EDUCATION
Ph.D. Harvard University, Architecture & Landscape Architecture, 2026
M.A. Harvard University, History of Science, 2025
M.Arch. University of Toronto, Architecture, 2016
M.Sc. University of Michigan, Design & Health, 2014
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Berlin Program for Advance German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 2025-2026 (DOI)
Chateaubriand Fellowship Program by the Embassy of France in United States, 2025
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 2024-2025 (DOI)
Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Historical Epistemology of Final Theory Program, 2024 (DOI)
Deutsches Museum of Science & Technology, Scholar-in-Residence Program, 2024 (DOI)
Film & New Media Grant, Graham Foundation($4,000) – Co-recipient with Adam Longenbach, 2024-2025 (DOI)
Merit Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2023
Jens Aubrey Westengard Fellowship, GSAS, Harvard University, 2023
Graduate Society Summer Predissertation Fellowship, Harvard University, 2022
Emerging Practitioner Teaching Fellowship, University of Miami (Selected, Fellowship Canceled), 2018
Rackham Graduate Program Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2013-2014
Hattie Aileen Somerville Scholarship, Admission Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2011
PUBLICATIONS
“Radioactive Archives: History as Material Memory,” submitted , Metropolitan Museum Journal, University of Chicago Press.
“Flattened to Death: Picturing Fauna in Early X-Ray Laboratories,” in revision and resubmit for second review, History of Science, Sage Journals.
“A Romantic Reading of Margulis’ Theory of Symbiogenesis,” in Thinking with Plants and Fungi 2025 Conference Anthology, edited by Russ Powell, and Rachael Petersen. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. Forthcoming, November 2025.
“Deformative, Yet Silent” in Architecture of Hiding: Crafting Concealment, Omission, Deception, Erasure, and Silence. Edited volume. Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge Press, 2023.
Review of Seduced by Radium: How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace, by Maria Rentetzi. Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, Vol. 57, No. 1, University of Chicago Press, Fall 2023: 101-104.
“A Manual of (Re)Production,” in The Secret Life of Buildings, Center for American Architecture and Design. Edited volume. Center 21, Spring 2018: 208-209.
“Armamentarium of (Counter) Creation,” Thresholds Journal: Workspace, no. 44, MIT Press Journals, Spring 2016: 131-144, Co-authored with Veronica Fitzpatrick.
“Beyond White: From Lab to Libido,” Inflection Journal, vol.1, Melbourne Books, Fall 2014: 52-55.
PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentations
“Matter of Thresholds: The Door to the First X-Ray Laboratory (1895-1896),” in panel Small Objects, Spaces, and Practices of Care, at 79th Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Forthcoming, Mexico City, April 2026.
“Thinking with Things: Coining Radioactivity as Property of Matter (1896),” in Panel Radiating Sciences, at History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting Conference, Forthcoming, New Orleans, LA, November 2025.
“A Romantic Reading of Lynn Margulis’s Theory of Symbiogenesis” in panel From Margulis to Arber: Romanticism and Mysticismin Plant Science, at Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference: An Interdisciplinary Exploration into the Mind of Nature, Harvard University, Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2025.
“Lynn Margulis, The Romantic Scientist?” in panel Poetics, at Situating the Symbiotic Planet: A Workshop on Lynn Margulis in Science, Culture, and Society, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, July 2024.
“The Romantic Science of Lynn Margulis,” in Modern Science Working Group, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2024.
“Flattened to Death: Fauna of Early X-Ray Laboratories”, in panel Architecture and Interspecies Relations, at 76th Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Montreal & Virtual, September 2023.
“Cross Epidermal Voyage of Electromagnetic Waves,” in panel Temporality and Technological Change, at 9th Annual Conference of British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies, April 2021.
“Average Architecture for an Averaged Mass,” at Architectures, Natures and Data: The Politics of Environments Conference, Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, April 2017.
“Scarred Skin of Cyprus,” at Housed by Choice, Housed by Force: Homes, Conflicts and Conflicting Interests Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, January 2016.
Invited Talks
“Edges of Matter: Radiation at the Boundaries between Worlds,” in Forschungskolloquium at the Berlin program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, Forthcoming, October 2025.
“The Door to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s X-Ray Laboratory (Ca. 1895),” in Oberseminar at the Deutsches Museum (Senior Seminar of the German Museum) organized by the Department of History of Technology at the Technical University of Munich and Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, July 2024.
“Architectures of Knowledge: Historiography, Archives, and Errors in the Taming of X-Rays (1892 - 1903)” at Cambridge Talks Symposium, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2022.
“Armamentarium of (Counter) Creation,” at Gene Editing, Sexual Reproduction and the Arts, The Fields Institute for Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 2019.
