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Mona Damluji
University of California, Santa Barbara
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact

United States
ABOUT
Mona Damluji is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian & Islamic Art History and Visual Culture at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She received her PhD in Architecture from the University of California Berkeley. Her dissertation examines intersecting histories of oil, architecture, urban planning and cinema in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf region.
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