Diane Davis-Sikora, associate professor Kent Campus, College of Architecture and Environmental Design 
Diane Davis-Sikora is an associate professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. She is a licensed architect whose research focuses on temporary, kinetic structures that employ variable patterns and surfaces. Since joining Kent State University, she has distinguished herself through excellence in the classroom, college and university leadership roles, cross-disciplinary research, creative practice and public service to the arts.
Excellent teaching, leadership in the college as a year-level studio coordinator and consummate championing of others are hallmarks of her role at Kent State. Effective leadership, innovative research, and university and public service contributions complement the advances and contributions she has made to the discipline, most notably through cross-disciplinary engagement that has garnered national and international acclaim.
In 2011, Davis-Sikora was awarded the Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant from the Center for Architecture Foundation in New York to research pneumatic architecture. She was a featured speaker at the 2014 Textile Society of America Conference at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Davis-Sikora has served on numerous boards and committees for arts organizations in Northeast Ohio and currently sits on the board of the Akron Art Museum and FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. She has served as the co-director of Kent State University’s Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) since its establishment as an initiative in 2017. Davis-Sikora’s leadership has been key to elevating ESDRI from an initiative to an institute that bridges disciplines and has built a global network of thought leaders – bringing Kent State distinction for innovative cross-disciplinary engagement.