I am a scholar of the built environment whose research investigates historic intersections between architecture and planning, state policy, and social movements.
My current book project, Cities After Civil Rights: Designing Minority Citizenship in the Post-Renewal United States, chronicles the post-1964 evolution of the American Civil Rights Movement, during which Black, Asian, Latine, and Indigenous organizers sought out the fleeting financial and political resources of federal urban programs amid efforts to transform legal victories into material change. In doing so, it reveals how the spaces these efforts left behind—daycares, social service centers, community-based schools, cooperative housing developments, and neighborhood health clinics—shaped a new “minority citizenship” inherently vulnerable to the decentralization, privatization, and retrenchment that have characterized urban policy ever since.
Planning Perspectives recently published an article from this project, “Marshall Plan or Neocolonisation? Model Cities and Black Planning Criticism.” It has since been awarded a 2026 commendation from the International Planning History Society, included on RIBA’s Architecture and Black History Reading List, and cited in some excellent public-facing scholarship on today’s housing crisis.
As part of this project, I also write about the forces that shape American public schools. Some of this work has been published in The Metropole and the Journal of Urban History.
I am also at work on a second book project, Model Minority Urbanism, which examines how the architectures of Asian diasporic communities have navigated control and cooptation by urban regimes from the nineteenth century to the present. A snippet of this research, “The Shifting Architecture of Racialization: Locating the Korean Corner Store,” appears in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. As the co-chair of the Society of Architectural Historian’s Asian American and Diasporic Architectural History Affiliate Group, I am also eager to connect with and support scholars and stewards of Asian diasporic built environments.
I’m also passionate about documenting and preserving the spaces of communities marginalized in urban development. To this end, I’ve been a longtime contributor to the Black Architects Archive and Philadelphia’s No Arena in Chinatown movement.
During the 2026-27 academic year, I'll be a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, a Visiting Scholar at the New York University Institute for Public Knowledge, and a Research Fellow at the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies.
I received my PhD in Architecture from Princeton University in 2026. I also hold a BA from Brown University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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More recent writing on:
the design of immigration restriction at San Francisco's Angel Island
the history of the Urban League of Rhode Island headquarters site currently undergoing redevelopment
My current book project, Cities After Civil Rights: Designing Minority Citizenship in the Post-Renewal United States, chronicles the post-1964 evolution of the American Civil Rights Movement, during which Black, Asian, Latine, and Indigenous organizers sought out the fleeting financial and political resources of federal urban programs amid efforts to transform legal victories into material change. In doing so, it reveals how the spaces these efforts left behind—daycares, social service centers, community-based schools, cooperative housing developments, and neighborhood health clinics—shaped a new “minority citizenship” inherently vulnerable to the decentralization, privatization, and retrenchment that have characterized urban policy ever since.
Planning Perspectives recently published an article from this project, “Marshall Plan or Neocolonisation? Model Cities and Black Planning Criticism.” It has since been awarded a 2026 commendation from the International Planning History Society, included on RIBA’s Architecture and Black History Reading List, and cited in some excellent public-facing scholarship on today’s housing crisis.
As part of this project, I also write about the forces that shape American public schools. Some of this work has been published in The Metropole and the Journal of Urban History.
I am also at work on a second book project, Model Minority Urbanism, which examines how the architectures of Asian diasporic communities have navigated control and cooptation by urban regimes from the nineteenth century to the present. A snippet of this research, “The Shifting Architecture of Racialization: Locating the Korean Corner Store,” appears in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. As the co-chair of the Society of Architectural Historian’s Asian American and Diasporic Architectural History Affiliate Group, I am also eager to connect with and support scholars and stewards of Asian diasporic built environments.
I’m also passionate about documenting and preserving the spaces of communities marginalized in urban development. To this end, I’ve been a longtime contributor to the Black Architects Archive and Philadelphia’s No Arena in Chinatown movement.
During the 2026-27 academic year, I'll be a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, a Visiting Scholar at the New York University Institute for Public Knowledge, and a Research Fellow at the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies.
I received my PhD in Architecture from Princeton University in 2026. I also hold a BA from Brown University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
LinkedIn / Contact
More recent writing on:
the design of immigration restriction at San Francisco's Angel Island
the history of the Urban League of Rhode Island headquarters site currently undergoing redevelopment
