Dicle Taskin

Dicle is a Ph.D. candidate whose research interests include infrastructures, politics of scale, critical media practices, and histories of the built environment. Her dissertation project focuses on the Pan-American Highway and examines how this infrastructure project shaped the contested promises of hemispheric integration in the Americas. Dicle combines historical and archival research with mapping projects to analyze the Pan-American Highway through the themes of representation, performance, cooperation, construction, and failure. Her research traces how the power dynamics of Pan-Americanism were negotiated through the Pan-American Highway project and its imprint in the built environment.

Dicle received her B.Arch from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, and M.Arch from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. She worked as a research and teaching assistant at the same institution within the research group Habitar, focusing on the production of filmic spaces and invented realities. Her doctoral research has been supported by the Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship, Graham Foundation Carter Manny Writing Award (2022), and the Rackham Graduate School’s Barbour Centennial Award, Helen Wu Award, and International Research Award.

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Awards

• Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute, University of Michigan (2024)
• Graham Foundation Carter Manny Writing Award (2022)
• Barbour Centennial Award, University of Michigan (2022)
• 2021 Rackham International Research Award (U of M)
• 2021 Helen Wu Award (U of M)
• 2020 LACS Tinker Field Research Grant (U of M)
• 2016 Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship (Turkey)