Howard University Architecture Professor Dahlia Nduom Named 2024 Diverse Education Emerging Scholar
Howard University architecture assistant professor Dahlia Nduom has been named a 2024 Diverse Education Emerging Scholar. Scholars are selected based on the uniqueness of scholarly work, recipience of awards and recognition, dedication to teaching, and commitment to community service.
Selected from a pool of hundreds of nominees from across the nation and various disciplines, Nduom is one of only 15 scholars highlighted in the 2024 Emerging Scholars edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a publication dedicated to special reporting on diversity in higher education for over four decades.
I am incredibly humbled and honored to be recognized as a Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2024 Emerging Scholar. This recognition goes far beyond me - it reflects the collective effort of those who've been part of my academic journey, especially my students. I am looking forward to continuing the work,” says Nduom.
Through her extensive travel and research, Nduom aims to change how architecture studies are presented from the Eurocentric perspective and break the centuries-old stereotypes of architecture in the African diaspora, particularly in the Caribbean.
In the classroom and design studio, Nduom encourages her students to understand and analyze the relationship between history, culture and perception and their impact on the architecture of the African diaspora and its evolution.
Nduom’s pioneering work specifically investigates this relationship as she examines cultural, economic, social, political and sustainability issues to gain a better understanding of spatial practices and systems. For Caribbean architecture, she explores the role of the image, archive, and memory in the framing of the exotic compared to the realities of the development of dwelling architecture in touristed landscapes.
Nduom received the 2022 Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts Grant for her archival research of the architectural morphology of tourist and non-tourist spaces in Jamaica. Nduom is also recipient of the AIA|DC 2022 Architect Educator Award.
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