BIOS
Christopher Kendall, Dean, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
From 1996 to 2005 Christopher Kendall was Director of the University of Maryland School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Prior to 1996, he was associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony (1987–1993) then director of the Music Division and Tanglewood Institute of the Boston University School of the Arts. Since 1975 he has been the conductor and artistic director of the 20th CenturyConsort, ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution, and since 1978 founder and lutenist of the Folger Consort, early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Kendall has been guest conductor with the Seattle Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Ontario), the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony; the Annapolis Symphony; the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Collage and Dinosaur Annex (both new music ensembles in Boston), the Orchestra, Symphony and Chamber Orchestra of The Juilliard School and the Musica Nova Ensemble at the Eastman School.
Kendall is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Emmy and the Washington Area Music (Wammie) Awards, 1984, 1987 and 1989, with the 20th Century Consort; the Woolson Award, 1989, with the Folger Consort; and the Smithson Award, 1992, with the 20th Century Consort. His performances can be heard in recording on the ASV, Centaur, Bard, Delos, CRI, Nonesuch, and Smithsonian Collection labels.
Bryan Rogers, Dean, School of Art & Design
Bryan Rogers served as head of the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University from 1988 through 1999. Prior to that, he was professor of art at San Francisco State University, where he founded the Conceptual Design Program. Rogers has also held appointments at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. and the University of California at Berkeley. From 1982 to 1985, he was editor of the international art-science-technology journal Leonardo. He completed a year of post-graduate work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on a fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He has also held fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
At Carnegie Mellon, Rogers led the development of a number of innovative programs in art and design, stressing the importance of connections to other fields of inquiry. As founding director of the Studio for Creative Inquiry, an interdisciplinary outreach center dedicated to fostering ambitious, experimental, advanced-technology projects in the arts, he significantly strengthened Carnegie Mellon's interactions with regional and international communities. He also served as principal investigator on major NSF and NASA supported projects.
At Michigan, Rogers has led the complete restructuring of the educational programs within the School of Art and Design. A major thrust of this effort has been to firmly engage the School with the University and the broader community, both local and global. Focused on creative work and infused with contemporary information and imaging technologies, the new programs endeavor to unite the domains of art-making and designing.
In addition to his administrative accomplishments, Rogers is a sculptor and installation artist whose work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. His work explores conceptual intersections of art, science and technology, often manifesting in complex, interactive installations of kinetic objects.
Douglas Kelbaugh, Dean, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Douglas S. Kelbaugh FAIA, is Dean and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning.
He received his BA degree magna cum laude and Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. Between degrees, he founded a community design center in Trenton, New Jersey, and later worked for five years in local government there as a planner and architect. His 1975 passive solar house in Princeton was the first of his many pioneering passive solar buildings. In 1978, he founded Kelbaugh and Lee, a firm that won over 15 regional and national design awards and competitions in half as many years. His designs have been published in over 100 books and magazines and featured in many exhibitions in the USA and abroad.
Kelbaugh has been dean of Taubman College since 1998; prior to that, he was chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. At U-M, he started an urban design program and a real estate development program, recruited stellar faculty members, and served on several university and state boards and committees.
Kelbaugh has co-chaired many national and international conferences on energy, urbanism, and design, spoken to hundreds of professional and community groups, appeared on numerous local and national radio and television programs, and served on more than a score of regional and national design juries. He is the editor and co-author, with Peter Calthorpe, of The Pedestrian Pocket Book, a national bestseller in urban design. Kelbaugh also authored COMMON PLACE: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, now in its second printing. Its sequel, Repairing the American Metropolis: Beyond Common Place, was published in 2002.
David C. Munson, Jr., Dean, College of Engineering
David C. Munson, Jr., assumed the position of Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan on July 1, 2006. Prior to becoming Dean, Munson was Chair of U-M’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Munson received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering (with distinction) from the University of Delaware in 1975, and the M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1977, 1977, and 1979, respectively. From 1979 to 2003 he was with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and a faculty member in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Professor Munson’s teaching and research interests are in the general area of signal and image processing. His current research is focused on radar imaging, passive millimeter-wave imaging, and computer tomography. He has held summer positions in digital communications and speech processing, and he has served as a consultant in synthetic aperture radar to the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. He is co-founder of InstaRecon, Inc., a start-up to commercialize fast algorithms for image formation in computer tomography. He is affiliated with the Infinity Project, where he is coauthor of a textbook on the digital world, which is used in about 200 high schools nationwide to introduce students to engineering.
Professor Munson is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a past president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. In addition to multiple teaching awards and other honors, he was presented the Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, he served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, he received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and he was the Texas Instruments Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rice University. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he was the Robert C. MacClinchie Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.
Theresa Reid, Managing Director
Theresa Reid is the author of Two Little Girls: A Memoir of Adoption, published in April 2006 by Berkley, an imprint of the Penguin Group. (Trade paperback due out in April 2007.) She is also a contributing editor to The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment (Sage Publications, 1996; Second Edition 2002), a comprehensive general textbook. Her writing has also been published in The New York Review of Books, Adoptive Families, Literary Mama, and elsewhere.
Reid served as Executive Director of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) for ten years, where she was instrumental in building the organization’s membership from 200 to more than 5000; developing its Board of Directors, committee and state chapter networks, and professional training series; and establishing and editing several highly regarded publications. She spoke regularly at regional and national conferences on child maltreatment, and served on several federal panels and other national bodies pertaining to child maltreatment practice, research, and legislation. Through a grant from the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Initiative, Reid has taught seminars in organizational development and media coverage of child sexual abuse to social service professionals in Eastern Europe.
She served for three years as the first President of the Board of the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center, directing Board development, the production of policies and procedures governing Board operations and staff oversight, and the creation of CCAC's first strategic plan.
With a full academic scholarship, Reid earned her PhD in English from the University of Chicago, completing a dissertation entitled “An Ethical Analysis of Discourse on Child Sexual Abuse from 1860 to the Present” under the direction of Wayne Booth, then Gerald Graff.
Lee Doyle
Lee Doyle has studied art, practiced law, and served as a corporate manager in areas as diverse as finance, strategic planning, government relations and public affairs. In her current role as the director of communications administration and policy for the University of Michigan, Ms. Doyle is responsible for producing large university events and is facilitating the launch of the Arts on Earth initiative.