News
12.01.2023
Everlasting Plastics, contribution by Jessica Varner, “Find the Place of Plastics,” out soon (long-form essays by essays from madison moore, Laura Raicovich, Shannon Rae Stratton, Marisa Solomon, Jessica Varner, and Michele Washington).
Edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Lauren Leving, Joanna Joseph, and Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. See more here
10.12.2023
Lecture in Houston, Texas, with AIA Houston, “Capturing Ethylene,” (October 12, 2023, 6:30 pm), convened Houston Center for Architecture. See more here
1.27.2023
Contributor in the event “Synthetic Histories: Plastics, Climate, and Colonialism,” (January 27, 2023) convened by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and V&A Dundee. See more here
10.06.2022
Quoted in the New York Times article by Jessica Camille Aquirre (October 6, 2022), “How to Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower.”
See more here
08.01.2022
Awarded an NSF/STS grant on Cumulative Exposure (Chris Sellers PI, co-PIs Mark Chambers, and Jessica Varner, 2023-2026).
04.01.2022
Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative Toxics, first and second releases, April 2022 & April 2023. See more here
02.28.2022
USC Lecture, February 28, 2022, “This is a Pipeline,”
bibliography here
02.01.2022
Awarded Science History Institute, Haas Visiting Fellow (2022)
01.01.2022
The Black House Project announces its inaugural theme, “Burning.”
07.15.2021
Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023) with the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. See more here
07.01.2021
Exhibition Room(s) opens at the Yale Gallery (YSOA). Designed and curated by Jessica Varner, with the essay “The Difficult of We,” in the Room(s) catalog from Yale University. See more here
05.15.2021
Jessica Varner named Advisory Committee member for EDGI, 2021. More info here
12.01.2020
Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative CFP, “Toxics Project,” co-edited by Jessica Varner & Meredith TenHoor, see more here
10.01.2020
EDGI project release, A People’s EPA, co-curator, see release here
03.01.2020
“Seeking Feminist Ground” by Jessica Varner, in the March 2020 issue, Art in America. See more here
02.01.2020
Carter Manny, Graham Foundation Dissertation Award Winner, 2nd Prize. See more here
01.01.2020
MIT News feature, “When the Chemical Industry Met Modern Architecture,” see more here
