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Ashlon Shelby Richburg

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Ashlon Richburg is a Doctoral Student in Historic Preservation at Columbia GSAPP. Her research lies at the intersection of architecture, preservation, and sociology, with a particular focus on the relationships among governance, preservation, and Southern mid-century civic architecture. Originally trained as an architect, she uses architectural inquiry and speculative thinking to investigate questions of preservation and the built environment.

Ashlon earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University. She later completed both a Master of Architecture and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation at Tulane University. At Tulane, she conducted research on architectural pedagogy, participated in conservation fieldwork across the United States, and pursued several independent research projects. As a recipient of the Malcolm Heard Travel Fellowship, she studied Palladian architecture in Italy. She also presented her research on Southern Progressivism and Urban Renewal at the Preserving the Recent Past conference. Her master’s thesis, “Constructing Value: A Bourdieusian Study of Architecture and Preservation Education,” compared professional identity formation between architecture and preservation graduate students.