Nathan W Swanson Editor

Ashima Krishna, PhD, is Associate Director of Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) and Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the School of Sustainability and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She also serves as Director of Urban Matters Lab. She is an architect, urban planner, and historic preservation planner whose research spans the management of historic urban landscapes and adaptive reuse of religious historic structures and landscapes, with a particular focus on intersection with community development and equity issues and resulting policy challenges. Dr. Krishna’s published work has been featured in Journal of Urbanism, Preservation Education and Research, Change Over Time, and Journal of American Planning Association among others. Her co-edited book Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India: Approaches and Challenges was published by Routledge in 2020.

Nathan W. Swanson, JD, PhD, is Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Study Away in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. As a political, feminist, and cultural geographer, his research is focused in three areas: (1) geopolitics of everyday life, (2) public space and power, and (3) critical cartography and counter-mapping (as a member of 3Cs: the Counter-Cartographies Collective). Dr. Swanson has previously conducted research in the Middle East on the geopolitics of home, and his current research focuses on the geographies of Middle Eastern migrant communities in Scandinavia. Dr. Swanson regularly leads domestic and international study away programs for interdisciplinary groups of students and disseminates work on honors education and intercultural learning through publications and conference presentations.