2024-04-27T18:06:21-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150244617/princeton-appoints-jay-cephas-as-assistant-professor-of-the-history-and-theory-of-architecture Sean Joyner 2021-01-12T11:50:00-05:00 >2021-01-12T13:34:42-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0e/0e7f60cfc6c8d5c743939abcb8859ec3.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/princetonsoa" target="_blank">Princeton University School of Architecture</a> has appointed Jay Cephas as Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, effective July 1, 2021.</p> <p>"We are thrilled to welcome Jay to the School of Architecture. The impact and originality of his scholarship will be transformative to Princeton and to the discipline of architecture as a whole," said <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150204718/m-nica-ponce-de-le-n-on-the-future-of-architectural-licensure" target="_blank">Dean&nbsp;M&oacute;nica Ponce de Le&oacute;n</a>&nbsp;in a&nbsp;<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/node/2882" target="_blank">statement</a>.</p> <p>Cephas&rsquo; research focuses on how technology and labor converged with formulations of race and class identities to shape urban landscapes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was a 2019 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/13926359/university-of-massachusetts-amherst" target="_blank">University of Massachusetts Amherst</a>, and received a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2020 to support his work on the Black Architects Archive, an interactive digital repository of architectural practice that maps the genealogy of black architects from the nineteenth century to the present. Cephas also currently serves on the Editorial Board of the <em>Journal of Archi...</em></p>