Kristine Stiphany, Ph.D., AIA, APA
Email: kristine.stiphany@ttu.edu
Phone: 806.742.3136
Kristine Stiphany is a multidisciplinary urban scientist, designer, and scholar of Latin American urbanism
interested in the politics and design agency of urban transformation, with a particular
focus on the role of informal housing in community and urban infrastructural systems.
She is the founder of the Chapa Civic Data Lab, a digital humanities initiative of citizen scientists for social justice in urban
transformation. Supported by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation
(two), the Andrea von Braun Foundation, and the J. William Fulbright Fellowship, Kristine's
practice, scholarship, and teaching frames-built environments not only as technological
artifacts, but a spatial politics for transforming where and how urbanization-vulnerable
communities live in cities.
Academic Degrees
2015 The University of Texas at Austin, PhD in Community and Regional Planning
Dissertation: Learning Displacement: Self-Building, Educational Infrastructure, and the Politics of Development in Brazilian Informal Settlements
Advisors: Steven A. Moore (chair), Peter M. Ward, Michael Oden, Fernando L. Lara. External Reader: Maria Ruth Amaral de Sampaio
2006 The University of Texas at Austin, Master of Architecture
1998 The University of Michigan, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Statement of Research Interests
Kristine Stiphany draws on ethnographic and geospatial methods to bring light to the multiscalar impacts of urban transformation, with a focus on cases of sociospatial injustice in consolidated, redeveloped, and rebuilt neighborhoods across the Americas.
Key Intellectual Products
2022 Stiphany K. Vivienda de alquiler informal en São Paulo: una realidad ignorada. (Informal rental housing in São Paulo: An ignored reality). In Felipe Link, Adriana Toró (eds.) Vivienda en Arriendo en América Latina. Centro de Estudos de Conflicto y Cohesión Social – COES; Instituto de Estudios Urbanos e Territorial UC – IEUT UC. Forthcoming (in Spanish).
2021 Stiphany K, Ward PM and Perez LP. Informal Settlement Upgrading and the Rise of Rental in São Paulo, Brazil. Journal of Planning Education and Research, forthcoming.
2021 Stiphany K. Infrastructural Insurgency: Constructing Situated Data at Brazil's Urban Periphery. Special Issue: PlanNext Next Generation Planning Journal. Planning Theories from the Global South. Vanessa Watson, Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, and Feras Hammami (eds.) 10.24306/plnxt/75
2019 Stiphany K. Latin American Urbanism After a Right to the City. Latin American Research Review, 53(4): 1072 – 1081.
2019 Stiphany K. Mutirão: The Architecture of Agency. Journal of Architectural Education, 73(2): 258 – 260.
2019 Stiphany K. and Ward PM. Autogestão in an Era of Mass Housing: Brazil's Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades (MCMV-E) Program. International Journal of Housing Policy, 19(3): 311 – 336.
2018 Friendly A and Stiphany K. Paradigm or Paradox? The Cumbersome Impasse of the Participatory Turn in Brazilian urban planning. Urban Studies, 56(2): 271 – 287.
Funded Projects
2019 Mapeando o Quito (Mapping Quito). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Co- Principal Investigator with Christine van Sluys.
2015 - 2017 Situated Data: Constructing Empirical Decision-Making for Consolidated Informal Settlements. NSF# 1513395. Principal Investigator with Peter M. Ward and Steven Moore (Mentors).
2014 - 2015 A Case Study of Educational Infrastructure in Brazilian Favelas. Principal Investigator with Sarah Dooling and Steven Moore (Advisors). NSF #1331333.
2011 – 2012 Learning on the Ground: Educational Infrastructure in Brazilian Favelas. Andrea von Braun Foundation. Principal Investigator.
2008 Building Methods and Materials of Autoconstruction in Brazilian Favelas. United States Department of State. J. William Fulbright Research Fellowship. Principal Investigator with Maria Ruth Amaral de Sampaio (Mentor).
Graduate School
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Address
Administration Building 328, Texas Tech University, 2625 Memorial Circle, Lubbock, TX 79409-1030 -
Phone
806.742.2787