Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: +971-505399307
Secondary Phone: +971-65152833
Fax: +971-65152800
American University of Sharjah
College of Architecture A&D
Sharjah 26666
Sharjah
United Arab Em
ABOUT
Dr. Samia Rab is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Undergraduate Design Department at Morgan State University. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Arabian Study and on the Board of the Interfaith Partnership for the Chesapeake. She has taught courses across curricula for 15 years at three universities (American University of Sharjah, University of Hawaii and Georgia Institute of Technology), during which she has held administrative positions, published outcomes of research internationally, and continued professional development as consultant for UNESCO-Paris, ICCROM-Rome, the Government of Sharjah, AEDAS-Dubai, the Getty Center for Conservation in Los Angeles, and the East-West Center in Honolulu. She is Middle East Area Editor for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Women in Architecure.
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Gulf Studies
History Of Architecture
Modern
South Asian Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Indian Ocean Region
Iran
Islamic World
Pakistan
Specialties
Construction And Restoration Of Heritage
Mapping Urban Continuities
Architecture & Cultural Identity
Languages
English (advanced)
Italian (fluent)
Persian (intermediate)
Urdu (advanced)
Hindi (intermediate)
Arabic (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 1997
| College of Architecture
| Georgia Institute of Technology
MS
| 1990
| School of Architecture & Planning
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BSc
| 1987
| Architecture
| National College of Arts
Abstracts
Seascape Urbanism in Al Khalij
Community Food Sovereignty as Shared Heritage: The Case of Protests Against the River Ravi Redevelopment in Lahore-Pakistan
