Email: Ebrahimi@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Campus Westend
Postfach: 212
Raum: SKW 05 B.151
Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendiatin (Postdoc)
Betreuer: Professor Dr. Carsten Ruhl
Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi (FRHistS) is an architectural historian of health/medicine and emotions in the Middle East and the Islamicate World, and currently, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Art History Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Previously, she held research and teaching positions in Ireland, the UK and Finland. She studied for her PhD at University College Dublin, where she was an Irish Research Council (IRC) doctoral scholar.
Her research explores a range of
topics, from international health and hospital design to the centrality of
emotions to empire building, alternative modes of existence, and the effect or
otherwise of techno-scientific changes on the nature of perception. Supported by the Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art, her first monograph, Emotion, Mission,
Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914,
was published with Edinburgh University Press (November 2022).
Expanding on
strands emerging from her first monograph, she is currently at work on three
projects: The first one, “Unofficial Internationalists, Hospital Design, and
the Healthcare of the Future (FUTR-HOSPITAL),” investigates how and why the
Iranian state and the Aga Khan III and the Aga Khan IV engaged in international
health and hospital design. And what their visions for the future of healthcare
were; the second one, a co-authored book project on Feeling Modern European
Imperial Architecture, invites architectural historians of modern European
imperial architecture to adopt the insights and
promises of the history of emotions. It is under contract with Cambridge Elements
on Histories of Emotions and the Senses; and the third one, “Idrāk: A History of
an Experience in Transition (IDRĀK),” explores how nineteenth- and twentieth
century techno-scientific changes transformed the nature of Idrāk. In
doing so, it will generate a paradigm shift in
the understanding of the lived experiences of colonisation and
globalisation. Sara is a member of the
Healthcare Provision Working Group of Cost Action CA22159 – National,
International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000
(EuroHealthHist).
Books
Special forum
2023 |
International Liaison Fellowship, Goethe University and the
Johanna Quandt Young Academy (IQYA). |
2022 |
Humboldt Research Fellowship for
Postdocs, Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation |
2022 |
Visiting Research Fellowship, Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence
in the History of Experiences, Tampere University |
2021 |
Annual Conference Independent
Scholar Fellowship, Society of
Architectural Historians |
2020 |
Partnership Online Seminar
Scheme, Institute of Historical
Research (IHR), University of London (I was a partner on this award) |
2020 |
Publication Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
Art |
2019 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
Art |
2019 |
New Foundations Award from the Irish Research Council |
2019 |
Dr. Edward H. Bansley Osler
Library Research Travel Grant, McGill
University |
2018 |
Research Support Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
Art |
2017 |
Shortlisted for the Kirkpatrick
History of Medicine Award, Royal
College of Physicians of Ireland |
2015 |
Postgraduate Scholarship from the Irish Research Council |
2015 |
Research Grant from the Society of Architectural Historians of
Great Britain |
2015 |
Conference Bursary from the University of Copenhagen |
2014 |
Conference Bursary from the Society for the Social History of
Medicine |
2013 |
Fee-waiver Scholarship from University College Dublin |
What happens to the notion of internationalism when we
rethink it through the prism of architecture and experiences? The workshop
brings together a group of outstanding researchers and intellectuals at the
cross-disciplinary encounter of environmental and architectural humanities and
social sciences, to extend the existing boundaries in debates and thinking
about the multi-faceted history of internationalism and architecture. By
thinking about the relationship between architecture and internationalisms as a
dynamic process, the workshop invites new thinking about the place of
architecture in the history of internationalism. The workshop is part of the
Healthscapes Lab event series and is organised by Dr Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi at
the University of Frankfurt um Maine and Dr Maziyar Ghiabi at the University of
Exeter. It is supported by Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe and Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation.
Neuerscheinung:
An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was considered the best and surest method to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the indigenous population in the so-called Muslim World. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India, and building upon existing works on missionaries in the Middle East and British India, this book examines the practice of obtaining trust.
A synthesis of Christian mission history, architectural history, emotions history and history of medicine and empire, Emotion, Mission, Architecture raises broader historical questions about the process of mobilising and regulating emotions in the Christian missionary contexts – contributing in turn to discussions on hybridity, missionary and local encounters, women's agency and the interactions between mission and empire.
Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi (FRHistS) is an architectural historian of health/medicine and emotions in the Middle East and the Islamicate World, and currently, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Art History Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Previously, she held research and teaching positions in Ireland, the UK and Finland. She studied for her PhD at University College Dublin, where she was an Irish Research Council (IRC) doctoral scholar.
Her research explores a range of
topics, from international health and hospital design to the centrality of
emotions to empire building, alternative modes of existence, and the effect or
otherwise of techno-scientific changes on the nature of perception. Supported by the Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art, her first monograph, Emotion, Mission,
Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914,
was published with Edinburgh University Press (November 2022).
Expanding on
strands emerging from her first monograph, she is currently at work on three
projects: The first one, “Unofficial Internationalists, Hospital Design, and
the Healthcare of the Future (FUTR-HOSPITAL),” investigates how and why the
Iranian state and the Aga Khan III and the Aga Khan IV engaged in international
health and hospital design. And what their visions for the future of healthcare
were; the second one, a co-authored book project on Feeling Modern European
Imperial Architecture, invites architectural historians of modern European
imperial architecture to adopt the insights and
promises of the history of emotions. It is under contract with Cambridge Elements
on Histories of Emotions and the Senses; and the third one, “Idrāk: A History of
an Experience in Transition (IDRĀK),” explores how nineteenth- and twentieth
century techno-scientific changes transformed the nature of Idrāk. In
doing so, it will generate a paradigm shift in
the understanding of the lived experiences of colonisation and
globalisation. Sara is a member of the
Healthcare Provision Working Group of Cost Action CA22159 – National,
International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000
(EuroHealthHist).
Books
Special forum
2023 |
International Liaison Fellowship, Goethe University and the
Johanna Quandt Young Academy (IQYA). |
2022 |
Humboldt Research Fellowship for
Postdocs, Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation |
2022 |
Visiting Research Fellowship, Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence
in the History of Experiences, Tampere University |
2021 |
Annual Conference Independent
Scholar Fellowship, Society of
Architectural Historians |
2020 |
Partnership Online Seminar
Scheme, Institute of Historical
Research (IHR), University of London (I was a partner on this award) |
2020 |
Publication Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
Art |
2019 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
Art |
2019 |
New Foundations Award from the Irish Research Council |
2019 |
Dr. Edward H. Bansley Osler
Library Research Travel Grant, McGill
University |
2018 |
Research Support Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
Art |
2017 |
Shortlisted for the Kirkpatrick
History of Medicine Award, Royal
College of Physicians of Ireland |
2015 |
Postgraduate Scholarship from the Irish Research Council |
2015 |
Research Grant from the Society of Architectural Historians of
Great Britain |
2015 |
Conference Bursary from the University of Copenhagen |
2014 |
Conference Bursary from the Society for the Social History of
Medicine |
2013 |
Fee-waiver Scholarship from University College Dublin |
What happens to the notion of internationalism when we
rethink it through the prism of architecture and experiences? The workshop
brings together a group of outstanding researchers and intellectuals at the
cross-disciplinary encounter of environmental and architectural humanities and
social sciences, to extend the existing boundaries in debates and thinking
about the multi-faceted history of internationalism and architecture. By
thinking about the relationship between architecture and internationalisms as a
dynamic process, the workshop invites new thinking about the place of
architecture in the history of internationalism. The workshop is part of the
Healthscapes Lab event series and is organised by Dr Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi at
the University of Frankfurt um Maine and Dr Maziyar Ghiabi at the University of
Exeter. It is supported by Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe and Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation.
Neuerscheinung:
An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was considered the best and surest method to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the indigenous population in the so-called Muslim World. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India, and building upon existing works on missionaries in the Middle East and British India, this book examines the practice of obtaining trust.
A synthesis of Christian mission history, architectural history, emotions history and history of medicine and empire, Emotion, Mission, Architecture raises broader historical questions about the process of mobilising and regulating emotions in the Christian missionary contexts – contributing in turn to discussions on hybridity, missionary and local encounters, women's agency and the interactions between mission and empire.