Knox Promoted to Associate Professor, Named MLA Program Chair

Knox joined the landscape architecture faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2018.

The Auburn MLA prepares students for careers as creative and adaptive landscape architects. The components of the program teach and model emerging real-world conditions such as resource depletion, climate change, urbanization, water shortages and desertification, energy crises, sea-level rise and suburbanization—as design problems investigated through the work students do in studios, seminars, workshops and lectures.

“I’m lucky to be inheriting a program that is in a great place,” said Knox of her new responsibilities. “David Hill, who has been chair for the last seven years, has put an enormous amount of effort into retooling the curriculum, crafting a distinct and rich program identity, kick-starting initiatives like the Alabama Lab and hiring great new faculty.

“There is a lot of momentum to build upon in all of these realms,” she said of her own goals for the program. “In particular, I’m excited to continue growing the Alabama Lab. At the same time, there are many new questions to ask. Among them, fine-tuning our relationship with our growing BLA program will be key.”

Knox received her bachelor’s in city and regional planning and her master’s in landscape architecture, both from The Ohio State University. She teaches within the studio and representation sequences.

She has been recognized with a number of professional and teaching awards, including the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture’s 2023 CELA Excellence in Design Studio Teaching Award—Junior Level. The American Society of Landscape Architects also named her a 2022 recipient of its Honor Award in the Research Category for Alabama Meadows, a field-based project that seeks to re-build knowledge about the largely eradicated southeastern meadow landscape typology. The award was given to Knox and co-researcher David Hill.