Advising

Ph.D. Students

Primary advisor

completed:

: Pınar Üner Yımaz, UIC (2011-2018) Fields: “Exhibition and Curatorial Studies,” “Postcolonial Theory.” Dissertation: “An Analysis of Global Curatorial Models: The Emergence and Crystallization of Istanbul Biennials,” defense on April 6, 2018, Chicago.

: Elizabeth Muller, Cornell University, HAUD (2015—2019). A-Exam Completed, Fall 2016. Dissertation "Serial Architectures: Nonfiction Film and The Built Environment, 1896-1920," defense on December 6, 2019, New York.

: Gökhan Kodalak, Cornell University, HAUD (2014—2020) A-Exam: Fall 2015. Dissertation: “Spinoza And Architecture,” defense on July 1, 2020, New York/Ithaca. 

: Lara Fresko, co-advisor since 2019. Cornell University, History of Art (2019—2022). Dissertation: Historiography and Heterochronic Imagination in Contemporary Art From Turkey (1990s-present),” defense on April 18, 2022, New York/Ithaca.

: Ana Ozaki, Cornell University, HAUD (2016—2022.). A-Exam: Spring 2019. Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Brazilian Atlantic: New 'Brazils,' Plantation Architecture, Race, and Climate in Brazil and Africa, 1910-1974,” defense on November 16, 2022, Ithaca. 

: Salvatore Dellaria, Cornell University, HAUD (2015—2022). MA Thesis: “’The Wrong Building, in the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time’: Marcel Breuer and The Grand Central Tower Controversy, 1967–1969.” Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Housing of Politics in Racial Capitalist Britain: Merseyside, the Runcorn New Town, and the Southgate Estate, 1955–1992"” Defense on December 6, 2022, Ithaca.

: Aslıhan Günhan, Cornell University, HAUD (2015—2023.). Q-Paper: “’Malign’ Houses, ‘Benign’ Museums: Biography of the Azaryan Mansion / Sadberk Hanım Museum.” A-Exam: Fall 2018. Dissertation: “Displaced Modernities: Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Specter of Armenian Architects.”  Defense on November 8, 2023, Ithaca.

: Sergio Preston, Cornell University, HAUD (2016—2023.). Q-Paper: “Lives Sacrificed to a Beautiful Building: The early years of Sage College, Housing Coeducation and a Reversal of Spatial Autonomy.” A-Exam: Fall 2018. Dissertation: “Authority and Romance: Queer Histories, Modern Homes” Defense on November 9, 2023, Ithaca.

: Michael Moynihan, Cornell University, HAUD (2017—2023.): A-Exam: Spring 2019. Dissertation: “Aggregative Expertise: A global history of housing, information sciences, and the deprofessionalization of the architect, 1973-1982.” Defense on February 29, 2024 in process

: Alexandar Vujkov, UIC (2012-cont.) Fields: “Modern Architecture in Europe,” “Contemporary Architectural Theory and Criticism (1966 to the Present)” Comprehensive Exam on April 8, 2015. Dissertation in process: Urbanism and Urbanization in Socialist Yugoslavia

: Ecem Sarıçayır, Cornell University, HAUD (2017—cont.): A-Exam: May 14, 2020. Dissertation in process: “Dispossession and Resettlement in South Caucasus”

: Eun-Jeong Kim, Cornell University, HAUD (2018—cont.), A-Exam: August 21, 2021.

: Asya Ece Uzmay, Cornell University, HAUD (2020—cont.), A-Exam: June 17, 2022.

: Priyaka Sen, Cornell University, HAUD (2022—cont.), A-Exam: May 30, 2023

: Alican Taylan, co-advisor, Cornell University, HAUD (2023—cont.)

Committee member

completed

: Soojin Lee, UIC (2007-2013), Committee member. Fields: “Performance and Body Art,” “Postcolonialism and Identity Politics”. Doctoral dissertation committee member, defense on November 14, 2013. Doctoral Dissertation Title: “The Art of Artists' Personae: Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, and Mariko Mori." 

: Sarita Heer, UIC (2007-2014), Committee member. Fields: “South Asian Art, 1850-present,” “Post-colonial theory.” Doctoral dissertation committee member, defense on January 16, 2014. Doctoral Dissertation Title: “Re-Imaging Indian Womanhood: The Multiple Mythologies of Phoolan Devi.”

: Erica Morawski, UIC (2007-2014), Doctoral dissertation committee member, defense on May 6, 2014. Doctoral dissertation title: “Designing Destinations: Hotel Architecture, Urbanism, and American Tourism in Puerto Rico and Cuba.” 

