Education
Columbia University
2016: Ph.D. – Architectural History and Theory; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Dissertation: The Incommensurability of Modernity: Architecture and the Anarchic from Enlightenment Revolutions to Liberal Reconstructions
2011 M.Phil.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007: SMArchS – History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art
Thesis: Moderate Utopias: The Reconstruction of Urban Space and Modernist Principles in Postwar France Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
“Built in USA: Postwar Architecture – Midcentury Architecture as a Vehicle for American Foreign Policy.” Histories of Postwar Architecture, Special Issue: Mass Media and the International Spread of Post-War Architecture. No. 4 (2020). With J. Hunter Palmer Wright.
“Architectural Remnants and Mythical Traces of the Haitian Revolution: Henri Christophe’s Citadelle Laferrière and Sans-Souci Palace.” JSAH: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 77, no. 4 (December 2018).
Book Chapters:
“The Fires of Saint-Domingue, or, Landscapes of the Haitian Revolution.” In Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Daniel Abramson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, and Michael Osman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
“American Architecture in the Black Atlantic: William Thornton’s Design for the United States Capitol Building.” In Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present, edited by Charles Davis, Mabel Wilson, and Irene Cheng. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.
“Sovereignty, Security, and the Architecture of American Governance.” In The Politics of Space and Place, edited by Chiara Certoma, Nicola Clewer, and Doug Elsey. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Essays and Reviews:
“Architecture and Race in the French Enlightenment” in “Constructing Race and Architecture, 1400-1800.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80, no. 4 (December 2021).
Review of Lloyd DeWitt and Corey Piper, eds. Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals. Norfolk; New Haven: Chrysler Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2019. The Burlington Magazine 162, no. 1407 (June 2020).
In Process:
Atlantic Unbound: Architecture in the World of the Haitian Revolution. (Book; Under contract, University of Pittsburgh Press).
“Metropolis against the State: Architectures of Violence after the Paris Commune.” (In preparation; commissioned chapter for forthcoming volume, Architecture against Democracy).
“Invisible Hands and Ideal Cities.” (Commissioned chapter for Architectures of Extraction in the Atlantic World).
“Jefferson’s Ashes and Architecture’s Racial Dialectics” (Commissioned chapter for Race and the Historiography of American Architecture).
