Tazalika M. te Reh is a scholarship recipient at the Urban Transformations Ph.D. Program, funded by the Mercator foundation. She is part of the American Studies Department of the TU Dortmund, where she is working on her Ph.D. thesis on architecture, space and the racial. As a trained architect with research interests in architecture, African American studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies and architecture education, she earned degrees from the Universities of Applied Sciences in Cologne and Bochum and the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. The topic of her M.A. thesis was “Architecture from A to Z. Concept for an architectural TV show for kids”. In 1997, she received a DAAD grant for a work stay in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the architecture firm Moshe Safdie & Ass. Her work experience incorporates architectural practice, the work as a curator and as the executive assistant to the board of the art foundation Stiftung DKM and its museum in Duisburg and teaching.