Graduates and Dissertations
Past graduates and dissertation titles, listed alphabetically by year:
2009:
Brendan Moran
Dissertation: "Sociological Imagination and the City: Encounters between Architecture and Planning Education in America, 1933-1957"
Advisors: George Baird, K. Michael Hays, Eve Blau
2008:
Erik Ghenoiu
Dissertation: "‘Tradition’ as Modernism in German Architecture and Urban Design, 1888-1918”
Advisor: Eve Blau
Robin Schuldenfrei
Dissertation: "Luxury and Modern Architecture in Germany, 1900-1933”
Advisors: Neil Levine, K. Michael Hays, Antoine Picon, Alina Payne
Robin is currently an Assistant Professor in the Art History department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
2007:
Ana Miljacki
Dissertation: "The Optimum Aesthetic: Environment, Lifestyle and Utopia in the Postwar Czech Architectural Discourse”
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, Eve Blau, Sarah Whiting
Ana is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
John McMorrough
Dissertation: "Signifying Practices: The Pre-Texts of Post-Modern Architecture”
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, R.E. Somol, Sarah Whiting
John is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Ohio State University.
Matthew Lasner
Dissertation: "No Lawn to Mow: Co-ops, Condominiums, and the Revolution in Collective Homeownership in Metropolitan America, 1881-1973”
Advisors: Margaret Crawford, Daniel Abramson (Tufts University), Robert Bruegmann (University of Illinois at Chicago), Eve Blau
Matt is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University.
Timothy Hyde
Dissertation: "An Architectural Constitution: Law, Planning and Architecture in Cuba, 1937-1959”
Advisors: Neil Levine, K. Michael Hays, Thomas B. F. Cummins
Timothy is currently Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Amanda Reeser Lawrence
Dissertation: "Remaining Modern: The Architecture of James Stirling, 1955-77”
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, Niel Levine, George Baird
2006:
Steven Wolf
Dissertation: "Construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and Meanings of Urban (Re-) Organization."
Advisors: Christine Smith, Gülru Necipoglu, Nasser Rabbat, Cemal Kafadar
2005:
Sean Keller
Dissertation: "Systems Aesthetics: Architectural Theory at the University of Cambridge, 1960–75"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Galison
Sean is currently Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture.
2004:
Michael Lee
Dissertation: "The German 'Mittelweg': Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant"
Advisors: Miroslava Beneš, Peter Burgard, Claudia Brodsky
Mary Lou Lobsinger
Dissertation: "Antinomies of Realism in Postwar Italian Architecture"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, George Baird, Sarah William Goldhagen, Neil Levine
Mary Lou is currently an Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Toronto.
A. Krista Sykes
Dissertation: "The Vicissitudes of Realism: Realism in Architecture in the 1970s"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, George Baird, Neil Levine
Krysta is currently managing editor of Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Charissa Terranova
Dissertation: "French State Vernacular: les grands ensembles and Non-Conformist Modernism, 1930–1973"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, Neil Levine, Jean-Louis Cohen
Charissa is currently Director of the UTD
Artists Residency Program and Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas.
2003:
Lauren Alexander-Augustine
Dissertation: "A Multi-scale View of Plant Diversity and Hydro-geomorphology in Chesapeake Bay Forested Wetlands"
Advisors: Richard Forman, Peter Rogers, Cliff Hupp, David Foster
Lauren is now a researcher at the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council.
Alberto Barreix
Dissertation: "Rates of Return, Taxation, and the Economic Cost of Capital in Uruguay"
Advisors: John Meyer, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, K. Michael Hays, Glenn Jenkins
Alberto currently holds a senior post at the Inter-American Development Bank.
Allan Shearer
Dissertation: "Navigating by Glimmers toward Uncertain Horizons: The Influence of Emphasizing Reasons for versus Consequences of Change on the Perception of Future Scenarios"
Advisors: John Stilgoe, Carl Steinitz, K. Michael Hays
2002:
Judith Grant Long
Dissertation: "Full Count: The Real Cost of Public Subsidies for Major League Sports Facilities"
Advisors: Jerold Kayden, Alan Altshuler, Andrew Zimbalist
Judith is currently an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Andrew Herscher
Dissertation: "Literal Functions: Modern Architecture, Literature, and Literary Theory in Interwar Prague"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, Eve Blau, Svetlana Boym
Andrew is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Michigan.
Sameh Wahba
Dissertation: "From Land Distribution to Integrated Development: The Evolution and Impact of Shelter and Poverty Alleviation Strategies in Marginalized Settlements in Nouakchott, Mauritania"
Advisors: Jerold Kayden, William Doebele, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
2001:
Renata Hejduk
Dissertation: "Models of the Mind: A Theoretical Framework for the Continental Radical Avant-garde in Architecture around 1968"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, George Baird, Anthony Vidler
Renata is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Arizona State University.
