Faculty and Staff

Program Director
Chris Wilson
JB Jackson Chair
505-277-3303
chwilson@unm.edu
Focus: regionalism, vernacular architecture, public spaces and community identity, mixed-use and multi-family building types, transit oriented neighborhoods

Administrative Assistant
Ellen R. Steeves
505-277-0071
esteeves@unm.edu
Associated Faculty

Elmo Baca, Adjunct Associate Professor
Elbaca1104@aol.com
Focus: historic preservation, tourism, economic development, Southwestern history and design

Jan Biella, State Historic Preservation Officer (Interim), New Mexico
jan.biella@state.nm.us
Focus: preservation law, archeology, cultural resource management

Norman Crowe, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
ncrowe@unm.edu
Focus: sustainable architecture and urbanism, drawing and visual diagramming, classical and vernacular design traditions

Eric DeLony, Chief Emeritus, Historic American Engineering Record, NPS
pointist@comcast.net
Focus: historic engineering and bridges, industrial preservation, documentary drawings

Miguel Gandert, Professor, Communications and Journalism
mgandert@unm.edu
Focus: photography and the built environment, social documentary photography, Latin American and Southwestern history and cultures

Chester Liebs, Adjunct Professor
cliebs1@unm.edu
Focus: cultural landscapes, historic preservation, and transit oriented cities in Japan and the U.S.

Baker Morrow, Adjunct Professor, Landscape Architecture
bhm@mrwnm.com
Focus: historic landscapes of the Southwest and Latin America, regional landscape design

Virginia Scharff, Professor, History
vscharff@unm.edu
Focus: environmental and gender history of the U.S., museum studies, public history, writing

Martin Stupich, Instructor
martinstupich@mac.com
Focus: cultural landscape photography, HABS/HAER documentary photography

Francisco Uviña, Instructor
fuvina@unm.edu
Focus: preservation of earthen structures, regional design

Arnold Valdez, Adjunct Associate Professor
aavaldez@unm.edu
Focus: cultural landscape planning, sustainable design and alternative construction materials, historic preservation technologies

José Zelaya, Instructor
jmzelaya_arch@msn.com
Focus: regional and contextual architecture, town design and planning, Southwest urban history

Graduate Certificates

Faculty and Staff