History of Architecture and Urban Development Degree Details

The History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) program at Cornell offers a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.), and represents a sophisticated blend of interdisciplinary research and scholarship. Projects, lectures, and publications produced within the HAUD program showcase the diverse range of topics and methodologies embraced by the field. The number and stature of awards, fellowships, and conference invitations HAUD students receive underscore the vitality of the program.

Recent HAUD Student Accomplishment Highlights

Publications

2023:

  • Athanasiou Geolas, "The Image of the (Out-of-work) Architect," in Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space, edited by Chad Randl & D. Medina Lasansky (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023), pp. 7–10.
  • Aslıhan Günhan, "Bourgeoisie Wealth, Architecture and Infrastructure: Azaryan Family in Late Ottoman Istanbul," Capitalistic Urbanization in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Armenian Agencies special issue of Yıllık: Annual of Istanbul Studies, edited by Yaşar Tolga Cora and Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz (forthcoming, 2023).
  • Aslıhan Günhan, "A Retrospective Oral History Inquiry with Vedat Özsan: The Ministry of National Education Building and Architectural Practice Between 1950-1980," (Vedat Özsan'la Geriye Dönük Bir Sözlü Tarih Denemesi: Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Yapısı ve 1950-1980 Arası Mimarlık Pratiği), in Ankara'da İz Bırakan Mimarlar: Vedat Özsan edited by Nuray Bayraktar (Ankara: VEKAM, 2023 forthcoming).
  • Aslıhan Günhan, "Living on Another Displacement's Ruins: Adana's Döşeme Neighborhood in Turkey," Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas, eds. Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi (London: Routledge, 2023).
  • Aslıhan Günhan, "Ankara Train Station in the Shadow of Violence," in Journal of Urban History (minor revision received, forthcoming).
  • Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "From Formalism to Weak Form" by Stefano Corbo. (Tehran: Fekr-e No, 2023).
  • Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "Aesthetic Theory" by Theodor Adorno (Tehran: Nimazh, forthcoming).
  • Piergianna Mazzocca, "Bedside Care: Nursing Practice in the Emergence of the Modern Hospital." Book chapter in Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common, edited by Brittany Utting. Routledge, 2023 (forthcoming).
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, "Le dune, i ribelli, e la stagione turistica. Tre aspetti della centralità del deserto nella occupazione italiana della Libia," in Deserts Are Not Empty, ed. Samia Henni (Siracuse: Letteraventidue, 2023) (forthcoming).
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, "Histories of the Channel of Sicily. Architecture, Colonization, and Migrations across the Mediterranean Shores (1932-1943)." South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2023; 122 (2): 257–279.
  • Ecem Saricayir, "Calvino Travels to the East: Invisible Cities, Open Architecture, and Orientalism," in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World: Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders, ed. Elio Baldi and Cecilia Schwartz (Routledge, forthcoming).
  • Ecem Saricayir, "Homogenizing the Border: Kars after the Pogrom of 1955," in Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas, eds. Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi (Routledge, 2023).
  • Ecem Saricayir, "Architect of Nothingness: Frank van Klingeren's Open Architecture," Footprint 16, no: 2 (2022): 145-156.
  • Ecem Saricayir, "'Against the Privatised, the Preconditioned, and the Asylum-like:' Frank van Klingeren's Challenge to Open Architecture," The Journal of Architecture 27, no:2 (2022): 202-224. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2022.2086151.
  • Alican Taylan, and Şahinler, Mehmet. "Rituals, Reality, and its Double," in Architecture, Film, and the In-between, James Kerestes and Vahid Vahdat eds., Intellect.
  • Alican Taylan, "Başka Kayda Rastlanmadı: Reşad Ekrem Koçu'nun Çok Boyutlu İstanbul'u" ("No Further Records: Reşad Ekrem Koçu's Multi-dimensional Istanbul"), in Mimar. ist 78.
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, "Expanding Water Geographies and Hydropolitics of Istanbul: blueprints, fountains, disease (1933-1971)." In Material Politics: Infrastructure, Science and Expertise in Modern Turkey, edited by Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ekin Kurtiç, and Mehmet Ekinci. Bloomsbury, 2023 (forthcoming).

