Résumé

Studio Assistant, Michael Mazur, Artist, Cambridge. MA, 1966-1968.

Landscape Architect and Site Planner, Leo A. Novick, Landscape Architects, New York, NY. 1969. Novick (1904-1998) worked primarily in and around New York City.

Trustees of the Reservations, Milton, MA. Master plan for World's End Reservation, Hingham, Massachusetts. 1969-1970.

Landscape Architect, Sasaki Walker Associates, Sausalito, CA. 1970-1971.

Consultant, State of Oregon School District No. 4J, Lane County, Environmental Studies. 1977-1979.

Teaching

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1971. Helphand served as a teaching assistant to landscape architecture theorist J. B. Jackson (1909-1996).

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University, College of Architecture and Planning, Muncie, IN. 1972-1974.

Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Landscape Architecture, Eugene, OR, 1974-1980.

Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Landscape Architecture, Eugene, OR, 1980-1986.

Visiting Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1980-81. Helphand made academic year visits to Technion in 1984, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998 and 2004.

John R. Emens Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, Spring 1987

Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Landscape Architecture, Eugene, OR, 1986-2008.

Fellow, University of Oregon, Humanities Center, Eugene, OR, Spring 1996.

Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon, Department of Landscape Architecture, Eugene, OR, 2008-2012.

Director, University of Oregon, Summer Conservation Field School in Croatia, Historic Preservation Program, Summer 2012.

Emeritus Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Landscape Architecture, Eugene, OR, 2013- .

Professional Activities

Member, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

Honorary Member, Israel Association of Landscape Architects (ISALA), 1997- .

Editor, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Newsletter, 1979-1980.

Reviews Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine. 1986-1994.

Editor, Landscape Journal,1994-2002.

Trustee, National Association of Olmsted Parks (NAOP), Washington, DC, 1993-1999.

Chair, Dumbarton Oaks, Senior Fellows at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.

Honorary Member, Sigma Lambda Alpha, 2002.

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA), 1992.

Recipient, ASLA, Merit Award for Research and Communications, for Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, 1992.

Recipient, University of Oregon, Thomas F. Herman Distinguished Teaching Award, Eugene, OR, 1993.

Recipient, ASLA, Oregon Chapter, Merit Award for Research and Communications, for Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space, 1994.

Recipient, CELA, distinguished teaching award, 1997.

Recipient, ASLA, Bradford Williams Award, 2001.

Recipient, Graham Foundation Grant, Chicago, IL, 2001.

Recipient, CELA, Communication and Service Award, 2003.

Recipient, ASLA, Merit Award for Research and Communications, for Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel, 2003.

Recipient, University of Oregon, Faculty Excellence Award, 2007.

Recipient, CELA, Academy of Fellows 2007.

College

B.A., Politics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1968.

M.L.A., Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1972.