Research Description
Dissertation, “Nuclear Terrains: Four Landscapes Against Entanglement”
How can we understand nuclear landscapes as co-productive sites of human-nuclear entanglement, without erasing the power differentials at stake? Building on and against the new materialist conceptualizations of entanglement, my dissertation proposes a relational framework that unflattens “landscapes” into four analytic “terrains,” revealing configurations of power between human design-thinking and the confounds of radiological materiality. Through case studies that crosscut Japan (Hiroshima and Fukushima) and the United States (Illinois and New Mexico), I map these terrains across sites of nuclear infrastructure, warmaking, and scientific discovery to resituate power within the "more-than-human world" of new materialism and to envision ways of inhabiting the Nuclear Anthropocene.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Ph.D. Landscape Architecture (2022-present)
- M.ARCH, School of Architecture (2022)
- B.A. English (2017)
Additional Education
- Certification in Critical Theory, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, UIUC (2026)
- Institute in Environmental Humanities, Colby College (2025)
- School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (2024)
Awards and Honors
Fellowships
- Predoctoral Fellowship, Humanities Research Institute, UIUC (2026-27)
- Japanese National Fellowship for Graduate Students Overseas, Japanese Student Service Organization, Japan (2024-)
- Nicholson Fellowship, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, UIUC (2024)
- Vincent Bellafiore Fellowship, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, UIUC (2022)
- University Fellowship, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, UIUC (2022)
- Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium, Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Germany (2022)
Travel Grants
- George and Dorothy Fiel Fellowship, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, UIUC (2026)
- Pauline Tilton Kennedy Prize, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, UIUC (2023)
- Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in Architecture, School of Architecture, UIUC (2022)
Courses Taught
Teaching Assistantships
- ARCH 577: Theories of Architecture, School of Architecture, UIUC (2024 Fall; 2023 Fall)
- LA 314: History of World Landscapes, Department of Landscape Architecture, UIUC (2024 Spring)
- ARCH 517: Modern Architectural History 1850-Present, School of Architecture, UIUC (2023 Spring)
Recent Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- "Nuclear Memory Entombed: The Architecture of Cocooning at the Hanford Site" (2026, forthcoming), Dimensions: Journal of Architectural Knowledge 5 (10). with Dr. William R. Roy (Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering, UIUC)
- "Landscape Entrusted: Depositing Nuclear Waste in Geologic Time" (2024), On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 17
Essays for Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, UIUC
- "Between the Natural and the Social" (2024), a reflection essay on attending the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University.
- "Material(ity) Turn, Didactic Readings of Five Texts" (2022), Kritik.
- "Biopolitics: Foucault, Esposito, and Agamben" (2021), Kritik.
Symposia & Conferences Organized
- Creativity in Modern Heritage (2026), School of Architecture/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, UIUC. with Kate E. Holliday (Architecture, UIUC) and Colter E. Wehmeier (Informatics, UIUC)
- Technocracy Conference (2026), Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, UIUC. with D. Fairchild Ruggles (Landscape Architecture/Unit for Criticism, UIUC)
- Spaces of Nature/Natures of Space (2025), PhD Program in Architecture & Landscape Architecture, UIUC.