- PhD (Geography), University of California, Los Angeles
- MArch (Architecture), Harvard University
- BA (Philosophy), College of William and MaryJohn May holds appointments in the departments of Architecture and Geography at UCLA.
His essays and interviews on the history of technology and the environment have been published in various journals, including Perspecta, Thresholds, New Geographies and Verb: Crisis. His materials research and digital fabrication experiments have appeared in Architectural Record, Interiors andImmaterial/Ultramaterial. May was recently appointed an Assistant Researcher in the UCLA Institute of the Environment, where he is completing a book on the history of electronic imaging and environmental perception.
