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Member until August 2026

Research: Nutrients and contaminants in soils and aquatic systems, mineral and chemical records on planetary surfaces, reactions between rocks and water on the early earth.

Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental processes, soil systems, water chemistry, and professional development.

Olin Business School

Member until July 2026

Research: Judgment and Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior, Financial Decision Making, Incentives, Field and Internet Research Methodology.

Teaching: MBA courses in Marketing Management; PhD courses in Experimental Methodology in Behavioral Science.

PhD Student in Imaging Science

Member until August 2025

Research Interests: developing computational frameworks for breast cancer risk assessment using digital breast tomosynthesis.

Assistant Professor, Architecture, Fall 2022 | Seth Denizen is a researcher and design practitioner trained in landscape architecture, evolutionary biology, and human geography. His published work is multidisciplinary, addressing art, design, soil science, urban geography, and the politics of climate change. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Scapegoat Journal: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California Berkeley, where he studied the political ecology of soil in the Mexico City-Mezquital Valley hydrological system. In 2019 he was a recipient of the SOM Foundation Research Prize and has previously taught at Harvard, Berkeley, the University of Hong Kong, and Princeton, where he was a Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.

Assistant Professor, Art, Fall 2023 | Chris Dingwall is a historian of American and African American design with particular interest in race, material culture, political economy, and the relationship between art and power in scenes of everyday life and labor. Currently, he is writing Selling Slavery: Race and the Industry of American Culture, a book for Cambridge University Press, and co-editing Black Designers in Chicago, a collected volume and exhibition catalogue for the University of Chicago Press. His work has been supported by the Terra Foundation of American Art and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and his writing about cultural history and contemporary art and design has appeared in AIGA Eye on Design, Archives of American Art, and the Gagosian Quarterly.