Hollyamber Kennedy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich
Hollyamber Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Her book manuscript, The World Island, explores colonial-era land policy and its influence on the sciences of settlement at the intersection of modern architecture, demographic reform, and rural modernization. This project centers the role of anti-colonial and anti-partition resistance in the shaping of the colonial built environment. She previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard University, at the Mahindra Humanities Center, where she began work on her second long-term project, Wastelands of Empire. Her research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Social Science Research Council, the DAAD, SAH, and CAA, among others. Her writing has been published in Grey Room, Avery Review, Journal of Architecture (forthcoming), and by The University of Chicago Press, Whitechapel Gallery, and MIT Press. She has a chapter in a forthcoming book edited by Itohan Osayimwese on The Architectural Legacies of German Colonialism in Africa. She received her PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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