EVDS dean announced

Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

August 4, 2009

Nancy Pollock-Ellwand is the new Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design for a five-year term effective January 1, 2010.

Pollock-Ellwand has been Head and Chair of the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Professor of Landscape Architecture since 2006. During 2006, Nancy spent several months as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Laboratory of Ecosystem Science and Landscape Planning. From 1999 to 2006, Nancy was Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph.  From 1989 to 1999, she was Assistant Professor of Landscape in the School of Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph.

Nancy received her Master of Architecture in 1987 from the University of Manitoba and her PhD (Planning) in 1997 from the University of Waterloo.  She currently holds various levels of memberships in Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Planning professional organizations.  Nancy is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Urban Sustainability and sits on the organizing committee for the 2010 Forum on Urban Sustainability to be held in Beijing with the Chinese Academy of Science. She serves on the International Council on Monuments and Sites in the review of World Heritage Site nominations.

Pollock-Ellwand has received many honours in recognition of her work. Most recently, in recognition of her contribution to a comprehensive guide to the work of the Olmsted Firm (of Central Park fame), she was among those cited for the ASLA Honour Award in Communications (2009), the Boston Society of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence (2009) and the J.B. Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies (2009). She is also co-author of a University of Toronto Press publication, Landscape Legacies: Created Space from the Prehistoric to the Present (2006).