Delia Wendel is a PhD candidate in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. Her primary research is in post-conflict and post-disaster rebuilding strategies. Framed by the title "Space and the Ethics of Transition: Rebuilding after the Genocide in Rwanda," her dissertation explores the ways in which State peacbuilding objectives have been realized and challenged in the rebuilding of settlements, housing, and civic spaces in post-genocide Rwanda. Delia previously worked as an architect, and holds degrees in Architecture (Rice University), Cultural Geography (University College London), and Architectural History and Theory (Harvard GSD). She served as an UNHABITAT research consultant in 2009 and as a tenure-track lecturer at the University of Edinburgh from 2008-11. She has published essays on post-Katrina rebuilding in New Orleans, on an avant-garde mass spectacle in 1920s Azerbaijan, and on architecture, infrastructure, and political activism. She is currently co-editing a Graham Foundation funded publication, "On the Spatial Epistemology of Politics: Essays on Political Spaces and Spatial Politics."