Current Fellows
"Funding the Urban North: Policy, Philanthropy, and Racial Equity 'After' Civil Rights"
Spring 2023
"Mapping the Forgotten Landscape: People, Power and Belonging—the case of the Island of Imbros"
Spring 2023
"Telephone City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Rise and Fall of the Bell Monopoly"
2022–2023
Past Fellows
"Entangled Histories for Indeterminate Futures: Racial Capitalisms, Resistances, and Space in Central Virginia"
Summer 2022
"Exhuming the Ex-Human: A Biocultural Investigation of Black Remains in the Town of George"
Summer 2022
"Greenlining: Outdoor Recreation and Segregation in the United States"
Summer 2022
“Negotiating the Future of Prehispanic Landscapes in Contemporary Cities: Rethinking Ancient Sites as Free/Raw Space”
Fall 2021
“Designing for Dissent: Democracy, Urbanism, and the Mediation of Conflict”
Fall 2021
“From Plantation to Protest: Visualizing Cultural Landscapes of Conflict in the American South”
Fall 2021
“Architectural History Is Migrant History: The Development of a Binational Construction Industry from Below”
2021–2022
“‘The Revolution Continues’: The 1976 Bicentennial and the Black Heritage Movement”
2021–2022
“Freedom Cartographies: Locating Racial Oppression and (Re)Tracing an Archive of Black Radical Imaginaries”
Summer 2021
“Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1975”
Summer 2021
“Restorative Ligaments: Spaces of Everyday Resistance and Grassroots World-Making in Milwaukee’s Northside”
Spring 2021
“From Swap Meet to Main Street: Multiethnic Commercial Landscapes in Southern California at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century”
2020–2021
“The Zayandehrud River Speaks: Reading the Riverine Landscapes of Seventeenth-Century Isfahan”
Fall 2018
“Agro-Urban Environments and Implications for Resilience in Medieval Cambodia”
Fall 2018
“Between Town and Country: The Soviet City-Landscape Nexus in Global Perspective”
Spring 2018
“The Cultural Politics of Urban Green Spaces: The Production and Reorganization of Istanbul’s Parks and Gardens”
Fall 2017
“Suburbs of Last Resort: Landscape, Life, and Ruin on the Edges of San Francisco Bay”
Spring 2017
“The Academy and the State: Situating Land Economics and Development Planning in the Cold War Middle East”
Fall 2016
“The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle’s Urban Landscape”
Fall 2016
“The Nature of Urban Coastal Resiliency: Twentieth-Century Governance, Environmental Management, and Design”
Spring 2016
“Anticipatory Urbanization Strategies for In Situ Oil Sands Extraction in Nigeria”
Fall 2015
“Washington’s Sewer History: Ideological, Technological, and Environmental Evolution”
Fall 2015
“Searching for Common Ground in the Gardens of the Past: Transition and Transfiguration in the Post-Colonial Landscapes of Africa and Asia”
Spring 2015
