Priya Jain

Architecture

preservation • restoration • South Asian architectural history

Priya Jain, AIA, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. An architect licensed in both the US and India, she has worked on the reuse and restoration of a diverse range of buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston, the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington DC, the Richardson-Olmsted Complex in Buffalo and Jaisalmer Fort, India. Her teaching and research focus on South Asian and South Asian American architectural history and preservation within a transnational context. Her work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE),  Architectural Theory Review (ATR), Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, amongst others. Priya serves as Secretary and Board Member of the national non-profit Historic Preservation Education Foundation (HPEF), and served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), the flagship journal of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). She is the recipient of 2024-25 Faculty Fellowship by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. Priya also co-chairs the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group, serves on the SAH Heritage Conservation Committee and is the Communications Lead of the SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group. She has been the Field Editor (Architecture) for the Getty Conservation Institute AATA Online (Abstracts of Conservation Literature) since 2017.