Devin Jernigan is a doctoral candidate in the Architectural History and Theory program at Yale University. His dissertation focuses on the transformation of space in the traveling circus during America's modernization. Devin is the recipient of the 2025 HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, the 2024 HABS Peterson Prize, and the 2017 Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship. Prior to his doctoral studies at Yale, Devin gained over a decade of professional experience in architecture and landscape architecture. He holds degrees in architecture from Princeton University and the University of Cincinnati.