Publications
Aeon Magazine, 4/25
“By 1997, Moscow’s skyline was transformed when a vast golden dome, long absent, rose once again over the city…The cathedral was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1931, then in 1958 it was replaced with a massive outdoor swimming pool, reusing the abandoned foundation of the Palace of the Soviets… Decades later, however, the pool was drained, the land consecrated once more, and the cathedral rebuilt, signalling changing times and ideologies…”
Romantic Urbanism, 1/25
“The crisis of infrastructure is, at its core, a crisis of separation. People have become separated from both the places we inhabit and the tools needed to maintain them. We have built spaces that require endless intervention to remain functional, and the places deemed as low-value suffer from disinvestment and neglect. Repair has become not just a technical necessity but a form of resistance—an insistence on restoring connections, both to materials and to each other…”
Urban Mag, 5/25
“Moscow is a city of contradictions. Its streets and monuments are steeped in beauty and layered histories, but they are also tools — powerful expressions of a political narrative… But what could the Red Square become? What if its monuments told the stories of those displaced by conflict? What if its streets bore witness not to parades of tanks but to gatherings of citizens, coming together to envision a shared future?”
BU Today, 12/24
“Indigenous peoples, who make up just 6 percent of the global population, protect 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity. Yet, our universities, the very institutions tasked with shaping future leaders and innovators, are failing to adequately incorporate Indigenous perspectives and knowledge into their curricula. In spring 2024, I and my colleagues Selby Vaughn (CAS’24) and Delaney Foster (CAS’25) obtained a Campus Climate Lab grant from BU’s Institute for Global Sustainability to research the gaps in Indigenous curriculum, cultural activities, and spaces at BU.”