Asya Ece Uzmay

Asya Ece Uzmay is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program at Cornell University. Her research examines the histories of architecture and the built environment in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman geographies, engaging questions of modernity, imperialism, labor, infrastructure, and agriculture, with a particular focus on land, water, and resource management. Her work has been generously supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Clarence Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies.

Prior to Cornell, she participated in several exhibitions at SALT Beyoğlu and SALT Galata, held a teaching position at Kadir Has University, and worked as a researcher at the Istanbul Studies Center. She holds an MSc from Kadir Has University and a B.Arch. from Istanbul Technical University. Her doctoral committee members are Esra Akcan (architecture), Begüm Adalet (government), and Suman Seth (science and technology).