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Meet the Team

Mathew S Isaac Signage and Wayfinding

Mathew S. Isaac, Ph.D.

Treasurer, Emerging Fellows Chair

Professor of Marketing in the Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University

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  • Mathew Isaac Seattle University
Eric Strauss Signage and Wayfinding Scholar

Eric Strauss, Ph.D., JD, AICP

Immediate Past President, Investment/Marketing Committee

Emeritus Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University. Contact Eric: strausse@msu.edu

  • AACSRE BIO Eric Strauss
Robert Oast Signage and Wayfinding

Robert W. Oast, Jr.

Legal Counsel, Investment Committee

Attorney with McGuire, Wood & Bissette Law Firm, Adjunct Professor, the Ohio State University

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  • AACSRE BIO Robert Oast
Dawn Jourdan University of Maryland

Dawn Jourdan, esq., Ph.D., AICP

Marketing & Sustainability, Chair, Education & Outreach 

Dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation University of Maryland

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Bryce Lowery Signage and Wayfinding

Bryce C. Lowery

Investment, Edcucation & Outreach Committee

Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of Oklahoma

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Vikas Mehta Signage and Wayfinding

Vikas Mehta, Ph.D.

IJSW Committee

Fruth/Gemini Chair and Ohio Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design and Professor of Urbanism

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  • Vikas Mehta University of Cincinnati
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Charles R. Taylor, Ph.D.

IJSW Committee Chair

Vice Chair, John A. Murphy Professor of Marketing at Villanova University of Business

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  • Charles R Taylor Villanova
Pat Crawford Signage and Wayfinding

Patricia (Pat) Crawford, Ph.D.

IJSW Editor, Education and Outreach Committee

Director, School of Design, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

​South Dakota State University

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  • Pat Crawford South Dakota State
Jeremy Johnson Daktronics

Jeremy Johnson

Futures Committee

Global Business Development Manager, On Premise, Out of Home, and High School Parks and Recreation, Daktronics

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Muhammad Rahman, M.Des., B.Arch.

IJSW Committee

Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

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  • Muhammad Rahman School DAAP Ullman
Craig Berger Signage and wayfinding

Craig Berger

Vice President, Futures Chair

Liaison for Development and Curricular Support for Communication Design Pathways at the Fashion Institute of Technology

  • AACSRE BIO Craig Berger
Ellen Babcock Signage and Wayfinding

Ellen Babcock

Secretary, Emerging Fellows Committee

Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of New Mexico, Founding Director, Friends of the Orphan Signs

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Maggie Mason

Executive Director, Marketing Committee

Maggie holds a B.A. in Speech Communication Northern Kentucky University.

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Christopher Auffrey, Ph.D.

Investment Committee, Chair, IJSW Committee

Professor of Planning School of Planning, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

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  • AACSRE BIO Chris Auffrey
Alan Weinstein Signage and Wayfinding

Alan C. Weinstein

Investment Committee

Professor Emeritus, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University

  • AACSRE BIO Alan Weinstien
  • Alan Weinstien Cleveland
Dydia DeLyser Signage and Wayfinding

Dydia DeLyser, Ph.D.

Education & Outreach Committee

Associate Professor at the Department of Geography & the Environment California State University, Fullerton

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  • Dydia DeLyser Fullerton
John Bullough Singage and Wayfinding

John D. Bullough, Ph.D., FIES

IJSW Committee

Program Director, Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Albany, NY

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  • John Bullough Mt. Sinai
Adam Pike Signage and Wayfinding

Adam M. Pike, P.E.

Education and Outreach Committee

Associate Research Engineer and Manager of the Signs and Markings Program at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute

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  • AACSRE BIO Adam Pike
Aparna Sundar Amazon Signage and Wayfinding

Aparna Sundar, Ph.D.

Education and Outreach Chair, Emerging Fellows Committee

Senior User Researcher, QuickSight, Amazon Web Services

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Sanju Maharjan

Emerging Fellows Committee

Associate Transportation Researcher for Transportation Planning Texas A&M Transportation Institute

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  • AACSRE BIO Sanju Maharjan
  • Sanju Texas A&M
Emily Auvil

Emily Auvil, MBA, MS Marketing

Marketing & Development Committee

Customer Team Marketing Director, Home Care

Procter & Gamble

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