Kimberly Gultia is a PhD candidate at McGill University’s Peter Guo Hua Fu School of Architecture, studying ideal womanhood, model homes, and nationalism in the postcolonial Philippines. She graduated with bachelor’s degrees in architecture and interior design, and a Master of Architecture from the University of San Carlos (USC) in the Philippines. While practicing as an architect in Cebu City, she taught at USC’s School of Architecture for over a decade.
Her research has been supported by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Quebec’s Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture. Beyond academia, she is active in the Filipino community through her work as Director of Communications for the Filipino Heritage Society of Montreal.
With a strong interest in architectural history and culture, she aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation about how the built environment shapes society and how society, in turn, influences the built environment, particularly in understudied contexts like the Philippines.