Affiliated Faculty

Alberto Cairo

Professor
Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, School of Communication
Director, Visualization, Data Communication & Information Design, IDSC

(305) 284-5350
Alberto Cairo joined the School of Communication in January 2012. He holds a BA in Journalism (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), and a Masters degree and a PhD from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). He teaches courses on infographics, data visualization, and data journalism. Cairo has been described by Microsoft...

Eduardo Elena

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4231
Eduardo Elena specializes in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with a particular interest in the societies of the South Atlantic region. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he grew up in the United States and was educated at the University of Virginia (B.A.) and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.). Professor Elena teaches...

Sarah Marie Fischer

Asst. Professor

Sarah Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies at the University of Miami. She earned her PhD from Indiana University and completed her undergraduate education at the University of Florida. Her research and teaching center around digital rhetorics, multimodal composition, and embodiment.

Lindsay Grace

Professor

(305) 284-4661
Lindsay is Knight Chair in Interactive Media and program director for the Interactive Media Master of Fine Arts. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay's book, Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design, is a well-received guide to...

Ben Lauren

Assoc. Professor
Chair of Writing Studies

(305) 248-1087
Ben Lauren is an Associate Professor and serves as Chairperson of the Department of Writing Studies. He is also Director of the Innovation and Society Co-major. His scholarly training is in professional writing and user experience and focuses on intersections of rhetorical theory; community, institutional, and organizational innovation; design;...

Karen R Mathews

Associate Professor

(305) 284-2542
Karen Rose Mathews is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Miami where she teaches classes on ancient art, medieval art, Spanish art, and Islamic art. Her research interests address the material culture of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean as well as the use of digital technologies in art historical pedagogy and...

Mitsunori Ogihara

Professor
DIRECTOR OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION, IDSC
Secondary app'ts ECE, MMI, CoA, HGG
Director of Graduate Studies

(305) 284-2268 x2308
Dr. Mitsunori Ogihara joined the University of Miami in 2007 as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and as Program Director of the Big Data Analytics & Data Mining Program for the Center for Computational Science (now IDSC). More recently, he served as...

Ashli C White

Professor
Chair of History Department

(305) 284-5005
Ashli White earned a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.  She specializes in early American history, with particular attention to the connections between North America and the Atlantic World.  To date, most of her research has...

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