About

I am an architect, historian, and educator living and working on the unceded Coast Salish lands, the traditional and contemporary lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Currently, I’m an assistant professor of Critical & Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

I have come to Coast Salish lands from amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton, where I received my PhD in History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture from the University of Alberta.

Through writing, creating, anticolonial teaching, experiential learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration, I seek to uphold my responsibilities to the Indigenous peoples and lands with which I live, and to the Middle East, its peoples, cultures, and lands, from which I originate. My responsibility and commitment to these peoples and lands does not take the shape of research about them to be incorporated and assimilated back into the empire. It rather exposes the hidden-from-sight manifestations, mechanisms, and reverberations of coloniality as ontology, not as a bygone period. I am interested in anticolonial and feminist approaches to the study of built environments, materials, and visual representations.

Recent Publications

Medicine Hat Red Brick: A Tale of Extractivist Colonialism and Environmental Racism, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, (2024) 49 (1): 28–40.

Of Architecture and Hope: The Citadel Theatre of Edmonton and the Cruel Optimism of a Bygone Petroleum Age, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (2022) 81 (3): 357–371.