IAM Faculty and Staff
All faculty and staff photography by Jacob Boll (B.A. Photography, 2012)
FULL TIME FACULTY
Joseph Cancellaro, Ph.D.
Interim Chair
Annette Barbier
Director of Graduate Programs
Janell Baxter
Associate Chair and Assistant Professor
Matt Board
Assistant Professor
Tom Dowd
Associate Professor
David Gerding
Associate Professor
Andrew Hicks
Lecturer
Patrick Lichty
Assistant Professor
Niki Nolin
Associate ProfessorSTAFF
Huey Lewis
Assistant Facilities Manager
Blanca Martini
Coordinator of Services
Jeff Meyers
Operations Manager
Mark Quilhot
Facilities Manager
Dmitry Shub
Assistant Operations Manager
PART-TIME FACULTY
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Dave Andre
- Designer, Andre Design
- MA, Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College Chicago
- BA, Graphic Design, Columbia College
David Antognoli
- Game Designer
- MS, Interactive Media, Indiana University
Sal Barry
- Freelance Blogger and Web Designer
- MA, New Media Studies, DePaul University
- BA, Interactive Multimedia, Columbia College
Jay Boersma
- Art Director/Photographer
- BA, Columbia College Chicago
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Erik Brown
- Exhibition Organizer, Floor Length and Tux
- MFA, Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
- BA, Painting, San Diego State University
Stefan Brun
- Artistic Director, Prop Theatre
- BA, Theatre Arts and Entertainment Management, Columbia College
Jason Geistweidt
- Sound Artist
- Ph.D, Sonic Arts, Queens University, Belfast
- MA Music Technology, University of Limerick, Ireland
- BMus, Southwestern University
William Guschwan
- Creative Technologist
- Software development team member (Apple's Quicktime, 3DO, Playstation, Tap.Me Games)
- BA, Notre Dame University
Sarah Hamilton
- MA Candidate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- BA, University of Alberta
Joseph Hocking
- Game Programmer, Synapse Games
- MFA, Digital Media, Rhode Island School of Design
- BS, Biological Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Hovland
- Owner and Environmental Artist, Blue Rocket Games
- BA, Computer Art and Animation, School of Communication Arts
Lauren Liss Johnson
- Owner, Goodspark* Design Studio
- BA, Interactive Arts & Media, Columbia College
Noah Johnson
- Simulations Developer, In Context Solutions
- Contract Game Designer, The Field Museum
- BA, Game Design, Columbia College Chicago
Claudia Laska
- Freelance Designer, Zanusi Design
- BA Behavioral Science
- AAS Fine Art, American Academy of Art
Christy LeMaster
- Director, The Nightingale
- M.A., Writing on Art, Truman State University
Jennifer Magnus
- Artistic Director, Curious Theatre Branch
- BA, Eastern Illinois University
Weston Morris
- Web Systems Coordinator, Columbia College Chicago
- BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Saman Moayer
- Senior Environment Artist/ Lighting specialist, Farm CP
- BFA, Media Art/ Animation, The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago
David Noffs
- Instructional Specialist and Sound Designer
- BMus Roosevelt University
- Doctoral Candidate, National Louis University
Andrew Oleksiuk
- New Media Artist, Sense-Net Media
- MFA, Electronic Visualization, University of Illinois, Chicago
- BA Digital Media, Columbia College Chicago
David Pasciuto
- Freelance Art Director
- Gnomon School of Visual Effects
Jon Petto
- Software Developer
- BA, Interactive Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago
Shawn Recinto
- CEO, Box of Zombies
- BSc, Human and Computer Interaction, DePaul University
Brendan Riley
- Professor of English, Columbia College Chicago
- Ph.D. English and Rhetoric, University of Florida
Kevin Riordan
- Graphic Artist, Creative Print Services
- BA Columbia College Chicago
Janet Rooney
- Front End Web Developer, Designer and Artist
- Graduate work, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- BFA, Interior Design, Harrington Institute of Interior Design
- BA, Art with Minor in Mechanical Engineering, Calif. State Univ., Long Beach
Heinz Schuller
- Independent Game Developer
- Computer Science, DeVry University
Marc Temkin
- Senior Programmer, Northwestern University
- BMus. Indiana University
- MMus Northwestern University
N. Eden Ünlüata
- Interdisciplinary Artist and Designer
- MA, Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College Chicago
- MFA, Graphic Design, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey)
- BID, Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)
