Athanasiou Geolas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Architecture at Cornell University.

 

Trained at Rhode Island School of Design, Athan has practiced architecture with archaeologists, academics, architects, and the city of New York. His research and teaching interrogate site-specific interactions between paperwork, unwieldy institutions, and well-mannered bodies.

 

In his dissertation project, “The Etiquette of Expertise,” Athan re-narrates the rise of professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century by examining the history of home economics in rural New York State. As a Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellow at the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, he explored one chapter of his dissertation in a fashion history exhibition titled “Standards for a New Womanhood: Gender, Race, & Expertise.”

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Athan’s work has also been supported by the Hancock Shaker Village, Cornell's Society for the Humanities, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project, and the Fulbright Foundation.