Current Candidates and Students

Graduated Students

Weaam Al-Abdullah

Dissertation: 
Al-Shaheed Park as Public Space: An ethnographic exploration of everyday landscapes and politics in Kuwait 
(May 2021, Link)


Shahab Albahar

Dissertation: 
Planning Liminalities: Mapping Black Trans Spaces in Washington, DC 
(December 2023, Link)


Michael Bacon

Dissertation: 
Re-Assembling Community: Landscape, Commons, and Local Facts in Scottish Community Land Ownership 
(July 2021, Link)


James Barnes

Dissertation: 
Tactical & Technological Growth: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Biophilic Tactical Urbanism for Learning Environments 
(April 2025, Link)


Patricia Basile

Dissertation:
Governance from within in São Paulo’s Favelas 
(July 2018, Link)


Fatmah Behbahani

Dissertation: 
Life in the New Town: The Planning and Social Implications of Morocco’s New Towns Experiment 
(May 2021, Link)


Dijia Chen

Dissertation:
Dissenters Unfettered: "TUMU" and the Making Of Contemporary Chinese Architecture in the Exhibitionary Contact Zone 
(April 2024, Link)


Alissa Diamond

Dissertation:
Entangled Histories for Indeterminate Futures: Racial Capitalisms, Resistances, and Space in Central Virginia 
(June 2023, Link)


Zhe Dong

Dissertation:
Toward a Paradigmatic Approach Of Meaning-Making: Memorial Art and Architecture in Mao Zedong's Birthplace 
(July 2020, Link)


Luka Hamel-Serenity

Dissertation: 
Coastal Climate Resilience through the Racialized Redistribution System: The Uneven Effects of Racial Capital on Adaptation and Place Attachment in Norfolk, VA 
(April 2025, Link)


Zhiqiu Jiang

Dissertation:
Examining Travel to Non-work Destinations: Integrating Geosocial Media and Smartphone-Based GPS Traces 
(August 2021, Link)


Kevan Klosterwill

Dissertation: 
Terraforming in the Eastern Forest: Spatial Practices for and against Planetary Regeneration 
(July 2020, Link)


Xun Liu

Dissertation: 
AI+ Landscapes: Deep Learning in the Generation and Analysis of Landscape Form 
(May 2025, Link)


Leigh Miller

Dissertation: 
Being (in)Between: Space and Subjectivity in Video Game Worlds 
(April 2020, Link)


Elizabeth Mitchell

Dissertation: 
The Diaspora Synagogue: Jewish Architecture and the Inter-Communal Networks of the 17th and 18th Century Atlantic 
(August 2021, Link)
 

Kelly Ritter

Dissertation: 
Shanghai and Its Image; Architecture, Visual Culture, and the Popular Pictorial Modern Sketch, 1934-1937 
(April 2022, Link)


William Shivers

Dissertation: 
The Tree at the Center: Reconstructing Landscape History and Analysis in the American Landscape's Periphery 
(April 2025, Link)


Matthew Slaats

Dissertation:
Infrastructures of the Marvelous: Public Housing Led Social Transformation in Charlottesville 
(December 2023, Link)


Julia Triman

Dissertation: 
Regulating Wildness: Planning Discourses of Weeds And Wildlife in Washington, D.C. 
(April 2019, Link)


Richa Vuppuluri

Dissertation: 
Steering Water through Environmental Behavior: Urban Water Management Decision-making in Mumbai's Strained Ecosystem of the Mithi River 
(August 2023, Link)


Zihao Zhang

Dissertation: 
Cybernetic Environment: Uncontrollability and non-communication for a future of coexistence 
(May 2021, Link)

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