Europe

My research examines how since Russia invaded Ukraine the European Union has budgeted and provided critical financial support from both the supranational EU level and the EU’s twenty-seven member states to aid President Zelensky and the Ukrainians.

Recent decades have seen a global shift away from the traditional self-regulation of the professions toward hybrid forms of regulation in which professions, the state, and market actors all play significant roles.

My research project explores the artistic and cultural manifestations in which contemporary Muslim women define their body space to defy internal, traditional restrictions and external, orientalist Western gazes.

My doctoral research examines the role of beauty in landscape architecture theoretical discourse as it emerged as a field of studies in U.S. academia during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Our workshop “The Visible Century” will convene an international roster of scholars to assess the legacy and ongoing significance of this groundbreaking work.

Concrete is one of the most important materials in modern civilization but its production generates 8% of global CO2 emissions so there is growing urgency to develop alternative low-carbon alternatives.

My project examines the experience of “Afro-Turks” in the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican periods. This project will frame these experiences within the context of race, migration, displacement, and the formation of nation-states in the wake of WWI.

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).

I will conduct travel research to Denmark and Sweden to study the design and management of nature-based learning environments in K-12 schools for comparison with U.S. approaches.

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.