2000:
Stephanie Abundo
Dissertation: "The Revival of Commuter Rail: The Boston Experience"
Advisors: José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Alan Altshuler, Jerold Kayden
Alissa Gardenhire-Crooks
Dissertation: "Tough Going: Barriers to Mobility Among Suburban Poor"
Advisors: José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Katherine S. Newman, William Julius Wilson
Alissa is a Research Associate at MDRC, a social policy research corporation.
Anna Hersperger
Dissertation: "Adjacency Effects on Biodiversity In a Landscape Mosaic: Plant Evidence from Canada's Aspen Parkland"
Advisors: Richard Forman, David Foster, Carl Steinitz, Fakhri Bazzaz
Anna is currently a researcher at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape.
Natalie Pickering
Dissertation: "The Mexican Banking Crisis and Mortgage Markets: Four Essays on Issues and Policies"
Advisors: Robert Glauber, John Meyer, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Eric Belsky
Natalie now works for a private investment banking company.
1998:
Luis Carranza
Dissertation: "Paradigms of the Avant-Garde: Mexican Modern Architecture, 1920–1940"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, Ana Maria Amar Sanchez, Jorge Silvetti
Luis is currently an Assistant Professor at Roger Williams University.
Kenji Kimura
Dissertation: "Performance of the U.S. Railroad Industry Since Deregulation"
Advisors: John Meyer, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, John Kain
Christopher Shugart
Dissertation: "Regulation-by-Contract and Municipal Services: The Problem of Contractual Incompleteness"
Advisors: José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Glenn Jenkins, John Meyer
Christopher works for the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development.
1997:
Karla Britton
Dissertation: "Auguste Perret and the Construction of Exactitude"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, Kenneth Frampton, Stanley Hoffman
Karla is now Lecturer at Yale School of Architecture.
J.R. DeShazo
Dissertation: "Essays on the Theory and Measurement of Public Goods"
Advisors: Robert Stavins, Christopher Avery, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Amartya Sen
J.R. is currently an Assistant Professor of Policy Studies at the UCLA School of Public Policy.
Kristina Hill
Dissertation: "The Representation of Categorical Ambiguity: A comparison of fuzzy, probabilistic, Boolean, and index approaches in suitability analysis"
Advisors: Michael Binfod, David Foster, Carl Steinitz
Kristina is currently an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington.
1996:
Baher El-Hifnawi
Dissertation: "Transportation Options in Developing Cities: The Case of Monterrey, Mexico"
Advisors: John Kain, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez, Glenn Jenkins
Baher is now Senior Transportation Economist for the World Bank.
Elizabeth Hermann
Dissertation: "Urban Formation and Landscape: Symbol and Agent of Social, Political and Environmental Change in Fourteenth-Century Nasrid Granada"
Advisors: Howard Burns, Gülru Necipoglu, Jerrilynn Dodds, Miroslava Beneš
Elizabeth is currently Professor of Urban Design, Landscape Architecture and Islamic Architectural History at Rhode Island School of Design and Adjunct Professor of Research at the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University.
1995:
Sharon Collinge
Dissertation: "Spatial Arrangement of Patches and Corridors in Landscape: Consequences for Biological Diversity and Implications for Landscape Architecture"
Advisors: Richard Forman, Carl Steinitz, Michael Binford, Edward Wilson
Sharon is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Darell Fields
Dissertation: "Architecture and the Black Subject: An Ethno-historic Reconstruction"
Advisors: Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Kenneth George
Darell is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Heinrich Hermann
Dissertation: "Spiritual Dimensions in 20th-Century Architecture: A Study of three paradigmatic works"
Advisors: Edward Sekler, Peter Rowe, Diana Eck
Heinrich is an architect.
Takehiko Nagakura
Dissertation: "Form-processing: A System for Architectural Design"
Advisors: William Mitchell, Steven Ervin, Mark Friedell
Takehiko is an Associate Professor of Computation and Design in the MIT Department of Architecture.
A. Hashim Sarkis
Dissertation: "Publics and Architects: Re-engaging Design in the Democracy"
Advisors: K. Michael Hays, Peter Rowe, Jorge Silvetti, Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Hashim is a Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
1994:
Elizabeth Babcock
Dissertation: "Formulation and Management of Strategy: A Case study of Community Health Centers"
Advisors: John Kain, Arnold Hewitt, Jeffrey Prottas
Elizabeth is President and CEO of the Boston Committee to End Elder Homelessness.
T. Barton Thurber
Dissertation: "Architecture and Religious Conflict in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy: Pellegrino Tibaldi's Planned Reconstruction of the Vercelli Cathedral"
Advisors: Howard Burns, John Shearman, Henry Millon
Barton is currently the Curator of European Art at Dartmouth University's Hood Museum.
Samy Zaghloul
Dissertation: "The Structure and Dynamics of Informal Urban Growth: The Cairo Urban Region 1976–1986"
Advisors: François Vigier, William Doebele, William Alonso
Samy is currently Secretary-General of the Egyptian cabinet.