I. personal history and education background


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J. Book and Exhibition Reviews

“Man in the Landscape,” by Paul Shephard, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1995).


“The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal” (ed.) Elizabeth Moynihan (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 2000) in Geographical Review of India, Vol. 64, No. 3 (September 2002): 292-294.
“The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World” by Michael Pollan (Random House, 2002) in Architecture+Design, India, Vol. XXII, No. 5 (May 2005): 96-98.
“Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art: Chapters of a New History” (ed.) John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan with the assistance of Claire Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) in Architecture+Design, India, Vol. xxiii, No. 1 (January 2006): 98-101.
“Lucknow: Then and Now” (ed.) Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (Marg Publications, 2006) in Architecture+Design, India, Vol. xxiv, No.2 (February 2007): 118-119.

“At City’s Edge: Photographs of the Chicago Lakefront” by Bob Thall (Center for American Places, 2005) in Journal of Urban Design, U.K., Vol. 12, No. 2 (2007): 329-331.


“House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home” by Clare Cooper Marcus (Nicholas-Hays, 2006) in Architecture+Design, India, Vol. xxiv, No. 6 (June 2007): 116-118.
“Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism” by Jyoti Hosagrahar in H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu (2007).
“Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision” (ed) Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Pittsburg Press, 2007) in Architecture+Design, India, vol. xxvi, no.6 (June 2009): pp. 110-114.
“Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency” (ed.) Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C., 2007) in Journal of Landscape Architecture, India, vol. 7, no: 1, (Monsoon 2009): pp105-107.
“Transforming the Disciplinary Boundary”, Outside Design Exhibition, curated by Jonathan Solomon, September 11-December 2015, 2015, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, in Tekton, vol. 3, no. 1, March 2016, pp. 88-90.
“Pop-up Megacity” Rahul Mehrotra and Felipe Vera (eds.) Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity. South Asia Institute, Harvard University, 2015 in Tekton, vol. 3, no. 2, September 2016, pp. 108-111.


K. Other


  1. D. Fairchild Ruggles and Amita Sinha. “Champaner: Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape” in Foundation Max Van Berchem Bulletin, No. 18 (December, 2003).




  1. Sinha, Amita, “Architecture and Public Spaces” Future Pointers, Special Issue of Architecture+Design, India, 2009.



1. Descriptive Data
1991-2000 Introduction to Social and Cultural Issues in Environmental Design, LA 270. Required survey course for undergraduate students in Landscape Architecture consisting of an overview of social and cultural forces that have shaped the cultural landscape. Selected typologies of urban landscapes are discussed as expressions of themes of religion, power, utopias, and community.
1989-97 Recreation and Community Design, LA 335. Junior level studio on the design of medium density housing, neighborhood parks and playgrounds.
1989- Social and Cultural Issues in Environmental Design, LA 470. Introduction to the theoretical frameworks and qualitative research methodology in researching cultural landscapes.
1998- Urban Landscape Design, LA 336/438. Vertical Design workshops with junior, senior and graduate students on cultural heritage design. Projects include heritage parks and riverfront in Lucknow, India, Taj Mahal Cultural Heritage District, Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park and Cultural Sanctuary, Cultural Landscape of Govardhan, Braj, Cultural Landscape of Orchha, and Ghats on the Ganga in Varanasi.
2001- Cultural Landscapes of South Asia, LA/AS 218. An introduction to the cultural landscapes of South Asia, organized around building and landscape types—sacred sites, urban form, forts and capital cities, religious buildings, gardens, housing, and public spaces.
2016- Sustainable Design and the Public Realm in India, GCL 129. Students engage in developing sustainable solutions to the most challenging and complex problems—inequality, pollution, and lack of safety—in public spaces, using sites in Indian cities as case studies. Sustainable design in such a context will be about conceptualizing and making environment friendly structures that are low cost and use local materials and appropriate technologies to create climatically and culturally adaptive forms.

