S.
N. JOHNSON-ROEHR
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 2011
Dissertation: “The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the
Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743 CE,” Advisor:
Panayiota I. Pyla
Major Field: South Asian Architecture and Theory
Minor Field: Cultural Heritage Management
M.A. History, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
M.A. Art History, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
B.A. Art History, Western Washington University, Bellingham,
Washington
B.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“Centering
the Chārbāgh: The Mughal Garden as Design Module for the Jaipur City
Plan,” Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians 17, no.
2 (March 2013): 28-47.
(2014 Founders' JSAH Article Award)
“The Archaeological Survey of India and
Communal Violence in Post-Independence India,” International Journal
of Heritage Studies 14, no. 6 (2008): 506-23.
Contributed Chapters and
Essays
“Case Study: Observatories
of Sawai Jai Singh II,” in Handbook of Ethnoastronomy
and Archaeoastronomy, ed., Clive Ruggles (Heidelberg: Springer), forthcoming 2014.
“City
Planning in India,” in Encyclopedia of the History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, ed., Helaine
Selin (Heidelberg: Springer), forthcoming.
Book Reviews
“Astronomy in India, 1784–1876, by Joydeep Sen,” Victorian Studies 58, no. 3
(Spring 2016): 585-87.
“Meditation on Mughal Monuments, Review of Santhi Kavuri-Bauer’s Monumental
Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India’s Mughal
Architecture,” H-Asia Reviews.
“Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture,” PAST
32 (2009): 137-140.
“The
Middle Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia
1876-1926,” Material Culture 39, no. 2 (2007): 79-82.
“William
Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier,” Annals of Wyoming 72, no. 2
(2000): 40-1.
“Thomas
Moran: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923,” Annals of Wyoming 69, no. 3
(1997): 45.
INVITED LECTURES
“Jaipur:
The Spectacle of City Planning,” Dickson Memorial Lecture in Art History,
Penn State University, October 2013
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
UPCOMING!! “Who Built Lick Observatory?”
Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 2019
“The
‘Imperial Aesthetic’ in the Early Modern Rajput Pleasure Garden,”
College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 2014
“Local
Practice vs. Global Policy: Cultural Heritage Management in India,”
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York, April
2013
“Changing
Directions at the Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II,” Society of
Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2011
“John
Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis:
The Mapping of Imperial Subjectivity at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
1675-1729,” UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Conference “Spaces of the
‘Self’ in Early Modern Culture: Sites of Exteriority,” Los
Angeles, California, December 2007
“Marking
Mughal Time: Power and Politics at the Delhi Astronomical Observatory of Sawai
Jai Singh II, 1721-1743,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., November 2007
“Jantar Mantar: The
Disappearing Observatories of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II,” 36th
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2007
“Vāstu
Vidyā: Vedic Architectural Theory in Postmodern
India,” Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians Annual Student
Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2006
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ACLS New Faculty Fellow, McIntire Department of Art, University of
Virginia, 2013-14. Undergraduate
colloquium “History of the Modern South Asian City” (Fall 2013); Undergraduate
seminar “Spaces of Science” (Spring 2014); Undergraduate “Survey
of Modern South Asian Architecture” (Spring 2014).
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Undergraduate seminar “Urban
Asia: Building the Modern City” (Spring 2013).
Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of
Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2011-present. Undergraduate lecture “Twentieth-Century
Architecture” (Fall 2011); Post-Graduate seminar “Indian Urban:
History of South Asian Cities” (Fall 2011); Undergraduate lecture
“Twentieth-Century American Architecture” (Spring 2012); Post-Graduate
seminar “Architecture & Science” (Spring 2012).
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Design Technology, Ivy Tech State College,
Bloomington, 2002-2003. CAD Fundamentals, Architectural Design I, Construction Materials and Specifications, and Computer
Fundamentals for Technology.
Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture, University of Illinois,
Urbana, 2006-2007. Survey
of Western Architecture.
