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Nushelle de Silva

Nushelle de Silva

Cambridge, MA, US

 

About 

Nushelle de Silva is a PhD student at MIT in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art. Her research is broadly concerned with the politics of display; her past work has examined Cold War exhibitions, contentious museum collections, and the fate of monuments in times of crisis.

Education 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, US, PhD, History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture + Art

Aug 2015 - current
 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, US, Masters, History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture + Art

Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
 

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US, Bachelors, Architecture

Sep 2007 - Jun 2011
 

Awards 

2015
 
2015
 

MIT Department of Architecture Merit Scholarship, Scholarship

Full-tuition fellowship for 2014-15 academic year

2014
 

Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship, Scholarship

Half-tuition scholarship + stipend for 2013-2014 academic year

2013
 

Princeton University School of Architecture Urbanism Prize, Award

Awarded for the most outstanding thesis on an urbanism topic

2011