Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Mona Damluji is Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her teaching, research and creative work engages underrepresented media histories and cultural studies of energy, cities and infrastructure centered in the Middle East and its diasporas. Her forthcoming book, Pipeline Cinema, is a history of how multinational petroleum companies have shaped local cultural norms and global popular imaginaries of oil in Iran and Iraq through film use and cultural sponsorship in the twentieth century.
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Development
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modern
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Gulf
Iran
Iraq
Palestine
Specialties
Media And Society
Histories Of Oil
Visual Culture
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2013
| Architecture
| UC Berkeley
MS
| 2009
| Architecture
| UC Berkeley
BA
| 2003
| Architectural Studies
| Tufts University
Abstracts
The Cinematic World of Oil Modernity
Seeing Like an Oil Company: Photographic Archives of Modern Iraq
Blackouts, Heat Waves and the Narrative of Perpetual Crisis in Iraq
