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Name	Research Area / Thesis Title of PhD candidates
Aksamija, Azra	contemporary Islamic architecture and urbanism in Europe and United States title: "Our Mosques are Us: Rewriting National History of Bosnia-Herzegovina through Religious Architecture"
Alvarez Gonzalez, Manuel Fernando	European and North American cities from c.1900 through WWII; urban theory; the Spanish planning tradition. title: "From Syndicalism to Imperialism: José Luis Sert and His Master Plans for Barcelona (1931-34) and Havana (1956-58)"
Banerji, Shiben	political iconography, early modern architecture, town planning history
Demchenko, Igor	national cultural identity, Soviet republics of Caucasus and Central Asia.
Ferng, Jennifer	18th and 19th century European architecture and decorative arts; design history; history of science / history of technology title: "Nature's Objects: Architecture, Materiality, and Geology, 1750-1850"
Francis, Razan	medieval Arabic Spain; the power and concept of imagination; the relationship between Arabic and Western cultures
Hassan, S. Faisal	city planning; culture-monument readjustment
Haughey, Patrick	history, architecture and visual culture, 18th C - 20th C; museum studies; philosophy and historiography title: "The Presidential Library: Architecture as History, Archive as Judgment"
Hedrick, Christian	Neo-Islamic architecture; national identity
Karimi, Z. Pamela	contemporary art, architecture, and urban development of the Middle East title: "Aesthetics and Ethics of the Iranian Home in the Age of Globalism"
Katz, Sarah	historic sites and preservation; civic and designed landscapes
Kauffman, Jordan	aesthetic philosophy, modes of representation
Kully, Deborah	European modernism title: "Speculating on Architecture: Morality, the New Real Estate, and the Bourgeois Apartment Industry in Late Nineteenth-century France"
Lenssen, Anneka	contemporary art and theory of the Middle East
Leon, Ana Maria	20th century spheres and labyrinths: collective memory, urban utopias, urban facts, public art, public housing, slums, sprawl, density, flâneurs.
López, John Fabian	Architecture in Spain; Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica and its Historiography; Colonial City Planning, Architecture, Engineering, Administrative History, and artistic negotiations and entanglements between Spaniards and Indians.
López-Durán, Fabiola	20th-century art and architectural theory title: "Eugenics in the Garden: Medicine, Architecture and Landscape from France to Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century"
Matteson, Ben	the study of space as concept and object; tracing architecture’s extra-disciplinary conceptual entailments
Moon, Iris	18th-century architectural drawings
Oen, Karin	19th-, 20th- and 21st-century Asian art, international architecture and urban design, art markets and institutions
Pezolet, Nicola	20th-century modernist and avant-garde groups in Europe (art, architecture and design periodicals); historiography and "critical theory".
Rogier, Francesca	19th- and 20th-century European architecture and urbanism; German urban planning title: "Confronting the Modern Metropolis: The Greater Berlin Planning Competition, 1907-1910"
Sezer, Yavuz	historiography of architecture
Sheren, Ila	art and urban form on the US-Mexico border
Tuerk, Stephanie	architectural regulation and standards; risk, safety, and predictability; disasters; property insurance; history of engineering
Turker, Deniz	Orientalism; human form; shared ideals
Uchill, Rebecca	Contemporary art, social practice, variable media, systems of distribution and preservation of art and ideas
Vronskaya, Alla	European landscape architecture in the 20th century
Vujosevic, Tijana	non-Western architecture; architectural references in literature; national liberation title: "Everyday Spaces in Urban Soviet Russia 1917-1939"
Widrich, Mechtild	contemporary art and theory; visual representation title: "Performative Monuments: Public Art and Commemoration in Postwar Europe"
Wong, Winnie	contemporary art; Chinese art and visual culture; intellectual property law; design history title: "After the Copy: China's Dafen Village and the Hand-painted Art Product"
SMArchS Program
Name	Research Area
Basrai, Zameer	architecture of religious minority communities; gender and space
Cessarini, Samantha	post-war British architecture; megastructures
Haller, Ellen	trauma redefining space
Khorakiwala, Ateya	intimate space in urban environments
Lettow, Ash	dictatorial impact on architecture
McMahon, Catherine	architectural photography and strategies
Tsuneishi, Norihiko	Japanese Modern Movement, historiography, cultural intercourse between the east and west

History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art is part of the Department of Architecture, within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.