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)