Eva Schreiner, Ph.D.

Eva Schreiner is head of a new Minerva Fast Track Research Group. Her research links architectural history with histories of imperialism, capitalism, and urban-rural relationships in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. She specifically studies the material foundations of modern finance in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is currently working on her first monograph, which explores credit as an instrument of control deployed by German private and state actors in the late Ottoman Empire by examining a vast architectural network engendered by, and servicing, Ottoman debt.

Schreiner recently completed a joint post-doctoral fellowship at the KHI Florence and ANAMED Istanbul. She received her PhD in Architecture from Columbia University in 2024; her dissertation research was awarded the Graham Foundation’s Carter Manny Award and was supported by the Social Science Research Council. She has taught at Columbia University and TU Darmstadt and holds a BA from the University of St. Gallen, an MA from New York University, and an MPhil from Columbia University. Her work is published in Architecture Beyond Europe (2024),  Fabrications (2024),  Architectural Theory Review (2022), Ways of Knowing Cities (Columbia University Press, 2019), and gta papers (2019).