Speakers - The Arts & Design

Stoel Burrowes
Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture
Coleman Fellow, North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center
MA North Carolina State University
(336) 256-0305, s_burrow@uncg.edu

  • Design Education and Theory
  • Furniture Design
  • Chair Construction
  • Drafting and Drawing

Anthony S. Chow
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Studies
PhD Florida State University
(336) 334-3411, aschow@uncg.edu

  • Libraries & Technology
  • Web Design & Usability
  • Asian American & Race Issues
  • Informatics

Duane Cyrus
Associate Professor, Dance
MFA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(336) 256-1486, dacyrus@uncg.edu

  • Accessing Creativity (Interactive lecture or workshop to access creative potential for any demographic)
  • Entrepreneurship in the Arts
  • African American Contributions to American Culture (Particularly in Performing Arts)

Nancy Doll
Director, Weatherspoon Art Museum
MA The University of Iowa
(336) 334-5770, nmdoll@uncg.edu

  • Collections & Programs of the Weatherspoon Art Museum
  • Creative Approaches to Economic Development & Quality of Life
  • Contemporary Art - How to Look & Learn

Joseph Erba
Lecturer/Professor of Practice, Business Administration
MBA Babson College
(336) 256-8592, jrerba@uncg.edu

  • Corporate Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business Policy & Strategy
  • Bridging the divide between Arts & Business

Maura Keane Heyn
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
PhD University of California, Los Angeles
(336) 256-0471, mkheyn@uncg.edu

  • Gesture in Roman Art
  • Identity in the Provinces of the Roman Empire
  • Roman Syria

Travis L. Hicks
Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture
M.Arch. Princeton University
(336) 256.0306, tlhicks@uncg.edu

  • Trends in Workplace Design: "Thinking Beyond the Office Cube"
  • Sustainable Design: "Towards a More Ecological Architecture"
  • Design Process: "Deciphering Archi-speak: Why Architects Think and Talk the Way They Do."
  • Irish Traditional Music - Discussion + Demonstration: "The Irish Bagpipes: Yes, These ARE Real Bagpipes."

Nancy Hodges
Professor, Consumer, Apparel & Retail Studies
PhD University of Minnesota
(336) 256-0291, nancy_hodges@uncg.edu

  • History of Costume
  • Dress and Culture
  • Women and Dress

Patrick Lee Lucas
Associate Professor, Interior Architecture
Chancellor's Resident Fellow, Lloyd International Honors College
PhD Michigan State University
(336) 256-0308, pllucas@uncg.edu

  • Edward Loewenstein: Modernism in Architecture in Mid-century Greensboro
  • History of Architecture and Design

Anna Marshall-Baker
Professor & Department Chair, Interior Architecture
PhD Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(336) 256-0307, anna_marshallbaker@uncg.edu

  • Interior Design & Interior Architecture
  • Sustainability
  • Neonatal Intensive Care

Hannah Rose Mendoza
Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture
MFA Florida State University
(336) 334-4947, hrmendoz@uncg.edu

  • Social Justice and Community Outreach design projects
  • Utilizing millennial generation volunteerism as a platform for advocacy through design
  • Design in Mexico
  • Design in Ghana

Elizabeth Perrill
Assistant Professor, Art
PhD Indiana University Bloomington
(812) 322-4189, eaperril@uncg.edu

  • African Art
  • South African Culture

Tina Sarawgi
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Study, Interior Architecture
M.Arch. Miami University
(336) 303-8462, tina_sarawgi@uncg.edu

  • Lighting Design
  • Digital Design
  • Lighting Simulation

Carmen Sotomayor
Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Michigan State University
(336) 334-5655, ctsotoma@uncg.edu

  • Spain: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Issues
  • Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Visual Arts, Literature and History