Faculty awarded teaching track promotions, professor of practice appointments
2026-04-10 • Sam Fox School
Photo: Joshua White
The Sam Fox School promoted eight faculty on the teaching track, effective July 1, 2026. In addition, the school appointed three distinguished practitioners as professors of practice, also effective July 1.
Carmon Colangelo, the school’s Ralph J. Nagel Dean, shared his excitement for the faculty members awarded promotions and appointments following a rigorous review process: “This exceptional group is deeply committed to the Sam Fox School and exemplifies the excellence in teaching and practice that define our community. Their new titles are well-deserved, and I extend my congratulations to each of them.”
Faculty on the teaching track provide critical expertise in pedagogy and instruction. In addition to the teaching-track ranks of lecturer and senior lecturer, the school added the rank of teaching professor in 2025. This prestigious designation recognizes experienced and accomplished faculty who have a distinguished record of excellence in teaching and service to the university, discipline, or community. Senior lecturers promoted to teaching professor include Jennifer Colten, John Early, Jennifer Ingram, Don Koster, Tom Reed, Jonathan Stitelman, and Lindsey Stouffer. Additionally, Amy Auman was promoted to senior lecturer.
Faculty appointed to the rank of professor of practice include Anna Bach and Eugeni Bach, who previously served as the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professors of Architecture, and landscape architect L. Irene Compadre, who has taught in the school since 2014. Professors of practice are nationally and internationally recognized, active practitioners who demonstrate excellence in creative activity and research, leadership in their discipline, and the highest quality of teaching.
Teaching Professors
Jennifer Colten is a photographer whose work examines the representation of landscape, embedded cultural geographies, and environmental implications of land use. For the past seven years, Colten’s work has been primarily centered within the American Bottom region, a continually enigmatic and compelling 65-mile stretch along the Mississippi River in Illinois. She also serves as co-area coordinator for photography. Colten also won a Newman Exploration Travel Award to research darbazi in the Republic of Georgia in 2025.
Senior Lecturer; Co-Area Coordinator - Photography
John Early is a visual artist working across the fields of socially engaged art, installation, and drawing, with a focus on spatial equity in St. Louis’s public parks and how issues of race, class, and gender shape the recreational landscape of the city. His collaborative interdisciplinary activist project, “Whereas Hoops,” led, in part, to the construction of basketball courts for the first time in the Forest Park’s history. Early is also the school’s undergraduate academic advising coordinator, faculty director for the College of Art’s summer pre-college program, and a faculty affiliate in WashU’s Center for Race, Ethnicity & Equity.
Undergraduate Academic Advising Coordinator, Senior Lecturer
Jennifer Ingram teaches in the school’s fashion design program. Her research interests include sustainability and social responsibility in small apparel firms, designing for niche markets, and textile/apparel prototype development. Ingram has worked in the apparel industry in the areas of design, product development, textile design, technical design, sample-making, tailoring and alterations, merchandising, management, and consulting.
Senior Lecturer
Don Koster, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, is dedicated to the education of designers committed to work in both the public and private realms. His practice-based teaching and research has included leading the student design of a sustainable community marketplace and urban agriculture project in The Ville neighborhood of St. Louis, adaptive reuse proposals on the St. Louis riverfront, and environmentally responsible, affordable housing projects in north St. Louis and University City. He also maintains an independent architecture practice, Donald Nelson Koster Architect, and has received several AIA awards.
Senior Lecturer
Tom Reed is area coordinator for printmaking and the master printer at Island Press, the school’s collaborative print workshop, where he and Professor Lisa Bulawsky have worked hard to build and maintain the strong reputation of the press and a topflight print publisher. Reed maintains an active studio practice with exhibitions at Bruno David Gallery and group shows at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and the Elmhurst Art Museum.
Senior Lecturer and Master Printer, Island Press; Area Coordinator - Printmaking
Jonathan Stitelman teaches in architecture and urban design. His research interests involve transportation planning, forced migration and refugee resettlement, urbanism as understood through the lens of cultural anthropology, and visual culture. He recently led a collaborative team to design and build the public art installation “Everything Under the Sun” in St. Louis’s Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood. The installation was part of the Design Openings initiative coordinated by the school’s Office for Socially Engaged Practice.
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Amy Auman is area coordinator for design, as well as a multimedia designer and educator whose industry experience ranges from book design and writing to information design, UI/UX, and motion design. Through immersive installations, compositions, and audio and video, her work explores typographic play, the ambiguous terrain between digital and physical spaces, and the potential for design to amplify environmental awareness.
Lecturer; Area Coordinator - Design
Professors of Practice
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Anna and Eugeni Bach are co-founders of the eponymous architecture studio that works on public and private projects including housing, public buildings, urban design, and art installations. Their research includes studies on gradual growth through addition in the work of Alison and Peter Smithson and via projects and installations that deal with the perception of space. She is also director of the XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and curator of the exhibition “Human Traces” in the Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Their work has been exhibited, among others, in the Slovenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2023, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019-2020, the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2016 (Golden Lion), in the solo exhibition “Elective Affinities” in different Spanish locations in 2015, and at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, 2009. Highlights from her awards and recognitions include the International Topscape Award for the Firal d’Olot in 2024, the FAD Award and Opinion FAD Award in Ephemeral Interventions 2019, finalist and selected at the Spanish Architecture Biennial in 2018 and 2016, nominee for the E.U. Mies van der Rohe Award, and nominee for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize for Young Architects in 2015 and the International FAD Award in 2014.
L. Irene Compadre is a registered landscape architect and founding principal of Arbolope Studio, an award-winning landscape, urban design, and public art practice that has worked on projects like Love Bank Park, WashU’s East End transformation, and the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center. Compadre was an inaugural graduate of WashU’s Master of Landscape Architecture program and also earned her Bachelor of Arts in architecture from WashU. Her teaching helps students build a basic understanding of orthographic drawing typologies and traditional drawing materials and develop observational skills, a design vocabulary, basic drawing skills, and the techniques of landscape architecture and architectural representation.