2. Supervision of Graduate Students
Master's Thesis (Chair)
Ying Qu (Lapierre), Master of Landscape Architecture, 1991. Thesis: “Chinese Students' Perceptions of Home and Community in the United States: A Case Study at the University of Illinois.”
Lynn Saleh, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1992. Thesis: “A Model for Revitalization o Declining Urban Areas: A Case Study of East St. Louis, Illinois.”
Deepa Raman, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1992. Thesis: “The Hindu Temple - It's Role and Meaning in the United States.”
Geoffrey Burt, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1993. Thesis: “Humboldt Park, Chicago - A Case Study of an Ethnic Landscape.”
Minglan Keener, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1994. Thesis: “Chicago's Chinatown -- A Case Study of an Ethnic Neighborhood.”
Judi Raymund, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1994. Thesis: “From Barnyards to Backyards: An Exploration through Adult Memories and Children's Narratives in Search of an Ideal Landscape.”
Saeeda Rasool, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1994. Thesis: “From Private Gardens to Public Parks: A Study of Transformation in Landscape of Lahore, Pakistan from Seventeenth Century till Present.”
Bharat Mehra, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1996. Thesis: “Mandala and the Sacred Landscape of Traditional Hindu Cities.” Bharat Mehra is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee.
Tsailun Lin, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1997. Thesis: “Image and Legibility of an Ethnic Village - Chicago Chinatown.”
Anne McCombe-Spafford, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1997. Thesis: “The Prison Landscape and the Captive Audience: Is Nature an Amenity or Necessity?” Ann Spafford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University.
Elizabeth Moore, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1997. Thesis: “The Blue Cornflower in Downtown America.” Elizabeth Graff (Moore) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Idaho.

Lisa Duwall, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1999. Thesis: “Landscape Attachment: An Exploration into the Emotional Process.” Lisa Duwall is a Landscape Architect in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.


Paul Smith, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2000. Thesis: “Native Plants in Residential Gardens: A Case Study in East Central Illinois.”
Yan Xu, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2000. Thesis: “The Chinese ‘American Dream’ at the Turn of 21st century: A Case Study of Chinese-American Homes in Madison, Wisconsin.”
Tara Bhuthimethee, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2001. Thesis: “Thai Theravada Buddhist Temples: The Study of Thai Theravada Buddhist Cosmology in Temple Landscapes and the Development of Guidelines for Designing Thai Buddhist Landscapes in the United States.”
Arun George, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2001. Thesis: “Design Guidelines for the Goshree Roadlink in Kochi, India.”
Aparna Raghunathan, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2003. Thesis: “A Design Proposal for the Fort Area of Tiruchirpalli, India.”
Yuthika Sharma, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2004. Thesis: “A New Memorial Landscape for India: The Raj Ghat Complex in New Delhi.” Yuthika Sharma is a doctoral student in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University.
Lifan Zhang, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2004. Thesis: “Garden Identity in an Era of Globalization: Contemporary Practice and Critical Discourse in China.”
Swati Nagpal, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2007. Thesis: “Lucknow’s Gomti: A Riverfront Design Study.”
Swetha Gowri, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2008. Thesis: “An Experiment in Sustainable Community Design, Auroville, India.”
Sarmistha Mandal, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2008. Thesis: “Conservation Plan for the Delhi Ridge, India.”

Dan Archibald, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2008. Thesis: “Preserving the Early Landscape History of Nauvoo, Illinois (1839-1846).”


Lucy Cross, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2008. Thesis: “Napa Landscape Heritage, California.”
Lobsang Chodon, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2009. Thesis: “Uttarakhand Crafts Museum, India”.
Annie Varma, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2011. Thesis: “Vishram Ghat, Mathura, India: A Model for Ghat Restorations in India”.
Xinxin Chai, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2011. Thesis: “Redesign of a Demolished Neighborhood: Creating a Healthy, Safe, and Sociable Cabrini Green in Chicago”.
Rajora, Neha, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2013. Thesis: Vision, Movement, and Landscape Experience in Princely Town Amber, India”.
Fan, Xiangnan, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2014. Thesis: “ Housing Design for Land-Lost Farmers in Suzhou, China.
Gajjar, Heena, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2016. Thesis: “Journeys in the Cultural Landscape of Okhamandal, Gujarat, India”.
Yi, Linna, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2016. Thesis: “The Sense of Chengdu: Embodied Heritage in Tastescape”.

