Underpinned by a firm aim to re-centrearchitectural narratives and foreground excluded voices, Nina Vollenbröker’sresearch highlights the marginalised authorship of women, people withdisabilities, migrants and people living in political instability. She isinvolved in a number of joint- as well as single-authored projects including Homeon the Range (an inquiry highlighting the spaces of the nineteenth-century USwestward migration), Oscillating Objects (an international,cross-disciplinary research project using architecture and material culture to strengthenthe identity of people living in environments shaped by physical destruction)and Deafening Modernism (research emphasising the work of entirely overlookeddeaf modernist architects).

Nina has experience with the interpretation of a wide range of historic sources. She has worked extensively with manuscript material at renowned archives such as GraphischeSammlung Albertina, Austria; The Henry E. Huntington Library, California; The Beinecke Library in New Haven, Connecticut, the Bancroft Library at The University of California at Berkeley, and The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Nina's monograph Home on the Range: Gender, Space and Belonging in the American West, will be published by Routledge later this year. She is furthermore contributing a chapter to Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (eds), Cripping the Archive (forthcoming, 2022). Nina has published essays in Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914, eds. Chad Bryant, Paul Readman (Palgrave, 2014) and Sacred Mobilities, ed. Tim Gale, Avril Maddrell, Alan Terry, (Ashgate, 2015). She has disseminated her research at academic conferences in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, through journals (Ground Up, 2012; Architectural Design, 2005) and other platforms (including London-based arts radio Resonance fm and The American Museum in Britain). Her photographic work has been exhibited internationally.