Research Interests: Environmental history; philosophy of science and technology; representation in the sciences; media studies; visual and material culture; design history.

Samira Daneshvar is a PhD Candidate in History and Theory of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and a Master of Arts student in History of Science at Harvard University. She explores key episodes in the histories of science, media, and technology, with particular interest in materiality and body-environment relations. Her dissertation project focuses on history of radiation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, investigating conceptual leaps in environmental thinking that arose alongside the innovative techniques for visualizing radiation. She pursues this history through an interdisciplinary examination of figures, apparatuses, media, and sites that spurred theoretical analyses of spaces between and within bodies.

Samira holds a Master of Architecture from University of Toronto and a Master of Science from University of Michigan. She joined the design discipline after five years of medical studies in Iran. Prior to joining Harvard, Samira taught at University of Miami and practiced in Toronto. Her writings have appeared in Winterthur Portfolio (The University of Chicago Press), Thresholds Journal (MIT Press), Informa, Inflection Journal, and Centre 22, among others. She has exhibited her work at MIT (Keller Gallery), Fashion Art Toronto, University of Texas at Austin, and Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University.

Previous Degrees:

M.Sc. University of Michigan, USA

M.Arch. University of Toronto, Canada

Incomplete M.D. Azad University, Iran