My research and creative work investigates the landscapes, buildings, and families of Spanish and Mexican ranching in the Southwest and practices of survey, mapping, and drawing as a means of understanding and interpreting historical spaces.
I earned an M.Arch. degree and a Ph.D. in Architecture at UCLA. I then held postdoctoral fellowships in digital history and spatial history at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and Rice University, and was a digital history specialist at Stanford University prior to joining the College of Architecture + Design at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture in 2021.
email: msaldan2@utk.edu
