Candidate for a PhD in Architecture and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Nicholas is a candidate for a PhD in Architecture and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he studies how the architectural remnants of political violence impact extra-legal conceptions and negotiations of justice in sub-Saharan Africa. Building on degrees in architecture from the University of Waterloo and experience at architecture firms in North America, Nicholas’s research on justice, memory, and architecture has been published in the top journals in the field. He has also served as co-editor in chief of the 33rd issue of Scroope: the Cambridge Architecture Journal and is the winner of the 2025 Hawksmoor Medal. His current research combines phenomenology and postcolonial theory to understand and place the dynamics of African sites of political violence into wider debates on the formative roles that architecture might play in justice. As such, he is concerned with the relationships between architectural materiality, justice, and the politics of time.