Travel Grant Recipients

2023
Merve Akdogan, SMarchS Computation Empowering Local Communities Through Analog Data : Resillient Narratives and Alternative Place-making Hatay, Turkey	Hajar alRifai, SMArchS AKPIA Building the Borderland: Placemaking, Politics, and Poetry in Nasib, Syria Nasib, Syria	Ghida Anouti, SMArchS AKPIA Bodies and Fruit: Ruminations on Life, Death, and Haptic Cinema Beirut, Lebanon; Yerevan, Armenia	Maggie Freeman, PhD AKPIA Architecture, Imperialism, and Nomadic Peoples during the British Mandate United Kingdom
	Mahwish Khalil, SMArchS AKPIA Ravi's Undulating Ecology Lahore, Pakistan	Dhwani Mehta, SMArchS Urbanism Documenting the Muslim Macchiyara Community of the Gosabara-Mokarsagar Wetlands Tukada Gosa, Gujarat, India
2022
Latifa Alkhayat MArch Sasha McKinlay, MArch On Coastal Resilience: Marine Agriculture in the Lombok Strait Indonesia	Zachariah DeGiulio, MArch *Zanzibar Pizza Hut* Britain and Zanzibar	Jehanzeb Shoaib, SMArchS AKPIA Mapping the Historic Palimpsest of Gwadar Pakistan and Oman	Hampton Smith, HTC PHD Insurgent Making: Craftspeople, Racial Capitalism, and the Atlantic World Chicago, Washington DC and, Athens and Savannah, GA.
2021 no awards due to COVID19
2020 all travel cancelled due to COVID19
Alexandra Courcoula, AKPIA PhD Understanding Antonis Benakis: The Egypt Years Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt	Reza Daftarian, AKPIA SMArchS Ayeneh-Kari in Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	Katherine Dubbs, HTC SMArchS Jean Prouvé's Maison Tropicales: Archival Research, Interviews, and 'Site' Visits Paris, Nancy, France & London, UK	Amanda Merzaban, AKPIA SMArchS Toward a Feminist Reading of Beirut's Modern Art History Beirut, Lebanon
2019
Rachel Hirsch, SMArchS AKPIA *Surface Archaeology in Burhanpur* India	Semine Long-Callesen, SMArchS HTC *The Invention of Nature and Culture in the Late Colonial Raffles Museum* Malaysia and Singapore	Daniella Maamari,SMArchS AKPIA *Reviving Cosmopolitan Beirut* Lebanon	Ayesha Shaikh, SMArchS AKPIA *Neo-Mamluk Architecture in Germany during the 19^th and 20^th Century* Germany
2018
Courtney Lesoon, AKPIA PhD Archival Research at Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Médiathèque, Iconothèque et archives Aix-en-Provence, France
2017
Yusef Audeh, Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology *Sahara Project Redux Treatment* Düsseldorf, Germany and Tunisia	Max Budovitch, MCP & Kelly Main, MCP Differential Impact of Refugee Housing Programs on Beneficiaries and Urban Development in Lebanon Lebanon	Sera Tolgay, AKPIA@MIT SMarchS Planning for Scarcity: Community-Based Water Management in the Jordan River Valley Jordan
2016
Suzanne Harris-Brandts, PhD DUSP *The role of architecture in transforming the public imaginaries of post-Soviet Baku* Azerbaijan	Francis Goyes, MCP *Refugees, Incremental Housing, and Shelter in the 21st Century* Amman, Jordan	Valeria Vidal Alvarado, MCP *Refugees, Incremental Housing, and Shelter in the 21st Century* Amman, Jordan
2015
Dina El-Zanfaly, PhD Computation Making to learn and learning to make Turkey	Karthik Rao Cavale, DUSP PhD The Road to Dalit Mobility: Rural Roads and Caste Relations in India India	Alpen Sheth, PhD DUSP Is Disaster Insurance a Form of Planning? Field Visit to Disaster-prone Areas in India India
2014
Jackson Davidow, PhD HTC Contemporary Art Practices and Discourses in Lebanon and Palestine Beirut and the West Bank	Azra Dawood, PhD AKPIA Archival Research New York City & Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown	Allison James, SMArchS AKPIA User Experience Analysis of Qutb Shahi Tombs Hyderabad, India	Zachary Lamb, PhD DUSP Embanked: Climate Vulnerability and the Paradoxes of Flood Protection in Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh
2013
