Assistant Professor
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Office Information:
70B Tappan Hall
phone: 734.615.4361
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015M.Des.S. with Distinction, Harvard University, 2001
M.Arch. Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999
Dipl. Arq. Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, 1996
Highlighted Work and Publications
Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
Ana María León
A provocative examination of how the discourse and practice of modern architecture was transformed by its encounter with large populations and the volatile politics of twentieth-century Argentina.
Plains and Pampa: Decolonizing “America”
Ana María León
It is a common trope for scholars from South America, Central America, and the Caribbean to argue that America is the continent, and not the country. It is less common to consider what the idea of America as a territorial unit might imply. Thinking about the region as a whole prompts us to notice similar processes and shared politics, particularly in reference to decolonization and decolonial discourses.
Bones of the Nation
Ana María León
In this essay I argue the joint exhibition of 19th century bodies and bones along with Pleistocene bones displaced contemporary Indigenous genocide into a remote past. The broader argument of the essay links the network of iron building parts, bones, cattle, and grain to understand Argentina as a settler colonial nation and the role of Indigenous genocide in global processes of industrialization.
