About

Devin Jernigan is a doctoral candidate in the History and Theory program at Yale University's School of Architecture. His research focuses on the space of the American traveling circus from the early nineteenth to the twentieth century, specifically how this nomadic and popular spectacle produced space during America's modernization. Devin is the 2025 HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellow, where he studied the architectural history of Ca’ d’Zan, John and Mable Ringling’s "opulent winter home" in Sarasota, Florida, designed by architect Dwight James Baum. He received an honorable mention for his 2024 HABS Peterson Prize project documenting a circa-1890s Parson's family concessions tent likely used at the Ringling Bros.' World's Greatest Shows' midway. Before attending Yale, Devin spent over a decade in architecture and landscape architecture. He holds a Master's degree in architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati. He is an Architecture Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, and was an academic fellow at Princeton University.


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