Graduation Requirements
Final graduation requirements include the
following:
1. Grade Requirements
Graduate students must be in good
standing, with a cumulative GPA of
at least 3.0. In courses constituting
the students major as formally speci-
fied in advance by his or her depart-
mental chair, the student must have
received a grade of B or better in each
or have a cumulative index in these
courses of at least 3.0. Any outstand-
ing INC, NG, or NR grades from any
previous semester(s) that are pending
resolution must be resolved by the fol-
lowing deadlines:
File on or
Graduation before:
Summer Term/October September 15
Fall Term/February January 15
Spring Term/May May 2
Failure to do so will result in removal
from the graduation list. When final
grades are reported
for the last term of active registration,
any reported INC or NR grade for a
graduation candidate will automati-
cally remove the candidate from the
graduation list. Students who have
been removed from consideration
must complete a new application for
graduation in order to be considered
for another graduation date.
2. Curriculum Requirements
Each student must fulfill all require-
ments for graduation. No credits
required for graduation will be waived.
All requests for an exception to this
rule must be referred to the deans
office for consideration. A course re-
quirement in a students major may be
substituted by the department chair/
advisor of the department in which the
student is enrolled; however, another
course in the same subject area must
be taken.
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3. Residence Requirements
Thesis work must be registered at the
Institute. The minimum residence
requirement at Pratt for the masters
degree is 24 credits. In most cases
transferred credit does not exceed 25
percent of the total credits required.
The Professional Master of Architec-
ture program permits up to 33 percent
of the total credits required.
4. Masters Thesis/e-Portfolio
A thesis or e-Portfolio is required in
many of the masters degree programs.
Each student is held responsible for
meeting the precise requirements of
his or her school. Thesis candidates
should obtain the latest edition of
Regulations Concerning the Deposit
of Masters Thesis in the Pratt Institute
Library and sample pages from their
respective departments.
Changes to this Bulletin
While every effort has been made to make
the material presented in this Bulletin
timely and accurate, the Institute reserves
the right to periodically update and
otherwise change any material, including
faculty listings, course offerings, policies,
and procedures, without reprinting or
amending this Bulletin.

Student Affairs
Life at Pratt can be intense. Often students
need assistance to cope with challenges
encountered at Pratt and in the city of New
York. The staff members of the Office of Stu-
dent Affairs are able and willing to help each
student in as many ways as necessary and
possible to make meeting these challenges a
positive experience. In addition, the Office of
Student Affairs performs many ombudsper-
son services.
313
The Office of Student Affairs is located VICE PRESIDENT
Helen Matusow-Ayres
on the ground floor of Main Hall and can
be found on the Web at www.pratt.edu/
ASSISTANT TO THE VICE PRESIDENT
student-life/student-affairs/. Student Affairs
Grace Kendall
also has an office in Room 207A on the Pratt
Manhattan campus. Specific hours and
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
services provided are posted there and on Nadine Shuler
the Student Affairs website.
OFFICE
Tel: 718.636.3639 | Fax: 718.399.4239
studaff@pratt.edu
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Student Involvement
DIRECTOR
Emma Legge
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Meredith Crain
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Alex Ullman
OFFICE MANAGER
Karen Smith
OFFICE
Tel: 718.636.3422
studentactivities@pratt.edu
www.pratt.edu/involvement
The Department of Student Involvement
coordinates and assists students to plan
social, cultural, educational, and recre-
ational programs. Student activities at Pratt
are planned to contribute to each students
total education, as well as to meet social and
recreational needs. Students are responsible
for managing their own group activities, thus
gaining experience in community and social
affairs and playing a role in shaping Institute
policy. Students are represented on Institute
decision-making bodies such as the Board
of Trustees, trustee committees, and the
Student Judiciary.
The main functions of the Department
of Student Involvement are:
Allocation and administration of funds
collected through the student
activity fee.
Overseeing the Student Union
complex.
Programming of student activities.
Promoting leadership and professional
development.
New Student Orientation
New student orientation is an exciting time
at Pratt. In order to acclimate to campus,
graduate students have a one-day orienta-
tion during the week before classes begin.
Brooklyn campus students attend orientation
on that campus, while students attending
Pratt Manhattan will attend orientation at
14th Street. Graduate student socials will be
held at both campuses that week.
Graduate students are invited to attend
any and all other programs happening that
week, including the Broadway show and
baseball game. However, there is no re-
quirement to attend those events. Detailed
information will be sent to new students
beginning in June.
The orientation program is staffed by an
exemplary group of student leaders who assist
new students in any and many ways.
Parent and Family Programs
The mission of Parent and Family Programs
at Pratt is to provide parents with the resourc-
es to support and encourage the success of
their Pratt student. Pratt Institute recog-
nizes that parents are valuable members
of the Pratt community and have much to
contribute to Pratt. We encourage parent
involvement in the Pratt community. We
offer programs for parents including Parent
Orientation, our Annual Family Weekend,
and parent blog. For further information,
please contact our office at 718.636.3422 or
email at family@pratt.edu.
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Student Organizations Games Club Student Association

Hot Sauce and Salsa Club Industrial Design Club

Student Government Magic: The Gathering Pratt Jewelry Club
Association (SGA) Music Club Keyframe Animation Club
The Student Governments primary
Pratt Feminists Leadership in Environmental Advocacy
responsibility is to represent the student
Pratt Film Cult and Policy
bodys interests and to encourage students
involvement in the life of the Institute. Reef Club Painting Club

The Student Government has Photo League

Vehicle Design Club
an Executive Committee in which
Pratt Artists League
undergraduate or graduate students are Student Media
Pratt Historical Preservation
encouraged to become involved. The SGA
The Prattler Student Newspaper Organization
can be reached by calling 718.399.4468 or by
emailing sga@pratt.edu. Prattonia Yearbook Pratt Institute Planning Student
Static Fish Comic Book Association

Ubiquitous Arts and Literary Magazine Pratt Interiors

Active Organizations Pressure Printmaking
WPIR Pratt Radio

Zine Club School of Information and Library

Cultural
Sciences Student Association
Bako Tribe Professional and Academic
Sculpture Club
Chinese Student Scholars Association American Institute of Architecture
Special Archivists Association
Korean Student Association Students
Special Libraries Association
Latin American Student Association Art and Design Educators
Type Directors Club
Pratt International Students Association Association for Information Science &
User Experience/Information
Technology
Queer Pratt Architecture
ComD Agency
Special Interest Construction Management Association Greek Letter Organizations
Anime Club of America Inter-Greek Council (Fraternity/Sorority
Ceramics Club Creative Arts Therapy Organization Governing Body)

Comic Club DIGIT Kappa Sigma Fraternity

Dance Club Fashion Society Pi Sigma Chi Fraternity

Drawing Club Graduate ComD Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority

Envirolutions History of Art and Design Theta Phi Alpha Sorority

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Religious and Spiritual
Art/Faith Collective
Gospel Christian Fellowship
Jewish Student Union
Newman Club
Remnant Christian Fellowship
Community Engagement Board
Also known as C-Board, these students are
dedicated to giving back to their community,
both local and global.
Program Board
The Program Board is a group of students
who plan many on- and off-campus events.
Campus Ministry
The chapel, one of the central spaces on
campus, is the setting for meditation and for
interdenominational and denominational
rites to celebrate important events of the
campus community. Currently, Jewish,
Catholic, and Protestant (in English and
Korean) services are offered on a regular basis.
Any group wishing to use the chapel may
contact the director of Student Involvement,
whose only requirement is respect for the
space and its purpose.
Residential Life and Housing The mission of the Office of Residential Life
and Housing is to efficiently and effectively
administer a housing program in a learning-
DIRECTOR
centered environment that challenges and
Christopher Kasik
supports students to:
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR RESIDENTIAL
Enhance self-understanding
LIFE AND HOUSING
Katherine Hale Value community responsibility
Learn from their experiences
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR HOUSING
The Office of Residential Life and Housing
ADMINISTRATION
Tuan Vu holds the belief that student development
and learning goes on outside the classroom,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NORTH CAMPUS as well as inside the classroom. The policies,
Christopher Ruggieri
procedures, and programs that are estab-
lished and encouraged by the Office of
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SOUTH CAMPUS
Residential Life and Housing are those that
Benjamin Fabian
enhance student learning and involvement
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR HOUSING outside the classroom.
Jason LeConey The department takes very seriously
its role as guarantor of a residence hall
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT atmosphere conducive to work and study.
Lillian Jennas We also strive to provide an atmosphere
in which students are encouraged to make
RECEP TIONIST informed decisions on their own, take
Steven Spavento
responsibility for their actions, and learn
from their experiences.
OFFICE
Leadership development opportunities
Tel: 718.399.4550
reslife@pratt.edu are offered to students in the residence
www.pratt.edu/reslife halls through participation in Residence
Hall Councils, the Residence Hall Advisory
Committee (a student advisory committee to
the Office of Residential Life and Housing),
EcoReps, Dining Services Reps, and the
Connections Leadership class. Participation
in these activities exposes students to other
departments at the Institute while helping
them to gain leadership skills.

