Mohammad Gharipour

Mohammad Gharipour is an ACSA Distinguished Professor and serves as Professor, Area Chair, and Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Maryland, USA. He earned his PhD in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He as taught undergraduate and graduate courses and design studios at several universities and has received numerous awards and grants from organizations including the Society of Architectural Historians (2008), the National Endowment for the Humanities (2015), Fulbright-Hays (2016), the Foundation for Landscape Studies (2016), the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (2016), the American Institute of Architects (2018), Fulbright (2019), the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (2022), and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (2023). In addition to organizing and chairing more than thirty panels and conferences and publishing over 140 articles, encyclopedia entries, and reviews, he has authored, edited, and co-edited sixteen books. Dr. Gharipour is the director and founder of the award-winning International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA), the director and co-founder of the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative, and the president of the Society of Architectural Historians.