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Student Profile: Elizabeth Anne Watkins

Scott R Campbell | School of Architecture + Planning

October 17, 2011

Elizabeth Anne Watkins

Elizabeth Anne Watkins

Photo: Judith M. Daniels/SA+P

"I’m fascinated by the way humanity has constructed ideas of time as tools for understanding and moving through our world, and how these ideas have come to shape our memories, myths and histories, revised over every age."

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