The Residential Life staff wants to pro-
vide a memorable, enjoyable, and successful
academic year, but reminds students that
the success of this experience lies within all
of us. Through participation, cooperation,
understanding, and communication, all can
enjoy the time spent in the residence halls at
Pratt Institute.
The Office of Residential Life and Hous-
ing at Pratt Institute is based on a specific set
of values. These values guide the expecta-
tions the department has for itself and the
students who reside on campus and extend
to the residence halls in many direct ways.
They are:
Personal rights and responsibilities
Integrity
Respect
Fairness and justice
Open communication
Involvement
The educational mission of Pratt Institute
is actively pursued in the residence halls.
An expected outcome of the on-campus
experience is to have students learn to cope
and deal with problems that arise. Though this
is not always an easy task, if a student is able to
learn from an adverse situation, the goal has
been achieved. Along with this is the ability for
students to take responsibility for their choices
and behaviors. If students make inappropriate
choices, they should expect to be held
accountable, the hope being a different choice
will be made the next time, more in keeping
with the community expectations set forth.
STUDENT AFFAIRS 317
The Residence Halls bath. The building is located one block from
campus. Each living room is furnished with
Pratt Institute maintains two residence
a sofa, club chair, coffee table, kitchen table,
halls accommodating approximately
and chairs. Utilities are included, with the
100 graduate students. The focus of our
exception of telephone. Internet connections
residential life program is on providing a
and CATV service are provided. The
comfortable yet challenging environment
building offers a garden courtyard, laundry
for students to become integral members of
facilities, and lounge areas. This residence
the campus community. This is fostered by
is for 12-month occupancy and students
educational approaches and programming.
will be assigned for one year. Different
Pratt residence halls offer a variety of
from other assignments, this assignment
housing options, including rooms with
cannot be cancelled unless a student leaves
and rooms without kitchens, doubles, and
Pratt Institute. The ability to sublet to other
singles. Pratt also offers campus meal plans
Pratt Institute students with approval from
for students who like the convenience of
Residential Life and Housing does exist in
eating on campus.
the summer months; details will be available
during the spring semester.
Grand Avenue Residence
Grand Avenue Residence Hall is a joint Willoughby Hall
venture between Pratt Institute and a local
Willoughby Residence Hall is a former
developer resulting in a true apartment-
17-story apartment coop and is the largest
style graduate facility. The building can
residence hall. It accommodates over
accommodate 50 students in efficiency
800 undergraduate and graduate men
apartments (double and single) and private
and women. The building houses offices
single rooms within two- and three-bedroom
(Residential Life and Housing, Health and
apartments. Apartments are single sex, but
Counseling, and the Disability Services
floors are co-ed. It is important that students
Center) as well as a student work room, TV
understand the layout of the apartments
lounge, convenience store, laundry facilities,
when making their preferences known. Our
and other common student lounge areas.
cost-saving double efficiency apartment
Suites are single sex, but floors are co-ed.
involves two students sharing a one-room
Rooms vary in size from 9' x 12' to 15' x
efficiency apartment. Our single efficiency
18'. In addition to the standard furniture,
is a smaller efficiency apartment that one
all suites have a kitchen table, stove, and
student occupies. Both of these options
refrigerator. Each resident is provided with
include a bathroom and kitchen, within the
a bookcase. All students assigned to double,
confines of the apartment. The single with
triple, and single spaces will share kitchen
shared bath involves each student having a
and bathroom facilities with other residents
private bedroom with shared kitchen and
of the suite. The converted apartments
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consist of at least one double or triple that and when space becomes available. All Meal Plan
occupies the former living room space of correspondence should be addressed to:
In an effort to ensure that students receive
the apartment and at least one private single
Residential Life and Housing options for proper daily nutritional
room that occupies the former bedroom
215 Willoughby Avenue requirements, Pratt Institute offers its students
space of the apartment. The number of
Brooklyn, NY 11205 a number of meal plans. The meal plans are
students residing in a given suite ranges
reslife@pratt.edu designed on a debit card system; the students
from two to six students (depending upon
meal plan points decrease as he or she purchases
the size of the converted apartment one
Room RatesGraduate Options items in the main dining room, convenience
bedroom, two bedroom, or three bedroom).
Room rates vary according to the type store, or pizza shop. A meal plan point equals $1.
Willoughby Residence Hall remains open
of accommodation. Typical costs for each Graduate students may opt for a meal plan.
all year. However, residents on certain
residence hall for a calendar year* are Plans range from $2502,008 per semester.
floors might have to relocate to different
as follows: Students not living in mandatory meal
floors during the summer months for the
plan areas, upper-class students, and
purpose of maintenance and upkeep. To Grand Avenue
commuters may opt for a mandatory plan
accommodate additional graduate students, $14,368 (double studio)
or an optional plan. Three optional plans
select double rooms are converted to a $19,569 (single w/ shared bath)
exist to accommodate a variety of student
semi-private single space. The semi-private $22,259 (studio single)
needs. These plans are per semester only.
space occupies the former living room space
Willoughby Hall The optional meal plan rates for 201314 are
of the apartment, is occupied by only one
$12,472 (semi-private single) $250, $680, and $1,000. Purchasing a meal
student, and shares kitchen and bathroom
$13,045 (single w/ shared bath) plan can save the student almost 10 percent
facilities with other private single rooms in
$13,637 (single w/ private bath) over paying cash. With all meal plans,
the apartment. The semi-private option is
students have the option to add points online
only available to graduate students and on an
at any time during the semester in amounts
as-needed basis.
greater than $25.
Room Assignment Additional details pertaining to the
meal plans are provided in the Enrollment
Upon acceptance to the Institute,
Guide and are available from the Office of
students are sent an Accepted Student Guide,
Residential Life and Housing.
which includes an application and brochure
describing each housing option. Students are
assigned rooms in the order their application
was received. Space is limited, and students
are advised to return their completed
application as soon as possible. Assignment
notifications are made in June.
Students who have not applied by April
*Graduate students, in most cases, have a 12-month
20 can anticipate being assigned only if contract.
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Athletics and Recreation The Activities Resource Center (ARC) houses a Career and Professional
325 x 130-foot athletic area, the largest enclosed Development
clear-span area in Brooklyn aside from the
DIRECTOR
newly constructed Barclays Center. The
Dave B. Adebanjo
DIRECTOR
complex includes five regulation-size tennis
Rhonda Schaller
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR
courts, two volleyball courts, and an NCAA
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLE TICS basketball court. This same area provides 650
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Ryan McCarthy bleacher seats for intercollegiate basketball, Hera Marashian
volleyball, the Colgate Womens Games, and
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR other spectator sports events. This enclosed area ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
WELLNESS AND RECREATION
has a seating capacity for up to 1,000 people for Brynna Tucker
Shena Faith
special events. The four-lane, 200-meter indoor
track completely encircles the athletic court ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR ATHLE TICS
Deborah Yanagisawa
FACILITIES AND areas. There are full locker room facilities with
EVENT MANAGEMENT saunas for men and women. The second floor
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR EXPERIENTIAL
Keisha Lynch houses a fully equipped and newly renovated
EDUCATION
weight and fitness room, a dance studio, and Laura Keegan
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRE TARY administrative offices.
Linda Rouse
Recreational and intramural activities COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
are scheduled throughout the year in Robert Carabay
OFFICE
conjunction with PrattFit programming
Tel: 718.636.3773 | Fax: 718.636.3772
and range from individual to team sports CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND CUSTOMER
and special events. Mens intercollegiate REL ATIONS COORDINATOR
Alex Fisher
athletics teams include basketball, cross-
country, indoor and outdoor track and
OFFICE
field, tennis and volleyball. Womens teams Tel: 718.636.3506
include basketball, cross-country, indoor career@pratt.edu
and outdoor track and field, tennis and www.pratt.edu/career

volleyball. Pratt Institute is a member of

the Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference and fields a total of 12 teams.
320 STUDENT AFFAIRS
The Center for Career and Professional
Development (CCPD) inspires, supports,
and educates students and alumni about
emerging trends, the job market, and what
it takes to be a professional creative in the
workplace. We believe that preparing for a
fulfilling, meaningful, and productive career
is one of the most important co-curricular
activities for Pratt students. The CCPD
augments the state-of-the art curriculum
with career and internship counseling,
industry mentoring, professional
development resources, workshops, and
entrepreneurial education. We combine an
excellent academic creative experience with
a life-time job search support system.
CCPD staff members stay abreast of
changing trends and employer needs, and
guide Pratt students into an easy transition
from college into the work environment.
We maintain relationships with employers
and internship providers nationally and
internationally, and offer many ways for
employers to reach and recruit from the
talented Pratt community.
Counselors work with students on
professional learning goals for internship
placements and career goals for their
job search and small business planning.
Extended support is offered in the areas of
exhibition submissions, grants, fellowships,
and residencies. We encourage peer learning
through our Pratt Success program to expand
the leadership opportunities on campus.
The CCPD provides resources designed to and thesis exhibitions of current and
foster meaningful connections between graduating student work, including the
emerging artists and professionals through end-of-year Pratt Show highlighting
the following services: the best work of the graduating class.
Each year, CCPD hosts opportunity
Professional Development Programming: fairs, roundtable discussions, and
Counselors welcome classroom
creative career conferences with
visits to the Center every semester
visiting partners, recruiters, and
and offer presentations on rsum
industry leaders. All of our programs
building, networking, interviewing
are developed to educate students and
skills, developing an online presence,
alumni as well as provide networking
portfolio presentation, self-
opportunities with the creative
promotion, freelancing, and starting
professional community.
your own business. Guest speakers
and recruiters come to campus every Developing an Online Portfolio: The
CCPD career counselors can help
semester to speak on careers in
students develop their portfolio and
creative industries, review portfolios,
online presence. Pratt Institute and the
and hold interview sessions.
CCPD have partnered with Behance
Individual and Group Career Counseling: to launch Pratt Institute Portfolios at
Individual career counseling is
portfolios.pratt.edu. This is an exciting
available to Pratt students and
opportunity for students to promote
alumni for life. All CCPD staff have
their work under the Pratt brand. With
backgrounds as working creatives
the Behance platform, Pratt Institute
in major-related industries. Group
Portfolios reaches a wide audience of
counseling sessions and major-specific
industry professionals on the lookout
career workshops are scheduled
for the best creative talent.
throughout the year.
The staff of CCPD welcomes your questions.
Industry Outreach and Pratt Pro Job To make an appointment with a career
Board: CCPD manages the Pratt Pro job
counselor or to find out how the CCPD can
boardthousands of new positions are
help you, contact us at career@pratt.edu or
posted each year. We perform outreach
call 718.636.3506.
to employers around the world to
develop a pipeline to help move Pratt Pratt Institute Internship Program
students and alumni into their job
Each Pratt graduate student has the
openings. We visit studios and organize
opportunity to gain hands-on professional
firm trips for students to learn about the
experience in New York City and beyond
latest industry trends. Pratt Institute
through an academic internship program
hosts numerous portfolio reviews
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supervised in collaboration with department
faculty. The CCPD supports students in
gaining hands-on professional experience
interning at companies such as Cond Nast,
Unified Field, Knoll, and many, many more.
Graduate internships play a crucial
role in developing skills and offering
professional perspectives. An internship at
Internships are available to all
domestic, international, and transfer
students during their time at Pratt.
Internship credits vary from 0 to 3
credits based on student need, number
of hours worked, and individual
departmental policy.
Disability Resource Center
DIRECTOR
Mai McDonald Graves
mcdonald@pratt.edu
LEARNING SPECIALIST/COUNSELOR
Anna Riquier, L.M.H.C.

