Wiley’s publications cover topics related to Black art and the built environment, cultural heritage, curation and public history, preservation policy, and urban landscape studies.
Books
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Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum (2026)
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Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital (2025)
Winner, 2026 Joe William Trotter, Jr. Prize for Best First Book in Urban History, Urban History Association
Finalist, 2026 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize
Finalist, 2026 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in the Social Sciences
Shortlist, 2026 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award
Honorable Mention, 2026 Alison Isenberg Prize for Best Book on Urban Placemaking, Urban History Association
Peer-reviewed articles
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African American Architecture
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Updating the Woodson Home National Historic Landmark Nomination
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Carlos Manuel Rosario
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Schools and Prisons
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The Dunbar High School Dilemma: Architecture, Power, and African American Cultural Heritage
Winner, 2014 Catherine W. Bishir Prize for significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes, Vernacular Architecture Forum
Chapters in edited volumes
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Firmitas, Utilitas, Profectus: The Architecture of Exploitation in Ghana
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The Dunbar High School Dilemma: Architecture, Power, and African American Cultural Heritage
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A Model School for a Model City: Shaw Junior High School as a Monument to Planning Reform
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A Modern-Day WPA
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Geography, Planning, and Performing Mobility in New Orleans
Essays
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CPCRS Reflections: Looking Back to Move Forward
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Reparative Possibilities in Oklahoma City
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Preservation Futures: Society
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East Jersey Olde Town Village
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On Teaching with the Tang Collection
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Carrie Mae Weems, When and Where I Enter
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An American in Saigon
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Notes From the Golden Triangle
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Integrating Architecture into Digital and Public Humanities: Sites and Sounds + MediaNOLA