Architecture Professor Aaron Cayer Named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Assistant Professor Aaron Cayer has been awarded a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship — one of just 26 recipients nationwide and the only Fellow selected from the field of architecture. Often called “the brainy award,” the fellowship recognizes his influential work at the intersection of architecture, labor and politics.
The , administered by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, provides the most generous stipend of its kind — offering up to $200,000 to support high-caliber scholarly research focused on the most pressing issues of our time. This year’s cohort will focus on advancing solutions to political polarization in the United States, a challenge of critical national importance. Several past recipients have gone on to earn major accolades like MacArthur Fellowships and Pulitzer Prizes.
At the College of Environmental Design, Cayer teaches about the history and theory of architects and their profession, including the ways that they contribute and respond to global inequities. With his $200,000 award