Faculty appointments and promotions

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is thrilled to announce faculty promotions and new appointments and to welcome our 2025–27 Ann Kalla visiting professor.
 
Promotions

Nida Rehman has been promoted to Associate Professor without indefinite tenure.

Nida Rehman is a Pakistani-born urban geographer and architect, and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon Architecture, where she serves as Track Chair for the PhD in Architecture program. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, Nida examines histories, politics and ecologies of urban landscapes and infrastructures. Working at the intersection of urban political ecology, environmental humanities and post/de-colonial studies, her work explores how discourses, governance and experiences of urban nature are shaped by processes of colonialism and uneven development, as well as how people engage with urban nature to create possibilities for change.

Nida explores these issues through her research on cultural landscapes and political ecologies in Lahore, Pakistan; through collaborative and public-facing work as co-founder of the South Asia Urban Climates collective; and community-centered approaches to environmental and spatial justice in the Mon Valley. She is currently working on a book, "The Intractable Garden: Improvement and unruliness in Lahore’s landscapes," which offers a historically situated reading of the garden as an expansive conceptual category to trace ongoing legacies of colonial improvement as they reverberate in contemporary urban landscapes, as well as grounded practices and alternative visions for just socio-ecological futures.

Sarosh Anklesaria has been promoted to Associate Teaching Professor.

Sarosh Anklesaria is an architect, educator and Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon Architecture, where he serves as the Track Chair of the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program.

Sarosh is interested in an expansive notion of architectural agency, one that synthesizes architecture’s formal and tectonic capacities with questions of socio-ecological pertinence. His current design research considers agency across various scales and geographies, to include investigations into the entanglements between justice, ecology, worldmaking and architecture. His work is supported by the Richard Rogers Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2019) and the Taliesin Fellowship (2019) and was published in the Venice Biennale How will we live together (2021). Additionally, Sarosh is working on a project that connects the three built museums of Le Corbusier through a speculative itinerant pavilion. The project, supported by the Art Omi Residency (2019), problematizes questions of labor, display and architectural conservation through acts of building and building.

Sarosh has worked extensively as a practicing architect with Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York City) on The Shed, a landmark mobile facility for the visual and performing arts; with Herzog & de Meuron (Basel) on the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art; and with Sangath, the office of B.V. Doshi (Ahmedabad). In addition to his own independent architecture practice, Studio Sarosh Anklesaria, he also co-founded Anthill Design, a collaborative architecture firm based in India. 

Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture

Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee joins as the 2025–27 recipient of the Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture. 

Stephanie is the founder of the Office of Human Resources, a critical design studio exploring the intersections of spatial, racial and material politics as a liberatory practice. Her current project traces a comparative genealogy of radical ruralism — from early abolitionist communes to contemporary social justice-oriented farms across the U.S. 

Stephanie's teaching and research engage utopian agrarian movements, botanical histories and the rural commons as frameworks for design inquiry. She was the inaugural Architecture Fellow at Bard College, a Strauch Fellow at Cornell University, and a 2020 Fellow of the Future Architecture Platform. Previously, she worked as a designer with Shigeru Ban Architects, OPEN Architecture and Carlo Ratti Associati, and has led exhibition design and fabrication for the artist Lee Bul. Her work has been supported by grants and residencies from the Mellon Foundation, New York State Council of the Arts, The Architectural League, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center Residency, and the Architecture Residency at Art Omi. She has exhibited at the Bibliowicz Gallery (Ithaca), Haus der Architektur (Graz), and citygroup (New York City). Her writing and interviews appear in "The Funambulist," "Koozarch," "PLAT" and "Archifutures" (dpr-barcelona, 2020). 

Stephanie holds a Master of Architecture from Rice University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Studio Art from Wesleyan University.

Appointments and reappointments

Congratulations to the following faculty members who are returning this year in new roles and appointments.

Jared Abraham, Special Faculty
Niloufar Alenjery, Special Faculty
Liza Boffi, Part-time Special Faculty
Jimmy Cheng, Special Faculty
Stefani Danes, Part-time Special Faculty (Professor of Practice)
Kristina Fisher, Special Faculty
Erica Cochran Hameen, Director of Student Relations
Hal Hayes, Special Faculty (Professor of Practice)
Lucas Hitch, Special Faculty
Matt Huber, Special Faculty
Maryam Karimi, Special Faculty
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Affairs
Christine Mondor, Part-time Special Faculty (Professor of Practice)
Yiqun Pan, Special Faculty
Francesca Torello, Assistant Teaching Professor