The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture has announced Dora Epstein Jones will be joining its faculty in the fall as one of five new appointments.

Previously, Jones served as former faculty at Texas Tech University at Huckabee College of Architecture in Lubbock and will be coming to campus as the school’s newest Professor of Practice. She had previously been employed as the executive director of Los Angeles’ A+D Architecture and Design Museum prior to her tenure at Texas Tech, where she was instrumental in steering the development of a new research praxis for faculty that “forge[d] stronger interdisciplinary collaboration between architecture, philosophy, and history.”

Beyond her academic career, which began in 2002 at SCI-Arc, Epstein has also previously served as a principal of the Los Angeles-based studio Jones, Partners: Architecture, and holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism from UCLA in addition to her M.A. in Urban Planning, which she also completed at the school after finishing her undergraduate studies at UC Davis.

Epstein Jones will be joined by Liang Wang, Martin Haettasch, Patrick Danahy, and standout Mexican residential designer Fernanda Canales, who is now the school’s new O’Neil Ford Visiting Chair. UT Austin has been adding a slate of new names to its campus since the end of former Dean Michelle Addington’s influential five-year tenure this spring, including her replacement Heather Woofter, who will step into the role this week after moving from her post at Washington University in St. Louis's Sam Fox School of Design.

Our previous One-to-One Archinect Sessions interview with Dora Epstein Jones can also be found here.

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect that Jones was a former faculty member of Architecture at Texas Tech University.