Kian Goh, PhD DUSP Place in the Flows: Ecology and Society in Jakarta Jakarta, Indonesia	Michael Kubo, PhD HTC *The Incorporation of Architecture: Bureaucratic Modernism and Global Practice after 1945* Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah	Hala Malik, SMArchS AKPIA Mapping domestic spaces of Lahore in the 1950's Lahore, Pakistan	Emily Williamson, SMArchS AKPIA Understanding the Zongo Processes of Socio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana Ghana, West Africa
2012
Mariko Davidson, MCP DUSP *Promoting Walkable, Bikable Streets in Ahmedabad, India: Developing a Local Street Design Handbook* India	Jenine Kotob, SMArchS AKPIA *Three Learning Environments in Ramallah* West Bank	Sofia Lopez, MCP *The Egyptian Labor Movement in the Republican Period and Beyond* Egypt	Layla Shaikley, SMArchS AKPIA *Housing Displaced Iraqi Squatters: A Pre-Thesis Case Study* Jordan
2011
Shiben Banerji, HTC PhD The Internationalism of Eclecticism: Walter Burley Griffin’s Lucknow Office India	Stephen Kennedy, MCP *City Development Strategies: Making Urban Investment Work* Indonesia	Hanna Rutkouskaya, SMArchS AKPIA *Bukhara: The Case of Urban Amnesia* Uzbekistan	Alice Shay, MCP City Development Strategies: Making Urban Investment Work Design-based Planning Internship in Indonesia Indonesia
2010
Maryam Eskandari, SMArchS AKPIA Social and religious spaces of women with in the Islamic Centers and Mosques in North America. Michigan, DC, California	Stephen Form, MArch Strategies for the Post Squatter City Turkey	Huma Gupta, MCP Transnational Spheres of Suffering: The Role of AWRD in Transforming Syrian State Attitudes towards Trafficked Women. Syria	S. Faisal Hassan, PhD HTC Ottomans on the Aventine: Piranesi's Church of Santa Maria del Priorato. Malta (Travel not completed)
2009
Bernadette Baird-Zars, MCP Developing Heritage: Constructed Visions in the Decision-Making Process of Property Regulation in Aleppo Syria	Charles Curran, MArch Retrofit + Shrink-wrap Dubai // An Urban Rescovery Plan UAE	Azra Dawood, SMArchS AKPIA Archaeological Ambassadors-at-large Chicago, New York	Igor Demchenko, HTC PhD Ahmad Yasawi Mausoleum in Russian Empire: 1864-1917 Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Laura Lee Schmidt, SMArchS AKPIA ln lhe Absence of Wonder: The Use of Medieval lslamic Toys Italy, Qatar
2008
Zehra Ali, School of Engineering, Building Technology *Study of Innovations in Building Energy Efficiency in Northern Pakistan* Pakistan	Zameer Basrai, SMArchS AKPIA A Study in Architectural Identity of Ismaili Philanthropic Institutions in Contemporary Bombay India	Nancy Demerdash, SMArchS AKPIA Roads of Empire Past & Present: Collective Memory & Modern Maghrib Identities in the Urban Form and Space of French Colonial Villes Nouvelles Morocco	Christian Hedrick, PhD AKPIA German-Austrian Influences in 19th Century Cairo Cairo
Anneka Lenssen Fateh Moudarres and the Performance of a Post-Revolutionary Art in Syria, 1963-1980 Presentation: Pioneers and Primitives: Painting from Syria, 1960-1970 Syria	Alexa Rosenberg, MCP *Managing Evolution in a Prominent African NGO: Lessons from Enda Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal* From Protest to Progress: Building Civic and Institutional Capacity to Address Informality in Dakar, Senegal Senegal	Simon Schleicher, MArch III *Adaptive Toldo Systems - Revitalization of an Ancient Craft* City above the City, Symbiotic Rooftop Communities in Old Cairo Cairo, Stuttgart	Deniz Turker, SMArchS AKPIA Ottoman Language Program Turkey
2007
Anneka Lenssen, PhD AKPIA Contemporay Arab Cultural Practices Damascus, Syria	Nancy Odeh, DUSP PhD Towards Improved Partnershipts in the Water Sector in the Middle East: A Case Study of the Water Sector in Jordan Amman, Jordan (Travel not completed
2006
Razan Francis, PhD AKPIA Pre-Dissertation Survey in al-Andalus Spain	Omar Rabie, SMArchS AKPIA Auroville Rammed Earth Workshop: The Potential of Compressed Earth Brick South India	Sadia Shirazi, MArch Ritual and Space in Lahore's Inner City Pakistan
