History of Art and Architecture

For Fall 2026, I am a visiting faculty member at the Department of History & Humanities at Wheaton College through the Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellowship. I am teaching an undergraduate seminar entitled HIST 298: Africa and the Modern World. 

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and I hold a doctoral certificate in Collaborative Humanities from the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. My work engages with material cultures and built environments of the African continent and its diaspora, with an emphasis on histories of racial/colonial slavery, abolition, and the Francophone colonial world. Drawing on Black critique and postcolonial/decolonial theory, my dissertation traces an architectural history of enslaved and freed people in Martinique in the era of abolition My project aims to understand how colonial emancipation impacted the built environment and, importantly, how freed people built their own sense of self and place in this new post-abolition colonial landscape.

As a Graduate Fellow at the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, I am a lead contributor to The Unfinished Conversations Series, a global digital archive composed of interviews and oral/public histories that foreground the contemporary legacies of racial/colonial slavery and European colonialism. I am involved in several of its adjacent projects, including exhibitions (In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World), documentaries, and a digital humanities website. I serve as the lead curator to the traveling exhibition The Unfinished Conversations Series, featured at the Simmons Center (2025); the Instituto de Pesquisa e Memória Pretos Novos (IPN) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2025-2026); and now on view at the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum in Cape Town, South Africa (2026-ongoing).

My writings have been featured in the Architectural Theory Review, gta Verlag, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, as well as exhibition catalogs for the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

My work has been generously supported by the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (Brown University), the Cogut Institute for the Humanities (Brown University), the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America (Brown University), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Society of Architectural Historians, the New England Society of Architectural Historians, the French Colonial Historical Society, the Kermit Champa Memorial Fund and the Rebecca Molholt Vanel Memorial Fund. I am also an active member of the Society of Architectural Historians Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) and I currently serve as its chair for the 2026-2027 academic year. 

Trained as an architect, I previously worked in architecture firms in Yukon, Canada, and Tokyo, Japan. I also collaborated on curatorial projects with the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Tezuka Architects at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture. 

I hold a M.Arch and a B.Arch in Architecture from La Cambre-Horta - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and a BSocSc in International Studies and Modern Languages from Université d’Ottawa, Canada.