Dr Jennifer Ferng
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; MArch, Princeton University; BArch, Rice University; BA, Rice University
Lecturer
G04 - Wilkinson Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 5914 |
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Biographical details
Dr Jennifer Ferng is an architectural historian at the University of Sydney. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her professional degrees in design from Princeton University and Rice University. She specializes in European architecture and the earth sciences during the long eighteenth century as well as contemporary architecture and politics in Oceania and southeast Asia. These distinct research trajectories are centred around two projects: one on the cultural history of mining, design, and extraction during the global eighteenth century and the second on Australasian detention centres, shelter and humanitarian ethics.She has served as an editor of the journalArchitectural Theory Reviewpublished by Routledge and a chief researcher with the Sydney Intellectual History Network. Most recently, she was awarded a Transregional Research Junior Scholar fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). As part of this program focusing on Inter-Asia contexts and connections, she has been appointed a visiting scholar at the Harvard Asia Center, Harvard University from 2017-2018.
Professional Experience
2012 |Lecturer of Architecture, University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Planning.
2012 | Visiting Lecturer, MIT, History, Theory, & Criticism of Architecture and Art
2009-12 | Doctoral Researcher, Institut national d?histoire de l?art (INHA), Paris, France
2004-07 | Teaching Assistant, MIT, History, Theory, & Criticism of Architecture and Art.
2004-05 | Research Assistant, Sherry Turkle, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
2002-03 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY.
2001-03 | Visiting Critic, Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY.
2003 | Design Instructor, Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY
2003 | Visiting Critic, City University of New York, New York, NY
2001-02 | Research Assistant, Princeton University, School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ
Research interests
- European architecture and decorative arts from 1700 to present
- History of the earth sciences including geology and mineralogy
- History of modern landscape
- Architectural materials, nature and technology
- Contemporary architecture/design and politics in Asia, Oceania, and Latin America
- Critical theory
Selected grants
2017
- Offshore Migrations: Shelter and humanitarian ethics among Australasian detention centres; Ferng J; Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship.
2015
- Lightning Talks: Oral communication for Architecture and Law; Ferng J, Dixon O; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
- Lightning Talks: Oral communication for Architecture; Ferng J; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
2014
- Ideas and Enlightenment: The Long Eighteenth Century (David Nichol Smith Seminar XV), Sydney, NSW, 10-13 December; Milam J, Ledbury A, Parsons N, Ferng J; Ian Potter Foundation/Conference.
- European Architectural History Network Grant; Ferng J; Compagnia di San Paolo and the Urban Center Metropolitano/Conference Grant.
2013
- Sydney Intellectual History Network; Milam J, Aspromourgos A, Borghesi F, Caine B, Ferng J, Fitzmaurice A, Gaukroger S, Helbig D, Karalis V, Kerridge I, Macarthur D, Nassar D, Redding P, Sadurski W, Sevel M, Sluga G, Smith M, Waldow A, Walton K; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
- Membership Grant for Emerging Professionals; Ferng J; Society of Architectural Historians/Opler Grant.
- Sovereign States: Indonesia and the Politics of Detention; Anderson S, Ferng J, Griffiths R; Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/Collaborative Grant.
2012
- Global Sensibilities – The New History of Ideas; Blanshard A, Caine B, Celermajer D, Ferng J, Fitzmaurice A, Gatens M, Harmon C, Johnson M, Milam J, Sluga G, White S; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
Selected publications & creative works
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