Occupation
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact
77 Massachusetts Ave.
3-305
Cambridge
MA
02139
United States
ABOUT
Eliana Abu-Hamdi, Ph.D., is currently GAHTC Project Manager as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College, in the Department of Political Science, teaching a course on Global Poverty and the Ethics of Development as well as the History of Urbanism. She is an architectural historian, urbanist, designer and Middle Eastern/Global South scholar with published articles in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review, Cities, and The Middle East Report. She also has contributed chapters in a volume on Urban Governance in the Middle East from McGill-Queens Press, and another on Social Housing in the Middle East from University of Indiana Press. Her research on architecture and development in Jordan contributes to the debates on the political economy of urbanism in developing cities, thereby establishing a connection between their geopolitical histories and urban present. Currently she is also actively developing her dissertation into a manuscript for submission to Cambridge University Press. Eliana received her Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Architectural History from UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. She is an experienced architectural practitioner and educator.
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Democratization
Development
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Modernization
Nationalism
Transnationalism
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Jordan
Specialties
Refugee Influx Into Jordan And Their Transnational
Shift In Public Policy In Amman, Especially As Rel
Development And Modernization Plans In The Middle
Languages
Arabic (native)
Education
PhD
| 2015
| Architecture
| UC Berkeley
MSci
| 2011
| Architecture
| UC Berkeley
MA
| 2005
| Architecture
| Newschool of Architecture
BA
| 2002
| Architecture
| UC Berkeley
Abstracts
Public Housing as an Agent of Social Transformation in Amman, Jordan
The Growing Invisibility of Islamic Space in America: The Case of Park51