2022:

  • Athanasiou Geolas, "On the Archive Table: Embodiment, Objectivity, and the Construction of Historical Knowledge," in The Routledge Companion to Translating, Collecting, Archiving and Displaying Architectural Drawings and Models, edited by Federica Goffi (New York and London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 334-346.
  • Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "Architecture and Modernity: A Critique" by Hilde Heynen. (Tehran: Fekr-e No, 2022)
  • Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "Design Expertise" by Bryan Lawson & Kees Dorst. (Tehran: Fekr-e No, 2022)
  • Ana Ozaki, Goffe, T. L., S. Gleeson, A. Khan, A. Kocher, C. Washington, J. Salcido, et al. 2022. "The World We Became: Map Quest 2350, A Speculative Atlas Beyond Climate Crisis." Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 7 (1–2): 5–49. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-07010002.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, "Lampedusa and the Central Mediterranean Route of Migration. Notes on EU border infrastructure and the new slavery," in MedWays Open Atlas, eds. Mosè Ricci, Margherita Pasquali, Silvia Mannocci (Siracuse, IT: Letteraventidue, 2022), 944-955.

2021:

  • Aslihan Günhan, "Gönç Palas Broşürü ve Postmodern Sentezler (Gonc Palas Brochure and Postmodern Synthesis)" Postmodern Ankara Dossier, Bülent Batuman ed., Solfasol, vol. 98. (March 2021)
  • Gökhan Kodalak, "Lines, Tornadoes, and David Foster Wallace," Log 51 (Winter/Spring 2021): 172-82.
  • Gökhan Kodalak, Special Editorial Section "Cosmoaesthetics" Log 52. (Summer 2021)
  • Anna Mascorella, "Imagining a Great City: Denver, 1980-2020." The Colorado Magazine: 26-31. (Spring 2021)
  • Ana Ozaki, "Urban Erasure and the Making Informal Activism: Morro do Castelo." Journal of Latin American Geographies, vol. 20, no. 1, University of Texas Press, 2021.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Architette di Resilienza,” in Architectural Exaptation Catalog of the Italian Pavilion Resilient Communities at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, Rome: D Editore, 2021.
  • Ecem Sarıçayır, "Rehearsing the Border: Politics of Spatiality in Contemporary Artworks in Kars and Ani, Turkey," in Pilav, A., Schoonderbeek, M., Sohn, H., Staničić, A., eds. Mediating the Spatiality of Conflicts, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, BK Books. (2021)

2020:

  • Geolas, Athanasiou. "Manner of Working: Robin Evans, the Drawing, and a Theory of Practice." In The Artful Plan: Architectural Drawing Reconfigured, edited by Martin Søberg and Anna Hougaard. Birkhäuser,  pp. 52-71. (2020)
  • Hossain, Labib. "A Critical Reading of Dry and Permanent Grounds Through the Practice of Muslin Weaving" in Monsoon Assemblages: Monsoon [+ Other] Grounds, edited by Lindsay Bremner, London: University of Westminster,  pp. 113-120. (2020)
  • Moynihan, Michael. "Interrogating Architectural Evidence: Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal’s Exhibition for the Isreali Association of United Architects" Bitacora Arquitectura 44, 4-17.  (2020)                                         
  • Ozaki, Ana. (forthcoming 2021) "Afro-Brazilian Lenses: "Quilombola" Urbanism." In Decolonizing the Spatial History of the Americas, edited by Fernando Lara. Center 24. Austin: Center for American Architecture and Design at the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
  • Palumbo, Marialuisa. "Cities, Democracy and the 99 percent." In The Century of Global Cities. How Urbanisation Is Changing the World and Shaping our Future, edited by Tobia Zevi, Milan: Ledizioni, pp. 123-145. (2019)
  • Palumbo, Marialuisa (ed). Rigenerare con gli abitanti. Costruire comunità, Rome: Aracne. (2020)

2019:

  • Gökhan Kodalak. "Spinoza, Hierarchical Ontology, and Affective Architecture." In Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio, edited by Beth Lord. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
  • Anna Mascorella. "Reinterpreting Fascist Built Heritage: The Reuse of Rome's Foro Mussolini." In Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation, edited by Vinayak Bharne and Trudi Sandmeier, 409-425. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.

Conference Presentations

2023:

  • Aslıhan Günhan, "Re-Assembling the Lost Children: Tuzla Armenian Orphanage (Kamp Armen) and Architecture Against Displacement," paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 2023.
  • Aslıhan Günhan and Ana Ozaki "Diasporic Imaginations and Alternative Futurities" Session Co-Chairs, Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, January 2023.
  • Aslıhan Günhan and Ana Ozaki "What Might Have Been: Writing Diasporas' Alternatives Futures'" Session Co-Chairs, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 2024 (upcoming panel).
  • Ehssan Hanif, "Beneath the Ruins: Reading the Impacts of Urbicide on Abadan and Khorramshahr Through Literary Works," II International Congress of Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscape, Lisbon. January 2023.
  • Ehssan Hanif, "Carbonization of the Aesthetic and Aestheticization of Carbon: Historicizing Oil and Its Visual Ideologies in Iran (1920–1979)," The 4th Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture, Kyoto, October 2023.
  • Ehssan Hanif, "Technology, Architecture, and War: Three Historical Narratives of Architects and Designers` Contribution to War," Tarbiat Modares University (Invited Lecture), July 2023.
  • Piergianna Mazzocca, "Clippings on Malaria: A Spatial History of a Sanitarian Imagination." Paper presented at the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, November 2023.
  • Michael Moynihan, "Small Farmers, Big Computers, and the Architecture of Rural Governance," Paper presented at the Temple Hoyne Buell Dissertation Colloquium, New York.
  • Michael Moynihan, "Building Underground: Networks of Resistance in Buenos Aires" paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  • Ana G. Ozaki, "Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Rewriting Brazil's Modern House through the Plantation," paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 12-16, 2023.
  • Ana G. Ozaki, "The Self-Identifying and Brazil-Inspired Neobaroque Architecture of Lagos, Nigeria (1830s – 1900s)," paper presented at the Rice Architecture Dissertation Colloquium (postponed from 2020), Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, April 28–29, 2023.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, On the Intertwined Histories of Sicily and Cyrenaica, Benghazi Peace Center, Benghazi, June 22.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, On the Edge: Design and Material Assemblages in the Age of Climate Change, Università di Roma La Sapienza, School of Architectural Planning, Design and Technology, Rome, May 15.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Architectures of Control and Resistance. New Histories of Architecture and Politics in the 20th Century, Co-Chair with Eun-Jeong Kim, Cornell University's History of Architecture and Urbanism Society HAUS, April 24.
  • Ecem Saricayir, "Architectures of Transition: The New Armenian Architecture in the Early Soviet Union." Paper presented at the conference The Soviet Experience in Armenia and its Legacy-2, Yerevan, Armenia, June 2023.
  • Alican Taylan, "Domestic Privacy and Publicity in the Age of Electricity," at "Privacy Matters: How Interiors Make and Break our Cities" conference at the Royal Danish Academy of Design, Copenhagen, April 2023.
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, "Making of a Forest: Urban Movements for Minimally Disruptive Urbanism" paper presented at the Symposium of Minimally Disrupted Urbanism, University of Edinburgh, UK, June 2023.
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, "Where did the water go?: Rethinking the urban history of Istanbul through water-borne diseases," paper at the conference of Turkologentag 2023, University of Vienna, Austria, September, 2023.

2022:

  • Aslıhan Günhan, "What May Trees Remember: Absence, Architecture, and Environment in the Upper Euphrates," Paper Presented at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference, Afterlives of Violence: Archival Traces, Survivor Objects, and Affective Experiences in Turkey and Syria thematic session, Denver, CO, November 2022.
  • Aslıhan Günhan, Graduate Student Lightning Talks Session Chair, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2022.
  • Piergianna Mazzocca, "State of Becoming: The Malaria Eradication Campaign of Venezuela." Paper presented at the Architectural History of the Greater Caribbean Workshop, The University of Texas at Austin, United States, 2022.
  • Michael Moynihan, "The Cybernetic Countryside: Sistema de entorno rural," paper presented at the Soceity of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Pittsburgh.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Lampedusa: the Central Mediterranean Route of Migration, "MedWays," Università di Roma Tre, School of Architecture, Rome, December 7.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, War and Women's placemaking in the Italian ʽpacificationʼ of Libya, American Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, April 28.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Histories of the Channel of Sicily. Architecture, Colonization, and Migrations across the Mediterranean Shores (1932-1943), History of Architecture and Urbanism Society HAUS, Under Construction, Cornell AAP, April 1.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Histories of the Italian South and the Fourth Shore, "Borders, Captivity, and Memory Symposium," Cornell University, online symposium, March 18.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, War and Women's placemaking in the Italian ʽpacificationʼ of Libya, HAUS Under Construction, Cornell AAP, February 17.
  • Sergio Preston, "(water) Closeted: Queer appropriations of the domestic bathroom," European Architectural History Network (EAHN), 'Bathroom Matters: Architectures and Infrastructures of the Twentieth Century,' Madrid, June 2022.
  • Sergio Preston, "Villa Kenwin, the House that Compulsory Heterosexuality Built," Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, Pittsburgh, April 2022.
  • Ecem Saricayir, "Constructing Hygiene and Settling the Border: The Russian Imperial Architecture in the Russo-Ottoman Borderlands." Paper presented at Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2022.
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, "Environments of Health: Validebag Sanitorium Complex," paper presented at Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, US, April 2022.