: Mirela Tanta, UIC (2007-2014), Committee member. Fields: “Power and Ideology in Art,” “Social and Socialist Realism in Painting, Architecture and Film.”  Doctoral dissertation committee member, defense on May 20, 2014. Doctoral dissertation title: “State Propaganda or Sites of Resistance: Socialist Realism in Romania, 1945-1989.”         

: Brandon Ruud, UIC (2007-2015), Committee member. Fields: “Postcolonialism and Transculturation,” “American Architecture and Arts and Crafts Movement. Doctoral dissertation committee member, defense on April 27, 2015. Doctoral Dissertation Title: "Beneath the Surface: The Aesthetic and Ideological Appropriation of Native American Art and Design, 1875-1925."”                                        

: Sarah Dreller, UIC (2007-2015), Committee member. Fields: “Modern Architecture, 1780-1980,” “Architecture and Representation.” Defense on May 12, 2015. Doctoral dissertation title: "The Time, Life, and Fortune of Time Inc.'s Architectural Forum Magazine, 1932-64."  

: Sarah-Neel Smith, UCLA (2010-2015), Doctoral dissertation committee member, defense in Summer 2015 (May 11). Doctoral Dissertation Title : “Art, Democracy, and the Culture of Dissent in 1950s Turkey.” 

: Sophie Hochhäusl, Cornell (2014-2015.) Dissertation Committee member, defense on June 3, 2015. Doctoral Dissertation Title: “Modern by Nature: Architecture, Technology and Environment in Austrian Settlements between Reform and the Welfare State, 1903-1953.” 

: Robyn Mericle, UIC (2010-2015), Committee member. Fields: “Modernism and Visual Culture,” “Post 1960 Film, Video and New Media.” Doctoral dissertation working title: “Utopianism in Art and Visual Culture of the American Desert 1910-1940”

: Andrew Dribin, UIC (2010-2015.), Committee member. Fields: “Theory and Design in the Urban Age or Built Environment since WWII,” “Environmental History.” Doctoral dissertation working title: “Wilderness Years of Chicago: Saving Nature in a Postwar Metropolis, 1945-2000."

: Jean Guarino, UIC (2009-2013), Committee member. Fields: “American Architecture,1880-1940,” “Western Urban Development”

: Katja Rivera, UIC (2010-2015), Committee member. Fields: “Modernism and Visual Culture,” “German Art.” Doctoral dissertation working title: “In Translation: The Art of Felipe Ehrenberg.”

: Marissa Baker, UIC (2013--2015), Committee member. Fields: “Modernism,” “African-American Art.”

: Kristin Landry, UIC (2014-2015), Dissertation Committee member. Doctoral dissertation working title: “Art, Architecture and Ritual at Mayapan, the Last Great Maya City.”

: Chan Ma Ha, University of Hong Kong, (2017—2018) Doctoral Dissertation: “Constructing Chineseness: Translations of Architecture into Modern China from Mid-nineteenth Century to 1949,” External Examiner, defense in 2018. 

: Mesut Dinler, Politecnico di Torino (2015--2018). One of the two readers. Dissertation title: “Building the Heritage: Politics and Historic Preservation in Turkey from the 19th Century to the 1980s,” defense in September 2018.  

: Karen Greenwalt, UIC (2013—2019): Fields: “South Asian Art History, 1850–present,” “Terms of Global Art History.” Committee member. Dissertation title: “Beyond the Nation: 

Rasheed Araeen, Bani Abidi, Hamra Abbas, and an Aesthetics of Resistance,” defense on August 20, 2019.

: Melchior Stander, Reader. “The Creation of Lived Public Spaces by African Migrants and People of Diverse Ethnicity in the Pretoria CBD and its implications for urban planning: A phenomenological investigation,” University of Pretoria, South Africa, defense in December 2019. 

: Simon Wan, UIC (2011-2020): Fields: “Baroque Architecture,” “Contemporary Architectural Theory.” Comprehensive Exam on March 5, 2015. Dissertation title: “Intertwined Genealogies: The Architecture of Dutch and Chinese Philanthropic Establishments at Indonesian Port Cities, 1640-1740,” Defense on March 12, 2020.

: Mikolaj Czerwinski, UIC (2011-2023) Fields: “European Design Cultures, 1850-1970,” “Architectural Theory (1960-present).” Comprehensive Exam on February 4, 2015. Prospectus defense on September 17, 2015. Dissertation: “Toward a Human Design Project: Design Culture, the State and the User in Poland, ca. 1956—1976.” Defense on March 1, 2023.

in process

: Bahar Göçen Kumsar, co-supervisor, University of Munich (2024—cont.)

: Lamia Kocaman, University of Leuven, Belgium (2024—cont.)

