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Sim Hinman Wan is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History of Art and Architecture within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on transregional, Indigenous, and ethnoculturally hybrid architectural developments in early modern Southeast Asian port cities under European colonization. He is authoring a book project, *Intertwined Genealogies*, examining Dutch and Chinese innovations in philanthropic asylums in colonial Indonesia. Wan holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Chicago and advanced degrees in architecture from the University of Washington and California Polytechnic State University.
- Education:
- PhD, University of Illinois Chicago
- MArch, MSArch, MS, University of Washington
- BArch, California Polytechnic State University
His work bridges architectural history with preservation practices, community planning, and sustainable design. He has taught at the University of Hong Kong and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wan has received Mellon Foundation grants for interdisciplinary scholarship and publishes in journals like Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Change Over Time.
Wan’s research highlights how colonized environments’ architectural responses to land and water resources challenge Eurocentric historical narratives. His current projects emphasize postcolonial rethinking of built environment histories through a global lens.
- Awards:
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards from SSRC and CLIR
His professional experience spans architectural design, museum curation, and collections management. Wan acknowledges his heritage as a descendant of migratory Chinese groups and expresses gratitude for living on ancestral lands of Indigenous American nations.
