I am a historian of the built environment whose work examines the intertwined histories in West Asia during the modern period. I am currently working on my book, Disputed Property: Architecture and Nation in the South Caucasus, which offers a critical adjustment to architectural discussions of modernity and imperialism beyond the West by pointing to the often-overlooked role of property in imperial spatial politics and anti-imperial struggles.
My research and teaching interests include the relationship between architecture and revolution; architectural authorship and the modern movement; architecture and property; and postwar homeownership and housing finance in West Asia.
Currently, I am a Visiting Faculty at the California College of the Arts and a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council-funded project "How the middle class housed itself in the Eastern Mediterranean" at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies during 2025-26.
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