ICM welcomes Cornell faculty members Esra Akcan and Aziz Rana as new members of the board. Esra Akcan is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and the Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell. She completed her architecture degree at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and her PhD and postdoctoral degrees at Columbia University. She taught at UI-Chicago, Humboldt University in Berlin, Columbia University, New School, Pratt Institute in New York, and METU in Ankara. Akcan received awards and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, Graham Foundation, American Academy in Berlin, UIC, Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Clark Institute, Getty Research Institute, Canadian Center for Architecture, CAA, Mellon Foundation, DAAD and KRESS/ARIT. She is the author of Landfill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a Global City (2004); Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House (2012); Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with S. Bozdoğan, 2012), and Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87 (2018).
Aziz Rana is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development, with a particular focus on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding. His book, The Two Faces of American Freedom (2010) situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. He has written essays and op-eds for such venues as The New York Times, n+1, Boston Review, New Labor Forum, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, Salon.com, CNN.com, and Jacobin. He has recently published articles and chapter contributions (or has them forthcoming) with Yale University Press, the University of Chicago Law Review, and California Law Review among others. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, he was an Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale.
