NATALIE LIS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5986-870X
SUMMARY
Dr Natalie Lis completed her PhD at the University of Queensland. Her research explores how architecture influences bird and human relationships. She investigates how human-built structures such as chicken coops, cockfighting arenas, observation hides, sky burial sites and penguinariums act as an intermediary for material exchanges in addition to cultural and social symbolism.
EDUCATION
| 2019 – 2025 | PhD Dissertation: “Bird’s Eye-View: How Architecture Changes What a Bird Means” Advisors: Dr Susan Holden, Dr Ashley Paine, Professor Sandra Kaji-O’Grady | University of Queensland, School of Architecture, Design and Planning |
| 2013– 2016 | Master of Architecture Thesis: “Cabinets Cabinets Cabinets” Advisor: Dennis Maher | State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning |
| 2015– 2016 | Master of Architecture | Exchange at Aarhus Arkitekskolen |
| 2005– 2010 | Bachelor of Arts Linguistics | Michigan State University |
PEER-REVIEW PUBLICATIONS
Lis, Natalie, Forest Birds on Pasture: Meddling Marketing and Conflicting Cultures, Animal Studies Journal, 13(1), 2024, 31-54, DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.14453/asj/v13i1.3.
PRESENTED PAPERS
“Ducking Decoys: An Examination of Wild Food Supply Disruptions.” SAH 2024 Annual Conference, Beyond Food: Uprooting the Architecture of Agriculture, 17– 21 April 2024.
“Visualising Animal Housing: A Survey of Vernacular Animal Architecture in Archives.” AHG2023/24 Seminar Series, 20 March 2024.
Narayanan, Yamini; Lis, Natalie; Wadiwel, Dinesh, panellists “Machines, Enclosures and Animal Labour.” AASA 2023 Conference Animal Cultures 27– 29 November 2023.
“The Geopolitics of Architecture and Human-Penguin Relationships,” SAH 2023 Annual International Conference, Architecture and Interspecies Relations (Virtual), online 20– 22 September 2023.
“Storks Overhead: An examination of how antiquated reliefs connect storks to current culture,” Animals in the American Popular Imagination Virtual Conference, 12–16 September 2022.
“Moving Models and Mounting Ideas: A look at how the 1930 World’s Poultry Congress changed the position of chickens,” Animal Histories Group (AHG) Summer Conference 2022, online 25–16 July 2022.
“Caring for Penguins in View: A Brief History of how Care Shaped the Development of the Penguinarium,” British Animal Studies Network ‘Care’ Conference, online 18 March 2022.
“Battle Birds – redressing the body in architecture: equipping a fighting cock,” ESALA Re-appropriation and Representation, Research by Design Postgraduate Symposium, 30 Oct –1 Nov 2020.
UPCOMING PAPERS
“Obscured Disruptions of Industrial Poultry Sheds.” EurSafe2024 Back to the Future Conference, 11– 14 September 2024.
“Tibetan Terrains: Vultures, Mandalas and Architecture.” Mapping Vernacular Terrains, The University of South Australia’s Vernacular Knowledge Research Group and The University of Adelaide’s Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, 5 – 6 December 2024.
UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS
“Natalie Lis reflects on fieldwork on Phillip Island.” Animail, August 2022.
“Farm 13.” BARBARA, September 2022.
GRANTS
The Scott Opler Graduate Scholar Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians, 8 December 2023, For Travel to SAH’s 77th Annual International Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The School Research Grant, The University of Queensland, 2 March 2022, Travel for Fieldwork at Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Lecturer and Course Coordinator at The University of Queensland, School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| July – Nov 2024 | ARCH 1240 (undergraduate) | The History of Global Architecture and the Western Tradition |
| July – Nov 2022 | ARCH 7083 (graduate) | Architectural Research Theory and Criticism –Entangled Worlds |
Casual Academic at The University of Queensland, School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| July – Nov 2024 | ARCH 2240 (undergraduate) | Modern Architecture and the Metropolis |
| Feb – Nov 2024 | ARCH 7014 (graduate) | Contemporary Architecture |
| July – Nov 2023 | ARCH 2240 (undergraduate) | Modern Architecture and the Metropolis |
| Feb – May 2023 | UDAD 7006 (M. Planning) | Urban Futures |
| July – Nov 2022 | ARCH 2240 (undergraduate) | Modern Architecture and the Metropolis |
| July – Nov 2022 | ARCH 1240 (undergraduate) | Architecture in the Western Tradition |
| July – Nov 2021 | ARCH 2240 (undergraduate) | Modern Architecture and the Metropolis |
| July – Nov 2021 | ARCH 1240 (undergraduate) | Architecture in the Western Tradition |
| Feb – May 2021 | ARCH 1100 (undergraduate) | Architectural Design – Form and Space |
| July – Nov 2020 | ARCH 2200 (undergraduate) | Architectural Design – History and Memory |
| Feb – May 2020 | ARCH 1100 (undergraduate) | Architectural Design – Form and Space |
| July – Nov 2019 | BLDG 7021 (graduate) | Building Futures – Advanced Structures |
Graduate Architect
| June 2017 – July 2018 | Ken Down Architects | Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast Australia |
Architecture Teaching Assistant at SUNY Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning
| Aug – Dec 2016 | ARC 101 (undergraduate) | First Year Architecture Studio |
| Jan – May 2015 | ARC 211 (undergraduate) | Diversity and Design |
| Aug – Dec 2014 | ARC 121 (undergraduate) | Introduction to Architecture |
| Jan – May 2014 | ARC 234 (undergraduate) | Architectural History II |
| Aug – Dec 2013 | ARC 231 (undergraduate) | Architectural History I |
English for Second Language Learners (ESL) Teacher
Feb 2011 – July 2013 · SPICUS, English for Koreans Students May 2008 – Oct 2009 · Language Development Systems, English for Korean and Chinese Students
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
| 2020– Present | Animal History Group- UK (AHG) | Member |
| 2021– Present | Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) | Guest Editor of the AASA fortnightly newsletter |
| 2021– Present | Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand (SAHANZ) | Member |
| 2021– Present | Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) | Member |
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