ContributorS
Esra Akcan teaches in the Department
of Architecture at Cornell University. She
is the author of Architecture in Translation:
Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House
(2012), (Land)Fill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios
for a Global City (2004), and co-author of
Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (2012,
with Sibel Bozdog˘an). She has published
scholarly articles in multiple languages and
has participated as an artist in the Istanbul
Architecture Festival and Design Biennale.
Marwa Arsanios is an artist and teacher
based in Beirut. Her work has been exhibited
in cities and venues around the world, includ-
ing London, Venice, Dubai, Rio, New York,
and Tokyo. She has been a researcher in the
Fine Art Department at the Jan Van Eyck
Academie and is a founding member of the
Beirut artist organization and project space
98weeks.
Luis M. Castañeda teaches in the
Department of Art and Music Histories at
Syracuse University. His book Spectacular
Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968
Olympics (University of Minnesota Press,
2014) examines the intersections among
paradigm-shifting events in global design
culture, central among them the 1968
Mexico City Olympics, and the broader
exhibitionary practices of the single-party
Mexican state during the mid-20th century.
Chelsea Foxwell teaches in the Department
of Art History at the University of Chicago.
Her publications include Making Modern
Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Ho¯gai (1828–
88) and the Search for Images (University of
Chicago Press, forthcoming) and “Merciful
Mother Kannon and Its Audiences” (The Art
Bulletin, December 2010). Her current
research examines practices of copying and
appropriation in Japanese art from the late
18th century to 1950.
Kirsten Scheid teaches in the Department of
Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies
at the American University of Beirut. Her
research interests engage art theory, aesthet-
ics and affect, and modern and contemporary
Arab art. She has conducted extensive field
and archival research in Lebanon and
Palestine, and she contributes regularly to
both the art and anthropology communities
by curating, exhibiting, and publishing arti-
cles in both popular press and academic
journals.
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