Dr Sean Anderson

Consultations and Appointments

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Research Areas | Units and Programs | Academic Qualifications | Professional Experience | Memberships and Associations | Biography | Publications and Outputs

Research areas:

• Architecture and Art of Global Modernisms
  Contemporary architectural and urban theories
  Modern Italian Studies
  African Architecture and Art
  South Asian and Himalayan Architecture and Art
  Architectural Design

Academic Qualifications

• PhD, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006.
• M.Arch, Architectural Design, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Berkeley, 1997-99.
• B.Arch, Architectural Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, Ny, 1991-96.
• B.Sc with Honors, Architectural History and Urban Development,Cornell University, Ithaca, Ny, 1991-96.

Professional Experience

2010-12 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Montana State University Bozeman, MT

2008-10 | Assistant Professor, The American University of Sharjah Sharjah, UAE 2008-10

2005-07 | Visiting Professor, NJIT Summer Design Program in Italy Rome, Naples, Siena 2005-07

2005-07 | Visiting Lecturer, Texas A&M Santa Chiara Italy Design Program Castiglion Fiorentino 2005-07

2001-03 | Teaching Associate, Department of Art History, UCLA Los Angeles 2001-03

1999-00 | Visiting Professor of Design and History, CEPT Ahmedabad, India 1999-00

1998-99 | Assistant in Instruction (AI), School of Architecture, Princeton Princeton 1998-99

Research Grants / Commissions

2012-13 Fulbright Scholar, Sri Lanka [Research]

2007 SSRC Book Fellowship Finalist

2006 Graham Foundation Research Grant [$10,000]

2006 Spiro Kostof-SAH Fellowship

2005-06 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Ricercatore

2005-06 Manwaring UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship

2004-05 American Academy Rome Prize

2004-05 SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship

2003 Altman Traveling Fellowship

2001-04 Dickson Fellowship in Art History

1997 Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship

1997 Rhodes Fellowship Finalist

1996 Merrill Presidential Scholar

Biography

Selected Publications and Outputs

Book Chapters | Journal Articles | Conference Presentations and Publications | Alternative Media

Books

Completed | The Invisible Colony

Completed | Bed

In Preparation | Florestano Di Fausto: Architetto

In Preparation | The Fourth Shore Modern Italian Architecture in Libya

2006 | Flames of Devotion, Oil Lamps from South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, University of Washington Press/Fowler 2006
ISBN: 978-0974872933

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

2011 | Marg Magazine Lightness and Being: The Museum of Islamic Arts, Doha, Qatar

2010 | The Boundaries of Sharjah, Al Manakh, Volume II

2009 | Florestano di Fausto and the Politics of Mediterraneità, California Italian Studies, Online Journal (CDL)

2007 | La Città Bianca [White City], Parametro Special Issue, ‘Kabul Unveiled’

2007 | Proving Ground, Grey Room, Issue 27, pp.82-103

2007 | City of Dreams Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Ruby Ofori and Edward Scott’s documentary, “City of Dreams” (Cinema Guild, 2005)

2006 | Modernità and Interiorità in Colonial Asmara, Italian Studies, vol.61, no.2, Autumn, pp. 231-49

2006 | Editorial Review Marg Magazine National Museum of Asian Art, Rome

2003 | Editorial and Book Series Review Marg Magazine Monumental Legacy Series, ed. Devangana Desai / Oxford University Press, 2001

Conference Presentations and Publications

2013 | Nomadic Lenses: Asian Architecture in E.O. Hoppé's Photography. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference.

2012 | Real Copies: Writing a Modern Colonial Asmara
Nomad Seminar in Historiography: Narratives of Travel Writing and Architectural History, Ankara, Turkey

2011 | African Perspectives: The African Metropolis, Casablanca, Morocco [Paper Accepted], Paper Title: Revolutionary Benghazi

2011 | Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Chicago, IL: Session Chair, Session: Exiled: Modern Architecture in the Middle East

2011 | Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change, Amman, Jordan, Paper Title: Souq as Cypher: Redefining the Old City of Benghazi

2011 | Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA, Paper Title: Dark Modern: Udo Kultermann’s New Africa

2011 | Polis and Politics: Italian Urbanism Under Fascism, Columbia University, NY, Paper Title: Empty Places

2011 | DOCOMOMO, Istanbul, Turkey, Paper Title: In-Visible City/In-Visible Modernism [Read in absentia]

2011 | Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Savannah, Paper Title: At Home in the Mirage: Italian Colonial Expositions in the Fascist Regime

2011 | California Consortium of Italian Studies [CICIS], Los Angeles, Paper Title: Florestano Di Fausto and the Politics of Mediterraneità

2011 | College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, Paper Title: Toward an Interior of Colonial Asmara

2011 | Scontro/Incontro: Italian Colonialism, London, UK, Paper Title: Modernità e Interiorità in Colonial Asmara

2011 | Easts-Wests. Art and the Other’s Gaze, Mexico City, Paper Title: Sophie Calle in the Bed/Room

Alternative Media