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Jeff Shannon has devoted most of his career to practicing and teaching architecture in his native Arkansas. He began his career working in the firm of school alumnus and professor Fay Jones, and later worked at firms in Memphis, Houston and Little Rock. In 1977, he co-founded Polk Stanley Shannon in Little Rock, which has since become one of the state's leading architecture firms: Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects. In 1979, Shannon returned to his alma mater to teach architecture. Shannon has won numerous teaching awards, notably the Master Teaching Award (1993) and Outstanding Teacher Award (1997) from the School of Architecture and the University of Arkansas Teaching Academy Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Category of Creativity (1992). He was inducted into the University of Arkansas Teaching Academy in 1993. As dean of the school from 2000-13, he developed new programs to foster leadership and life skills among students and to enhance diversity within the school. He stepped down as dean in May to return to teaching full time, which will include a popular course on the history of urban form. He is also the executive editor and founder of the publishing collaboration between the school and the University of Arkansas Press, which began in 2009. Shannon has published numerous articles in scholarly publications and serves on the boards of the Arkansas State Board of Architects, the Arkansas State chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor of architecture from the University of Arkansas and holds a master of architecture in urban design from Rice University.