Architecture & Design

I will serve as chair and participant on "Material Matters: (Re)envisioning "China" with the practice of art and architecture," a panel focused on architectural history at the 2018 Association of Asian Studies in Asia Conference at Ashoka University, New Delhi.

This project will investigate the impact of high-tech corporate construction on urban and suburban conditions in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

Part of acknowledging the new epoch we live in, the Anthropocene, requires we redefine our politics to acknowledge that climate change knows no borders.

For my project, I will conduct a field survey on the monuments dedicated to Mao Zedong in his birthplace, Shaoshan, China.

By connecting known Chinese st≈´pasdated before the seventh century CE to historical records and Buddhist scriptures translated in Chinese, my dissertation examines the dissemination and reception of the Indianst≈´pasin early medieval China.

Today the United States is faced with questions about immigration policies and the conflict of those policies with the moral imperative to care for people seeking refuge from war torn areas of the world.

The flexible city accommodates a choreography of material and people flows, comings and goings, arrival and departure.

My dissertation focuses on the variation in building materials, construction techniques, and architectural plans of Roman domestic structures in the provinces of Gaul, Britannia, and Germania.

People residing in self-produced informal settlements (favelas) have created forms of self-governance and collective action to transform their living conditions.

This is a research proposal to investigate the beekeeping practices of the Kars region of Turkey.