M.S. History, Theory, and Society Alumni

Following is a list of M.S. History, Theory, and Society alumni and their masters topics. You can also refer to the list of Ph.D. alumni dissertations for a broader range of research topics.

A History of the Modern American Architectural Archive in Two Case Studies
Nicole Donna Santiago
Graduation Date: 2020

Schools Without Walls: Redefining the Architecture of Learning in Postwar Elementary Schools in the United States, 1945-1975
Michelle Sunyoung Min
Graduation Date: 2019

Landscapes of Domestic Labor: gender, race, and power in La Condesa
Tania Osorio Harp
Graduation Date: 2019

A Temporary Utopia: Leatherdyke Space
Kara Morgan Plaxa
Graduation Date: 2019

Sedentary: A Critique of Task Chair Geometries and Culturally Enforced Sitting in Classrooms and Offices
E.J. Rosen
Graduation Date: 2018

Blight and the Younger City: Unraveling the Motives and Methods of Redevelopment
Alexander Craghead
Graduation Date: 2015

One Fabric, Different Scales, Multiple Agents: The Case of Cabucu de Cima, Sao Paulo Brazil
Giuseppina Forte
Graduation Date: 2015

Architectural Lighting and Circadian Health: Developing a Framework for a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
Antony Kim
Graduation Date: 2015

Street Spectacle: Fremont’s Festival of India Parade and the Transformation of a Silicon Valley Suburb
Anisha Gade
Graduation Date: 2014

The Birth of a Mega Spectacle: Theme Park Temples in 21th Century India
Swetha Vijayakumar
Graduation Date: 2014

Lost in the City: Missing Persons and Unidentified Bodies in Nineteenth-Century New York
Jessica Brown
Graduation Date: 2013

Altering the “Socialist” Facade: Personal Property and Residents’ Appropriation of Balconies
ioana Chinan
Graduation Date: 2013

California canneries and women’s work, 1910’S TO 1930’S: The case OF Emeryville's Del Monte Plant #35
Amelia Brooke Ritzenberg
Graduation Date: 2013

Reconstruction of National Identities in “Trapped Spaces” of Memory: The Case of Iran-Iraq War
Shahrzad Shirvani
Graduation Date: 2013

The Interplay Between Historic Preservation Theory, Practice, and Policy in the Effort to Preserve Two Bay Area Working-Class Neighborhood Bars
Stacy Farr
Graduation Date: 2012

Up Close and Personal: Architectural Digest, Angelo Donghia, and the New Idiom of Intimacy
Eva Hagberg
Graduation Date: 2012

The Myth of Karbala: Socio-Political and Spatial Practices in contemporary Tehran
Ayda Taghikhani Melika
Graduation Date: 2012

Furniture, Eye Level and Communication
Corey Daniel Schnobrich
Graduation Date: 2012

The Reinvention of Amman: Heritage-conservation, Privatization and consumer Modernity
Eliana Mohammad Abu-Hamdi
Graduation Date: 2011

Deep Energy Retrofits Ten California Case Studies
Jeremy Osiris Fisher
Graduation Date: 2011

Historicizing the Housing Problem and Social Housing Producton in Morocco
Anna Gloria Goodman
Graduation Date: 2011

Haret Hreik and Al-Saha Traditional Village: Case Studies in the Lebanonization of NGO’s within Hezbollah’s Islamic Milieu (al-haha al-Islamiyya)
Paola Kaia Rizzuto
Graduation Date: 2011

Collecting Occupant Presence Data for Use in Energy Management of Commercial Buildings
Benjamin Rosenblum
Graduation Date: 2011

Reading the “Muslim Space” in Bombay Through Cinema
Aravind Unni
Graduation Date: 2011

The Impact of Gender in Shaping Mall Spaces in Kuwait
Amina Yousef Al-Kandari
Graduation Date: 2010

The Effect of Local Neighborhood Spaces on Sociability and Trust in Diverse Neighborhoods
Orit Ben Assa
Graduation Date: 2010

Cuzco (re) Imagined through Narratives of Power, Conquest, and Commodification
Catherine Elizabeth Covey
Graduation Date: 2010

The Never-Finished Starter Home: A Case Study of Concord Park, a California Suburb, 1950-2010
Marilyn Ruth Novell
Graduation Date: 2010

Reimag(in)ing a Soviet City: New Construction and Disruption of the Soviet Urban Order in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Shawhin Roudbari
Graduation Date: 2010

Extra-legal Housing of Low Income Population in Damascus: Emerging Solutions for current Reality
Alia Alkhayer
Graduation Date: 2009

Intelligent Home Care Environments for the Elderly (backdate to 12/19/2009)
Hsin-Hsien Chiu
Graduation Date: 2009

Baghdad’s New Geography: The Spatial Practices of Sectaria Politics, 2003-2007
Mona Damluji
Graduation Date: 2009

Alien and Distant: Rem Koolhaas on Film in Lagos, Nigeria
Joseph Michael Godlewski
Graduation Date: 2009

Architectural Taste and Status: an Exploratory Survey
Georgia Lucille Lindsay
Graduation Date: 2009

Between Architecture and Advertising L. Morgan Yost, FAIA
Jonathan Yorke Bean
Graduation Date: 2008

Building Memory and State Legitimacy: Commemorative WWII Architecture in the Former Yugoslavia
Shannon Elizabeth Brown
Graduation Date: 2008

Sustainability Practices in Egypt: An assessment of Contemporary Low Energy Design Practices
Karim Omar Abdel Aziz El Gendy
Graduation Date: 2008

Heritage and the (in) visibility of History in Basseterre, St. Kitts-Nevis
Lavina Olomay Cecelia Liburd
Graduation Date: 2008

