Ph.D. and Master of Science Students

Name	Degrees	Research Interests/Specializations
Arfa Aijazi
AMINA AL-KANDARI	M.S in Architecture from University of California at Berkeley (2010) M. ARCH in Architecture and Urban Design Studies from Syracuse University (2007) B. ARCH from University of Miami (2005)	Alkandari is a PhD Candidate in Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, specialized in History of Architecture and Contemporary Urbanization in Developing Countries with focus on the Middle East and the Arab Gulf specifically. Her Ph.D. dissertation focuses on Nation-Building and Modernity in Kuwait from the Early 1900 to the present.
SHAIKHAH ALMUBARAKI
Heba Alnajada	B.S. Architectural Engineering, The University of Jordan M.A. Urban Design (Distinction), The University of Sheffield	Forced and Voluntary Migration; Displacement; Exile; Subjectivity Refugee Camps; Politics and Discourses of humanitarianism; NGO’s Nation-states and Nation-Building; Cities and Citizenship; Middle-East
Luis Filipe Batista
Laura Belik
Michelle Bynum
YING-FEN CHEN	M.S. of Engineering: Building and Planning, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan B.S. of Engineering: Civil Engineering, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan	Chinese Urbanism, Cinema and Cities, Social Activism in East Asian context, Participatory Planning. My recent research focuses on the cultural process of urban imaginary making, film-induced tourism, and decentralized Chinese identities, particularly taking place in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the two major culturally Chinese locales beyond Mainland China. Dissertation working title: "The Contemporary Chinese Cinematic Urbanism in Taiwan and Hong Kong".
IOANA CHINAN
Lai Jing Chu
Alexander Craghead	M.S., Architecture, University of California at Berkeley B. A., Communications, Marylhurst University Certificate in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Marylhurst University	I research the cultural intersection of meaning, change, and place, through both form and representation. I therefore study the built environment, the rhetoric that surrounds changes in that environment, and the visual depiction of place. I am particularly interested in the relationship between newness and age, especially in the processes of urban renewal, redevelopment, and gentrification, as well as the history and culture of the historic preservation movement. The nature of my work is interdisciplinary, in that it combines history, geography, and art history. Presently, I study sites on the U.S. West Coast, as here, in the youngest of Euro-American cities, the constructed nature of age and obsolescence is more easily seen. I am particularly interested in the ways that buildings, both intentionally and unintentionally, become arguments in larger cultural struggles, as well as exist as tangible evidence of real winners and losers in the making of place. More broadly, I am interested in architecture as media, the role of the urban imaginary, and cities as cultural landscapes.
Megan Dawe
CAITLIN DECLERCQ	M.S. Teaching & Curriculum; Specialization in Health Professions Education, Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester B.A. Anthropology; Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley	Social research theories and methods in environmental design; the history and theory of college campus planning and design; social and historical contexts of educational spaces; evidence-based design; college health promotion; place and health; social determinants of health (social epidemiology); physical activity and sedentary physiology
Carlos Duarte	M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Idaho B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Idaho	Whole Building Energy Simulation, Radiant Systems, High Performing and Sustainable Buildings
Giuseppina Forte	M.S. in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley M.A. Equiv., B.A in Architecture, La Sapienza University, Rome NCARB Professional Certification in Architecture, U.S.A. Professional Degree in Architecture, Italian Ministry of Education and Research	spatial justice; history and theory of architecture and urbanism; architectural practice; techno-politics and governmentality; cultural politics; peripheral architecture and urbanization
Jennifer Gaugler	Master of Architecture, Tulane University Bachelor of Science in Art and Design (Architecture), Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Historic and contemporary architecture and urbanism of East Africa; globalization, postcolonialism, vernacular building traditions, and urban planning
Stathis Gerostathopoulos	Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley MA (honours) History of Art and Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow, UK	I study modern and contemporary urban history and theory with a focus on debates around ideas of difference within the built environment. A tentative dissertation subject looks at queer place-making strategies, their material manifestations, and cultural exchanges between California and Mexico. With an academic background in Art History and Theater Studies, I completed my Master of Architecture at UC Berkeley and practiced architectural design in the Bay Area before returning to research.
Razieh Ghorbani Kharaji	M.Arch, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor M.S. in Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	The everyday politics of architecture and construction in the Middle East; urban anthropology; architectural globalization and its rhetoric; postcolonial and alternative modernities
JAIME GÓMEZ	M.Arch.II, McGill University, Canada. B.Arch., Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia.	Ordinary buildings and landscapes. History of housing. Domesticity. Cultural landscape studies. Vernacular architecture. Housing design. Dissertation: Learning through Domestic Settings: Institutional Domesticity and the Making of Model Citizens (working title): My dissertation explores how two boarding schools created domestic environments to shape children’s behavior in order to make ideal citizens. I use methods from cultural landscape studies to understand how the values promoted by these schools were coded in the institutions’ domestic settings and practices, and how children learned these values. I read the spatial settings of the institutions studied as domestic space.
Caroline Karmann	Masters in Climate and Energy (2008), INSA Strasbourg, France Masters in Architecture (2006), INSA Strasbourg, France	Indoor environmental quality (including thermal comfort, visual comfort, acoustic comfort & indoor air quality), energy efficiency, user behavior
Mohammad Keshavarzi	Bachelor of Architectural Engineering - University of Tehran
Joyce (Jihyun) Kim	M.S. Sustainable Design, Philadelphia University B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo	Thermal comfort, occupant behavior, machine learning, energy efficiency, demand response and smart grids.
