Andrew Herscher

Andrew Herscher is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Planning. He holds appointments as a Faculty Associate in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of the History of Art. His research integrates architectural theory with struggles for social justice, focusing on settler colonialism, urban inequality, and political violence. Herscher co-founded militant research collectives like the We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective and the Settler Colonial City Project.

He earned a PhD in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning from Harvard University, alongside a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Harvard and Yale, respectively. His scholarship bridges academic work with activism, producing books such as *Violence Taking Place* (2010), *Spatial Violence* (2016), and *Under the Campus, the Land* (2025).

Herscher’s teaching emphasizes critical histories of land and colonialism, offering courses like *Grounds for Architecture: Native and Colonial Histories of Land* and *Designs on Justice: Architecting Institutional Change*. His recent articles analyze urban blight discourse, humanitarian architecture, and settler colonial urbanism.