Asya Ece Uzmay

Asya Ece Uzmay is a Ph.D. student in history of architecture and urban development. Her research engages architectural history with the history of environment and medicine through looking at how architectural/infrastructural places of healing and waste have been shaped by techno-policies. Prior to Cornell University, she participated in several exhibitions at the SALT Research Institute, held a teaching position at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, and worked as a researcher at the Istanbul Studies Center on data visualization, interactive mapping, and processing of historical and contemporary urban data. She received a master’s degree from the architecture and urban studies program, Kadir Has University, and B.Arch from Istanbul Technical University. Her committee is Esra Akcan (architecture), Suman Seth (science & technology) and Begüm Adalet (government).