Pratt is an academic opportunity available

to full-time matriculated students every
semester, including summer semester. For
more information about internships such
as eligibility, the registration process, and
deadlines, log on to www.pratt.edu/career
and click on Students & Alumni, then
Internships. In most cases, graduate
students must complete one full semester
to be eligible for academic credit for an
internship.
What is an internship?
Internships are learning experiences in the
workplace that relate to a students major
or professional pursuits. Interns are able to
take the skills and theories learned in the
To obtain academic credit for an ariquier@pratt.edu
internship, students must be enrolled
in an internship course at the same LEARNING SPECIALIST
time they are participating in the Maegan DAmato, L.M.S.W.
maddisa@pratt.edu
internship.
Students are required to attend one of the
CONSULTING CLINICAL
internship information sessions offered NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST
throughout the year in the Center for Career Beth Abrams, Ph.D.
and Professional Development to learn drc@pratt.edu
more about the internship program, how to
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
begin an internship search, and how to find
Marie A. McLaughlin
departmental eligibility information.
mmclaug3@pratt.edu
To make an appointment or to learn the
dates of the next internship information OFFICE
session, contact us at career@pratt.edu or Tel: 718.802.3123 | Fax: 718.399.4544
call 718.636.3506. www.pratt.edu/disabilityresourcecenter
drc@pratt.edu

classroom and apply them to real-life work

experience. Internships are an opportunity to
try a specific field, organization, or company
and participate as a trainee within that site.
Internships also allow students to develop a
professional network of contacts and build
relationships in the field, which will serve
them well as emerging professionals.
There are some key components to a
Pratt Internship:

The experience is a full semester.

The experience can be paid or unpaid.
322 STUDENT AFFAIRS
The mission of the Disability Resource
Center (DRC) is to ensure students with
disabilities can freely and actively partici-
pate in all facets of Pratt life. To this end,
the office provides and coordinates services
and programs that support student develop-
ment, enable students to maximize their
educational and creative potential, and assist
students in developing their independence
to the fullest extent possible. The DRC aims
to increase the level of awareness among
all members of the Pratt community so that
students with disabilities are able to perform
at a level limited only by their abilities, not
their disabilities.
Services to Students
The DRC provides the following services
directly to students:
Offers a full-service Center where
students can meet with professional
support staff and use computer, study,
and exam-taking areas.
Maintains confidential records of
documentation of disability.
Determines program eligibility for
services based upon documentation
of disability and staff assessment, and
determines appropriate, individualized
classroom accommodations and
support services.
Responds to inquiries from prospective
students and parents.
Coordinates support services for
students such as note taking, tutoring,
time management coaching, and
counseling.
For deaf and hard-of-hearing students,
available services include FM units,
sign language interpreters, and remote
and in-class Computer Assisted
Realtime Translation (CART) services.
Arranges auxiliary aids for students,
such as assistive learning software, FM
units, and books in alternative formats.
Consults with faculty regarding the
instructional needs of students.
Consults with campus department
administrators regarding specific needs
of students, such as special housing and
dietary accommodations, and access to
campus facilities.
Collaborates with Health and
Counseling services in meeting the
needs of students with medical or
psychological conditions.
Consults with community, local, and
regional services, such as rehabilitation
agencies on behalf of students.
Serves as an advocate for students with
faculty and staff.
Provides DRC program information to
the campus community.
Assists students in monitoring
the effectiveness of services and
accommodations.
Develops and administers appropriate
assessment tools to determine efficacy
of accommodations and services.
Students with disabilities may utilize the
DRC to receive various support services,
including attending time-management and
self-advocacy workshops and scheduling
weekly one-on-one sessions with staff
Learning Specialists. Students may work
on writing and reading assignments on
computers containing assistive learning
technologies, and may also arrange to take
quizzes and exams in our distraction-free
study and exam room.
To be eligible to receive support services
through DRC disability services students
must provide documentation from a
medical or clinical professional that includes
a diagnosis and recommendations for
accommodations and/or services. Students
who are experiencing academic difficulty but
have never been diagnosed with a learning
disorder or a psychological condition, such
as AD/HD, may schedule an appointment to
discuss the process of being evaluated by a
clinical neuropsychologist.
For more information about the
Disability Resource Center visit our website
at www.pratt.edu/disabilityresourcecenter. You
may also contact the DRC at 718.802.3123
to schedule an appointment to discuss
classroom accommodations and services
you may need.
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Health and CASE MANAGER AND STAFF COUNSELOR Health and Counseling Services operates both
Hali Brindel, L.C.S.W.
Counseling Services by appointment and as a walk-in clinic. All care
hbrindel@pratt.edu
provided is strictly confidential and remains
separate from a students academic and social
ST UDENT HEALTH INSURANCE SPECIALIST
DIRECTOR conduct record. The office is open on weekdays
Martha Cedarholm, A.R.N.P.-B.C., F.N.P. Josefina Soto
9 am to 5 pm, with the last appointments made
mcedarho@pratt.edu jsoto4@pratt.edu
at 4 pm. Check the website for updated hours
and services.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR COUNSELING NURSES
Christine Susca, RN
The medical staff includes the director,
Vincent Kiefner, Ph.D.
vkiefner@pratt.edu csusca@pratt.edu who is a family nurse practitioner, two nurse
practitioners, a physician attending the clinic
Sheriezah Shiwprashad, LPN
sshiwpra@pratt.edu once a week during the academic year, and
NURSE PRACTITIONER/ASSOCIATE
DIRECTOR FOR HEALTH two registered nurses. Services provided
Debbie Scott, A.R.N.P.-B.C., F.N.P. include treatment of illnesses; first aid for inju-
ADMINISTRATIVE AIDES
dscott2@pratt.edu
Giovanni Glaize ries; physicals, including sports and womens
gglaize@pratt.edu health examinations; health education; and
NURSE PRACTITIONER Sandra Davis
medical testing.
Alison Altschuler, A.R.N.P.-B.C., A.N.P. sdavis@pratt.edu Pregnancy testing is performed in the office
aaltc34@pratt.edu
for free; however, other tests are sent to a
CONSULTING PSYCHIATRIST laboratory service, which will bill the student
CONSULTING PHYSICIAN Jane Zirin, M.D. or the students insurance provider. Some
Kristen Harvey, M.D.
commonly used medications (over-the-
PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER counter and prescription) are dispensed free
STAFF COUNSELORS Lori Neushotz, DNP or for a nominal fee. Students must purchase
Sarika Seth Ph.D. lneushot@pratt.edu all other medication at a pharmacy. Referrals
sseth@pratt.edu
are made to local medical resources for care
OFFICE not provided on campus.*
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR COUNSELING Tel: 718.399.4542 | Fax: 718.399.4544 The counseling staff includes clinical psy-
AND STAFF COUNSELOR health@pratt.edu
Lonnette Belizaire, Ph.D. chologists, clinical social workers, and a consult-
www.pratt.edu/health
lbelizai@pratt.edu ing psychiatrist who are available by appointment
to meet with students. Students may receive
CLINICAL AOD SERVICES COORDINATOR counseling on a short-term basis for personal,
Jernee Montoya, L.C.S.W. emotional, family, interpersonal, and situational
jmontoya@pratt.edu problems. Consultation is available on campus,
and referrals for specialty services are made.

*Numerous and varied resources are available at the

Health and Counseling page of the Pratt website at
www.pratt.edu/health.
324 STUDENT AFFAIRS
Since the Health and Counseling Services
Center is not designed to meet the total health
care needs of students, referrals are sometimes
made to outside clinics and agencies. The staff
is committed to helping students find the best
source of health care at the lowest cost. Hos-
pital and medical care beyond that provided
by the Health and Counseling Services is the
financial responsibility of the student and his
or her family. For this purpose, Pratt Institute
requires all students to carry health and
accident insurance.
Students are automatically enrolled in a
health and accident insurance plan. They may
waive this insurance fee, which will be de-
ducted from their bill, by providing insurance
information in the online student insurance
system, Aetna Student Health, prior to the
waiver deadline, which is always the last day
to drop or add courses for the fall semester.
All students who were born after January 1,
1957, must provide proof of immunity against
measles, mumps, and rubella. New York State
law requires written documentation of two
measles-mumps-rubella vaccines or written
documentation of immunity to these diseases
proved by a blood test. Written documentation
is absolutely required in order to attend classes.
Immunization against meningococcal
meningitis is strongly recommended for
students planning to live in on-campus
housing. A complete medical history and a
comprehensive physical examination are also
required for all new students.
New York State does not require this vaccine but
does require a signed acknowledgment of receipt
and review of vaccine information.
International Affairs The Office of International Affairs (OIA)
welcomes about 400 new international
DIRECTOR students each year. There are about 1,200
L. Jane Bush international students from 70+ countries.
In addition to providing services to the
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR international students, the OIA takes
Saundra Hampton
care of J1 Exchange Visitors including
inbound exchange students, professors,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
and scholars. The OIA is the office in charge
Mia Schleifer
of keeping Pratt in compliance with the
SEVIS COORDINATOR
Department of Homeland Security and the
Silvana Grima Department of State.
The well-traveled and experienced staff
RECEP TIONIST members are here to help students make
Zoila Dennigan a successful transition to the Pratt commu-
nity and help address some of the challenges
OFFICE students might encounter during their
Tel: 718.636.3674
academic program. They create a friendly
oia@pratt.edu
www.pratt.edu/oia environment, providing direct support with
immigration issues, employment authoriza-
tion, financial issues, personal issues, and
cross-cultural events.
The OIA advises the Pratt International
Student Association (PISA), which is open
for all to join.

