 His work with hand-colored photography put him among those on the cusp of a revival of the process in fine art photography.Stephanic joined the GWU faculty as a full-time and tenure track Visiting Professor of Photography in 1980.Among his art faculty colleagues was the noted Washington painter Arthur Hall Smith, He moved to Associate Professor of Photography and then to Associate Professor of Design in 1991, a position he held until his academic retirement in 2012.