Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Samia Henni is an Assistant Professor of History of Architecture and Urban Development at Cornell University. She is the author of the award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (2017), the editor of War Zones Opens: gta papers 2 (2018), and the curator of Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (2017–19).
Her teaching and research interests include the history and theory of the built environments in relation to colonialism, displacement, gender, Islam, resources extraction, and wars in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries.
She received her Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture (with distinction) from ETH Zurich, and taught at Princeton University, ETH Zurich, and Geneva University of Art and Design. She studied at the École polytechnique d'architecture et d'urbanisme in Algiers; Accademia di Architettura, Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio; The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam; and at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Environment
Gender/Women's Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Maghreb
Europe
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (native)
English (advanced)
Italian (advanced)
German (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2016
| Architecture
| ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory o
Abstracts
Toxifying the Sahara: On France’s Top-Secret Norms and Forms