2021:

  • Athnasiou Geolas, "Formally Rigid, But Technically Charming: Architects and Professional Etiquette c.1916," European Architectural History Network, 6th International Conference. June 2021.
  • Athnasiou Geolas, "Haraway's Implosion Method: Architectural Taxidermy in the Seminar Room," Fielding Architecture: Feminist Practices for a Decolonised Pedagogy, 4th International Symposium on Architecture and Gender, University of Brighton, June 2021.
  • Aslihan Günhan, "Ecologies of Displacement: Forced Migration, Dispossession and Decay in Upper Euphrates," EAHN Thematic Conference "Architecture and Endurance," September 2021.
  • Aslihan Günhan, "Politics of Architectural Detail: Understanding Nişan Yaubyan’s Architecture," The Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Nişan Yaubyan Mimar Sinan Award Ceremony, May 2021.
  • Aslihan Günhan, Co-Chair, "Global Modernisms Panel," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Graduate Student Lightning Talks, April 2021.
  • Gökhan Kodalak, "Nature-Architecture Continuum: Heterarchy of Buildings, Plants, Animals, and Human Beings" and "Spinoza and Architecture: The Untapped Potentials of a Missed Encounter,"  TU Delft Department of Architecture, April 2021.
  • Gökhan Kodalak, "Design Dialogues." Bilgi University, May 2021.
  • Anna Mascorella, "Confronting the Baroque in Fascist Rome: Santa Rita da Cascia," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Open Session, April 2021.
  • Michael Moynihan and Ana Ozaki, co chairs, "History of Architecture and Urbanism Symposium: Politics of Building a Climate Crisis" Cornell University, April 2021.
  • Ana Ozaki, "Luso-Tropical Architecture: Brazil’s Modernism in Angola." Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, April 2021.
  • Ana Ozaki, "South Centralities: Brazil’s Lusotropicalist Architecture." 2021 Buell Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University, New York. May 2021.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Chair, "Europe, a Resilient Community? Critical Practices across the Mediterranean Border," Italian Pavilion at the 17. International Exhibition of Architecture at La Biennale di Venezia, 23 May 2021.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Chair, "Ecoweek: Towards Intersectional Justice. Unbuilding structures of oppression. Making space for inclusive, empowering and reparative practices," Ecoweek NGO, 16-17 January 2021.
  • Ecem Sarıçayır, "Experiments and Enemies of Openness: The Case of Frank van Klingeren (Netherlands) and the Question of Authorship" European Architectural History Network Annual Conference, June 2021.
  • Ecem Sarıçayır, "Architecture in Transition: Imaginations of the South Caucasus at the Turn of the Century," The Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, April 2021.
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, "The 1970 Cholera Epidemic in Sağmalıclar: Unveiling the Entangled Water Relations in Istanbul," Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City, Istanbul Research Institute and Pera Museum, April 2021.

2020:

  • Labib Hossain, "Modern Water: Colonial Legacy of Land-water Separation in South Asia", Resilient Urban Environment, organized by Institute of Architects Bangladesh and Bangladesh Institute of Planners, Webinar, October 9, 2020.
  • Labib Hossain, "Colonial Representation of Muslin Weaving Practice and the Marginalized Dimensions", Decolonizing Heritage Exhibition, organized by Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia (SAUH-Asia), Online Symposium, August 29, 2020.
  • Aslihan Gunhan (Co-Chair), "Graduate Student Lightning Talks," Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference, Virtual Symposium, April 29 - May 3, 2020.
  • Michael Moynihan, "Systems Everywhere," Divergence in Architectural Research, Ph.D. Symposium, Georgia Tech, March 4-5, 2020.
  • Ana Ozaki. "Afro-Brazilian "Quilombola" Urbanism: The Spatial Production of Pequena Africa in Rio de Janeiro," Decolonizing the Spatial History of the Americas, Austin, February 10-11, 2020.

