Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
Source: https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/graduate-architecture-programs/ph-d-in-history-of-architecture-and-urban-development/haud-dissertations/ Parent: https://aap.cornell.edu/architecture/graduate-architecture-programs/ph-d-in-history-of-architecture-and-urban-development/
2025
Eun-Jeong Kim\ Architecture in Foreign Aid: Colonial Legacies and Cold War Imperatives in South Korea, 1953–1970
Maria Luisa Palumbo\ Architecture, Land, and Colonialism in Sicily and Libya, 1861–1943: Two Intertwined Histories
2024
Labib Hossain\ The Making of Dry and Modern Dacca: Discourse of Contained Waters in Colonial East Bengal, 1864–1911
Michael Moynihan\ Aggregative Expertise: A Global History of Housing, Information Science, and the Deprofessionalization of the Architect, 1973–82
2023
Salvatore Angelo Dellaria\ The Housing of Politics in Racial Capitalist Britain: Merseyside, the Runcorn New Town, and the Southgate Estate, 1955–1992
Aslihan Günhan****\ Displaced Modernities: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the Specters of Armenian Builders
Sergio Villanueva Preston\ Authority and Romance: Queer Histories, Modern Homes
2022
Ana Gisele Ozaki\ The Brazilian Atlantic: New ‘Brazils,’ Plantation Architecture, Race, and Climate in Brazil and Africa, 1910–1974
2020
Gokhan Kodalak\ Spinoza and Architecture
Elizabeth D. Muller\ Serial Architectures: Nonfiction Film and the Built Environment, 1896–1920
2019
Anna Marie Mascorella\ Restore, Displace, Appropriate: Negotiating the Baroque Legacy in Fascist Rome
2018
Elvan Cobb\ Railway Crossings: Encounters in Ottoman Lands
2017
Margot Kristine Lystra\ Envisioning Environments: Designs for Urban U.S. Freeways, 1956–1968
Annie Sloan Schentag\ Building Clarity: Structural Legibility, Corporate Transparency and Public Accessibility in Buffalo’s Industrial Architecture, 1880–1920
2015
S. E. Eisterer\ Modern by Nature: Labor, Provisioning, and Leisure in Viennese Settlements and Allotment Gardens, 1904–1954
Antonello Frongia\ Walker Evans in New York: Photography and Urban Culture, 1927–1934
Lawrence M. Shapiro\ Friedrich S. Krauss and Alois Riegl, Social Network Formation in Viennese Ethnography
2014
Chad Garrett Randl\ ‘Live Better Where You Are’: Home Improvement and the Rhetoric of Renewal in the Postwar United States
2013
Howard J. Iber\ The Architectural Theory of William Richard Lethaby
2012
Edson Roy Gregorio Cabalfin\ Nation as Spectacle: Identity Politics in the Architectures of Philippine Displays in International Exhibitions, 1887–1998
Lawrence Chua\ Building Siam: Leisure, Race, and Nationalism in Modern Thai Architecture, 1910–1973
Richard John Guy\ First Spaces of Colonialism: The Architecture of Dutch East India Company Ships
2011
Jaideep Chatterjee\ The Gift of Design / Architecture-Culture in Postcolonial India
2009
Niall Stephen Atkinson\ Architecture, Anxiety, and the Fluid Topographies of Renaissance Florence
John Melvin O’Brien III\ The Openwork Dome as Sacred Theater
2007
Emily Gunzburger Makas\ Representing Competing Identities: Building and Rebuilding in Postwar Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2005
Thaisa Way\ Women as Force in Landscape Architecture, 1893–1942
2004
Johnathan Andrew Farris\ Dwelling on the Edge of Empires: Foreigners and Architecture in Guangzhou (Canton), China
2000
Sizheng Fan\ From Architecture and Allied Arts to International Style: Architectural Exhibitions in New York, 1925–1932