Provost Diversity Fellow: Elena M’Bouroukounda

Elena M'Bouroukounda, PhD candidate

Department and School
Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Bio
Elena M’Bouroukounda is a Doctoral Student in Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Elena researches the mediation of space in the French overseas territories in the Caribbean and Atlantic World in the late 19th and early 20th century and their historical formulations at the margins of multiple spatial boundaries. A primary thread through her research is the multiplicities of temporalities and historical narratives within this region and their transmission to and deformation in European metropoles. To this, her research mobilizes a range of visual records, including print materials that register the successive reconstructions of the region. An interest in the ephemerality of material records throughout the Caribbean ultimately grounds her research into the intersection of geography, ecology, and architecture.

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