2019:

  • Athanasiou Geolas. "Not at the Dinner Table: Re-narrating the New York Architect, c. 1916." "Temporalities, Processes, and Relations in Architectural Research," Architectural Humanities Research Association Ph.D. Student Symposium 2019, Manchester, U.K., April 25, 2019.
  • Aslihan Gunhan. "Microhistories of Negotiating the Armenian Heritage in Modern Turkey." Graduate lightning talk at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 24–28, 2019.
  • Labib Hossain. "A Critical Reading of the Dry and Permanent Ground Through the Practice of Muslin Weaving." Monsoon Assemblages: Monsoon [and Other] Grounds Conference, University of Westminster, London, March 22–23, 2019.

2018:

  • Athanasiou Geolas with Amanda Joyce Denham, Cornell Costume and Textile Collection; and Associate Professor Andrea Stevenson Won, Department of Communications. "Witchcraft and Photoshop: Teaching Representation through Fashion and Manuscript Exhibitions." International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, November 6–9, 2018.
  • Aslihan Gunhan. "'Malign' Houses, 'Benign' Museums: A Critical Biography of an Armenian Mansion in Istanbul." Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 15–18, 2018.
  • Labib Hossain. "Ground of Wetness Through the Practice of Muslin Making." Tradition/Transformation? Craft, Practice and Discourse conference, Department of Fine Arts, Jaffna University and Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, May 10, 2018.
  • Sergio Preston. "Lives Sacrificed to a Beautiful Building: The Early Years of Sage College, Housing Coeducation and a Reversal of Spatial Autonomy." Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Milwaukee, October 11–13, 2018.

Awards, Grants, Fellowships

2023:

  • Aslıhan Günhan, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference Fellowship, Montreal, Canada, April 2023.
  • Ehssan Hanif, Conference Grant, Graduate School. Cornell University.
  • Ehssan Hanif, School of Criticism and Theory Grant for Summer School Sessions, Cornell University.
  • Ehssan Hanif. Iran`s Book of the Year Award, for Persian Translation of Architecture and Modernity: A Critique by Hilde Heynen. (Nomination)
  • Piergianna Mazzocca, 2023 Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund for research, Cornell University, Ithaca, US.
  • Michael Moynihan, Carter Manny Award, Citation of Special Recognition, Graham Foundation.
  • Michael Moynihan, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference Fellowshp.
  • Ana G. Ozaki, Cornell University's nominee in the Humanities and Fine Arts for the Council of Graduate Schools / ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, 2023 Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University.
  • Ecem Saricayir, Amit Bhatia ’01 Global Ph.D. Research Award, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
  • Priyanka Sen, 2023-2024 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, South Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University (Language: Bengali)
  • Priyanka Sen, Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougal Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University
  • Priyanka Sen, Active Matter/s Mellon Practicum Fellowship, The Rural Humanities Institute, Cornell University
  • Priyanka Sen, Radically Indigenous Mellon Fellowship, The Rural Humanities Institute, Cornell University
  • Alican Taylan, International Research Travel Grant, Einaudi Center, Cornell University
  • Alican Taylan, Graduate Research Grant, Institute of European Studies, Cornell University
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, Student Research Grant, Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, Cornell University
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, Institute for European Studies Graduate Research Grant, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, Institute of Comparative Modernities (ICM) Reading Group Grant, Cornell University
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, A. Henry Detweiler Fund, Cornell University

2022:

  • Aslıhan Günhan, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference Travel Funding for Graduate Student Advisory Committee Members, Pittsburgh, PA, 2022.
  • Ehssan Hanif, Conference Grant, Graduate School. Cornell University.
  • Piergianna Mazzocca, 2022 Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund for conference travel, Cornell University, Ithaca, US.
  • Michael Moynihan, Clarence Stein Institute Grant, Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies.
  • Ana G. Ozaki, Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition, Graham Foundation.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Scott Opler Graduate Scholar Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians SAH.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University.
  • Maria Luisa Palumbo, Conference Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University.
  • Ecem Saricayir, International Dissertation Fellowship Award, Social Science Research Council
  • Alican Taylan, Graham Foundation Grant to Individuals
  • Alican Taylan, New York State Council on the Arts and Architectural League Grant for Independent Projects
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Doctoral Research Residency Program
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Travel Grant
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, MacDougall Fund, Cornell University

2021:

