Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: The Making of NYC’s Zone-A: Histories of Flooding and Resilience on NYC’s Most Vulnerable Shores
Ayasha Guerin is a PhD candidate in American Studies focused on urban and environmental studies, engaging questions about sustainable urban development and the sociopolitical relations that define the 21st century neoliberal city. Her art and writing concern themes of the urban/natural, public and private space, ecology, community, and security. Ayasha completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, where she studied Urban and Environmental Studies and minored in Anthropology and Photography. Currently, Ayasha is the Andrew F. Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York. Her dissertation “Making Zone A: Flooding and Resilience on NYC’s Most Vulnerable Shores” is a socio-ecological study of four New York City waterfront communities and the environmental histories of their settled land.