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Doctoral Research Residency Program
Primary research is a critical component of all doctoral theses. The CCA offers summer residencies ranging from four to six weeks to support PhD students in pursuing archival research based in our Collection. While applicants apply with a clearly defined research topic that will benefit from engagement with the CCA Collection, we also see the Doctoral Research Residency Program (DRRP) as an opportunity for doctoral students coming from an international range of university settings to engage in meaningful conversation on the contemporary value of publicly relevant research, as well as to introduce each other and the CCA itself to a diverse array of approaches, geographies, and questions across current scholarship related to built and natural environments.
As part of the residency, the CCA organizes a one-week workshop—a topical Toolkit for Today—that provides emerging scholars with new concepts, tools, and methods for their own research while also expanding on our current projects. Recent topics include Computation Is the New Optics, Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds, Collectivity, Carbon Present, Legalities for Living, In the Planetary Field, and Archival Absencing. In addition to the Toolkit for Today workshop, program participants partake in a doctoral symposium to share their research with the group, and in other activities such as an archival handling workshop, research seminars, guided tours of CCA exhibitions and its vault spaces, visits of significant architectural sites in Montreal, among others. The DRRP seeks to balance independent time for archival inquiry and reflection with research-driven programming that introduces new questions, methods, and objects to the group of doctoral students.
Guidelines
We accept applications from within our network of affiliated doctoral programs (see below for full list of affiliated universities), as well as from PhD students from non-affiliated universities worldwide.
We particularly welcome applications from PhD students in the history and theory of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. While most participants are architectural historians and theorists, we also invite applications from doctoral students in media and communication studies, Indigenous studies, science and technology studies, and environmental studies, while being open to any disciplinary affiliation.
Research projects should relate either to the CCA Collection (archival holdings, prints and drawings, photography, library, artifacts, and ephemera) or to our main research themes (global histories and postcolonial perspectives, environmental histories, and expanded definitions of photography).
Application
Click here for full details on the application process for PhD students from within our network of affiliated universities.
Click here for full details on the application process for PhD students from non-affiliated universities.
Deadline to submit applications: 1 December 2025 at 11:59pm (23h59) EST
We strongly encourage doctoral students whose projects will be based on recent acquisitions to check and confirm availability with our Reference team at ref@cca.qc.ca before submitting their project proposals.
The results of the selection process will be communicated at the end of December 2025.
For questions regarding the program, please contact studium@cca.qc.ca.
For updates on the CCA research programs, please subscribe to the CCA newsletter.
Our network of affiliated institutions and programs includes:
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Brown University, Department of the History and Art of Architecture
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA)
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD)
Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
Middle East Technical University, Graduate Program in Architectural History
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Architecture
Princeton University, School of Architecture
The University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture
TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
Universidade de Coimbra, Department of Architecture
Université du Québec à Montréal, Faculty of Arts
University College of London, The Bartlett School of Architecture
University of California, Los Angeles, Architecture and Urban Design
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzmann School of Design
University of Sydney, School of Architecture
University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Yale University, School of Architecture
We have recently hosted doctoral students from non-affiliated institutions and programs including:
Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Faculty of Architecture
Concordia University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Concordia University, Department of Art History
Concordia University, Department of Communications Studies
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Architecture Department
Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
Ghent University, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering
McGill University, Department of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University, Faculty of Law
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Institute of Architecture
Princeton University, Department of History
Technische Universität München, Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice
Universität der Künste Berlin, Institute for Architecture and Urban Planning, Chair for Digital and Experimental Design
Université de Montréal, Faculty of Planning
Université libre de Bruxelles, School of Architecture
Université Paris-Est, National School of Architecture of the City & Territories in Marne-la-Vallée
Université Paris Nanterre, Literature, languages, and performing arts
University of Alberta, English and Film Studies
University of Basel, Department of Social Studies
University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture
University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Design
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
University of Rome Tor Vergata
University of Technology Sydney, School of Architecture
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Architectural History
University of Venice (IUAV), Cultures of the Project Department
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