Libraries
The Libraries are dedicated to an active
partnership in the academic process. The
Libraries primary mission is to support the
Institutes academic programs by providing
materials and information services to
students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting
scholars. A state-of-the-art integrated
library system interfaces with an up-to-date
website providing broad access to electronic
materials as well as information about the
Libraries. Connect to the Libraries website
and catalog at library.pratt.edu.
The collection at the Brooklyn Campus
Library provides broad-based coverage of
the history, theory, criticism, and practice
of architecture, fine arts, and design, while
also supporting the liberal arts and sciences.
The collection encompasses over 176,674
monographs and bound periodicals and also
maintains 776 current periodical descriptions.
The Libraries also provide students access to
38 online resources and electronic periodical
indexes. Through these resources over 11,474
full-text periodical titles are accessible. The
Brooklyn Campus Library houses microfilm,
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multimedia, rare books, and the college LIBRARY
archives. Visual and Multimedia Resources
DIRECTOR
has a collection of DVDs, VHS tapes, and 16
Russell S. Abell
mm films. The department also circulates
cameras, projectors, light kits, audio HEAD OF PUBLIC SERVICES
recorders, and a half dozen laptops. The TBA
Visual Resources Center holds a collection of
HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES
35 mm slides and provides access to over 1.3
John A. Maier
million images through ARTstor. Comfortable
reading and study spaces are available in LIBRARY SERVICES COORDINATOR,
this New York City landmark building on the MANHAT TAN CAMPUS
Brooklyn campus. Jean Hines
The Pratt Manhattan Library holds more
EVENING AND WEEKEND LIBRARY
than 17,024 monographs, subscribes to
MANAGER
over 170 current periodicals and maintains Kate McDermott
a small fiction collection. The book and
periodical collection provides support
for the following programs: Graduate VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA
RESOURCES
Communications Design, Information and
Library Science, Creative Arts Therapy,
DIRECTOR
Facilities/Construction Management, Chris Arabadjis
Historic Preservation, Arts and Cultural
Management, AOS/AAS Program, Design VISUAL RESOURCES CURATOR
Johanna Bauman
Management, and Continuing and
Professional Studies.
LIBRARY AUDIOVISUAL
COORDINATOR
Mike Nemire
326LIBRARIES

Librarians at both facilities offer

instructional programs to help patrons use
information resources more effectively.
Other services offered throughout the
year include orientation; individualized
instruction; information literacy instruction;
and research assistance and referrals to other
libraries in the metropolitan area.
All of the Library units are dedicated
not only to providing access to information,
but to assisting information seekers in
developing successful strategies to locate,
evaluate, and employ information to meet a
full range of needs.

Libraries Faculty
Steven J. Cohen
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR/
CATALO GER AND L IBR ARIAN
B.A., Cornell University; M.S.L.S., Columbia
University; professional organization memberships
include: American Library Association, Art Libraries
Society of North America, Association of College
and Research Libraries, Association for Library
Collections and Technical Services New York Library
Club.
Cheryl M. Costello
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR/
ART AND ARCHITEC T URE L IBR ARIAN
B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
M.S., Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; curator of exhibit, La
Gazette du Bon Ton: Art Deco Fashion Plates from
1913-1922 at the Pratt Library; published in ARLIS/
NA Reviews; peer reviewer for Art Documentation;
professional organization memberships include:
American Association of Museums, Art Libraries
Society of New York, Art Libraries Society of North
America; awarded the Celine Palatsky Travel Award
for the Art Libraries Society of North America
Annual Conference 2008.
Bill McMillin
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR/
EMERGING TECHNOLO GIE S L IBR ARIAN
B.F.A., Photography, Maryland Institute College
of Art and Design; M.L.S. with Digital Libraries
Specialization, Indiana University Bloomington;
publications include One Size Does Not Fit All: a
multi-layered assessment approach to identifying
skill and competency levels and Library Technology
and Applications for the Classroom; professional
organization memberships include ALA, ACRL, and
ASIS&T.
Maggie Portis
A S SISTANT PROFES SOR/
ART AND ARCHITECT URE L IBR ARIAN
B.A., The University of Texas, Austin; M.S. LIS, The
Palmer School, Long Island University; professional
organization memberships include ARLIS/NA and
ARLIS/VRA.
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Paul Schlotthauer
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR /L IBR ARIAN AND
ARCHIVIS T
B.S., Gettysburg College; M.M., Indiana University;
M.L.S., St. Johns University; Publications include
Pratt Institute: A Historical Snapshot of Campus
and Area in Digitization in the Real World: Lessons
Learned from Small and Medium-Sized Digitization
Projects; professional organization memberships
include: Association of American Archivists, Mid-
Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Archivists
Round Table of Metropolitan New York, New York
Library Club (board member), American Library
Association, Association of College and Research
Libraries, American Association of Museums.
Holly Wilson
A S SO CIATE PROFES SOR /
RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION L IBR ARIAN
B.A., Baldwin-Wallace; M.L.I.S., University of
Pittsburgh; publications include Touch, see,
find: serving multiple literacies in the art and
design library in The Handbook of Art and
Design Librarianship; professional organization
memberships include: American Library
Association, Association of College and Research
Libraries; Reference and User Services Association,
Art Libraries Society of North America.
 329

Board of Trustees

Bruce J. Gitlin Jeffrey Bellantoni Michael Krisher

CHAIR OF THE BOARD Faculty Trustee Undergraduate Student Trustee
President and CEO, Milgo Industrial Inc.
Deborah J. Buck James D. Kuhn
Artist, Interior Designer, and Owner, Buck House
Mike Pratt President, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD
President and Executive Director, Amy Cappellazzo Roelfien Kuijpers
The Scherman Foundation Chairman, Post-War and Contemporary
Managing Director, Global Head of DB Advisors
Development, Christies International
Deutsche Asset Management
Robert H. Siegel
VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD Kathryn C. Chenault Heather B. Lewis
Founding Partner, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Attorney
Faculty Trustee
Architects, llc
Susan Hakkarainen David S. Mack
Thomas F. Schutte Vice President, Marketing and Communications,
Senior Partner, The Mack Company
President, Pratt Institute Lutron Electronics, Inc. and Chief Creative Officer,
Ivalo Lighting, Inc.
David G. Marquis
Dr. Joshua L. Smith Founder and Executive Director, Marquis Studios
SECRE TARY Darryl Halickman
Professor Emeritus, New York University Graduate Student Trustee
Katharine L. McKenna
Artist, Designer, and Owner, KLM Studios
Howard S. Stein Gary S. Hattem
TREA SURER President, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
John Morning
Retired, Managing Director, Operational Risk Global and Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Community
President, John Morning Design, Inc.
Corporate and Investment Bank, Citigroup Development Finance Group
David O. Pratt
Kurt Andersen Cody Hughes Not-for-Profit Consultant
Writer Recent Graduate Trustee
Ralph Pucci
Maria Teresa Asare-Boadi June Kelly President, Ralph Pucci International
Recent Graduate Trustee June Kelly Gallery
330 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Stan Richards
Principal, The Richards Group

Mark D. Stumer
Principal, Mojo-Stumer Associates, P.C.

Juliana C. Terian
Chairman of the Rallye Group

Anne H. Van Ingen

Former Director, Architecture, Planning and
Design Program and Capital Projects, NYSCA and
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia
University

David C. Walentas
Founding Partner, Two Trees Management Co., LLC

Michael S. Zetlin
Zetlin and De Chiara LLP

Trustee Emeriti:

Richard W. Eiger
Charles J. Hamm
Young Ho Kim
Malcolm MacKay
Herbert M. Meyers
Leon Moed
Bruce M. Newman
Heidi Nitze
Marc A. Rosen
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Administration

Dr. Thomas F. Schutte Russell Abell Adam Friedman

President Acting Director of Libraries Director of Pratt Center for
Community Development
Peter L. Barna Sylvia Acuesta
Provost Comptroller Anthony Gelber
Director of Administrative Sustainability
Marianthi Zikopoulos Dave Adebanjo
Associate Provost Director of Athletics and Recreation Glenn Gordon
Executive Director of Planning, Design, Construction,
Judith Aaron Sinclaire Alkire and Physical Plant
Vice President for Enrollment Director of Academic Marketing
Mai McDonald-Graves
Helen Matusow-Ayres Nedzad Goga Director of Disability Services
Vice President for Student Affairs Director of Financial Aid
Thomas Greene
Joseph M. Hemway Christopher Arabadjis Director of Human Resources
Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Director of Multi-Media Services
Imani Griszell
Todd Michael Galitz Nicholas Battis Director of Events
Vice President for Institutional Advancement Director of Exhibitions
Young Hah
Edmund F. Rutkowski Vladimir Briller Director of Graduate Admissions
Vice President for Finance Executive Director of Strategic Planning and
and Administration Institutional Research Lisle Henderson
Registrar
Thomas Hanrahan L. Jane Bush
Dean, School of Architecture Director of International Affairs Debera Johnson
Academic Director of Sustainability
Leighton Pierce Martha Cedarholm
Acting Dean, Director of Health and Counseling Services Berti Jones
Director of Enterprise Systems
Andrew Barnes Randy Donowitz
Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Director of the Writing and Tutorial Center
Gale Justin
Director of Educational Technology

