The Center has a true interdisciplinary character and combines scientific investigation with aesthetic ideals. The Center offers a context in which students and faculty representing many disciplines investigate and apply the power of the digital syntax. The faculty members listed below are affiliated with ACCAD through a joint appointment with their home departments, through joint research projects or teaching within our facility. Faculty are designated as "affiliated" when their work extends the teaching and research of ACCAD.
College of Medicine
Dr. Doug Danforth: senior scientist in the Reproductive Biology and Vaccine Research Division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
College of Public Health
Dr. Maria Gallo: sexual and reproductive health epidemiologist
College of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Tatiana Motta: Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Roger Crawfis: video games and animation
Dr. Jim Davis: computer vision, cognitive science
Dr. Raghu Machiraju: image analysis and visualization
Dance
Dr. Valarie Williams: multimedia applications relating to dance preservation and Labanotation
Prof. Norah Zuniga Shaw: dance and technology, interdisciplinary collaboration, practice as research
Design
Prof. Shadrick Addy: experience design, extended reality (XR), historical preservation
Dr. Mary Anne Beecher: american vernacular interior spaces
Dr. Matthew Lewis: Interactive evolutionary design, Virtual environments, Performance and installation technology
Prof. Maria Palazzi: animation, visualization
Prof. Kyoung Lee Swearingen: animation, lighting
Prof. Scott Swearingen: game design, animation
Education
Dr. Rick Voithofer: technology in education
Film Studies
Dr. Ryan Friedman: film studies, African American literature, Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American literature, critical theory
Integrated Systems Engineering
Dr. Phil Smith: interface design systems, distributed work, cognitive engineering
Knowlton School of Architecture
Prof. Beth Blostein: architecture and technology
Prof. Steve Turk: architecture and technology
Moving Image Production
Kyoung Lee Swearingen: animation, lighting
Music
Dr. Marc Ainger: composition of electronic music, MIDI
Newark Earthworks Center
Dr. Richard Shiels: American Colonial and Religious History
Theatre
Prof. Alex Oliszewski: theatrical media design, experiential media
Prof. Janet Parrott: filmmaking and documentary
Prof. Jeanine Thompson: movement, acting
