Established in 2015, the Harry der Boghosian Fellowship is a one-of-a-kind program initiated by Syracuse University. The program provides emerging faculty members and designers early in their careers the opportunity to spend a year "developing a body of design research based on an area of interest while teaching at the School of Architecture."

Created in memory of Harry der Boghosian '54 by his sister Paula der Boghosian '64, this year's Fellow is architectural designer Leen Katrib. Born in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Katrib received her Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors from the University of Southern California and earned her M.Arch from Princeton University. She has worked for architectural practices such as Marvel, LTL Architects (Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis), McEwen Studio, Peter Marino Architect, and OMA. In addition to the Harry der Boghosian Fellowship, she is also the recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the George H. Mayr Travel Fellow, and the William and Neoma Timme Travel Grant. 

Outside of professional practice, Katrib was the former editor of Pidgin Magazine, has taught as an assistant instructor at Princeton University, and a former teaching assistant at USC School of Architecture. She has spoken on several panels and lectures. Her independent research focuses on immigrants and refugees and their relationships to urbanism and spatial discourse. 

Like the previous Boghosian Fellows, Katrib will instruct and work closely with the Syracuse University's students and faculty. She will teach a studio in addition to two professional electives that will focus on her research project "Decolonizing Architecture's Debris," which builds upon her M.Arch thesis "Rubble Archive." A note from the university regarding Katrib's research focus, "since the debris in most of the campus case studies is no longer available or visible, Katrib will concurrently conduct design experiments that incorporate Mixed Reality technology to propose ways in which the debris could be integrated into and made visible in the existing architecture."

Katrib shared with Julie Sharkey of Syracuse University, "I’m grateful for the opportunity to work closely with distinguished faculty and students within the School of Architecture and the University to expand the discourse on debris and its material and immaterial implications throughout history.” She adds, “the fellowship will provide the time and space to engage interdisciplinary scholarship in course syllabi, design research and a concluding symposium”

As the sixth recipient of the fellowship, Katrib joins the university's previous Boghosian Fellows Maya Alam (2016–17), Linda Zhang (2017–18), James Leng (2018–19), Benjamin Vanmuysen (2019–20), and Liang Wang (2020–21).

Michael Speaks, dean of the School of Architecture shares, "I am thrilled to welcome Leen Katrib, whose research and design projects are helping to redefine the study and practice of architecture preservation and reconstruction. Her research focus on ‘the afterlife of buildings,’ including the analysis and archiving of building detritus, has the potential to redefine how architecture researchers and practitioners think about and work with memory, identity and place.”