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Tess Clancy is an educator and designer based in Rome, Italy, currently serving as a Design Fellow at Taubman College. Her research integrates architectural history with memory and the structures of political power, emphasizing the role of public monuments and architecture in shaping and challenging embedded power dynamics. Clancy's master's thesis, titled 'Eroding Confederacy: Revealing and Dismantling White Supremacy on Richmond's Monument Avenue,' received the Ruth Bentley Richmond Harold Shreve Award. In 2023, she was honored with the Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship, which supports her ongoing project, 'Architectures of Fascism.' Clancy's work has appeared in publications such as the Cornell Journal of Architecture and Hyphen Journal. Her teaching experience includes studios and courses in visual representation at Cornell AAP and Penn State's Stuckeman School. Prior to her current role, she worked with New York-based firm New Affiliates and Italian office Labics.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science