{"id":20641,"date":"2026-10-01T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=20641"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:00:05","slug":"dr-yasmina-el-chami","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-yasmina-el-chami\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Yasmina El Chami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10\/2022\u2013present<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Architectural Humanities, University of Sheffield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>01\/2022\u201309\/2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>09\/2021\u201301\/2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Lecturer, Leicester School of Architecture, De Monfort University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>09\/2020\u201303\/2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scouloudi Junior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2017\u20132022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD in Architecture, University of Cambridge Dissertation: \u201cThe Project of the City in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon: Missionary Competition and Collective Colonialism in Beirut, 1820-1914\u201d \u00a0<em>Funded by the Cambridge Trust International Scholarship<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US Imperialism in the Middle East<\/li>\n<li>Imperial and colonial architectural and urban histories<\/li>\n<li>Environmental and material histories of empire, colonialism, and development<\/li>\n<li>Institutional histories (especially of education, religion, and medicine)<\/li>\n<li>Architecture and urbanism in the Middle East (19th to 21st century)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Forthcoming Collective Colonialism: Missionary Competition and Architectural Contestation in Ottoman Lebanon.<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota Press (Fall 2027).<\/li>\n<li>2026 El Chami, Yasmina. \u201cBuilding an Evangelical Utopia: Missionaries and the Racial Destiny of the United States in the Near East<em>.<\/em>\u201d In<em> Rewriting the American Present, <\/em>edited by Charles L. Davis, Kathryn Holliday and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, 214\u2013229. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>2025 El Chami, Yasmina, and Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, eds. \u201cArchitectures of Informal Empire,\u201d double special issue of <em>Architectural Theory Review<\/em> 28, no. 3 and 29, no. 2 (2024\/2025).<\/li>\n<li>2024 El Chami, Yasmina. \u201cA Mutual Project: Architecture and the Imperial Foundations of American Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Beirut,\u201d <em>Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians<\/em> 83, no. 4 (2024): 481\u2013504.\n<ul>\n<li>* Hawksmoor Essay Medal (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 2020)<\/li>\n<li>* JSAH Founders\u2019 Award (Society of Architectural Historians, 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2021 El Chami, Yasmina. \u201cA Supranational Jesuit Project in Nineteenth-Century Beirut: Multiplicities of the Local and Global at the Universit\u00e9 Saint-Joseph,\u201d <em>ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe <\/em>19 (2021): 1\u201337.<\/li>\n<li>2021 El Chami, Yasmina. \u201cAn American \u2018Garden\u2019 in an Oriental \u2018Desert\u2019: The Modernity of Timber at the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut,\u201d <em>Architectural Theory Review<\/em> 25, nos. 1-2 (2021): 199\u2013215.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":20643,"template":"","person_category":[437,277],"class_list":["post-20641","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-fellows","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/20641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=20641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}