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 Biographical Sketch & Bibliography

Arijit Sen
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture

sena@uwm.edu

 

 

Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. 2002
M. Arch., Iowa State University, Ames. 1991
B. Arch., University of Bombay, Bombay. 1987

 

Memberships
Member, American Studies Association
Board Member, Vernacular Architecture Forum
Fellowship committee member, Vernacular Architecture Forum (2005-06)
Faculty Counselor, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. 2002-2006
Sessions Co-Chair, Pedagogies and Practices, ACSA Annual Conference, Miami, 2004
Moderator and Workshop coordinator for ACSA West Central Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47304, October 2003
Member, Society for Architectural Historians, 2002-3; American Studies Association, 2004
Member, Cultural Studies Reading Group, Ball State University, 2002-present

 

Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Assistant Professor, 2006-present
Courses: Doctoral Research Methods and Theory courses, Architectural Design Studio
Ball State University, Assistant Professor. 2002 – 2006
Courses: Graduate/Undergraduate Research Methods in Architecture, Architectural Design Studio
University of California, Berkeley, Instructor & Graduate Student Instructor. 1991-2003
Courses: Fundamentals of Architectural Design; Housing American Cultures; Introduction to American Studies; Social and Cultural Factors in Architecture. Introduction to Computers
Iowa State University, Ames, Teaching Assistant. 1989-90
Courses: History of Design
 

Academic & Professional Honors
Faculty Fellow, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007-2008
Graduate School Arts and Humanities Travel Grant, 2007
Diversity Fellow, research fellowship, Diversity Policy Institute, Ball State University, 2006
Exploring the Novice-Expert Relationship in Core Curriculum and Early Major Courses,” part of a three-year project funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education, research grant, 2005
Annual Kirkpatrick Award for Outstanding Teaching in Gerontology, Fisher Institute of Gerontology and Wellness, Ball State University, teaching award, 2004-05
Junior Faculty Research Grant, Ball State University, research fellowship, 2004-05
College of Architecture and Planning Nomination, Outstanding Teaching Award, Ball State University, 2004
Presenters Fellowship, Vernacular Architecture Forum, research grant, 2004
University Graduate Block Grants, University of California, Berkeley. 1993-1999
Teaching Improvement Grant. Interdepartmental Studies U.C. Berkeley. Summer 1992, 1993
Stanley Tashiera University Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. 1991-1992
Teaching Improvement Grant, U.C. Berkeley. Summer 1992, 1993
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society for Academic Excellence, Iowa State University. 1990
 

Professional Experience
Employed as an architect in The Design Group, Architects and Urban Planners, New Delhi, India, 1987-1989
Employed as an intern architect in Gananath Shetty, Architects and Interior Designers, Mumbai, India, 1985-86
Employed as intern designer in Sashi Prabhu and Associates, Architects, Planners, and Designers, Mumbai, India, 1985
 

Research Interests
Ethnicity and urban ethnic spaces, immigration history, American cultural landscapes, urbanism and globalization, architectural history, environment and behavior studies, race, class, and gender in America, architectural design, transnational cultural studies

 

Publications

Book Review for Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004. In Material Culture. (forthcoming).
Book Review for Memory and Architecture (Ed) Eleni Bastea. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. In Journal of Architectural Education. vl. 60. no. 2. November 2006, pp. 70-71
“Mapping Immigrant Homeland in America: Cartographic and Cognitive Imaginations of the Indian Nation in Diaspora, 1920” In State/City/Space – Interrogating Nationalism (forthcoming, in press, as at March 2006) edited by Anoma Pieris and Lai Chee Kien
“Learning from the Ordinary: The urban vernacular and the early-major student in CSI-arch,” Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Conference, March 31-April 3, 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah
“Ethnicity in the City: Reading Representations of Cultural Difference in Indian Storefronts.” In City, Space + Globalization: An International Perspective. Proceedings of an International Symposium (Ed.) Hemlata C. Dandekar. Ann Arbor, MI: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1998
Book Review for Ethnicity: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Change in Modern Cities" (Eds.) Curtis C. Roseman, Hans Dieter Laux, and Gunter Thieme. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1996. In Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. voliii. no. 11. Spring 1997, pp. 76-77
 