  • Salvatore Dellaria, Cornell Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowship
  • Athnasiou Geolas, Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellowship, Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection
  • Aslihan Günhan, Getty Research Institute Residential Predoctoral Fellowship
  • Aslihan Günhan, SALT Research Fund
  • Gökhan Kodalak, Theories of Architecture Fellowship · TU Delft Department of Architecture.
  • Anna Mascorella, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference Independent Scholar Fellowship
  • Michael Moynihan, Michelle Sicca Research Grant, Cornell Institute of European Studies
  • Michael Moynihan, Knight Award for Writing Exercises, Cornell John S. Knight Institute,
  • Ana Ozaki, Global Architectural History Teaching Fellowship
  • Ecem Sarıçayır, Arizona State University, The Melikian Center Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies Award for Critical Languages Institute
  • Ecem Sarıçayır, Graduate Research Fellowship, Cornell Institute for European Studies
  • Ecem Sarıçayır, Scott Opler Graduate Student Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians,
  • Asya Ece Uzmay, Gill Family Foundation Graduate Student Support, Society of Architectural Historians
  • Priyanka Sen, Cornell Migrations Summer Institute Fellowship

2019:

  • Athanasiou Geolas. Society for the Humanities Dissertation Writing Group, Cornell University
  • Aslihan Gunhan. Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grant, Cornell University; Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund, Cornell University
  • Labib Hossain. Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund, Cornell University
  • Eun-Jeong Kim. A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University
  • Anna Mascorella. A. Henry Detweiler Fund Traveling Fellowship, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
  • Ana Ozaki. Einaudi Institute for European Studies Michele Sicca Research Grant, Cornell University; Einaudi Latin American Studies Program Graduate Student Summer Research Grant, Cornell University; Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University; A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University
  • Sergio Preston. A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University; Society for the Humanities Dissertation Writing Group, Cornell University
  • Ecem Sarıçayır. Graduate Travel Grant for University of Illinois' Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Summer Research Laboratory
  • Athanasiou Geolas. Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellow, Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, Cornell University
  • Aslihan Gunhan. Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council
  • Labib Hossain. Sage Fellowship, Cornell University
  • Eun-Jeong Kim. Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University
  • Michael Moynihan. Canadian Centre for Architecture Doctoral Students Program
  • Ana Ozaki. Canadian Centre for Architecture Doctoral Students Program; Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program, Cornell University

2018:

  • Aslihan Gunhan. Cornell Institute for European Studies, Sidney Tarrow Best Paper Award for "'Malign' Houses, 'Benign' Museums: Biography of the Azaryan Mansion"
  • Labib Hossain. Sage Fellowship, Cornell University
  • Aslihan Gunhan. Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund, Cornell University
  • Labib Hossain. Robert D. And Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University; Mario Einaudi Research Travel Grant, Cornell University; Graduate Conference Grant, Cornell University; South Asia Program Research Travel Grant, Cornell University
  • Anna Mascorella. Dissertation Research Grant, Italian Art Society; Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University; Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University; Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
  • Michael Moynihan. Institute of Comparative Modernities Reading Group Grant, Cornell University
  • Ana Ozaki. Institute of Comparative Modernities Reading Group Grant, Cornell University
  • Sergio Preston. Media Studies Graduate Working Group, Cornell University
  • Ecem Sarıçayır. Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University; A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University
  • Ana Ozaki. Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University; Latin American Studies Program Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
  • Michael Moynihan. Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University

Exhibitions

2023:

  • Cho, Stanley; Iturbe, Elisa, and Taylan Alican. “Confronting Carbon Form,” exhibition at the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, March 21-April 16 2023.

2022:

  • Ecem Saricayir, Bart Feberwee, and Hacer Bozkurt. Soil and Dung: Biotic Architectures in the Rural South Caucasus, International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 22 September - 13 November 2022.

2021:

  • Athnasiou Geolas, "Standards for a New Womanhood: Gender, Race, and Expertise," Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, Ithaca, NY (07 December 2020­–26 February 2021); Cornell University Library
  • Anna Mascorella, "Building Denver: Visions of the Capital City," History Colorado Center, Denver. (2021)
  • Liz Muller, Voices from the Great Hall (New York: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. (Summer 2021)  

2019:

  • Tell Me About Your Archive, exhibition in L. P. Kwee Studios' wood floor, organized by Samia Henni, with B.Arch, M.Arch., and Ph.D. students for ARCH 6805 Practicum: Tell Me About Your Archives. Interviews with Maristella Casciato, Beatriz Colomina, Zeynep Çelik, Janina Gossaye, Mary McLeod, Ann Laura Stoler, Anthony Vidler, and Dell Upton; Cornell University
Close overlay