Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an associate professor of architecture at Barnard College in Columbia University. She is an art and architectural historian specializing in histories of modernity, migration, and settlement in colonial and postcolonial Africa and South Asia. Her work builds on yearslong research in Africa, Asia, and Europe for two scholarly monographs, Architecture of Migration and Ecologies of the Past. Professor Siddiqi is committed to public knowledge, and regularly works with communities on developing narratives of their experiences and histories, particularly through historical understandings of aesthetic form and spatial and material practice.