Dr. Kelema Moses

Biography

Kelema Lee Moses is an assistant professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of California San Diego. His teaching and research combine historical perspectives with contemporary issues related to the built environment in the Americas and Oceania. His scholarship has appeared in notable publications including Pacific Arts, Ardeth, Avery Review, Platform, Contemporary Pacific, American Quarterly, Panorama, eTropic, Chicago Art Journal, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. He has contributed to the edited volume 'Colonial Frames/Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity.' His research has been supported by prestigious fellowships and grants from Getty, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Black Studies Project at UC San Diego, and the East-West Center at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Moses is an active member of academic organizations such as the Society of Architectural Historians and the College Art Association and currently serves as co-chair of the SAH Globalizing Architectural History Education affiliate group along with being an advisory board member of Hawai'i Non-Linear.

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