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I am a historian of the built environment broadly concerned with race, design, and the state. I'm currently pursuing a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton.
My dissertation, “From Urban Renewal to Human Renewal: Race and the Design of Citizenship in the U.S. Model Cities Program, 1964-1974” highlights the activists, students, designers, and policymakers who struggled to meet the Civil Rights Movement's demands for housing, education, employment, and healthcare through Model Cities, the primary urban development program of the War on Poverty. I recently examined in Planning Perspectives how civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr.’s long-overlooked influence on Model Cities helps understand both the aspirations that Black activists and organizations held for the program and the frustrations these critics experienced when potentials for nationwide reparation turned into a program of hard-fought representation. As part of a broader interest in model minoritization and relational racialization, I also wrote an essay in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians on how the spatial regulation of Korean-owned small businesses in turn regulates the various peoples they serve and previously wrote in e-flux architecture on how spaces designed for the restriction of Asian immigration set precedents for today’s immigration detention facilities. At Princeton, I am a Black Architects Archive research fellow and a co-organizer of the Faculty-Graduate Asian American Studies Reading Group and Lecture Series. PSoA Profile / LinkedIn / Contact More Recent Work 150+ biographical entries for the Black Architects Archive "American Architecture as a Settler Colonial Project: Sidney Fiske Kimball’s American Architecture" with Carrie Bly, Race &, Society of Architectural Historians, June 2021 |
