Following the scholarly trajectory of interdisciplinary fields such as colonial studies, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and whiteness studies, our activities promote a race-conscious architectural history that analyzes the constitutive role of race thinking in the social construction and representation of cultural differences abroad.

As an affiliate group within SAH, we strive to develop an inclusive academic culture that will help us to promote the dissemination of pioneering research produced by both new entrants and senior scholars in the field. Our goals are threefold: to create a platform for existing scholarship, to reach new publics for this work and develop mentorship relationships and opportunities for graduate students and junior scholars, and to produce new scholarship.

We support our mission by planning thematic roundtables at SAH’s annual meeting, organizing semi-annual publication workshops at SAH and elsewhere, producing a podcast that highlights current scholarship in the field, and providing scholarly resources to raise the level of awareness of the state of research in the field.

We embrace intellectual and institutional partnerships with professional organizations pursuing scholarship in related fields from disciplines such as art history, American studies, race and ethnicity studies, gender and sexuality studies, Diaspora studies, and modernist studies.

We welcome you to become a member, to run for office, or to contribute in other ways to our scholarly conversations at SAH’s annual meeting and beyond.