Antony Kim
Jihyun Kim
Megan Kirby	BFA Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design MS Architecture, University of California, Berkeley	The intersections of migration and architecture, informal settlements, slum clearance, African urbanism, history of Islamic architecture
Won Hee Ko	B.Arch Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Master in Building Science, University of Southern California	Visual and thermal comfort and its relationship to occupants' well-being and performance, with a focus on the performance of building envelope.
Padma Maitland	Masters of Architecture, Princeton University Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, UC Berkeley	Art and Architecture in South Asia; Buddhism; Conservation and heritage; Countercultural exchanges between India and California.
AYDA MELIKA
Dana Miller
Michelle Min
Thomas Oommen
Tania Osorio Harp
Eric Peterson	Master of Environmental Design, Yale University Bachelor of Arts, Hampshire College	Architectural and Urban History, Political Economy, Urban Theory, U.S. Cultural History
Kara Plaxa
Elaina Present
Rina Priyani	M.S. in Architecture, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia B.Arch. in Architectural Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Certificate in Cultural Heritage Preservation, Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, Nara, Japan	History of architecture and urbanism in the 20th century; National identity in developing countries; Ethnicity and territoriality; Colonial and Postcolonial cities; Politics of heritage; Collective memory; Southeast Asia; Indonesia. Dissertation working title: "Remaking Bandung: Ethnic Identities, Colonialism and Building Practice in an Indonesian City"
Trude Renwick	MDesS History and Philosophy of Design - Graduate School of Design at Harvard University B.A. Anthropology from Brandeis University B.A. Urban Studies from Brandeis University	Urban Ethnography in Bangkok, Thailand; Currently Examining the Space of the Market in Bangkok, which includes Malls, Street Markets, and Abandoned Buildings; Urban Conflict and Political Movements; Urban Theory; Non Governmental Organizations; Anthropology
Emily J. Rosen
Valentina Rozas-Krause	MS in Urban Planning, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Professional Degree in Architecture, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile BA in Architecture, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Valentina Rozas Krause is interested in the History of Architecture and Urbanism, Memorials and Monuments, Cultural Memory, Theories of Urban Design and Planning, Landscape Design and Cultural Geography. Her dissertation research focuses on the representation of memories of twentieth century traumas in public urban space in Argentina, Germany and the United States. She studies monuments on two levels: as an emerging global practice of memorialization and as places for everyday life. Valentina grew up in Berlin and Santiago.
Alberto Sanchez
Ettore Santi	B.S. Architecture, Polytechnic University of Milan M.S. Architecture, Polytechnic University of Milan Master of Architecture, Tongji University of Shanghai	Territory and urbanization; 'Countryside urbanism'; Ethnicity and rural social movements; Chinese urban and rural studies.
Haripriya Sathyanarayanan
Cailin Shannon
Shahrzad Shirvani	M.S. in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley Master of Architecture, Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch) Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, Islamic Azad University (Central Tehran Branch)	Contemporary urban history of developing countries with a focus on Iran; Politics of everyday life in the Middle Eastern cities with a focus on Tehran; Construction of national identity through practices of shared memory and commemoration in Iran; Contemporary histories and narratives of monuments, Traditions and Modernities in the context of the Middle East; Cities, citizenship, and urban transformations; gendered segregation and urban politics of social control; Publicity and ‘freedom’; Public spaces of leisure and entertainment.
Noam Shoked	Master of Architecture, The Cooper Union Master of Architectural History, McGill University	History of architecture and urbanism, ordinary landscapes, and communal settlements
Alec Stewart	M.A. Geography, 2011, George Washington University B.A. Geography, 2005, UC Berkeley; Minor in City and Regional Planning	US metropolitan history and life Twentieth century North American built environment studies Cultural landscape studies American consumer culture Spaces and theories of citizenship and public space Immigration and immigrant space
ELAINE BROWN STILES	BA, Art History, Smith College MA, Preservation Studies, Boston University	Twentieth-century U.S. architecture and urbanism, nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. and European suburban development and design, the history of consumerism and spaces of consumption, material culture, vernacular architecture, and cultural landscape studies
Desirée Valadares	M.Arch Urban Design and Housing, McGill University MLA Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph (with coursework in M.Sc. Architectural Conservation, University of Edinburgh) B.Arts Sc. Arts and Science and Art History, McMaster University	I am a landscape architect/historian specializing in cultural resource management in sites of conflict, neglect and trauma. My research draws from critical race theory, critical prison studies, and cultural landscape studies to address topics as diverse as: Race, space and exclusion Confinement and ethnicity Transitional justice, redress and reparation politics Heritage preservation, critical conservation and cultural property law Commemoration, public history and memory
Jonathan Woolley
JIONG (ABINGO) WU	M.Arch., Berlage Institute, Rotterdam B.Engineering, ( South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou)	Histories and Approaches of 20th Century Mass Housing; Theories and Histories of 20th Century Urbanism; Interdisciplinary China Study; China urbanizing villages. Dissertation: “Alternative Housing and Living in Guangzhou Peri-urban Villages”