Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Visual & Performing Arts, Gr 6
285 Old Westport Road
Dartmouth
MA
02747
United States
ABOUT
Pamela Karimi received her PhD from the History, Theory & Criticism of Art and Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. Her primary area of specialization is art, architecture, and visual culture of the modern Middle East. Her second field of research is design and sustainability in North America. Karimi is the author of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of Images of the Child and Childhood in Modern Muslim Contexts (Duke, 2012) & Reinventing the American Post-Industrial City (Sage, 2015). Her essays and reviews about the modern and contemporary art of the Middle East have appeared in ArtMargins, Jadaliyya, Art Journal, Ibraaz, Bidoun, Honar-e Farda, and the Arab Studies Journal, among others. She has held fellowships from Iran Heritage Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the American Association of University Women, and the Society of Architectural Historians. Karimi has been the co-recipient of the University of Massachusetts Creative Economy Fund twice in 2012 and 2016 and in 2014 she earned the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Green Award. Co-founder of Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative and a former member of the editorial team of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Karimi currently serves on the board of the Association of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey.
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cinema/Film
Development
Gender/Women's Studies
History Of Architecture
Iranian Studies
Pop Culture
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iran
UAE
Specialties
Gender, Domisticity, & Consumer Cult In Iran
Mod Archit In Iran
Mod Art In Iran
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (fluent)
Persian (native)
Persian (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2009
| Architecture
| MIT
MA
| 2003
| Comp Lit
| U of Arizona
MA
| 2003
| Archit
| U of Arizona
Abstracts
The Visual Culture of the Left in Cold War Iran
Life after Earth: Nader Khalili's Futuristic Homes for Lunar Surfaces
