Rate My Professor Anoma Pieris

Pieris's research explores the nexus between architecture, citizenship, and postcolonial politics, emphasizing histories of migration, construction labour, human displacement, refugee camps, and border mobilities. She advocates for the agency of subaltern subjects across comparative geographies. Her major publications include Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society (University of Hawai'i Press, 2009), Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser Under the Cloth (Routledge, 2012), Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space (edited, Routledge, 2019), The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War (co-authored with Lynne Horiuchi, Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia (co-edited, URO Press, 2024). She co-edited a theme issue on Immigration, Architecture and Industry for the journal Fabrications. Pieris was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2015-2018) for her project on the temporal boundaries of World War II internment and migrant camps. In 2023, she was named a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians. Her scholarship has influenced discussions on postcolonial architectural histories and migrant labour in the built environment.