Angela U. Shyaka

Angela U. Shyaka is a Ph.D. student in the HAUD program at Cornell University. Her current research investigates colonial and resistance narratives manifested in the physical environments of Rwanda during the transitional and disruptive late 19th to early 20th centuries. She is particularly interested in examining the ways in which transnational and transcultural exchanges are entangled with the transformation of spatial practices and local epistemologies.

Prior to Cornell, Shyaka was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University, teaching history and theory courses and design studios. Before that, she practiced at Dake Wells Architecture in Missouri. She graduated from Drury University with both an M.Arch. and a B.A. in Art History.