Tula Giannini Grace Kendall

Dean, School of Information and Director of Special Projects/Assistant to the Vice
Christopher Kasik
Director of Residential Life and Housing
Library Science President for Student Affairs
332ADMINISTRATION

Emma Legge Michael Sclafani

Director of Student Involvement and Parent Director of Alumni Relations
and Family Programs and Annual Giving

Ludovic Leroy Nancy Seidler

Director of Corporate Relations Director of Intensive English

Yvette Mack Lorraine Smith

Bursar Curator, Visual Resource Center

John Maier Richard Soto

Head of Technical Services Director of Budget

Emily Mack Marshall William Swan

Director of Foundation Relations Director of Undergraduate Admissions

Ellery Matthews Vicki Weiner

Director of Academic Computing Director of Planning

Patti McCall Warren White

Head of Public Services Director of HEOP

Mara McGinnis Bryan Wizemann

Executive Director of Communications Director of the Web Group

Emily Moqtaderi
Executive Director, Campaign
and Major Gifts

Christopher Paisley
Director of Processing and Technology

Dmitriy Paskhaver
Director of Research

Lance Redford
Director of Government and Community Relations

Rhonda Schaller
Director of the Center for Career and
Professional Development

Richard Scherr
Director of Facilities Planning
and Design

William J. Schmitz
Director of Safety and Security
 333

Academic Calendar

FALL 2014 SPRING 2015 SUMMER 2015 Important Telephone

Last day for 100% tuition August 25 January 20 May 18 Numbers
refund
upon withdrawal (WD)
Admissions (toll-free) 800.331.0834
First day of classes August 25 January 20 May 18
Admissions 718.636.3514
(See schedule of
classes) Bursar 718.636.3539

Last day to add or drop September 8 February 2 May 24 Career Services 718.636.3506
without
a WD grade Financial Aid 718.636.3599

Last day to withdraw (WD) November 14 April 17 June 8 Health and Counseling Services 718.399.4542
from a course International Affairs Office 718.636.3674
Dates that classes do not September 1 January 19 May 25 Library (Circulation Desk) 718.636.3420
meet (Labor Day) (Martin Luther King Day) (Memorial Day)
Registrar 718.636.3663
October 13-14 March 1622 July 3-4
(Midterm Break) (Spring Break) (Independence Day) Residential Life 718.399.4550
November 2630
Security 718.636.3540
(Thanksgiving)
Student Activities and Orientation 718.636.3422
Studio Days Tuesday, December 9 Tuesday, May 5-
-Friday, December 12 Friday, May 8
ACADEMIC ADVISORS
Final critique and exams December 1319 May 915
Architecture 718.399.4333
Last day of classes December 19 May 15 July 24
(See schedule of Art and Design 718.636.3611
classes)
Information and 212.647.7682
Grades due online December 22 May 18 July 27 Library Science

Intensive English Program 718.636.3450

Please note: This calendar must be considered as informational and not binding on the Institute. The
dates listed here are provided as a guideline for use by students and offices participating in academic and Writing Programs 718.399.4497
registration related activities. This calendar is not to be used for nonacademic business purposes. Pratt
Institute reserves the right to make changes to the information printed in this Bulletin without prior notice.
334 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Fall 2014

Registration New Student Orientation Academic

Monday, January 13
PMC SU/FA schedule due to Registrars Office.
Monday, January 13
Brooklyn SU/FA schedule due to Registrars Office.
Tuesday, August 19Sunday, August 24 Saturday, August 23
New student orientation held; loan entrance Arts and Cultural Management classes begin.
interviews.
Wednesday, August 27
Design Management classes begin.

Tuesday, February 18 Monday, August 25

Fall schedule goes live on the Web. Payment/Financial Classes begin.

Tuesday, February 18 Monday, September 1

Tuesday, July 1
Academic advisement begins. Labor Day. No classes.
Student loan application deadline.
Monday, March 24 Monday, September 8
Friday, August 1
Online registration begins for continuing students. Last day to add a class.
Continuing students tuition payment deadline.
Last day to drop a class without a WD grade
Monday, May 12 recorded.
Friday, August 1
Last day of preregistration for continuing students.
New students tuition payment deadline.
Monday, October 13Tuesday, October 14
Monday, June 23Friday, June 27 Midterm Break. No Classes.
Saturday, August 2
Tentative date for new student online registration.
Late payment fee of $80 in effect for all students.
Friday, November 14
Monday, September 8 Last day for course withdrawal.
Monday, August 25
Last day to add a class.
Last day for 100 percent tuition refund upon
Last day to drop a class without a WD Wednesday, November 26
withdrawal.
grade recorded. Sunday, November 30
No new registrations accepted after this date. Thanksgiving. No classes. Offices open on 11/26 only.
Friday, November 14 Tuesday, December 9
Last day for course withdrawal. Housing Friday, December 12
Studio Days.
Tuesday, August 19
Entering freshman, transfer, and graduate students Saturday, December 13
check in to residence halls, 9 AM to 5 PM. Friday, December 19
Final critique and exam week. Fall semester ends.
Friday, August 22Saturday, August 23
Continuing students check in to residence halls,
9 AM to 5 PM.

Saturday, December 20
Noon checkout deadline for graduating students and
those who cancelled spring residence hall license.
Note: Students residing on campus spring 2015
do not check out of their fall rooms.

Monday, December 15
Last day for students to submit graduation
applications to the Registrars Office for May
graduation. Review for graduation begins January 5.
Monday, December 22
Last day to change grades from previous
spring/summer semesters.
Monday, December 22
All final grades due online by 3 PM.
Wednesday, December 24
Thursday, January 1
Winter vacation.
International Students
Friday, August 15; Monday, August 18;
Tuesday, August 19
Mandatory compliance and check-in workshops
with OIA (choose one day on LMS).
Thursday, August 14;
Friday, August 15; Saturday August 16
Mandatory English Proficiency exams given for
international students (choose one day on LMS).
Saturday, August 16
New international students check-in to residence halls,
9 AM to 5 PM.
Sunday, August 17
Welcome dinner for all new international students
and their families, 6 PM, Memorial Hall.
Tuesday, August 19Sunday, August 24
New student orientation.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR 335
Refund Schedule
Course Withdrawal Refund
Schedule Fall 2014
Prior to and including August 25 Full refund
August 26September 1 85% refund
September 2September 8 70% refund
September 9September 15 55% refund
After September 15 No refund
The refunds above are calculated using the date
you dropped your course online or submitted your
completed drop/add form to the Office of the
Registrar (Myrtle Hall 6th Floor). No penalty is assessed
for undergraduate withdrawals when a full-time credit
load (1218 credits) is carried before and after the
drop/add date.
Housing Cancellation Refund
Schedule Fall 2014
Please refer to the housing license to determine the
cancellation penalty/refund.
Meal Plan Cancellation
Refund Schedule
Please refer to the cancellation penalty schedule on
the back of your meal plan contract to determine the
cancellation penalty/refund.
Late Payment Fees
A late payment fee of $80 will be charged for any
unpaid balance after the initial disbursement of
financial aid has been applied for each semester.
A late fee of $55 will be charged after the first 15
days of each semester/session for students who
did not complete their registration during their
designated registration period.
336 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Spring 2015

Registration New Student Orientation Housing

Wednesday, August 20 Thursday, January 15Friday January 16 Thursday, January 15
PMC spring schedule due to Registrars Office. New international student orientation held. New international students residence hall check-in,
9 AM to 5 PM.
Tuesday, September 9 Friday, January 16
Brooklyn spring schedule due to Registrars Office. New student orientation held. Thursday, January 15
Entering freshman, transfer, and graduate students
Monday, September 22 check-in to residence hall, 9 AM to 5 PM.
Spring schedule goes live on Web.
Saturday, May 16
Monday, October 20 Payment/Financial Noon check-out deadline for non-graduating
Academic advisement begins.
students and those students without a Summer Ses
Saturday, November 1 sion I residence hall license.
Monday, November 3
Recommended date to file spring financial aid and
Continuing students online registration for
student loan applications for students who did not Day after Commencement, TBA
spring begins. Noon check-out deadline for graduating students
file for fall term.
Monday, February 2 the day after commencement.
Friday, December 19
Last day to add a class. Note: Students residing on-campus Summer 2015
Continuing students tuition payment deadline
Last day to drop a class without a WD grade Session do not check out of their spring room until
for spring.
recorded. notified by their SU room is ready.
No new registrations accepted after this date. Friday, January 2
All continuing students should begin to file financial
Friday, April 17
aid forms for summer 2014/fall 2014/spring 2015
Last day for course withdrawal.
financial aid award packages. Academic
Friday, January 16
New students tuition payment deadline. Saturday, January 10
Graduate Design Management and Arts and Cultural
Tuesday, January 20 Management classes begin.
Last day for 100 percent tuition refund upon
withdrawal.
Friday, January 16
English proficiency exam for international students.
Sunday, February 1
Recommended filing deadline for financial aid Saturday, January 17
Sat/Sun classes begin.
applications for the next academic year.

Sunday, April 5 Tuesday, January 20

Weekday classes begin.
Recommended filing deadline for 2014/15 student
loan applications. Monday, January 19
Martin Luther King Day.
No classes.
 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 337

Monday, February 2 Refund Schedule

Last day to add a class or drop without
a WD grade recorded.

