Alexandra Schultz
Humanities Research Fellow
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA, University of Colorado at Boulder; MA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Areas: History of Architecture; Infrastructure Studies; Cultural Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Urban Studies; Environmental History
About Alexandra
Alexandra Schultz recently completed her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book project based on her dissertation focuses on the everyday experience of water infrastructure development in urban Egypt. Her research appears in PLATFORM, Architecture_MPS, and several edited volumes.
Alex has received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco during summer 2015, and a Research Travel Grant from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB. She has also received Mallory Fellowship from the History of Art and Architecture Department at UCSB, a Dean’s Fellowship from the Graduate Division, and three Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) for the study of Arabic.
Publications
Journals
Schultz, Alexandra. “The Center at the Edge: The Beach in Mid-Century Alexandria.” Metropole (May 3, 2024).
Schultz, Alexandra. “Un-Mapping Water Labor: Quantitative Slippages in Occupied Cairo,” react/review: a responsive journal for art and architecture 3 (Spring 2023).
Schultz, Alexandra. “Preserving Home: Resistance to Cholera Sanitation Procedures in Egypt.” Architecture_MPS (March 1, 2023).
Schultz, Alexandra. “Waiting in Line at the Taps: Stereography and Water Infrastructure in Cairo.” PLATFORM (October 31, 2022).
Encyclopedia Entries
Schultz, Alexandra. “Sinan.” Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition, ed. Juan Campo, Encyclopedia of World Religions. New York: Facts on File, 2016.
Essays
Schultz, Alexandra. “La Quinta Bungalows.” In Walter S. White: Inventions in Mid-Century Architecture by Volker Welter. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2015.
Schultz, Alexandra. “Perry Lutheran Church,” “St. Paul’s Mission Church,” “The Village of Maple Bluff,” “University Hill Farms,” (with Brendon George). In Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference Guidebook, eds. Anna Vemer Andrzejewski and Arnold R. Alanen. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012.
