Akademischer Werdegang
2022–present
- Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Architectural Humanities, University of Sheffield
2022
- Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University
2021–2022
- Associate Lecturer, Leicester School of Architecture, De Monfort University
2020–2021
- Scouloudi Junior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
2017–2022
- PhD in Architecture, University of Cambridge
Dissertation: “The Project of the City in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon: Missionary Competition and Collective Colonialism in Beirut, 1820-1914”
Funded by the Cambridge Trust International Scholarship
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- US Imperialism in the Middle East
- Imperial and colonial architectural and urban histories
- Environmental and material histories of empire, colonialism, and development
- Institutional histories (especially of education, religion, and medicine)
- Architecture and urbanism in the Middle East (19th to 21st century)
Publikationen (Auswahl)
- Collective Colonialism: Missionary Competition and Architectural Contestation in Ottoman Lebanon. University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming, Fall 2027).
- El Chami, Yasmina. “Building an Evangelical Utopia: Missionaries and the Racial Destiny of the United States in the Near East.” In Rewriting the American Present, edited by Charles L. Davis, Kathryn Holliday and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, 214–229. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2026.
- El Chami, Yasmina, and Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, eds. “Architectures of Informal Empire,” double special issue of Architectural Theory Review 28, no. 3 and 29, no. 2 (2024/2025).
- El Chami, Yasmina. “A Mutual Project: Architecture and the Imperial Foundations of American Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Beirut,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83, no. 4 (2024): 481–504.
– * Hawksmoor Essay Medal (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 2020).
– * JSAH Founders’ Award (Society of Architectural Historians, 2026). - El Chami, Yasmina. “A Supranational Jesuit Project in Nineteenth-Century Beirut: Multiplicities of the Local and Global at the Université Saint-Joseph,” ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe 19 (2021): 1–37.
- El Chami, Yasmina. “An American ‘Garden’ in an Oriental ‘Desert’: The Modernity of Timber at the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut,” Architectural Theory Review 25, nos. 1-2 (2021): 199–215.