Wiley’s publications cover African American and African diasporic cultural heritage, urbanism in New Orleans, school design, urban renewal, and preservation policy.

Books

  • Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital (March 2025)

  • Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum (working title, 2026)

Peer-reviewed articles

  • African American Architecture

  • Updating the Woodson Home National Historic Landmark Nomination

  • Carlos Manuel Rosario

  • Schools and Prisons

  • 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

  • Firmitas, Utilitas, Profectus: The Architecture of Exploitation in Ghana

  • The Dunbar High School Dilemma: Architecture, Power, and African American Cultural Heritage

  • A Model School for a Model City: Shaw Junior High School as a Monument to Planning Reform

  • A Modern-Day WPA

  • Geography, Planning, and Performing Mobility in New Orleans

Essays

  • Reparative Possibilities in Oklahoma City

  • Preservation Futures: Society

  • East Jersey Olde Town Village

  • On Teaching with the Tang Collection

  • Carrie Mae Weems, When and Where I Enter

  • An American in Saigon

  • Notes From the Golden Triangle

  • Integrating Architecture into Digital and Public Humanities: Sites and Sounds + MediaNOLA