Banafsheh Mohammadi
Assistant Professor
- She/Her
- bmohammadi@ecuad.ca
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Bio
Dr. Banafsheh Mohammadi is an architect, historian and theorist of the built environment, living on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. She came from ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᕀᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton) where she learned from and with feminist and anticolonial scholars at the University of Alberta. Banafsheh’s work grows from her commitment to the lands and peoples with which she lives (the Turtle Island) and to her homelands and peoples in the Middle East.
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Research Interests
Banafsheh is interested in mobilizing anticolonial anger to critique architecture, infrastructure, and the built environment. Her interests revolve around unmasking cultural violence in institutions and environments, particularly in ones that appear to be neutral. Her previous research projects have focused on cultural institutions and architectural material across Alberta as indices of petrocolonial violence. Her research has been published in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and The Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada.