Sarah Cheema
Ph.D. in Architecture
Sarah K. Cheema aims to understand Pakistan’s post-colonial history and the various processes of decolonization employed in the context of the 20th Century modernist movement and its glorification of industrial and technological progress after independence from colonial rule. She is particularly interested in tracing the role of global developmental agencies and foreign aid in the post-colonial infrastructural, urban, and architectural growth and expansion in the formative years of Pakistan and its eventual outcomes on the country’s present built language. Additionally, she aims to investigate the role played by various local actors including female architects to carve out an alternative trajectory of microhistories of the architectural profession in Pakistan, one that diverged from the influences imposed by the state’s foreign policies. She has published in ABE Journal and Places Journal.
