Arijit Sen

Dr. Arijit Sen teaches architectural design, urbanism and cultural landscapes at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. On 2009 he cofounded Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, an interdisciplinary doctoral program area shared by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Milwaukee. His writings include articles and book chapters on South Asian immigrant cultural landscapes in Northern California, retail spaces of ethnic immigrants in New York and San Francisco, Muslim cultural landscapes in Chicago, and early 20th Century Hindu religious spaces in the United States.

He is currently completing his book “Creative Dissonance: The Politics of Immigrant World Making” and a co-edited volumes on Landscapes of Mobility (Ashgate Pub) and Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City (Indiana University Press). These books will document a certain theoretical and methodological vision that underpins the scholarship of Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures. Sen received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and served as a Center for 21st Century Studies fellow at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, a Quadrant Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and as past board member at the Vernacular Architecture Forum.