: Alice Clinch, Cornell University, History of Art and Visual Studies (2019—cont.). A-Exam: February 2, 2021

:  Maria Louisa Palumbo, Cornell University, Architecture (2018—cont.). A-Exam: May 12, 2021 

: Özge Karagöz, Northwestern University, Art History (2019—cont.). Dissertation title: “Haunted Futures: Art, Inheritance, and the Making of the New Turkey between Capitalist and Socialist Worlds, 1922-1946,” 

: Bam Willoughby, Cornell University, Africana Studies (2020—2021.) Ph.D. Dissertation: “Homo Negrucans Ottomania: Blackness, Turkey, and Making Meaning of the Category of ‘Man’ in Modern Turkey”

Post-doctoral Advising

: Matthew Mullane, “World Observation: Ito Chuta and the Making of Architectural Knowledge in Modern Japan,” Manuscript Review Session at Harvard University, -Reischauer Institute, June 17, 2020.

: Nuijsink Cathelijne, “Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition,” 2018-20.

MA Students (with written thesis)

: Samantha Newman, UIC (2010-2012), Primary Advisor. MA Papers: “Museum Without Walls in the Age of Digital Circulation,” “Preserving Politics: The National Art Gallery of Singapore.” 

: Jennifer Pearson, UIC (2010-2012), Primary Advisor. MA Thesis: “Techno Culture and Education Design in the Museum.” 

: Paul deBlase, UIC (2010-cont.), Primary Advisor. MA Paper: “From Dada to Immigrant:  Art, Law, and State.”

: Alec Lisec, UIC (2010-2012), Primary Advisor. MA Paper: “Brightly Feathered Birds

“Urban Renewal and Lost Possibilities in Post-World War II Chicago.”

: Devon Toohey, UIC (2012-2013), Primary Advisor. MA Paper: “The Assimilation of Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy in modern Green movements.”

: Martyna Klimek, UIC (2012-2014), Primary Advisor. MA Paper: “Brasilia: The Dream of a New Capital and the Beginning of Modern Brazil.” 

: Monica Petraglia, UIC (2005-2008), Committee member. MA paper: “Context in Architecture: Rem Koolhaas’ and Mies van der Rohe’s Student Center at IIT.” 

: Mieko Fujiura, UIC (2007- 2009), Committee member. MA paper: “Berthe Morisot and the                                                                                                                             Fashion Journal: Forming a Modern Feminine Visual Culture.” 

: Allan Berry, UIC (2007-2011), Committee member. MA Paper; “Postwar Living Systems: Architectural Modularity and Prefabrication in Early to Mid-Century America.” 

: Elizabeth Senderson, UIC (2010-2011), Committee member. MA Thesis: “Post Black Male.” 

: Hannah Nicole Bidigare Curtis, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology (2020—2022). “Refugee Housing in Support of Self-Reliance: A Cross Sectional Study in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda,” Thesis defense: May 26, 2022.

Thesis Studio 

: Lily-Love Toper (M.Arch, Spring 2015). Thesis Award

: Kate Kerbell (M.Arch, Fall 2015)

: Daniel Toretsky (B.Arch, Spring 2016). Thesis Award

: Jordan Berta (M.Arch, Fall 2016). Thesis Award

: Alex Zinc (B.Arch, Spring 2017)

: Luba Valkova (B.Arch, Spring 2017)

: Mwanza Brown (M.Arch, Fall 2018)

: Hallie Black (B. Arch, Spring 2019). Thesis Award

: Charly King (B.Arch, Spring 2019)

: Linsen Chai (M.Arch, Fall 2020)

:Anbar Oreizi-Esfahani (M.Arch, Fall 2020)

: Veronica Varga (B. Arch, Spring 2021). Thesis Award

: Alp Demiroglu (B.Arch, Spring 2021)

: Eli Marosher (M.Arch, Fall 2021)

: Basil Harb (B.Arch, Spring 2022)

: Deniz Ece Öztürk (B.Arch, Spring 2022)

: Joseph Appiah (B.Arch, Spring 2022)

: Christina Weiting Xie (B.Arch, Spring 2022). Thesis Award

: Nasha Gitau (M.Arch, Fall 2022). Thesis Award

: Mitchell Carson (M.Arch, Fall 2022)

: Jinyue Roy Zhang (B.Arch, Spring 2023)

: Donglin Eastwood Liu (B.Arch, Spring 2023). Thesis Award

: Chuyi Wu (MSADD, Spring 2023)

: Zexin Gu (MSADD, Fall 2023)

: Tetsuo Kobayashi (M.Arch, Fall 2023)

: Daniel Sohayegh (B.Arch, Spring 2024)

: Muskaan Chugh (B.Arch, Spring 2024)

: Veronica Maria Paulon (M.Arch, Spring 2024)

Often invited as external reviewer in architectural studio mid-term and final reviews at Cornell University, Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, Pratt Institute, TED University, CUNY, UIC, Columbia University, Bilgi University, NJIT, METU.