Congratulations to Rice grad alum Dr. Nikki Moore for securing a position as Assistant Professor in the Architecture of Americas at Wake Forest University’s Department of Art!
Dr. Moore completed her Ph.D. from the Department of Art History at Rice in May 2019 with her dissertation "The Aesthetics of the Green Revolution: Art, Architecture and the Agrilogistics of Transnational Development between the United States and Latin America, 1930-1972" under her advisor Prof. Fabiola López-Durán.
Currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Architecture at Wake Forest University, Dr. Moore’s research focuses on the industrialization of food-based commodities and concurrent transnational development practices across the Americas, focusing on their symbiotic relationship to art and architectural production.
Last spring, Dr. Moore also contributed to the book Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge, 2022), which was co-edited by Prof. López-Dúran, with her essay “To which revolution? The National School of Agriculture and the center for the improvement of corn and wheat in Texcoco and El Batán, Mexico, 1924–1968.”