Publications
Journal articles, working papers, policy memoranda, and editorials
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
"Heritage Throughlines in Geopolitical Conflict: Urban Identity and Immigrant Placemaking in Little Ukraine, NYC"
Forthcoming
The Birch Journal, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University, Spring 2026
"Histories of Privatization: Examining Culture, Legal Conflict, and Economic Transformation at Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, DC"
"Visualizing Housing Borderlands: Histories of Migration, Multiculturalism, Capital Flight, and Urban Conflict in Washington, DC"
Roots, The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, Spring 2025, 12–14
"Spatializing Grief: Examining the Rhetoric, Architecture, and Personification of Loss at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum"
Working Papers in Political Science
"Building a RAG-Intelligent Retrieval Policy Analysis Engine for Congressional Legislation"
"PCA Clustering and Topic Modeling of New York City PPRs Demonstrate Typological Differences in Content and Success Rate of DOI Interventions in City Governance"
"Communication is Key: Instituting Reform in New York's IDNYC-Mayoral Partnership for Immigrant New York"
"Contracting Trust in NYC: MOIA, City Council, and Overseeing Pro-Immigrant Services"
Edited Magazine Articles
"The Closed Campus: A Study of Academic, Social, and Cultural Dissonance at Columbia University Through (Spatial) Ethnography"
Forthcoming
Harvard Urban Review, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2026
"The Limits of Public Duty"
Forthcoming
Pidgin, Princeton University School of Architecture, 34, Spring 2026
"Between Broadway and College Walk: The Architecture of a Closed University"
Forthcoming
PLATFORM, Spring 2026
"Hyderabad and Hitech-city: Reflections on a Changing Urban Culture"
"The City as a State"
"Eat, Pray, Love and Cinemas of Ruin: Valuing Heritage and Memory in Changing Urban Landscapes"
"Deconstructing New York: On Jennifer Williams Photographing the Peripheral City"
"Human Relationships, Built Environments, and the City Block in India and the US: An Interview"
Policy Memoranda and Analyses
"DACA as a Model: Expanding Critical Region-Specific Support Programs to Lower Asylum Backlogs"
"Analyzing S.5 – The Laken Riley Act"
"Immigration Executive Order Analysis Database"
"Eminent Domain Reform: Addressing Systemic Failures and Historical Exclusion in Urban Land Disputes"
Political Commentary
"Fast Justice and The Court Enabling Trump"
— Columbia Political Review Online
February 2, 2026
"Unscripted: Even LLMs Think Trump's Speeches are Strange"
— Columbia Political Review Online
November 24, 2025
"Along the Hudson, Democracy Holds Fast"
— Columbia Political Review Online
November 18, 2025
"From Wharton to War: American Higher-Ed in the Trump Administration"
— Columbia Political Review Online
May 9, 2025
January 30, 2025
"Adams, Trump, and the Fall of Gotham"
— Columbia Political Review Online
February 24, 2025
"How to Tank Your International Image in Four Weeks"
— Columbia Political Review Online
February 12, 2025
Columns and Editorials
"Proactive Capital Planning and Support for Libraries is Overdue"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
December 8, 2025
"What's Going on With College Walk?"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
November 7, 2025
"Yes, There is Space for Shared Governance at Columbia"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
October 7, 2025
"A place among its peers: Learning from the 'Columbia lesson' at Harvard"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
May 5, 2025
"A New Era of Gate Closures"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
April 8, 2025
"What are Columbia's gate closures costing?"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
March 5, 2025
"The tents at Morningside campus entrances exemplify absurd campus safety measures at their most extreme"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
February 23, 2025
"It's Time To Act, Columbia"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
December 8, 2024
"Columbia Prepares for Tree Lighting, but for Whom?"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
December 3, 2024
"It's Time To Speak, Columbia"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
November 13, 2024
"Campus building restrictions undermine necessary post-election civic discourse"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
November 12, 2024
"New designs for on-campus closures reinforce polarization and undermine efforts to rebuild dialogue"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
October 30, 2024
"Moving Past Restrictions: Charting a Course for Columbia's Gate Closures"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
October 9, 2024
"Campus Status Color-Coding Puts Future Closures on a Hair Trigger"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
August 7, 2024
"Architecting Change and the Politics of Space: We've never been here before"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
April 24, 2024
"Pandemic to public safety: The shifting purpose of campus swipe access"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
April 12, 2024
"Missing poles flag the University's mission"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
March 29, 2024
"At Columbia, sitting outside with your friends is a radical act of campus community"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
March 7, 2024
"Swipe access to Journalism Library prioritizes division over the democratization of public-facing campus space"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
February 25, 2024
"Metal Barriers Cloister Campus Heritage Sites at the Cost of Campus Inclusivity and Community"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
February 10, 2024
"Manhattanville and Columbia's new renovations leave little breathing room for the arts and humanities"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
November 29, 2023
"Hostile Architecture and the Fourth Purpose: How Columbia's Gate Closures Work against the University and Public Good"
— Columbia Daily Spectator
November 1, 2023