Arfaa Lecture Series Presents 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. He is an expert in historic Persian built environments. His work has been recognized with honors from the Society of Architectural Historians, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Foundation for Landscape Studies, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the American Institute of Architects, the Fulbright Program, the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance. He has published more than 140 articles, encyclopedia entries, and reviews, and has authored, edited, or co-edited sixteen books. Gharipour is the founding editor of the award-winning International Journal of Islamic Architecture, the co-founder and director of the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative, and the most recent President of the Society of Architectural Historians.