SERVICE
Society of Architectural Historians Membership
and Diversity Committee, 2013
Field Editor, South Asian Studies, Dissertations Reviews, 2013-14
Guest Curator, “Naked Spaces: Architecture in Art from the
Collections of the Kinsey Institute,” Kinsey Institute for Research in
Sex, Gender, and Reproduction Art Gallery, January 18-April 5, 2013
Judge, National Society of Arts and Letters Emerging Artists
Competition, Bloomington, Indiana Chapter, 2010
EXTERNAL AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
ACLS
New Faculty Fellowship, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia,
2013-2015
Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellowship in History, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2012-13
Social
Science Research Council IDRF Book Fellowship, 2011-2012
Fulbright-Hays
Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2008-2009
Social
Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008-2009
Foreign
Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Summer 2007, AY 2007-2008
Critical
Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, 2006
UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND
INTERNAL COMPETITIVE GRANTS
Scott
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate College, 2010-2011
Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities Graduate Fellowship, 2009-2010
Kate
Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship in the Fine Arts, 2009-2010
Graduate
College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois, 2008
Alan
K. and Leonarda F. Laing Memorial Scholarship Award,
School of Architecture, University of Illinois, 2008
Natalie
Alpert Prize, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, for
paper “Marking Time: Power and Politics at the Astronomical Observatory
of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743,” 2007
Girdhari
Tikku Memorial Prize, Center for South Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, for paper “Archaeological
Survey of India and Communal Violence in Post-Independence India,” 2007
Alan
K. and Leonarda F. Laing Memorial Fellowship in
Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, 2005-2007
LANGUAGES
Hindi
and Russian: advanced proficiency
Urdu,
German, and French: intermediate proficiency
Italian, Korean, Persian, and Portuguese: reading knowledge
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society of Architectural Historians
College Art Association
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Design Assistant, Office of Louis Joyner, Architect, Columbus, Indiana, 2004-2005.
Duties included design and drafting for residential, commercial, medical and
community projects; writing and editing project manuals; photo and written
documentation for historic preservation projects, researching compliance with
state preservation regulation; communication with contractors and clients.
Editing Assistant, University of Illinois, 2006. Provided editing/proofreading services for edited
collection (Panayiota Pyla,
ed., Landscapes of Development: The Impact of
Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern
Mediterranean. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).
Research Assistant, University of Oregon, 1993-1994; 1997. Research, translation, editing, and
proofreading assistance for two monographs (Esther Jacobson Tepfer,
The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures at the Edge of
the Hellenic World, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995; Judith Raiskin,
Wide Sargasso Sea, Norton Critical Edition, New York: Norton, 1999).
REFERENCES
Antoinette Burton, Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and
Transnational Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois, 810
S. Wright Street, MC-466, Urbana, Illinois 61801. E-mail:
aburton@illinois.edu. Phone: (217) 244-2075
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor, Department of Landscape
Architecture, University of Illinois, 101 Temple Hoyne
Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Drive, MC-620, Champaign,
Illinois, 61820. E-mail: dfr1@illinois.edu. Phone: (217) 333-9279
Panayiota Pyla, Associate Professor, University of Cyprus,
Department of Architecture, 75 Kallipoleos Avenue,
P.O. Box 20537, Nicosia, 1678, Cyprus. E-mail: pyla@ucy.ac.cy. Phone: +357
22892963
Claire Snell-Rood, Assistant Professor, Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley, 5134 Berkeley Way West, Berkeley, California, 94720. E-mail: clairesnellrood@berkeley.edu. Phone: (510) 642-1512
Paul Kapp, Associate Professor, School of Architecture,
History and Preservation, 117 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall,
611 Lorado Taft Drive, MC-621, Champaign, Illinois
61820. E-mail: phkapp@illinois.edu. Phone: (217) 333-1330
Dan Ehnbom, Associate Professor, South Asian Art, McIntire
Department of Art
315 Fayerweather Hall, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904. E-mail: dje6r@virginia.edu. Phone: (434)
924-6130