Master's Thesis (Committee Member)
Dawn Radville, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1992. Thesis: “Landscape Iconology: Defining the Role of Symbolic Imagery in Landscape Design.”
Sadafumi Uchiyama, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1993. Thesis: “From High Art to Popular Culture: The Past Three Centuries of Garden Making in Japan.”
Chiu-Lin Chen, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1994. Thesis: “The Sojourners' Perceptions of the Satisfaction with Housing in the United States: A Case Study of Taiwanese Students at the University of Illinois.”
Ke-Tsung Han, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1994. Thesis: “Feng Shui and Landscape.”
Suzanne K. Loechl, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1994. Thesis: “Pioneer Women and the Prairies: Impressions of a New Land.”
Jeffrey Adams, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1995. Thesis: “Landscape of Gender in Advertising.”
Sung-Ho Kim, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1995. Thesis: “Residents' Satisfaction with Outdoor Environment in Multi-Family Housing.”
Tawatchai Kobkaikit, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1995. Thesis: “The Story of Wind in Northerly Island, Chicago.”
Yinyuan Qing, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1996. Thesis: “Defining Values - Strategies in Urban Open Space Design.”
Misa Inoue, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1997. Thesis: “Sonic Experience of a Place.”
Martha Pederson Schmidt, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2001. Thesis: “Landscape and Spirituality.”
Qiaojue Yu, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2002. Thesis: “Gossip Garden: A New People’s Square for China.”
Farah Ahmed, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2003. Thesis: “Ecological Design for Prairie Establishment on a Suburban Housing Site: A Design Case Study in Urbana, Illinois.”
Jing Dong, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2005. Thesis: “A New Water Town Design Study in Zhejiang Road Bridge Area of Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, China.”
Lu Sun, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2005. Thesis: “Vertical Neighborhoods /Sky Garden Architecture/Landscape Architecture Response.”
Gregory C. Hieselberg, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2005. Thesis: “True Diversity in University Housing: A Comprehensive and Flexible Response to Resident Housing for the University of Illinois.”
Tianwan Rui, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2007. Thesis: “Revitalization of Existing Streetscapes in China: A Case Study of Wencui Street in Shenyang.”
Jay Lechien, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2008. Thesis: “Mounds Heritage Trail”.
Mujing Niu, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2010. Thesis: “Naming the Discipline: A Comparison of Three Landscape Architecture Programs in Beijing, China”.
Yuling Huang, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2013. Thesis: “Green Trails as Catalyst: Revitalization of Six Post-Mining Towns in Illinois”.
Moinzadeh, Pardis, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2014. Thesis: “ Revitalization of the Bazaar Neighborhood in Teheran’.
Habibullah, Amir, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2014. Thesis: “Sustainable Strategies for Urban Water Management for Arid Region: The Case Study of Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia”.
Gao, Ruiying, Thesis, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2014: “Honey Bee Habitat at the University of Illinois Campus”.

Undergraduate Thesis (Committee Member)

Vincent Glaviano, Bachelor of Arts in South Asian Studies, 2012. Thesis: “Hindu Temple Clinics in the United States: Concerns, Methods, and Results for the South Asian Immigrant Community”.



Ph.D. Dissertation (Committee Member)
Hazel Edwards, Ph.D. 1994. Dissertation title: “The Role of the Residential Environment in Defining Quality of Life,” Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Mallika Bose, Ph.D. 1997. Dissertation title: “Women's Work, Women's Spaces: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of a Bustee in Calcutta, India,” School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Mallika is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Nicholas Watkins, Ph.D. 2006. Dissertation title: “The Journey Back to the World: Exploring the Psychological Effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Vietnam War Combat Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,” School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Nick is presently the Director of Research at Cannon Design, St. Louis.
Sungkyung Lee, Ph.D. 2009. Dissertation title: “Narrated Landscape: Revisioning Place Theory in the Context of Contemporary Urban Landscape in Busan, South Korea,” Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Sungkyung is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Georgia at Athens.
Melissa M. Belz, Ph.D. 2012. Dissertation title: “Keep My Place: Evolution of the Vernacular House in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India”, Department of Geography, Kansas State University. Melissa is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.

