Athanasiou Geolas

Athanasiou Geolas is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Trained at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, he has practiced architecture with archaeologists, academics, architects, and the city of New York. His research and teaching interrogate site-specific interactions between well-mannered bodies, unwieldy institutions, and paper documents. In his dissertation, “The Architect and the Home Economist,” he explores the theoretical and methodological impact of cultural embodiment on the rise of professionalism c.1916. Exploring a dissertation chapter as a fashion history exhibition, Athan curated Standards for a New Womanhood: Gender, Race, & Expertise as a Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellow. His committee members are D. Medina Lasansky (HAUD), Lily Chi (architecture), and Rachel Prentice (STS).