Monday, February 16 Course Withdrawal Refund

Presidents Day. Classes meet. Offices closed.
Monday, March 16Sunday, March 22
Spring break.
Wednesday, March 25
Last day to submit a graduation application for
October and February graduation.
Saturday, April 4Sunday, April 5
Spring Holiday. No classes. Institute closed.
Tuesday, April 17
Last day for course withdrawal.
Tuesday, May 5Friday, May 8
Studio Days.
Schedule Spring 2015
Prior to and including January 20 Full refund
January 21January 27 85% refund
January 28February 3 70% refund
February 4February 10 55% refund
After February 10 No refund
The refunds above are calculated using the date you
completed your transaction online or submitted your
completed drop/add form to the Office of the Regis-
trar (Myrtle Hall 6th floor). No penalty is assessed for
undergraduate withdrawals when a full-time credit
load (1218 credits) is carried before and after the
drop/add date.

Saturday, May 9Friday, May 15

Final critique and exam week. Classes end. Housing Cancellation Refund
Monday, May 18 Schedule Spring 2015
Last day to change grades from previous fall Please refer to the housing license to determine the
semesters. cancellation penalty/refund.

Monday, May 18
All final grades due online by 3 PM. Meal Plan Cancellation
TBA Refund Schedule
Graduation Awards Convocation. Please refer to the cancellation penalty schedule on
the back of your meal plan contract to determine
TBA
the cancellation penalty/refund.
Commencement.

Tuesday, May 19Thursday, May 21 Late Payment Fees

(Tentative)
Pratt Show.

A late payment fee of $80 will be charged for any
unpaid balance after the initial disbursement
of financial aid has been applied for each
semester.

A late fee of $55 will be charged after the first
15 days of each semester/session for students
who did not complete their registration during
their designated registration period.
338 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Summer 2015

Registration Payment/Financial Academic

Monday, March 30 Friday, April 17 Saturday, May 9
Registration for all summer classes begins. Summer Session tuition payment deadline for Graduate Design Management and Arts and Cultural
continuing students; thereafter, an $80 late Management classes begin.
Sunday, May 24 payment fee charged to continuing students for
Last day to add a class.
Summer Session.
Monday, May 18
Last day to drop Summer classes without a Summer Session classes begin.
WD grade recorded.
Sunday, May 24
No new Summer Session registrations accepted Last day to add a class.
after this date. Housing Last day to drop without a WD grade recorded.
Monday, June 8 No new Summer Session registrations accepted
Students check in to their residence hall room the
Last day for withdrawal (WD) from a summer class. after this date.
Sunday prior to the start of their classes, 9 AM to
5 PM. (Consult course schedule to determine the
Monday, May 25
weeks desired for on-campus housing.)
Memorial Day. No classes.
Students check out of their residence hall room on
the Saturday following the conclusion of their classes Monday, June 8
by noon. (Consult course schedule to determine the Last day for course withdrawal from Summer Session.
weeks desired for on-campus housing.)
Friday, July 3 Saturday, July 4
Note: Students residing on campus for the last week Independence Day. No classes.
of the summer session and residing on campus for the
fall 2015 semester do not check out of their summer Friday, July 24
room until they are notified their fall room is ready. Summer Session classes end.

Monday, July 27
Summer Grades due online by 3 PM.
 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 339

Refund Schedule

Course Withdrawal Refund

Schedule Summer 2015
Prior to and including May 18 Full refund
May 19 through May 25 55% refund
After May 25 No refund
The above refunds are calculated using the date you
dropped classes online or submitted your completed
drop/add form to the Office of the Registrar (Myrtle
Hall 6th Floor).

Housing Cancellation
Refund Schedule
Please refer to the housing license to determine the
cancellation penalty/refund.

Meal Plan Cancellation

Refund Schedule
Please refer to the cancellation penalty schedule on
the back of your meal plan contract to determine the
cancellation penalty/refund.

Late Payment Fees

A late payment fee of $80 will be charged for any
unpaid balance after the initial disbursement of
financial aid has been applied for each semester.

A late fee of $55 will be charged after the first 15
days of each semester/session for students who
did not complete their registration during their
designated registration period.

How to Get to Pratt
Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
By Subway
FROM GR AND CENTR AL STATION
Take the downtown 4 or 5 train to the Fulton Street
station. Take the Brooklyn-bound A or C train to
the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. Cross platform
and take the G train (front car) to the Clinton-
Washington station. Use Washington Avenue exit. On
Washington, walk one block north to DeKalb Avenue.
Turn right onto DeKalb and proceed one block to Hall
Street/Saint James Place to the corner gate of the
Pratt campus.
FROM PENN STATION AND
P ORT AU THORIT Y BUS TERMINALS
Take the Brooklyn-bound A or C train to the
Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. Cross platform and
take G train (front car) to the Clinton-Washington
station. Use Washington Avenue exit and the follow
directions above to campus.
By Bus
FROM D OWNTOWN MANHAT TAN
Take the B51 bus from City Hall to Fulton and Smith
streets in downtown Brooklyn. Change to B38 bus
and take it up Lafayette Avenue to the corner of Saint
James Place, which turns into Hall Street. Entrance to
the campus is one block north on Hall Street.
By Car
FROM BQE, HEADING WEST/SOU TH
Exit 31, Wythe Avenue/Kent Avenue. Stay straight
to go onto Williamsburg Street W., which becomes
Williamsburg Place, then Park Avenue. Turn left
onto Hall Street. Proceed two blocks to Willoughby
Avenue. Make a left on Willoughby. Campus is on
right.
FROM BQE, HEADING EA ST/NORTH
Exit 30, Flushing Avenue. Bear left onto Classon
Avenue, then turn left onto Flushing Avenue. Turn
left on to Washington Avenue. Proceed two blocks
to Willoughby Avenue. Make a left on Willoughby.
Campus is on right. Myrtle Hall is across the street
from the main gate (first left parking lot).
341
FROM WEST SIDE OF MANHAT TAN
VIA MANHAT TAN BRID GE
Travel east on Canal Street to Manhattan Bridge.
Exit bridge to Flatbush Avenue. Turn left onto Myrtle
Avenue. Proceed 15 blocks. Make a right turn onto
Hall Street. Go one block. Make a left turn onto
Willoughby. Campus is on right.
FROM EA ST SIDE OF MANHAT TAN
VIA BRO OKLYN BRID GE
Travel south on the FDR Drive (also called East River
Drive) to Brooklyn Bridge exit. Exit bridge to Tillary
Street. Turn left on Tillary to Flatbush Avenue. Turn
left onto Myrtle Avenue. Proceed 15 blocks. Make a
right turn onto Hall Street. Go one block. Make a left
turn onto Willoughby. Campus is on right.
FROM NE WARK-L IBERT Y AIRP ORT
After the exit, continue toward US-1/US-9/
Newark-Elizabeth (US-22.) Continue on US-1 and
9 North toward Port Newark. US-1 and 9 North
become 12th Street. Continue on Boyle Plaza,
which becomes the Holland Tunnel. Take the tunnel
toward Brooklyn/Downtown and continue on
Beach Street to Walker Street. Continue on Canal
Street to the Manhattan Bridge. Cross the bridge
to Flatbush Avenue Extension. Turn left onto Myrtle
Avenue. Proceed 15 blocks. Make a right turn onto
Hall Street. Go one block. Make a left turn onto
Willoughby. Campus is on right.
342 HOW TO GET TO PRAT T
FROM L AGUARDIA AIRP ORT
Follow signs toward Airport Exit/Rental Cars. Take
ramp (right) onto Grand Central Parkway toward
Parkway West/Manhattan. At exit 4, take ramp
(right) onto BQE/ I-278 W. toward the Verrazano
Narrows Bridge. Take BQE to exit 31, Wythe Avenue/
Kent Avenue. Stay straight to go onto Williamsburg
Street W., which becomes Williamsburg Place, then
Park Avenue. Turn left onto Hall Street. Proceed
two blocks to Willoughby Avenue. Make a left on
Willoughby. Campus is on right.
FROM KENNEDY AIRP ORT
Take the Airport Exit on I-678 South and continue
towards Terminals 8 and 9. Go toward Terminal
9 Departures. Bear right towards the Van Wyck
Expressway/Airport Exit. Continue on the Van
Wyck/I-678 North. Take the 1B-2/Belt Parkway
exit towards the Verrazano Bridge. Take exit #1B
to North Conduit Avenue, which becomes North
Conduit Boulevard. Take Belt Parkway West towards
the Verrazano Bridge. Take the North Conduit
Avenue exit #17W. Continue on Nassau Expressway/
North Conduit Avenue. Bear left on Atlantic Avenue.
Proceed five miles. Turn right onto Washington
Avenue and go seven blocks. Turn right onto
Willoughby Avenue. Campus is on right. Myrtle Hall
is across the street from the main gate (first left into
parking lot).
Manhattan Campus
144 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011
By Car
FROM QUEENS
VIA 59TH STREE T BRID GE
Go south on the FDR Drive. Take 23rd Street exit.
Make a right turn onto 23rd Street. Make a left turn
on Second Avenue. Take Second Avenue to 14th
Street. Make a right turn. Pratt is located between
Sixth and Seventh avenues on the south side of the
block, closest to Seventh Avenue.
FROM BRO OKLYN By PATH Train
VIA BRO OKLYN BRID GE, NORTH ON FDR DRIVE
Drive to Houston Street exit. Take left on Houston to FROM NE W JERSE Y
Third Avenue. Make a right. Take Third Avenue to 14th Take the PATH train to 14th Street in Manhattan.
Street, and make a left turn. Pratt is located between Exit at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. Pratt is located
Sixth and Seventh avenues on the south side of the between Sixth and Seventh avenues on the south
block, closest to Seventh Avenue. side of the block, closest to Seventh Avenue.
FROM NE W JERSE Y
Take the Holland Tunnel to Manhattan. From tunnel,
bear right to Eighth Avenue. Travel east to Sixth Going from Pratt Brooklyn
Avenue. Go south and make a left turn onto 14th
Street. Pratt is located between Sixth and Seventh to Pratt Manhattan
avenues on the south side of the block, closest to
Seventh Avenue.
By Subway
FROM WESTCHESTER Take the G train from the Clinton-Washington
Take the West Side Highway South. Make a left turn station. Go two stops to Hoyt-Schermerhorn.
onto 14th Street. Pratt is located between Sixth and Change for the A or C train, and take it to 14th Street/
Seventh avenues on the south side of the block, Eighth Avenue. Walk east, or take the crosstown
closest to Seventh Avenue. buses or L train for eastbound travel. Pratt is located
between Sixth and Seventh avenues on the south
PARKING IN MANHAT TAN side of the block, closest to Seventh Avenue.
Limited street parking is available on weekdays and
weekends. Parking is available for a fee in nearby By Bus and Subway
garages. Take the M38 bus to Flatbush Avenue. Exit at DeKalb
Avenue station. Take the N, R, Q or W train to 14th
By Subway Street/Union Square. Walk west, or take crosstown
buses, or the L train for westbound travel. Pratt is
Take the A, C, or E train to 14th Street/Eighth Avenue,
located between Sixth and Seventh avenues on the
the F or M train to 14th Street/Sixth Avenue, the 1,
south side of the block, closest to Seventh Avenue.
2, or 3 train to 14th Street/Seventh Avenue, or the
4, 5, 6, N, R, or Q train to 14th Street/Union Square.
Take crosstown buses or the L train to travel east or
west on 14th Street. Pratt is located between Sixth
and Seventh avenues on the south side of the block,
closest to Seventh Avenue.
By Bus
If uptown, take the M20 to 14th Street/Eighth
Avenue. Or take the M6 to 14th Street/ Avenue of the
Americas. If downtown, take the M20 to 14th Street/
Seventh Avenue.
Or take the M6 to 14th Street/Union Square. Take
crosstown buses or the L train to travel east or west
on 14th Street. Pratt is located between Sixth and
Seventh avenues on the south side of the block,
closest to Seventh Avenue.

