Jay Cephas is a historian who studies the impact of labor, technology, and social identity on the built environment. He is assistant professor in the history and theory of architecture at Princeton University, where he is also a research director of the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. Cephas is also the founding director of the Black Architects Archive, an interactive repository that documents the physical, intellectual, and creative labor deployed by the Black architects, builders, landscape architects, and contractors who helped shape the American built environment across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Cephas was recently named a Conserving Black Modernism Fellow at the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Cephas is a member of the African American Intellectual History Society, Urban History Association, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Labor and Working Class History Association, Society for the History of Technology, and Society of Architectural Historians.