Faculty Annoucement: Jonathan Hanahan

The Sam Fox School is pleased to share that Jonathan Hanahan has been promoted to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021.

Hanahan joined the Sam Fox School faculty in 2014. His interdisciplinary practice delves into the tensions between the physical and digital aspects of our lives, and his courses examine the interactions between digital products and their human users. His areas of investigation reflect his training as both an architect and a designer. Recent work includes Edgelands, a series of large-format AI-generated videos and images formed by blending photos of illegal e-waste dumping sites in Africa, Asia, and India with Midwestern landscapes, speculating on and interrogating future physical ramifications of the West’s increasingly device-driven society; and The 45th City, which explores fake news by making physical the original source code of websites fraught with disinformation.

Hanahan has been instrumental in forming a minor in Human-Computer Interaction with colleagues in Computer Science in the McKelvey School of Engineering. He is also the faculty director, co-founder, and co-chair of Fox Fridays, a series of low-stress and fun one-off workshops that allow students and faculty to learn about under-known tools, processes, and technologies that might fall outside their regular practice.