Mabel O. Wilson
Full visit: March 4-8, 2024

• Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
• Professor, African American and African Diasporic Studies, Columbia University
• Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Columbia University
• ADW-PAL term: 2022-28
• Subject Area: Physical Sciences
• Faculty host: Dean Meejin Yoon (College of Architecture, Art, and Planning)
• Faculty co-host: Sean Anderson (Associate Professor, Dept. of Architecture)

Mabel O. Wilson is a multi-disciplinary professor and highly esteemed scholar of the American built environment whose research investigates the intersections between the built environment and Black culture and history. Since 2007, Wilson has held appointments at Columbia University in the departments of Architecture and African American and African Diaspora Studies. In 2020, Wilson was named as director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), also at Columbia. Since 2009, she has served as the co-director of Global Africa Lab(GAL), an innovative research initiative that explores the spatial topologies of the African continent and its diaspora. Wilson is also a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), a coalition of architects, activists, educator, and scholars that examine the connections between labor, architecture and the global networks that form around building buildings.