The Village Ideal: Spatializing Reform in Angelo-American Planning
Susanne Elizabeth Cowan
Graduation Date: 2007

The Corner of Cope Street: Maximizing and Ensuring Choice Through a Socio-Spatial Community Development Practice
John Delthelbert Goins III
Graduation Date: 2007

Graphic Representations of the Design Process in Architecture: Diagramming Rural Social Housing Projects in Chile
Fernando Enrique Herrera
Graduation Date: 2007

The Development Paradox in Cheonggyecheon Restoration
Yieheerah Yun
Graduation Date: 2007

From Scattered Remnants to National Park: Rosie the Riverter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park and the Reinterpertation of Richmond, California
Kimberly Jeanette Butt
Graduation Date: 2006

Children in Media Environment
Chung On Kim
Graduation Date: 2006

The Remittance House: on the Cultural Landscapes of MExican Migrancy
Sarah Lynn Lopez
Graduation Date: 2006

"Today it feels good to be an African" Neoliberal Landscapes in (post)-Apartheid South Africa
Mpho Matsipa
Graduation Date: 2006

Neoliberal Fashioning: Urban Governance and Urban Space in Globalizing Bangalore
Kamya Ramachandran
Graduation Date: 2006

The Veiled Landscape of Service: Removing, Screening and Masking Worker Housing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Sarah Coston Sabiston
Graduation Date: 2006

Africa's Strange Modernity: Understanding Space in African Cities
Tadd Jonathan Andersen
Graduation Date: 2005

Skateboarding in the Gentrifying City: Redevelopment Plazas and Skateboard Parks as Sites Of Production
Erik Ocean Howell
Graduation Date: 2005

Today it Fells Good to be an African
Mpho Matsipa
Graduation Date: 2005

Farm House Living: The Political Economy of a Lifestyle
Vandini Mehta
Graduation Date: 2005

Communality and Indifference: A Divergence of Modernist Intent and Effect at St. Mary’s Cathedral
Steven Doctors
Graduation Date: 2004

An Integrated Digital Documentation Methodology to Support Archaeological and Architectural Recording and Analysis
John Ristevski
Graduation Date: 2004

Apartment for one: Single Women and Domestic Space in Popular Advice Literature, 1946-1962
Claire Tichi
Graduation Date: 2004

Hope Set in Stone: Rural Hispanic and Anglo-American Vernacular Architecture in the Purgatorie Canyon, Las Animas County, Colorado
Kathleen LaMoine Corbett
Graduation Date: 2003

Producing Urban Informality in Mumbai: Policy, Politics, and Practice in Jari Mari and Shantiniketan
Renu Desai
Graduation Date: 2003

Refracted Modernities: A Representational Analysis of the Arab World Institute
Julie Sinclair Eakin
Graduation Date: 2003

Transfer of Knowledge: A Study on Learning in the Beginner’s Design Studio
Eleni Paparizou
Graduation Date: 2003

Building the Homeland: Narratives of Violence and Aesthetics in the construction of Eretz Israel
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Graduation Date: 2003

People and the Built Environment: Use, Appropriation and Personalization of Space in Spontaneous Settlements and Housing Projects in Mexico City
Elena Tames
Graduation Date: 2003

Innovations in Illumination at The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
Laura Anne Ackley
Graduation Date: 2002

Simulating Architectural Space
Daniel cunin Glaser
Graduation Date: 2002

The image of the simulated city: sim city 2000 and popular perceptions of the city
Amy Kristine Phillips
Graduation Date: 2002

"Traditioning": A dialectical form of architectural preservation. A case study: Hanoi, Vietnam
Alexandra marie-louise sauvegrain
Graduation Date: 2002

Recreation on the wrong side of the tracks: working-class amusements in West Oakland, 1900-1930
Jody rae stock
Graduation Date: 2002

Regional Development and Vernacular Architecture in Rural Nepal
William Philip Duncanson
Graduation Date: 2001

Quarrying and Masonry Techniques in the “Twin” Basilcas of Roman Corinth
James Alan Herbst
Graduation Date: 2001

Artists’ and Artisans’ Live/Work Spaces: A Qualitative Study
Andrea Jean Montalbano
Graduation Date: 2001

Understanding the relationship between architecture, identity, and culture: jews and synagogues as a case study
Jon Robin Norman
Graduation Date: 2001

Collaborative Characteristics of Design Teams: A Criticall Literature Review
Tim Lewis Stockwell
Graduation Date: 2001

In the meaning of home: the courtyard house in Argentina (1810-1910)
Ana Laura Ruesjas
Graduation Date: 1999

Web-Based Communication of Design Information For Asynchronous Design Energy Evaluation
Beatrice C. Benne
Graduation Date: 1998

Urban Transformation: The Case of Iranians in Los Angeles
Marjan Ladjevardi
Graduation Date: 1998

Roomful of Blues: Jukejoints and the Cultural Landscape of the Mississippi Delta
Jennifer Lynn Nardone
Graduation Date: 1998

Homelessness and the Mass media: Ideology, spatial discourse and squatting practices in San Francisco
Alexander Patricio Salazar
Graduation Date: 1998

Kikuji ishimoto and the shirokiya Department Store: Forging a modern architecture
Ari Dov Seligmann
Graduation Date: 1998

The Presence and Protest of the 1932 Bonus March in Washington : A case study of Spatial Inversion
Jeremy Scott White
Graduation Date: 1998

Spatial perception in Virtual Environments: visual cognition gain with head mounted displays
Christopher Anthony Peri
Graduation Date: 1997

Post-War Reconstruction of Urban Identity at the End of the 20th Century: The Case of the Beirut Suq al-Tawileh District
Sofia Toufic Shwayri
Graduation Date: 1997

Knowledge Base of Building Components
Anna Timerman
Graduation Date: 1997