Full Name
Fallon Samuels Aidoo
Company
Tulane University School of Architecture
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Speaker Bio
Fallon Samuels Aidoo, PhD, researches, teaches, and plans preservation of American architecture and urbanism integral to Black, Indigenous and immigrant cultures. Her engagement-driven scholarship and consulting centers heritage at risk of loss to disinvestment and disaster and the people and practices vital to their survival and vitality. She publishes on ethnic heritage preservation, specifically philanthropic partnerships and multiracial allyship (Change over Time, 2024; Journal of Environmental Science and Studies, 2021; Preservation and Social Inclusion, 2020). Fallon has served on numerous national, state, and local commissions and nonprofit boards that advance historic preservation equitably (e.g. U.S. ACHP Expert Advisory Committee, Louisiana NRHP Review Committee and Climate Initiatives Task Force). Dr. Aidoo also teaches real estate development and preservation in architecture and planning schools--currently, as an Assistant Professor at Tulane University School of Architecture, previously at University of New Orleans, Northeastern University, and Harvard GSD. Dr. Aidoo, a Tulane Mellon Fellow in Community-Engaged Scholarship earned degrees in civil engineering (B.S., Columbia U), architectural history (A.M., MIT; Minor, Columbia), and urban planning (PhD, Harvard).