Conference Papers

“Methods of Reading the Cultural Landscape of South Asian Immigrants: The Jackson Heights Tour, New York,” Conference Tour and Presentation. Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference, New York City, June 2006.
“Learning from the Ordinary: The urban vernacular and the early-major student in CSI-arch,” ACSA Annual Conference, March 31-April 3, 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah
“Exploring the Novice-Expert Relationship in Core Curriculum and Early Major Courses, In the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2005 Annual Conference, Vancouver B.C. Canada, October 14-16 2005
“Chaat Cafés: An Emerging typology of Cosmopolitan American Public Space,” Vernacular Architecture Forum, Tucson, Arizona, April 2005
“The Architecture of the San Francisco Vedanta Temple and the construction of immigrant Indian ethnic identity in the United States.” American Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2004
“Babel behind an Exotic Masquerade: Production and Reproduction of the South Asian Ethnic Landscape on University Avenue, Berkeley.” Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 2004
“Mapping Immigrant Homeland in America: Cartographic and Cognitive Imaginations of the Indian Nation in Diaspora, 1920.” 20th Annual International Conference on the History of Cartography, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2003
“Going After Heathen Gods: The ideology of American Feminine Virtue in the Design and Use of the San Francisco Vedanta Temple” 56th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Denver, Colorado, April 2003
“Recasting the Ethnic Ghetto: Different Perceptions of the South Asian Retail Strip in Berkeley, California.” 18th Annual South Asia Conference, University of California, Berkeley, California, February 2003
“When Jesus became Hindu: Negotiating an Ethnic Identity in the San Francisco Vedanta Temple.” Great Lakes American Studies Conference (GLASA), Oxford, Ohio, March 1998
“Ethnicity in the City: Representations of Cultural Difference in Indian Storefronts.” 51st Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 1998

 

Conference Panel Presentations

Chair and Discussant, Material Culture and Gender Panel, American Studies Association Annual Conference, October 12-15, 2006, Oakland, CA
Discussant, Space 2 Panel, TransVisual Conference, Visual Studies Annual Conference, October 19-22, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 

Invited Presentations & Lectures

“Unpacking Global Cultures,” Urban Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 8, 2006
“Changing Urban Morphology of the Immigrant Cultural Landscape in the United States,” Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Landscape@Lunch Faculty Seminar and Lecture Forum, October, 2003
“Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Urban Spaces,” Architecture 211, Social and Cultural Factors in Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, Instructor: Dr. Marie Alice L’Heureux, February 2003
“Traveling Natives: Cosmopolitan Immigrants in the Age of Globalization.” Globalization Roundtable, Ball State University, November, 2002
“Asian Indians in the US: Transnational immigrants in contemporary US.” Asian American Studies 20. University of California, Berkeley, Instructor: Ronald Takaki. Spring 1993
“Indian Architecture: A Historical overview.” Urban Planning 231. San Jose State University. Department of Urban Planning. Instructor: Dayana Salazar. Fall 1992
“The Meaning of Tradition in Post-Colonial Indian Architecture.” Iowa State University. College of Design, Guest Speaker. Spring 1994
“Critical Regionalism and the Search for Tradition in Post-Colonial Indian Architecture.” U.C. Berkeley International House Visiting Scholars Speakers Forum. Spring 1994 

 

Instructional Field Trips and Workshops

Tele-Conference and E-learning Classroom on “Thai - Japanese Culture on Architecture and Environment” co-hosted by King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, Ball State University, Muncie, USA, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan, Office of Information Technology Administration for Education Development (Uninet), Thailand, Commission on Higher Education, Thailand. June 3 - July 10, 2006
“Methods of Reading the Cultural Landscape of South Asian Immigrants: The Jackson Heights Tour, New York,” Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference, New York City, June 2006.
Meridian Park Mapping Workshop and Field Trip, MSHP studio, Instructor Jonathan Spodek, Fall 2005
Field Trip, South America, Arc Americano; Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Summer 2004
“The Seen, the Unseen, and the Scene: A Cultural Landscape Cross-sectional Study along Jackson Street, Muncie, IN,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Central Conference, Ball State University, October 2003
Field Trip, Race, Class, and Gender: Examining Cultural Landscapes of New York, Architecture Graduate students, Spring 2003
Indianapolis architecture and history field trip, Second Year Architecture Studio, Fall 2002, 2003
“Drawing and Rendering Techniques for a Participatory Design Workshop,” Mountain View Charette team, San Jose State University, Department of Urban Planning, San Jose, CA. Summer 1995
 

Community Outreach/ Teaching

Facilitator, Kinnickinnic River Trail Design Workshop, National Park Service, WDNR, City of Milwaukee, UWM Community Design Solutions, Groundwork Milwaukee, and the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, October 25, 2006

Instructor, Academic Talent Development Program, Outreach Program for High School Students.
Department of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 1994-2003
Courses: Cultural History of the American Home; Introduction to Architectural Design; Ethnicity and the Built Environment, Introduction to Drawing
ArtsBridge Scholar, At-risk Berkeley High School
UC Berkeley ArtsBridge Program, University of California. Fall 2000
Course: Introduction to Spatial Thinking for High School seniors
Consultant, Mountain View Mercy-Bush Park Neighborhood Development Project, Mountain View, CA. Fall 1995