Selected publications and conference papers
“Religious architecture in mission countries: the case of Senegal and Ngasobil,” Association of the Archivists of the Church in France, “Journées d’étude 2025,” Paris. 2025 (forthcoming).
“Resistance by Desertification: The Mass Movement Against the Dakar — St. Louis Railway in Senegal, 1879-80,” European Architectural History Network Themed Conference, “Microhistories of Architecture,” ETH Zurich. 2025.
“The Modern Architecture of the St. Joseph Mission at Ngasobil, Senegal,” Society of Architectural Historians 78th Annual International Conference, panel “Colonialism, Christianity, and Modern Architectures of Occupation." 2025.
“Distinguishing Modernness: Three Modern Artifacts from mid-18th Century Senegal,” New Perspectives in European Studies, Institute of European Studies Graduate Fellows 2024 Research Symposium. Cornell University. 2024.
“The St. Joseph Mission Schoolat Ngasobil, Senegal, 1833-1866,” 11th annual Jaap Bakema Study Centre Conference, Nieuwe Instituut, TU Delft, Symposium: “Staying withModernity? (Dis)Entangling Coloniality and Architecture.” 2024.
“Excesses of Colonial Imagination: Tony Garnier’s Industrial City from Dakar to Lyon,” Cornell University Graduate History Colloquium. 2024.
“From Red Soil to Red Earth: Turn of the Century Utopianism’s Ecologies,” co-author with Mehmet Sahinler, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). 2024.
“Desertification as a Landforming Strategy in West Africa at the Turn of the Century,” Columbia University GSAPP, Symposium: “Forms of Environmentalization.” 2024.
“Modernness in Architecture:Two Case Studies from Nineteenth-Century West Africa,” Cornell University Africana Research Center, graduate symposium: “Modern Political Philosophy.” 2024.
“Historicizing Garnier: On Vidler’s History-Writing,” Arredamento Mimarlik 366. 2024.
“Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future,” review in Institute of Comparative Modernities Newsletter. 2024.
“Domestic Privacy and Publicity in the Age of Electricity,” Royal Danish Academy of Design & University of Copenhagen. 2023.
“Resat Ekrem Kocu’s Istanbul Encyclopedia,” Mimar.ist 78. 2023.
“Observations on a Border Model,” Log 50. 2020.
“Social Mutations,” co-written with Mehmet Sahinler, Mimar.ist 68. 2020.
“Aesthetics of Prosthetics,” Plat 8.5. 2019.
“The Endgame of Carbon Form,” Log 47 (drawing). 2019.