#  Samira Daneshvar 

PhD Candidate, Theory and History of Architecture, Harvard University; Chateaubriand Fellow at École des hautes études en science sociales (EHESS)

 

 

 



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Samira Daneshvar is a PhD candidate in Theory and History of Architecture at Harvard University and a Chateaubriand Fellow at École des hautes études en science sociales (EHESS). She explores critical episodes in environmental thought across histories of science, media, and technology, with particular interest in materiality and spatial relations between and within bodies. In her dissertation, she focuses on the history of radiation at the turn of the twentieth century, investigating conceptual leaps in understandings of porosities of matter that arose alongside innovative techniques of visualization. The project aims to contribute to the conceptualization of material limits in the broader field of object ontology. Her research is supported by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Final Theory Program), the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Deutsches Museum, and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Samira holds a master of arts in the History of Science from Harvard University, a master of architecture from the University of Toronto, and a master of science from the University of Michigan. She undertook historical studies in arts and humanities after five years of medical studies in Iran.