Work in the Social Studies that takes politics, public policy, and legislative affairs as secondary—rather than primary—focus areas. Work includes research into language politics, social services, and political sociology.
Social Sciences
From apartheid-era collages to queer photography, Gavin Jantjes and Rotimi Fani-Kayode illuminate exile, identity, and resistance—showing how art reflects and reshapes the Black diasporic experience
Social Sciences
Columbia Journalism School was born of Pulitzer’s vision but reshaped by politics, crises, and New York itself. This essay uncovers how a century of tension between profession and academy forged its identity.
Social Sciences
A comparative history of Minneapolis’s Skyway and Montreal’s RÉSO shows how transit integration, planning priorities, and public-private dynamics shaped two distinct models of climate-controlled pedestrian systems.
Social Sciences
This article explores water's relational intelligence through science, anthropology, and dance, revealing how its movement reflects agency and deep connections with human experience. It proposes embodied, reciprocal relationships with water as pathways to ecological healing and climate justice.
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
This paper argues that in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve’s lender of last resort (LOLR) policy did discretionarily benefit certain financial institutions at the expense of others.
Social Sciences
This piece builds on earlier studies investigating public art in Washington, DC with a focus on LGBTQ placemaking. Now returning to the original religious lens, this note examines the geographies of worship and placemaking in the DC's evolving cultural history.
Social Sciences
This paper explores the forced development of language in a specific geography to abide by colonial standards, as well as how the imprint of the forced language gives rise to a new language community.
Social Sciences
This urban survey provides a rough overview of sites of slavery, imprisonment, and Atlantic slave trade in Alexandria, Virginia. It touches sites in the city along the waterfront, within the urban fabric of the city, as well as on the periphery of Alexandria located in DC's periphery.
Social Sciences
In a car-centred city plagued by vehicular pollution, this proposal identifies streets to be modified with human centred design at its core. These streets implement bike lanes, bus lanes, wider sidewalks, and increased tree coverage - all of which encourage the use of alternate transportation.
Social Sciences
As we face the challenges of climate change, urbanization, and a fragmented global landscape, architecture must evolve—becoming more dynamic, adaptive, and interdisciplinary.
Social Sciences
Patronage shapes the meaning and experience of an architectural space by prescribing size, shape, and content to enforce personal values of the patrons of Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan, and St Peter’s Square, Rome.
Social Sciences
When most people think of a campus in New York, they tend to think they are integrated throughout town, mixed in with the skyscrapers and business of the city. However, Barnumbia can lock all its entrancesinto campus, closing itself off from the surrounding neighborhoods and residents of Harlem.