Sarah Whiting

On July 1, 2019, Whiting was named Dean and Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She became the first female dean in the school's history, and replaced Mohsen Mostafavi. Her endowed chair is named after Josep Lluís Sert.

Whiting is married to Ron Witte, who is a co-founder of WW Architecture. Witte, who has served as a professor at the Rice University School of Architecture, is currently a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her twin brother, Alex Whiting, who currently serves as Head of Investigations for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office, was an assistant clincal professor at Harvard Law School from 2007 to 2010 and a professor of practice at Harvard Law School from 2013 to 2019.

Whiting constructed her own Bachelor of Arts major in architectural and urban history and theory at Yale University, where she was also an Arts Editor of the Yale Daily News. She subsequently obtained a Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 1990, and a Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. Her dissertation, advised by Stanford Anderson, at MIT was entitled "The Jungle in the Clearing: Space, Form, and Democracy in America, 1940-1949."

Sarah M. Whiting (born 1964) is an American architectural designer, critic, and educator. Whiting is currently Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, in addition to being a founding partner of WW Architecture along with her husband, Ron Witte. She previously served as Dean and William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture at Rice University School of Architecture.