Qianye Yu

Qianye Yu is a Ph.D. student in the HAUD program at Cornell University. Her research addresses China’s early architectural endeavors in newly independent African countries, through which the Chinese revolutionary idealism/doctrine was exported. Overall, her interest is in how political ideologies — colonialism, nationalism, and internationalism — have operated, intertwined, and taken shape as architectural phenomena. Prior to Cornell, she was an assistant architect at Nanjing University’s Institute of Architecture Design and Planning and worked on several conservation projects in the New York metropolitan area. She obtained her B.Arch. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, and an M.S. in Historic Preservation from GSAPP at Columbia University in New York City with her thesis “A Room of Her Own: Housing for New York’s Working Women, 1875–1930.” Her committee members are Samia Henni (architecture), Magnus Fiskesjö (anthropology), Fouad Makki (global development), and Esra Akcan (architecture).