Cecília Resende Santos is a Ph.D. student in modern architecture and planning, with an interest in the history of modernity and development in the Americas. Most recently, she has researched agricultural modernization in Brazil and the United States. Her research has been supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and she held a Public Humanities Fellowship at the SOF/Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University in 2024-25. Before entering the program in 2021, Cecília served as Curatorial Fellow at the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial and held positions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Graham Foundation. She received a B.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago, where her thesis received the department’s Feitler Prize.