Index
A C
Academic calendar, 333339
Academic integrity code, 308309
Academic policies. see Registration
and academic policies
Academic standing, 306307
Accreditation
Pratt Institute and individual Schools,
19
School of Architecture, 25, 30
School of Art, 74, 79
School of Design, 19
School of Information and Library
Science, 18, 130, 131
Administration, 331332
Admission requirements, 259268
applications, 260261, 267
readmission, 267
School of Architecture, 41, 51, 54, 57,
261262
School of Art, 67, 71, 75, 79, 83, 96, 99,
262264
School of Design, 106, 108, 123, 124,
264265
School of Information and Library
Science, 132133, 140, 265
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
153, 156, 157, 159, 265266
transfer students and, 267, 298
Advanced Certificates
Archives, 138
Art and Design Education, 67, 96
Library Library and Information
Studies, 140
Library Media Specialist Program, 140
Museum Libraries, 138140
Alternative loan checks, 292
Alumni, 15
American Art Therapy Association, 74
American Dance Therapy Association,
19, 74
American Library Association, 18, 19,
130, 131
Applications. see also Admission
requirements
credentials needed for, 260261
deadline for, 260
notification and deposit, 267
Architecture, School of, 2359
accreditation of, 19, 25, 30
admission requirements, 41, 51, 54,
57, 261262
Architecture, 2833
City and Regional Planning, 4447
curriculum descriptions, 163165
degrees offered, 30, 35, 41, 43, 45, 47,
49, 51, 53, 57, 161
Facilities Management, 5659
faculty, 182196
Graduate Architecture and Urban
Design (GAUD), 2627
Historic Preservation, 5255
Programs for Sustainable Planning
and Development, 4043
scholarships for, 275276
Sustainable Environmental Systems,
4851
transfer credit and, 267
Urban Design, 3439
Architecture (department), 2833,
182187
Art, School of, 6099
accreditation, 19, 79
admission requirements, 67, 71, 75, 79,
83, 96, 99, 262264
Art and Design Education, 6367
Arts and Cultural Management (ACM),
6871
Creative Arts Therapy, 7275
curriculum descriptions, 166172
degrees offered, 63, 67, 71, 73, 74, 75,
79, 83, 91, 96, 161
Design Management (DM), 7679
Digital Arts, 8089
faculty, 197218
Fine Arts, 9099
Fine Arts Studio refundable deposits,
290
Interactive Arts, 83
scholarships for, 276281
Art and Design Education, 6367
Advanced Certificate, 67, 96
faculty, 197198
Arts and Cultural Management (ACM),
6871, 199
Art Therapy and Creativity
Development, 73
Art Therapy with Special Needs
Children, 73
Athletics and Recreation, 319
B
Banking facilities, 291
Billing, 291292
Board of trustees, 329330
Brooklyn campus
Communications Design
(department), 105
cultural partnerships, 16
description, 15, 9
libraries, 9, 325327
map and directions, 340, 341342
Schools and departments (list), 21
tours of, 6, 259
Brooklyn Law School, 43, 137138
343
Calendar, academic, 333339
Campuses. see Brooklyn campus;
Manhattan campus
Campus Ministry, 316
Center for Career and Professional
Development (CCPD), 9, 319321
Center for Sustainable Design Studies
(CSDS), 6
Certificate programs
Advanced Certificate in Archives, 138
Advanced Certificate in Library and
Information Studies, 140
Advanced Certificate in Library Media
Specialist Program, 140
Advanced Certificate in Museum
Libraries, 138140
Certificate in Art and Design
Education (M.F.A./
Postbaccalaureate), 96
Certificate of English Proficiency
(CEP), 159
Intensive English Program, 159
Certification, in education. see Teacher
certification
City and Regional Planning, 4447,
190191
Combined degrees and certificates
Certificate in Art and Design
Education (M.F.A./
Postbaccalaureate), 96
City and Regional Planning
(J.D./M.S.), 43
Digital Arts and Information
(M.S.L.I.S./M.F.A.), 137
Fine Arts (M.S./M.F.A.), 96
History of Art and Art; Design
Education (M.S./M.F.A.), 91
Information and Library Science;
History of Art, Design, and
Architecture (M.S.L.I.S./M.S.),
137
344INDEX
Information Law and Society
(M.S.L.I.S./J.D.), 137138
Commission on Higher Education of
the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Schools, 19
Communications Design, 104113,
219222
Computer facilities, 160
Construction Management
(undergraduate) program, 5, 41
Copenhagen, Study Abroad program, 17
Corporate-Sponsored Studios and
Projects, 6
Council for Interior Design
Accreditation, 19
Course attendance policy, 295296
Courses. see also Registration and
academic policies; individual
names of Schools
grading system, 304305
organization of course offerings, 303
repeated courses, 305
Creative Arts Therapy, 7275, 200202
Credits
portfolio/work experience credit,
298299
semester hour credits, 303304
transfer credits, 267, 298
Curriculum descriptions
School of Architecture, 163165
School of Art, 166172
School of Design, 172175
School of Information and Library
Sciences, 176179
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
179181
D F
Dance/Movement Therapy, 73
Deferral, 268
Degrees. see also Advanced
Certificates; Certificate
programs; Combined degrees
and certificates; Curriculum
descriptions; Teacher
certification; individual names of
Master degrees
degree audits, 307
graduation and, 310311
overview, 161
Design, School of, 100127
accreditation, 19
admission requirements, 106, 108,
123, 124, 264265
Communications Design, 104113
curriculum descriptions, 172175
degrees offered, 105, 106, 108, 115,
116, 124, 161
faculty, 219232
Industrial Design, 114121
Interior Design, 122127
scholarships for, 276281
Design Management (DM), 7679, 203
Digital Animation and Motion Arts
(School of Art), 83
Digital Arts, 8089, 204207
Digital Imaging (School of Art), 83
Directions
Brooklyn campus, 340, 341342
Manhattan campus, 340, 342
Directions (Brooklyn campus), 340,
341342
Direct loans, 292
Disability Resource Center, 321322
Disability Services Center, 268
Discrimination, 268
Dual degree programs. see Combined
degrees and certificates
E
Education Approval Board of the
American Art Therapy Association,
19
English language
Intensive English Program, 159
support for, 143
Enrollment verification letters, 299300
Facilities Management, 5659, 194195
Faculty, 6
Architecture, 182187
Art and Design Education, 197198
Arts and Cultural Management, 199
City and Regional Planning, 190191
Communications Design, 219222
Creative Arts Therapy, 200202
Design Management, 203
Digital Arts, 204207
Facilities Management, 194195
Fine Arts, 208218
Historic Preservation, 196
History of Art and Design, 236239
Industrial Design, 223226
Interior Design, 227232
Liberal Arts, 246256
libraries, 327
Library and Information Science,
233235
Media Studies, 240243
Sustainable Environmental Systems,
192193
Urban Design, 188189
Writing, 244245
Writing and Tutorial Center, 257
Fees. see Tuition and fees
Financial aid, 269285
academic progress and pursuit,
272273
FAFSA, 269, 271, 272, 284
federal programs, 271272
general information, 269
grant and scholarship programs, 270
instructions and schedule, 284285
loans and payment, 292
out-of-state programs
(scholarships), 273
Pratt Student Employment Program,
270
restricted grants and scholarships, by
Schools, 275282
scholarships, all Schools, 282284
scholarships, international students,
284
state education agencies, 274275
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
Aid to Native Americans Higher
Education Assistance Program,
274
Fine Arts, 9099
faculty, 208218
Fine Arts Studio refundable deposits,
290
Florence, Study Abroad program, 17, 140
G
Grade point average (GPA), 306
Grading system, 304305, 306
Graduate Architecture and Urban
Design (GAUD), 2627
Graduate Record Examination (GRE),
266
Graduation. see also individual names
of degrees
degrees and, 310
with honors, 310311
Grants. see Scholarships
H
Health and Counseling Services,
323324
Health requirements, 266267
Historic Preservation, 5255, 196
History of Art and Design, 145149,
236239
Housing, 13, 316318
Humanities and Media Studies,
Department of, 157
I
Identification cards (PrattCard), 296
I-20 forms, 266
Industrial Design, 114121, 223226
Information and Library Science, School
of (SILS), 128141
accreditation, 18, 19, 130, 131
admission requirements, 132133,
140, 265
certificate programs, 138140
curriculum descriptions, 176179
degrees offered, 162
dual-degree programs, 137138
faculty, 233235
M.S.L.I.S. program, 132135
M.S.L.I.S. with Library Media Specialist
(LMS) program, 135137
scholarships for, 281
Intensive English Program (IEP), 159
Interactive Arts (School of Art), 83
Interior Design, 122127, 227232
International Affairs, 324
International students
English language support, 143
enrollment of, 266
peerTransfer for, 293
scholarships, 284
Internships, 9
Art Therapy and Creativity
Development, 74
City and Regional Planning, 45
Creative Arts Therapy, 74
Dance/Movement Therapy, 74
Digital Arts, 81
Historic Preservation, 53
History of Art and Design, 147
Media Studies, 153
Pratt Institute internship program,
320321
Programs for Sustainable Planning
and Development, 43