2005
Jigar Bhatt, MCP *Preservation of Threatened Islamic Architecture on the Island of Mozambique* Mozambique	Daniel Berry, MCP Istanbul Now: A Tactical Survey of Transitional Urbanism Turkey (Travel not completed)	Asra Aksamija, PhD AKPIA Between Balkanization and Synthesis: Rethinking Boundaries of Religious Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina Various countries in the Balkans	Pamela Karimi, PhD AKPIA Americanizing Iran: The Nature and Consequences of America's 1950's Mission in Iran for the Improvement and Rationalization of Iranian's Domestic Life New York & Washington DC
2004
Joe Dahmen, MArch *Moorish Bridges in Southern Spain* Spain	Amanda Ikert, SMArchS/MCP AKPIA Cultural Ramifications of Nationalism Forced through Transmigration Indonesia	Pamela Karimi, PhD AKPIA Multiple Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Iranian Art, Cinema and PressWashington, New York	Lisa Mosier, SMArchS AKPIA Current Attitudes Towards Preservation and Representation of Islamic Built Heritage Spain
Afiya Ayo Whisby, BArch Slave Fortress Architecture, Perpetuations of the Slave Trade and Relevance to the Current American Prison Atlanta & Ghana
2003
Ozgur Basak Alkan, MArch/MCP Assesment of the Impact of Summer Olympics in the Host City. Research contributes to her thesis Rethinking the Olympics in Istanbul Athens & Atlanta	Danny Cherian, MCP Urban Water Systems and Medieval Islamic Urban Planning Istanbul, Damascus & Samarkand	Lauren Kroiz, HTC PhD *Opa-locka's architecture and its Arabia Nights Festival* Miami	Melanie Michailides, PhD AKPIA Survey of Pre-Mongol Islamic Architecture Iran
2002
Leonardo Diaz-Borioli, SMArchS California's Moorish Heritage Goes East Spain, California and Mexico	Sarah Rogers, HTC PhD New Visions: Artistic Production and the First Intifada Jordan & Lebanon	William Doss Suter, SMArchS The Cairo Artery, Transport, Housing, Hotel and a Bridge Over the Nile Egypt (Travel not completed)	Lieza Vincent, SMArchS/MCP AKPIA Rehabilitation in the Old City of Aleppo Lebanon & Syria
2001
Glaire Anderson, PhD AKPIA Urban Development & Water Infrastructure in Umayyad Cordoba Spain	Chala Hadimi, SMArchS AKPIA Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Tehran Mesjid-e Jame, Yazd Iran	Michele Lamprakos, PhD AKPIA Merchant Spaces in the late Medieval Mediterranean: The Venetians in Aleppo Syria	Amina S. Razvi, SMArchS Women and Children's Shelter in Mumbai, India: Empowerment Through Local Industry India
2000
Turkey Workshop	Yasmine Abbas, SMArchS AKPIA Mostar, Bosnia	Marianne de Klerk, SMArchS/MCP Historicizing the Landscape: Recovering the Aesthetics of the Alhambra Spain	Bianca Maria Nardella, SMArchS AKPIA Mostar, Bosnia
Panayiota Pyla, PhD AKPIA Environmental concepts in the works of C.A. Doxiadis and Hasan Fathy Syria and Greece	Sunitha Raju, SMArchS AKPIA
1999	1998	1996	1995 Summer
Cairo Excursion	Summer 1998 Italy, Morocco & Pakistan	June Attilio Petruccioli conducted a one month fieldwork project with MIT students in the walled towns of Como, Italy and Essaouira, Morocco, in preparation for a studio on urban situations in historic contexts in fall, 1996.	Summer Attilio Petruccioli brought a group of MIT students to Uzbekistan for a one month workshop to study the quarter of Gur Emir at Samarkand and the suk of Bukhara. The workshop became a studio problem in fall, 1995.
1995 March	1994	1993	1989
Attilio Petruccioli and Goethert Reinhard brought students to Essaouira, Morocco for the Workshop, "Mapping Cities Through Typologies- A Workshop on Growing Small Cities." The workshop focussed on the medina and the problem of the restoration and revitalization of old urban fabric.	Adnan Zillur Morshed, SMArchS AKPIA	Christine Pein, MArch Pakistan Workshop	Tarek Kazzaz, SMArchS AKPIA

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