Samia Henni

Assistant Professor, Architecture at Cornell AAP

Overview

Samia Henni is assistant professor in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Her teaching and research interests include the history and theory of the built and destroyed environments in relation to colonialization, forced displacement, gender, nuclear weapons, and wars from the first wave of European colonization to the present.

Research Focus

  • Architectural history
  • Architectural theory
  • Conflicts, revolutions, counterrevolutions, and wars
  • Colonial histories, postcolonial, and anticolonial theories 
  • Natural resources extraction and nuclear energy