Graduate Assistantships

The Graduate Assistantships Program reaches across the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation’s disciplines and activities, providing mentoring relationships between faculty and graduate students to advance teaching as well as scholarly, professional and creative activities. The School offers a remarkable 40 merit-based graduate assistantships per year covering approximately 1/3 of tuition costs per student for their participation in academic, faculty and faculty/student research and service activities. Recent assistantships include working with faculty on:

• National and international publications including Architecture and Revolution (University of Texas Press, Professor Luis Carranza); Le Corbusier, Chandigarh and the Modern City (Mapin Publications, Distinguished Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan); The Skyscraper and The Modern City (University of Chicago Press, Professor Gail Fenske)
• National and international award winning design competitions for the Museum for the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, France and the Babi Yar Memorial, Denver (Professor Julian Bonder)
• Faculty/student research on building prototypes in a “Shaded Cities” prototype for north India through student/faculty research (Professor Charles Hagenah)
• Digital manufacturing activities including community outreach with the Town of Pawtucket, Rhode Island (Associate Professor Andrew Thurlow)
• The Community Partnerships Center on the Walley School, Bristol with the Quinn Foundation and the Town of Bristol, and the Le Moulin redevelopment, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (Director Arnold Robinson)
• Publication preparation  on graduate study abroad on RWU’s Master of Architecture Study Abroad Programs to Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, fall 2010 (Professor Julian Bonder) and Tsinghua University, Beijing, spring 2011 (Dean Stephen White)
• Arts installation assistance, Providence (Associate Professor Murray McMillan)
• Curriculum assessment activities related to 2012 Master of Architecture re-accreditation (Assistant Dean Greg Laramie)
• Tutoring in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses (Professors McQueen, Turan)
• Development of an annual World Arts Seminar in Art and Architectural History (Associate Professor Rebecca Leuchak)