Dr. Hollyamber Kennedy

Biography

Hollyamber Kennedy researches and teaches modern architectural landscape history with an emphasis on heritage politics and material environmental legacies, focusing on colonial building cultures and land practices. Her work investigates how architecture and infrastructure facilitated imperial governance and reshaped agrarian modernities and rural modernization projects during the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently, she is working on the book project, 'Fallow Fields,' which examines remnant landscapes, residual architectures, and unearthed archives that trace the making and unmaking of built ecologies on imperial Germany’s settler frontier. Kennedy also co-edited the forthcoming book 'Insurgent Domesticities' with Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. Her articles have appeared in reputable journals and she has contributed to several edited collections on German Colonialism in Africa. Her research is supported by numerous prestigious institutions, and she is involved in various global collaborations in architectural history.

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