Theodore Prudon is a leading expert on the preservation of modern architecture and a practicing architect in New York City. Dr. Prudon has worked on the terra cotta restoration of the Woolworth Building, the exterior restoration of the Chrysler Building, and of a 1941 Lescaze townhouse in Manhattan. Dr. Prudon teaches preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute. He is the recipient of a Graham Foundation Individual grant for his book “Preservation of Modern Architecture.” He is the founding President of Docomomo US and a board member of Docomomo International.

Dr. Anna Dempsey, Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts, is the Co-Principal Investigator (PI) for the UMassBrut grant. She received her BS in Civil Engineering from MIT and worked as an engineer for several years, prior to obtaining her PhD from Columbia University. Professor Dempsey has curated several exhibitions, written catalogs and articles about modernist architecture and Paul Rudolph's brutalist designs at UMass Dartmouth and in Southeast Asia. Her current book project, for which she received an NEH grant, focuses on gender and design in the early twentieth century.

Allison J. Cywin, Librarian and Director of the Visual & Media Literacy Hub (VML) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Co-Principle (PI) for UMassBrut grant. She received her M.S. in Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston, MA and her B.S. at Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, in Historic Preservation and American Culture, with a concentration in art and architectural history and preservation. During her tenure at UMass Dartmouth, she has participated in numerous grant and collaborative projects (including exhibitions, symposiums, and public events) related to Paul Rudolph and his Brutalist campus. Prior to her academic career, she worked extensively for art, cultural and house museums and served in several professional capacities including curator of photographs, and works on paper, collections manager, archivist, digital asset manager, and library director at the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Newport Art Museum. She has received conservation grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Historical Publications & Records Commission and served as a grant reviewer for digital projects. She participates on various professional museum and library committees and boards.

Jon Buono is an Associate Director with SOM’s New York office and leads the firm’s work for adaptive reuse and higher education. His focus on modern architecture began while with the National Park Service, contributing to preservation of the agency’s “Mission 66” building program. In 2005 he lead the University System of Georgia’s “Guidelines for Campus Historic Preservation,“ which created one of the largest statewide campus preservation programs in the country. Additional preservation work includes projects for the UMass Amherst campus, Massachusetts State House, and the Cartier Mansion in New York. From 2006-13, Jon was a consulting preservation expert for the United Nations Capital Master Plan including restoration of the Conference and General Assembly Building interiors. Jon is a past Board Member of Docomomo US.

Dean Sakamoto, FAIA, LEED AP, SEED, is a practicing architect, educator and director of a public interest design foundation. He is the founding principal of Dean Sakamoto Architects/SHADE, based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. DSA, was founded in New Haven, Connecticut (1999), while he served on the Yale University faculty. In 2014, Dean established SHADE, a collaborative environmental design practice and non-profit public interest design institute in Honolulu. As an educator, he served on the faculties of Pratt Institute, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of the Environment, and the University of Hawai‘i Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He was named Transformation Fellow at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, School of Architecture (2019) and returned to the Yale School of Architecture faculty in 2022. He is the primary author of the book and curator of the international exhibition, Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff (Yale University Press in Association with the Honolulu Museum of Art, 2007, 2015, 2022). He is one of the founding members of Docomomo US_Hawai'i Chapter and was its first president (2012-2013).