Jordan H. Carver is a transdisciplinary scholar working across architecture, race, nationalism, politics, sovereignty, and abolition. Jordan is director of the Master of Architecture II, Design Research program at the Yale School of Architecture. His books include Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition (UR, 2018) and America Recovered (Actar, 2019), written with photographer Chad Ress. His essays and other writings have been published widely. His current project, Leviathan’s Scaffolding, considers state sovereignty within discourses of whiteness and spatial violence.