Dr. Asma Mehan Mehan is an author, educator, urbanist, researcher, and architectural historian currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Huckabee College of Architecture, Texas Tech University (HCOA TTU). She also heads the Architectural Humanities and Critical Urban Studies Lab (ARCHUS_Lab). Before settling in Lubbock, Dr. Mehan was a senior researcher at the University of Porto. She was awarded the urban citizen fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (NIAS-KNAW) in collaboration with the Municipality of Amsterdam. Previously, she held a postdoctoral research fellowship position affiliated to Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) and the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) program for Port City Futures (PCF) in South Holland. She also worked as the tutor and senior researcher at TU Delft in the Chair of Urban History and Theory at The Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment (BK-City). Asma’s primary research and teaching interests include architecture and urbanism, critical urban studies, urban planning, and Heritage Studies. In terms of geographic location, she conducted research in Asia, Europe, the US, and Australia. She has been invited as the keynote lecturer to Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, Prince Sultan University and ETH Zurich. Dr. Mehan’s forthcoming works include “The Affective Agency of Public Space,” set to be released by De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences, and “City, Public Space, and Body: The Embodied Experience of Urban Life” set to be released by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. She is the author of the books “Tehran: from Sacred to Radical” (London: Routledge, 2022) and “Kuala Lumpur: Community, Infrastructure, and Urban Inclusivity” (London: Routledge, 2020). Having authored over fifty articles and essays, Dr. Mehan’s voice resonates in critical urban studies, architecture, urban planning, housing, and heritage studies. Beyond writing, she has also made significant contributions to visual media through exhibitions. She has curated exhibitions at international and national venues. In 2023, Dr. Asma Mehan participated in the ‘Co-Production of Liminal Spaces: Tectonics and Politics of Inside Outside’ exhibition at the European Cultural Centre (ECC) as part of the Venice Biennale Exhibition in Venice, Italy.
