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Allan Shearer (Professor) is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. He teaches graduate level landscape planning and design studios. Previously, he taught at Rutgers University and the Boston Architectural Center.

He graduated from Princeton University and received his Master of Landscape Architecture with Distinction in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 2003 from Harvard University. He was a Donald D. Harrington Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin and a visiting scholar at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University. In 2012, he received an Outstanding Teacher Award for studio instruction and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture's international award for Excellence in Research and Creative Works for a junior faculty member. In 2013, Shearer was listed among the Most Admired Educators by the Design Futures Council.

He has written in several journals including the Landscape and Urban Planning, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and the multidisciplinary Futures and in several books including Strategies and Technologies for a Sustainable Future, Achieving Ecosystem Security, and Warfare Ecology. He has co-authored the following books: Land Use Scenarios: Environmental Consequences of Change; Gaia's Revenge: Climate Change and Humanity's Loss;Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes: The San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora; and Biodiversity and Landscape Planning: Alternative Futures for the Region of Camp Pendleton, California.

Allan Shearer lives in Austin, TX.


 * UTSOA Faculty Profile
 * Know, New Faculty Profile
 * Allan Shearer Lecture: "The Military-Ecological Complex"