Dr  Mohammad Gharipour 

Founder and Director, International Journal of Islamic Architecture Post-doctorate Researcher, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard Center on Garden and Landscape Studies)  

Title of presentation :History, Memory, and Identity:  Middle Eastern Architecture in the Age of Globalization
 

Mohammad Gharipour received his PhD in Architectural Theory and History from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008 and Masters of Architecture from the University of Tehran in 2000.  He is currently teaching at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Morgan State University. As the recipient of Hamad BinKhalifa Fellowship in Islamic Art in 2007 and Spiro Kostof Fellowship Award from

the Society of Architectural Historians in 2008, Dr. Gharipour has widely published on Islamic architecture and urban design.  He is the founder and director of the forthcoming International Journal of Islamic Architecture.