School of Information and Library
Science, 141
Sustainable Environmental Systems,
51
J
Japan, Study Abroad programs, 1718,
116
Juris Doctor (J.D.), combined degrees
with Master of Information and
Library Science in Information
Law and Society, 137138
with Master of Science in City and
Regional Planning, 43
L
Laboratories
School of Information and Library
Science, 131
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
160
Late payments, 292
Leaves of absence, 301
Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of,
143160
admission requirements, 153, 156, 157,
159, 265266
curriculum descriptions, 179181
degrees offered, 150, 153, 155, 156,
159, 162
faculty, 236257, 246256
History of Art and Design, 145149
Humanities and Media Studies
department, 157
Intensive English Program (IEP), 159
internships, 147, 153
Mathematics and Science
department, 157
Media Studies, 150153
resources, 159160
scholarships for, 281282
Social Science and Cultural Studies
department, 159
Writing, 154156
Libraries, 9, 325327
Library Media Specialist (LMS), 135137
Loans. see also Financial aid
alternative loan checks, 292
Direct Loans, 292
fees, 292
London, Study Abroad program, 17,
140, 141
M
Manhattan campus
cultural partnerships, 16
description, 1, 5, 9
directions, 342
libraries, 9, 325327
Schools and departments (list), 21
tours, 6
Map (Brooklyn campus), 340
Master in Industrial Design (MID), 115, 116
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), 2, 23,
25, 30, 35, 267
Master of Arts in Media Studies, 150, 153
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Certificate in Art and Design
Education (combined M.F.A./
Post-baccalaureate), 96
Communications Design, 105, 106
Digital Arts and Information
(combined M.S.L.I.S./M.F.A.),
137
Fine Arts, 91
Fine Arts (combined M.S./M.F.A.), 96
History of Art and Art and Design
Education (combined
M.S./M.F.A.), 91
Writing, 155, 156
Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.)
Arts and Cultural Management
Program, 71
Art Therapy and Creativity
Development, 71, 74
Art Therapy with Special Needs
Children, 71, 74
Master of Science in Library and
Information Science (M.S.L.I.S.)
Digital Arts and Information
(combined M.S.L.I.S./M.F.A.),
137
Information Law and Society
(combined M.S.L.I.S./J.D.),
137138
Library and Information Science, 132
Master of Science (M.S.)
Architecture, 30
Architecture and Urban Design, 35
Art and Design Education, 63
City and Regional Planning (combined
J.D./M.S.), 43
Dance/Movement Therapy, 73, 74
Facilities Management, 57
Fine Arts (combined M.S./M.F.A.), 96
Historic Preservation, 53
History of Art and Art; Design
Education (combined
M.S./M.F.A.), 91
Information and Library Science;
History of Art, Design, and
Architecture (combined
M.S.L.I.S./M.S.), 137
Interior Design, 124
Package Design, 108
Programs for Sustainable Planning
and Development, 41
School of Art, 63, 73, 74, 75, 96
Sustainable Environment Systems, 49
Mathematics and Science, Department
of, 157
Meal Plan, 318
Media Studies, 150153, 240243
My.Pratt access, 296, 302
N
National Architectural Accrediting Board
(NAAB), 19
National Association of Accrediting
Board (NAAB), 25, 30
National Association of Schools of Art
and Design (NASAD), 19
New York City. see Brooklyn campus;
Manhattan campus
New York State Education Department
certification, Library Media
Specialist (LMS) program, 19, 135
137. see also Teacher certification
Nonmatriculated/special students, 267
P course attendance, 295296
Package Design, 108113
Parent module (My.Pratt), 302
Paris, Study Abroad program, 17
PeerTransfer Corporation, 293
Personal data, changes to, 301
Plagiarism, 309
Portfolio/work experience credit,
298299
Pratt Center for Community
Development, 6, 24, 43
Pratt Institute. see also Admission
requirements; Applications;
Architecture, School of; Art,
School of; Design, School of;
Faculty; Financial aid; Information
and Library Science, School of
(SILS); Liberal Arts and Sciences,
School of; Registration and
academic policies; Student Affairs;
Tuition and fees
academic calendar, 333339
administration, 331332
alumni of, 15
board of trustees, 329330
Bulletin, 311
INDEX345
history of, 1, 5, 11
libraries, 9, 325327
map and directions, 340, 341342
My.Pratt, 296, 302
PrattCard, 296
Pratt email accounts, 296
Schools and departments (list), 21
students of, 13
Writing and Tutorial Center, 144, 159,
160, 257
Pratt Prepaid Discover Debit Card, 293
Pratt Student Employment Program, 270
Programs for Sustainable Planning and
Development (PSPD), 1718, 4043
R
RATE, 19
Readmission, 267
Refunds
for course withdrawal, 290291
for credit balance, 291
Pratt Prepaid Discover Debit Card
and, 293
Registration and academic policies,
295311
academic integrity code, 308309
academic standing, 306307
changes and withdrawals, 300301
degree audits, 307
email accounts, 296
enrollment verification letters,
299300
grade point average (GPA), 306
grading system, 304305
graduation and degrees, 310
graduation with honors, 310311
My.Pratt access, 296, 302
organization of course offerings, 303
personal data changes, 301
portfolio/work experience credit,
298299
PrattCard, 296
repeated courses, 305
semester hour credits, 303304
student registration, 296297
student status, 299
thesis enrollment, 308, 311
transcripts, 302303
transfer credits, 298
Veterans Affairs, 297298
Repeated courses, 305
Residential Life and Housing, 316318
Returned checks, 292
Rome, Study Abroad program, 17
346INDEX
S T
Scholarships. see also Financial aid
all Schools, 282284
federal programs, 271272
graduate merit-based, 259
grant and scholarship programs, 270
international students, 284
out-of-state programs, 273
by Schools, 140, 275282
School of Architecture. see
Architecture, School of
School of Art. see Art, School of
School of Design. see Design, School of
School of Information and Library
Science (SILS). see Information and
Library Science, School of (SILS)
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
see Liberal Arts and Sciences,
School of
Semester hour credits, 303304
Social Science and Cultural Studies,
Department of, 159
Student Affairs, 313324
Athletics and Recreation, 319
Campus Ministry, 316
Center for Career and Professional
Development, 9, 319321
Disability Resource Center, 321322
Health and Counseling Services,
323324
International Affairs, 324
Meal Plan, 318
Residential Life and Housing, 316318
Student Involvement, 314
student organizations, 131, 315316
Study Abroad programs, 1621, 116,
140, 141
Summer programs
Intensive English Program, 159
Study Abroad, 1719
Sustainability, commitment to, 19
Sustainable Environmental Systems,
4851, 192193
Sustainable Planning and Development,
Programs for. see Programs
for Sustainable Planning and
Development (PSPD)
U
Teacher certification Undergraduate programs
Advanced Certificate in Art and degrees offered, 161
Design Education, 67, 96 Graduate Admissions and
Library Media Specialist program, deficiencies in, 266
135137 graduate program links to, 5, 41
Technology, 9 United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
Thesis enrollment, 308, 311 Aid to Native Americans Higher
Education Assistance Program, 274
Title IX statement, 268
Urban Design, 3439
Tokyo, Study Abroad programs, 1718,
116 faculty, 188189
Transcripts, 302303
Transfer credits, 267, 298
Trustees, board of, 329330
V
Tuition and fees, 287293
adjustments, 292
alternative loan checks, 292
application notification and deposit,
Veterans Affairs, 297298
267
billing, 291292
collection, 293
direct loans, 292
W
Fine Arts Studio refundable deposits,
290
general information, 287288
graduate fees, 288290 Withdrawals, 300301
late payments, 292 Work experience credit, 298299
payment plan, 288 Writing, 154156
peerTransfer for international faculty, 244245
students, 293 Writing and Tutorial Center, 144, 159,
refunds, course withdrawal, 290291 160, 257
refunds, credit balance, 291 .
refunds, Pratt Prepaid Discover Debit
Card, 293
registration and, 293
returned checks, 292
Turkey, Study Abroad programs, 16, 1718