# 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](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/16938346)

## 2024

**Labib Hossain**\
[The Making of Dry and Modern Dacca: Discourse of Contained Waters in Colonial East Bengal, 1864–1911](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/16921883)

**Michael Moynihan**\
[Aggregative Expertise: A Global History of Housing, Information Science, and the Deprofessionalization of the Architect, 1973–82](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/16575587)

**Ecem Saricayir**\
[Property in Transition: Architecture, Migration, and the Translation of Land Regimes in the Ottoman South Caucasus under the Russian Empire, 1877–1921](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/16921990)

## 2023

**Salvatore Angelo Dellaria**\
[The Housing of Politics in Racial Capitalist Britain: Merseyside, the Runcorn New Town, and the Southgate Estate, 1955–1992](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/16176479)

**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](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15644180)

## 2020

**Gokhan Kodalak**\
[Spinoza and Architecture](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13277819)

**Elizabeth D. Muller**\
[Serial Architectures: Nonfiction Film and the Built Environment, 1896–1920](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13254436)

## 2019

**Anna Marie Mascorella**\
[Restore, Displace, Appropriate: Negotiating the Baroque Legacy in Fascist Rome](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13119683)

## 2018

**Elvan Cobb**\
[Railway Crossings: Encounters in Ottoman Lands](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/10489726)

## 2017

**Margot Kristine Lystra**\
[Envisioning Environments: Designs for Urban U.S. Freeways, 1956–1968](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/10474234)

**Annie Sloan Schentag**\
[Building Clarity: Structural Legibility, Corporate Transparency and Public Accessibility in Buffalo’s Industrial Architecture, 1880–1920](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/10361506)

## 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](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/9333108)

**Lawrence M. Shapiro**\
[Friedrich S. Krauss and Alois Riegl, Social Network Formation in Viennese Ethnography](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/9255429)

## 2014

**Chad Garrett Randl**\
[‘Live Better Where You Are’: Home Improvement and the Rhetoric of Renewal in the Postwar United States](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/8442226)

## 2013

**Howard J. Iber**\
[The Architectural Theory of William Richard Lethaby](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/8430709)

## 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](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/8256665)

**Richard John Guy**\
[First Spaces of Colonialism: The Architecture of Dutch East India Company Ships](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/7745377)

## 2011

**Jaideep Chatterjee**\
[The Gift of Design / Architecture-Culture in Postcolonial India](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/8213828)

## 2009

**Niall Stephen Atkinson**\
[Architecture, Anxiety, and the Fluid Topographies of Renaissance Florence](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/6714402)

**Elâ Kaçel**\
[Intellectualism and Consumerism: Ideologies, Practices and Criticisms of Common Sense Modernism in Postwar Turkey](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/6878902)

**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](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/8294551)

## 2005

**Thaisa Way**\
[Women as Force in Landscape Architecture, 1893–1942](https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/5776232)

## 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