Ellen Dunham-Jones is a registered architect, Associate Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She lectures widely and is the author of over 35 articles and several chapters in books. Her research links contemporary architectural theory and post-industrial development. An advocate for alternatives to sprawl, she has a book forthcoming on retrofitting suburbs. She has received grants from the Graham and W. Alton Jones Foundations, Seaside Institute, and the MIT HASS Fund. In 2004, she made the DesignIntelligence Honor Roll as on of 30 leaders who bridge practice and education.

In addition to her administrative duties, she co-teaches a lecture course in contemporary architectural theory and is one of the core faculty members involved in the M.S.Arch with a concentration in Urban Design. She serves on the editorial boards for the journals Places and Urbanism and on several local and national boards: the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Seaside Institute, Phoenix Urban Research Lab, ULI-Atlanta, CNU-Atlanta, and the Jekyll Island Advisory Council.

As a former partner in Dunham-Jones and LeBlanc Architects, she received an AIA award for the design of Free Bridge and the Rivanna Riverfront and two honorable mentions in national design competitions.

Dunham-Jones received her AB in architecture and planning, summa cum laude (1980) and M. Arch (1983) with the AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Merit from Princeton University. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2001, she worked as an architect in New York City and taught as an assistant Professor at UVA (1986-1993) and as Associate Professor at MIT (1993-2000). She was the Ax:son Johnson Foundation Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden for 2006-7.