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Professor Anoma Pieris holds a dual role as Professor in Architecture and Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Design. She specializes in architectural history, postcolonial studies, and penal architecture, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. Her research explores nationalism, citizenship, and sovereignty through built environments. Key projects include the ARC Future Fellowship on internment camps during WWII and co-authoring The Architecture of Confinement (2022). She leads the ARC Discovery Project on migrant contributions to nation-building and co-founded the Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia (SAUHA).
Education: BSc (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka), MArch and SMArchS (MIT), PhD (UC Berkeley), MPhil (University of Melbourne). Awards include Society of Architectural Historians Fellowship (2023). She has curated major exhibitions like Immigrant Networks (2022) and co-edited journals like Fabrications. Teaching spans architectural history and design at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Research highlights include studies on penal architecture in Singapore, Sri Lanka's civil war landscapes, and Indigenous cultural centers. Her work bridges architectural theory with postcolonial critique, emphasizing transnational networks and decolonial perspectives.
