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Lauren Smyth

Lauren Smyth

Santa Barbara, CA, US

 

About 

Sociocultural anthropologist with a focus on the built environment and religious/secular spaces. Grad student, UCSB

Education 

University of California, Santa Barbara, PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology

Urbanisation, religious and secular space, modern and subaltern studies, repurposed space

Sep 2013 - current
 

St. John's University, Bachelors, Anthropology, French, Art History

Gentrification, reuse and repurposement of space, New York City, urbanisation
Senior thesis: (Re)Used Religious Space in Bed-Stuy: Repurposing Churches as Apartment Buildings in Gentrifying New York

Sep 2009 - May 2013
 

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