The Department of Architecture announced yesterday Professor Daphne Spain had been named chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University School of Architecture.
William Lucy, associate dean for academics in the Architecture School, said he was looking forward to working with Spain in her new capacity.
"She's very quick, very experienced, an excellent researcher and teacher," Lucy said. "She will do an excellent job."
Spain will be one of the three chairs that head each of the three Architecture School departments: architecture, architectural history and urban and environmental planning.
Spain earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She worked as a statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau and as a free-lance writer before joining the Architecture school's planning faculty.
Spain served as associate dean of the School of Architecture from 1989 to 1995. She was awarded with the University's Harrison Teaching Award for excellence in graduate teaching.
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