Expertise

I am an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. I study how landscapes become sites of governance, repair, and contested public memory, especially where histories of race, land, and environmental change remain embedded in the present. My research examines how planning and design shape what is remembered, who is included, and what forms of reparative stewardship become possible. This work currently focuses on racialized ecologies and plantation afterlives in New York State, while building on earlier research on arts-based placemaking in Chicago’s South Side and public space governance in signature urban parks. My scholarship and research development have been supported by the Social Science Research Council, The Wallace Foundation, the USDA McIntire–Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Dumbarton Oaks.

Organizational Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Academic Departments and Divisions, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Education

Urban Planning and Public Policy
09/2015–08/2021, Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Arlington (United States, Arlington) - UTA

Neoliberal Park Governance Regimes and the Right to the city: A Critical Assessment of Social Inclusion in Downtown Dallas Signature Parks. Advisor: Dr. Ivonne Audirac

Urban Design
09/2007–05/2010, Master of Arts (MA, MA, AM, or AM), Tehran Azad University
Architecture
09/2001–05/2006, Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Tehran Azad University