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Recent Ph.D. Dissertations

2025

Eun-Jeong Kim
Architecture in Foreign Aid: Colonial Legacies and Cold War Imperatives in South Korea, 1953–1970

Maria Luisa Palumbo
Architecture, Land, and Colonialism in Sicily and Libya, 1861–1943: Two Intertwined Histories

2024

Labib Hossain
The Making of Dry and Modern Dacca: Discourse of Contained Waters in Colonial East Bengal, 1864–1911

Michael Moynihan
Aggregative Expertise: A Global History of Housing, Information Science, and the Deprofessionalization of the Architect, 1973–82

Ecem Saricayir
Property in Transition: Architecture, Migration, and the Translation of Land Regimes in the Ottoman South Caucasus under the Russian Empire, 1877–1921

2023

Salvatore Angelo Dellaria
The Housing of Politics in Racial Capitalist Britain: Merseyside, the Runcorn New Town, and the Southgate Estate, 1955–1992

Aslihan Günhan
Displaced Modernities: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the Specters of Armenian Builders

Sergio Villanueva Preston
Authority and Romance: Queer Histories, Modern Homes

2022

Ana Gisele Ozaki
The Brazilian Atlantic: New ‘Brazils,’ Plantation Architecture, Race, and Climate in Brazil and Africa, 1910–1974

2020

Gokhan Kodalak
Spinoza and Architecture

Elizabeth D. Muller
Serial Architectures: Nonfiction Film and the Built Environment, 1896–1920

2019

Anna Marie Mascorella
Restore, Displace, Appropriate: Negotiating the Baroque Legacy in Fascist Rome

2018

Elvan Cobb
Railway Crossings: Encounters in Ottoman Lands

2017

Margot Kristine Lystra
Envisioning Environments: Designs for Urban U.S. Freeways, 1956–1968

Annie Sloan Schentag
Building Clarity: Structural Legibility, Corporate Transparency and Public Accessibility in Buffalo’s Industrial Architecture, 1880–1920

2015

S. E. Eisterer
Modern by Nature: Labor, Provisioning, and Leisure in Viennese Settlements and Allotment Gardens, 1904–1954

Antonello Frongia
Walker Evans in New York: Photography and Urban Culture, 1927–1934

Lawrence M. Shapiro
Friedrich S. Krauss and Alois Riegl, Social Network Formation in Viennese Ethnography

2014

Chad Garrett Randl
‘Live Better Where You Are’: Home Improvement and the Rhetoric of Renewal in the Postwar United States

2013

Howard J. Iber
The Architectural Theory of William Richard Lethaby

2012

Edson Roy Gregorio Cabalfin
Nation as Spectacle: Identity Politics in the Architectures of Philippine Displays in International Exhibitions, 1887–1998

Lawrence Chua
Building Siam: Leisure, Race, and Nationalism in Modern Thai Architecture, 1910–1973

Richard John Guy
First Spaces of Colonialism: The Architecture of Dutch East India Company Ships

2011

Jaideep Chatterjee
The Gift of Design / Architecture-Culture in Postcolonial India

2009

Niall Stephen Atkinson
Architecture, Anxiety, and the Fluid Topographies of Renaissance Florence

Elâ Kaçel
Intellectualism and Consumerism: Ideologies, Practices and Criticisms of Common Sense Modernism in Postwar Turkey

John Melvin O’Brien III
The Openwork Dome as Sacred Theater

2007

Emily Gunzburger Makas
Representing Competing Identities: Building and Rebuilding in Postwar Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

2005

Thaisa Way
Women as Force in Landscape Architecture, 1893–1942

2004

Johnathan Andrew Farris
Dwelling on the Edge of Empires: Foreigners and Architecture in Guangzhou (Canton), China

2000

Sizheng Fan
From Architecture and Allied Arts to International Style: Architectural Exhibitions in New York, 1925–1932