Sonja Duempelmann
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Office: 2144 Plant Sciences Building | Phone: 301-405-5491 | Email
Dipl.-Ing. Landscape Architecture, Universität Hannover, 1998; Dr.-Ing. Landscape Architecture, Universität der Künste Berlin, 2002
Sonja Duempelmann received her Ph.D. at the Universität der Künste Berlin (University of the Arts Berlin) in 2002, and has been an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland since Fall 2007. Previously she was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. She has worked as a landscape architect and has curated exhibitions in the field of landscape architecture history.
Duempelmann's book on the Italian 20th-century landscape architect Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard and landscape architecture in Fascist Italy was published in 2004. She is currently working on a new book project on the influence of aviation on landscape, and is editing a book on nineteenth-century garden history in a six-volume garden cultural history and co-editing a book on the “Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America.”