Kelema Lee Moses, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies & Planning at the University of California, San Diego.
My teaching and research combine historical perspectives with discussions of critical contemporary issues related to the built environment in the United States and the Pacific.
My work has been supported by a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hellman Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Black Studies Project (BSP), and the East-West Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
About
Kelema Lee Moses received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University. She also holds a B.A. in Art History and Politics from the University of Virginia.
Research
Architectural and Urban History; Pacific Island Studies; Indigenous Futurities; Climate Justice; Environmental Humanities; Transnational Mobilities; Colonialisms; Decolonial Theory and Politics
Teaching
Colonial Urbanism; History of Urban Design; Modern/Contemporary Architecture; Memory & Place; Roots & Routes in Oceania; Islands of Influence; From Oceania to Los Angeles; Asian/Pacific Cities in Film
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Presidential Plenary, Mexico City, April 2026
Design Jury, ARCH@UC San Diego, April 2025
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Occidental College.
University of Miami, April
2019.
Hawai‘i State Capitol Symposium, 2019.