Suzanne Frasier is an Architect by training, a researcher of South Asia’s history of architecture and design by métier, a scholar of conspicuous consumption by inclination, and is working as a department-level administrator. She is a faculty member in the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University, where she teaches Beginning Design, Site Design, Historic Period Styles, Advanced Construction Detailing, topics on South Asian architecture and interior space, and Building Codes. Her scholarly interests are varied, spanning from her scholarly investigations of indigenous, imposed, and coopted cosmopolitan urban engagement conducted during her Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, to the close study of the architectural design machinations of Jawaharlal Nehru’s prime ministerial tenure, and currently focusing on studies of colonial littoral contestations—temporal, spatial, geographic, and economic—in South Asia and North America. She has presented papers at the Forum on Contemporary Theory, MAPACA, EDRA, IVSA, DCA, IPHS, ACSA, and ACLALS.