Americas

America's Disappearing Chinatowns: A Case for Preservation is a project that examines the history, architecture, and proliferation of Chinatowns in the American urban landscape, chronicling their development in the U.S.

This study explores the relationship between Britain’s abolition of slavery in its Caribbean colonies (1838) and its instigation of the First Opium War with China (1839).

Brookes (Revisited) is the first design exhibition to accurately visualize the iconic 1788 drawing “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788,” created by abolitionists and politicians using architectural techniques.

This project aims to address growing concerns about school safety, youth violence, and mental health in Mexico by adapting and implementing the evidence-based Coping Power Program.

The study investigates the roles of judicial diplomacy and comparativism within Latin American courts, analyzing the impact of institutional capacity and legal education on the adoption of foreign law.

Many occupier governments seek to permanently integrate occupied territories into their national borders.

What are the limits of Puerto Rican nationalism?

Archaeological excavations at San Jacinto, an ancient temple from the Formative Period on the Peruvian central coast (1500 B.C.), have revealed the architectural design of an important section of the monument.

Nicaraguan activist and previous Sandinista commander Dora María Téllez and Nicaraguan human rights activist Ana Margarita Vijil will be visiting the UVA campus.

This funding will support my Masters of Architecture graduate thesis project, which will examine the possible spatial and conceptual future for post-mining landscapes in the intermountain American West.