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= Sahar Hosseini, PhD = Sahar Hosseini is an Iranian architectural historian, educator, and writer, specializing in analysis of the built environment and the pre-modern Muslim landscape.

Academics and Career
While earning her B.Arch. at the University of Tehran, Hosseini worked as a design consultant at Heram-Pey Consulting Engineers,. After graduation with her undergraduate degree, Hosseini continued on at the University of Tehran with a Master's of Landscape Architecture in the School of Urban Design. After moving to the United States to pursue a Doctorate (graduation 2018) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Architecture, Hosseini worked as an adjunct assistant professor until 2016 when she moved to the New York area.

Hosseini worked as a fellow at the New York Botanical Garden for a year before becoming a researcher and project manager at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Starting in the fall semester of 2019, Hosseini simultaneously became an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the History of Art and Architecture department.

Publications
A selection of the publications by Hosseini.

“Safavid and Mughal Urban Bridges: Visual and Embodied Experience of Nature.” South Asian Studies, 35, no.1(Summer 2019): 107-128.

“Building Isfahan for Tomorrow: The United States’ Point Four Program and Discourse on Urban Planning in Iran.” in Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran, edited by Mohammad Gharipour. (Chicago: Intellect & University of Chicago Press – Forthcoming: October 2019)

“Re-examining Persian Civitas: Networked Urbanities and Suburban Hinterlands in Erich Schmidt’s Flights.” co-authored with Manu Sobti, in The Historiography of Persian Architecture, edited by Mohammad Gharipour, 14-40, (New York: Routledge, 2015)

Hosseini, Sahar. International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 1 (2016): 181–83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43998811.

Awards
Sahar Hosseini's list of awards for excellence in the field clearly displays her range of interests.

Andrew Mellon Fellowship in Urban Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, 2018.

Seed Grant, Rutgers University-Newark, 2018.

Andrew Mellon Fellowship in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Humanities Institute - New York Botanical Garden, 2017.

Scott Opler Fellowship – Society of Architectural Historians, 2015.

The Chancellor’s Golda Meir Library Scholar Award, 2014.

ARCC King Research Award - Architectural Research Centers Consortium, 2012.

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