“In-House, Out-House,”at Todo Dia/Everyday: XII International Architectural Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2019.
Guest Lectures
“Flattened to Death: Fauna of Early X-Ray Laboratories,” in the course Knowing the World: An Introduction to History of Science, with Prof. Hannah Marcus and Benjamin Wilson at Harvard Department of History of Science, Cambridge, MA, October 2023.
“Coming to Terms with Environment” in the course Histories of Landscape Architecture I with Prof. Edward Eigen at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, October 2022.
“Copy, Content, and X-Ray Cinematography” in the course Modernism and Its Counter Narratives with Prof. K. Michael Hays at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, March 2022.
“Average Architecture for an Averaged Mass,” in the course Buildings, Texts, and Contexts course at Harvard Graduate School of Design with Prof. Erika Naginski, Cambridge, MA, November 2021.
Panel Organization/ Moderation
Moderator for Symposium in Honor of Giuliana Bruno, in panel Elements of Media Matter, at Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University, November 2024.
Respondent to Affirmations Summit, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, September 2023 to April 2024.
Moderator for David Theodore’s lecture on “The Chain Store Hospital and the Digital Prison” at PhD Talks, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, February 2021.
CREATIVE WORK
“Shadowgraphy: A Reconstruction of X-ray Photography as of 1895,” curated an exhibition at Harvard Department of History of Science using x-ray and photography apparatus at the disposition of the Collection of Scientific Instruments at Harvard University, April 2024.
“Work: Deformative, Yet Silent,” interviewed as an artist for Deformative Work object collection, published in Architecture of Hiding. Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, October 2021.
“Innocent Air?” exhibited artwork in Air Symposium Objects Competition, at Mebane Gallery in Goldsmith Hall, University of Texas in Austin, October 2018, (with Veruska Vasconez).
“Armamentarium,” exhibited artwork in Edited, ArtSci Salon’s Cabinet Gallery, Koffler Center, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 2018.
“Armamentarium of (Counter) Creation,” exhibited artwork in The Contingent Space of Work, Keller Gallery, MIT School of Architecture, Cambridge, MA, May 2016.
“From Lab to Libido,” fashion design and runway, Fashion Art Toronto (FAT), Toronto: Daniels’ Spectrum, April 2017.
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Harvard University
Teaching Fellow, Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
Teaching Fellow, Department of History of Science
Senior Thesis Advisor, Department of History of Science
University of Miami
Lecturer, School of Architecture
University of Toronto
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
First Prize, Object Competition, The Center for American Architecture, Austin, Texas, (with Veruska Vasconez), 2018
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Research Fellowship, 2018
Faculty Design Prize, Graduating award in recognition of high design achievement, University of Toronto, 2016
Academic Honors, Graduating award in recognition of high academic achievement, University of Toronto, 2016
Commendation for Design Excellence, Superstudio Competition, University of Toronto, 2012
WORK EXPERIENCE
Archives & Historic Conservation
Harvard Film Archives, Collection Archivist for Iranian pre-revolution films, 2024-present
Acquisition and cataloguing 150 Kilograms of pre 1978 film reels from diaspora Manoto TV Co.
Nivola Family Archives, Archivist for a collection of Le Corbusier’s undocumented work, 2023
Documented a series of Le Corbusier’s undocumented work to be acquired by Foundation Le Corbusier
Harvard Library Collections, Books and Manuscripts Conservation Assistant, 2019-2020
Repair and preservation of rare books and manuscripts
Art & Architecture
Samira Daneshvar Design Studio Inc., Founder and Principal, Cambridge, MA, 2013-2020
Architectural design and construction
An Te Liu Studio, Artist Assistant, Toronto, Canada, 2016
Sculpting mold-making, and casting in plaster, aluminum, and bronze
Artist in Residence, B.A.S.E in Beijing, Caochangdi, China, 2014
Choreographed art performances with contemporary performance artist He Yun Chung
Lieberman Architects, Designer, Toronto, Canada, 2013
Short film production
Steven Fong Architects, Designer, Toronto, Canada, 2012
Residential design, drafting, and building code research
Research
Media, Politics, Society Journal, Research Coordinator, University College London, London, UK, 2016
Coordinated research, peer review and editorial roles for The Mediated City conference and publication
Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson University), Research Assistant, School of Communication & Design, Toronto, Canada, 2010-2011
Researched indigenous craft making and cross-cultural design
Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran, Research Assistant (intermittently), Ahwaz, Iran, 2010-2017
Conducted research for restoration and conservation of Chogha Zanbil Ziggurate
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Farsi (native), Turkish (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (advanced), German (intermediate).