Jonah Rowen

Jonah Rowen is a historian of architecture whose research focuses on intersections between craft, technologies, construction, economics—materials, supply chains, labor—and environments. His book, forthcoming with the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture (UNC Press), is titled Architecture of Security: Building across the British Black Atlantic. His research draws on archives in the Caribbean, West Africa, and the United Kingdom. He devotes special attention to architectural drawings, in addition to business records and correspondence from architects, builders, engineers, fabricators, and insurance agents.
He received his Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Planning and Preservation, with a Certificate from the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. He holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. He has completed fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, the Clark Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University.