Elliott Sturtevant is a scholar of architecture, infrastructure, and urbanization in North America since the mid-nineteenth century. His work sits at the intersection of architecture, technology, business, and the environment.

Sturtevant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Florida International University (FIU), where he teaches global architectural history from antiquity to the present, introductory design, and seminars on architecture, waste, energy, and climate. His first book, provisionally titled Business Trips: Architecture, Travel, and Trade in an Age of US Empire, 1890–1930, examines the history of US empire through the architecture and infrastructure of businesses involved in resource extraction, monocrop agriculture, commercial trade, and leisure-based travel at the turn of the twentieth century.

Other ongoing research includes studies of waste-based construction systems and “garbage housing,” designs on abundance at Niagara Falls, spatial histories of industrial hygiene and workplace injury prevention, architectural histories of the science of acclimatization, and investigations of Progressive Era health reforms at the Miami Battle Creek Sanitarium.

Sturtevant received his BSc in Architecture from McGill University, MArch from the University of Toronto, and PhD from Columbia University. The Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Graham Foundation, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Wolfsonian, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Hagley Museum and Library have supported his work. Before joining FIU, Sturtevant was a 2023–24 Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities at Princeton University.

His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in arq, Itinerario, Architectural Theory Review, Pidgin, and Thresholds. Sturtevant sits on the Board of Directors of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative and is a co-editor of Aggregate. As of 2025, he is also co-chair of the SAH Climate Change and Architectural History Affiliate Group.

He can be reached at esturtev@fiu.edu.