3. Other Contributions to Instructional Programs
Developed and received approval for new course LA/AS 218 that satisfies the Non-Western requirement for General Education, International Arts Minor in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and Social/Cultural Issues in Design concentration in the Department of Landscape Architecture (2000).
Conducted heritage tours in India for undergraduate and graduate students in Landscape Architecture and Architecture and organized site design workshops in Jan 2000 (Taj Mahal, Agra), May 2001 (Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat), Jan 2003 (Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat), Jan 2005 ((Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat), Jan 2010 (Govardhan, Braj), Jan 2012 (Orchha, Madhya Pradesh), Jan 2014 (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh), and Jan 2016 (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh).

Organized design workshop on Qaisarbagh Heritage site in Lucknow for undergraduate students in the Department of Architecture, Institute of Integral Technology, Lucknow, India, 2002; Husainabad Imambara Heritage Corridor, Lucknow for undergraduate students in the Department of Architecture, Institute of Integral Technology, Lucknow, 2004; La Martiniere Riverfront Heritage Park with Architecture faculty at Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology, Lucknow, India, 2006; Gomti Riverfront Cultural Revitalization for Architecture students at Government College of Architecture, Lucknow, India, 2007; Hussainabad Clock Tower Heritage Park for students at Government College of Architecture, Lucknow, India, 2009; Gomti Riverfront Heritage Corridor with faculty and students at Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology, Lucknow, India, 2011.



IV. SERVICE
A. Summary of Service
1. Public Service
External Reviewer

Doctoral dissertation by Neelam Mishra, “The Condition of Women in Eastern Uttar Pradesh: A Geographical Study”, Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, 2007.


Doctoral dissertation by Jamie Mackee, “A Conceptual Framerwork for the Conservation of Non-secular Built Heritage in South and South East Asia”, Department of Environmental Science, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2007.
Doctoral Dissertation by Muhammad Salim Zaweed, “The Schools of Rajput Architecture during Mughal period”, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 2015.
Symposia

Coordinated Taj National Park project with Uttar Pradesh Ministry of Tourism and organized a symposium on “Mughal Gardens in Agra, India”, 2000.


Co-organized (with James Wescoat Jr.) a panel on “The Three Shalamar Baghs” at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign held in conjunction with India 60 Symposium, 2007.
Organized a symposium on “Delhi’s Natural Heritage” at the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) in collaboration with United Sates-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), 2009.
Organized a symposium on “Heritage, Community, and Landscape Conservation in India” at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with presentations by South Asian experts and an exhibition on Orchha, India by UIUC team, 2012.
Organized a symposium on “The Ganga (Ganges), National River of India: Its Heritage and Future” at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, October 2015.

2. Service to Disciplinary and Professional Societies or Associations
Presentations in the Colloquium series of the Program in South Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies and the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Psychology, U.K., 1997-2001.
Editorial Board, Sprandel, India, 2011-present
Editorial Board, Tekton, India, 2014-present
Invited Lecture and exhibit display on “Sacred Landscape of Govardhan in Braj, India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed” to Indian Institute of Interior Designers, Lucknow, India, Dec 2010 and Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad, India, August 2011.
3. University/Campus Service
University Service

Coordinator of South Asia Brown Bag Series in the Program in South Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1997-2002.


College level

Chair, Lorado Taft Lecture Committee, 1996-1997; 2011-2012.

Member, Lorado Taft Committee, 2013-14

Member, Equal Opportunity Committee, 1997-2007.

Member, Library Committee, 1996-2002.

Coord Coordinator, Ph.D. Program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2006-2008.

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013-15.

Me


Departmental level

Author of a booklet on Natalie Alpert, Instructor Emerita, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, 1998.


Edited a catalogue authored by Gary Kesler “Cultivating Breadth: 100 Years of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign”, for an exhibition on department projects at the centennial event, 2008. It received an American Graphic Design Award, a national competition through Graphic Design USA magazine and sponsored by NewPage Corporation.
Member , Ph.D. Committee, 2013-14; 2015-16.

Member, Department Advisory Committee, 2013-14.



Chair, MLA Curriculum Committee, 2014-15






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