Dr. Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi

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 is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Art History Institute, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). 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. Operating at the edge of disciplinary and chronological boundaries and focusing specifically on hospital design, her research explores the history of the relationship between people and buildings – between perception and architecture – in the making of imperial and international orders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sara's first monograph, Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914, was published with Edinburgh University Press (November 2022). She is currently co-authoring a book entitled Feeling Modern European Imperial Architecture for Cambridge Elements on Histories of Emotions and the Senses. She is a member of the Healthcare Provision Working Group of Cost Action CA22159 – National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist).

Books


  • Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) (Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art).
  • Feeling Modern European Imperial Architecture (Under contract with Cambridge Elements on Histories of Emotions and the Senses, with Padma Maitland). 


Special forum


Peer-reviewed articles and chapters•        

  • 'Gender, Mission, Emotion: Building Hospitals for Women in North-western British India.' In Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750-2020. Edited by Hannah Parker
          and Josh Doble (University of London Press, November 2023).
  •  'Architecture and Emotions.' In Oxford Bibliographies: Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Under contract with Oxford University Press).
  •  'The Lived Experience of Hospital Design: A Case Study on Internationalism.' HEX Digital Handbook of the History of Experience (2023), 
          DOI: https://doi.org/10.58077/NRSK-F698
  •  (With Joy Knoblauch). 'Hospital.' In Oxford Bibliographies: Architecture, Planning and Preservation, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780190922467-0085 
  •  (With Padma Maitland). 'Centring Emotions in Architectural Historiographies of Modern European Imperialism.' ABE Journal 20 (2022).
          DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.13322 (Open Access) 
  •  (Edited and introduced with Ismay Milford). 'Roundtable: the archives of global history in a time of international immobility.' Historical Journal 95,
          no. 270 (2022): 586-97. DOI: 
    https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htac015 (Open Access) 
  •  'Introduction: Exploring Architecture and Emotions through Space and Place.' Emotions: History, Culture, Society 6, no. 1
          (2022): 65-77. DOI: 
    https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522X-02010146 (Free Access)
  •  'Medical Missionaries and the Invention of the “Serai Hospital" in North-western British India.' European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health 79,
          no. 1 (2022): 67-93.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10013 (Open Access) 
  •  'The Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions and Anglo-Russian Rivalry, 1865-1914.' Interventions: The International Journal
          of Postcolonial Studies
    , 24, no. 1 (2022): 12-30. DOI:
     10.1080/1369801X.2020.1854102 
  •  '“Ploughing before Sowing": Trust and the Architecture of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions.' Architecture and Culture 7,
          no. 2 (2019): 197-217. DOI: 
    10.1080/20507828.2019.1608051        
Book review

  • Review of The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture by Talinn Grigor. Forthcoming in ABE Journal.
  • Review of The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place edited by Angeliki Sioli and Elisavek Kiourtsoglou. Emotions: History, Culture,
         Society
    7, no. 1 (2023): 190-92. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010197
  • Review of Doing Global History: An Introduction in 6 Concepts by Roland Wenzlhuemer. History: Journal of Historical Association 107,
         no. 374 (2022): 193-4.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13256
  • Review of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and Discontents by Hilde Heynen. History: Journal of Historical Association 106,
         no. 372 (2021): 703-4.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13188
  • Review of The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu. Journal of the History of
         Medicine and Allied Sciences
    76, no. 2: 226-28.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrab005

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.



Emotion, Sense, Experience in British Art and Architecture

Online Conference 22.-24.06.2023

Neuerscheinung: 

Emotion, Mission, Architecture

Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914

An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions

  • Raises important historical questions about the process of civilising emotions in Christian missionary contexts
  • Utilises archival research in the UK and Canada, and field work in Persia
  • Weaves together the history of emotions and Christian missions with the history of colonial built environments and colonial medicine to bring new insight to the history of medicine and the history of architecture
  • Highlights and examines the involvement of female missionaries in the design process of mission buildings, engaging concepts of feminist historiography
  • Focuses on Iran/Persia to extend our understanding of the transnational dimensions of architectural history, medical history and 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 is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Art History Institute, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). 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. Operating at the edge of disciplinary and chronological boundaries and focusing specifically on hospital design, her research explores the history of the relationship between people and buildings – between perception and architecture – in the making of imperial and international orders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sara's first monograph, Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914, was published with Edinburgh University Press (November 2022). She is currently co-authoring a book entitled Feeling Modern European Imperial Architecture for Cambridge Elements on Histories of Emotions and the Senses. She is a member of the Healthcare Provision Working Group of Cost Action CA22159 – National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist).

Books


  • Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) (Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art).
  • Feeling Modern European Imperial Architecture (Under contract with Cambridge Elements on Histories of Emotions and the Senses, with Padma Maitland). 


Special forum


Peer-reviewed articles and chapters•        

  • 'Gender, Mission, Emotion: Building Hospitals for Women in North-western British India.' In Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750-2020. Edited by Hannah Parker
          and Josh Doble (University of London Press, November 2023).
  •  'Architecture and Emotions.' In Oxford Bibliographies: Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Under contract with Oxford University Press).
  •  'The Lived Experience of Hospital Design: A Case Study on Internationalism.' HEX Digital Handbook of the History of Experience (2023), 
          DOI: https://doi.org/10.58077/NRSK-F698
  •  (With Joy Knoblauch). 'Hospital.' In Oxford Bibliographies: Architecture, Planning and Preservation, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780190922467-0085 
  •  (With Padma Maitland). 'Centring Emotions in Architectural Historiographies of Modern European Imperialism.' ABE Journal 20 (2022).
          DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.13322 (Open Access) 
  •  (Edited and introduced with Ismay Milford). 'Roundtable: the archives of global history in a time of international immobility.' Historical Journal 95,
          no. 270 (2022): 586-97. DOI: 
    https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htac015 (Open Access) 
  •  'Introduction: Exploring Architecture and Emotions through Space and Place.' Emotions: History, Culture, Society 6, no. 1
          (2022): 65-77. DOI: 
    https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522X-02010146 (Free Access)
  •  'Medical Missionaries and the Invention of the “Serai Hospital" in North-western British India.' European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health 79,
          no. 1 (2022): 67-93.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10013 (Open Access) 
  •  'The Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions and Anglo-Russian Rivalry, 1865-1914.' Interventions: The International Journal
          of Postcolonial Studies
    , 24, no. 1 (2022): 12-30. DOI:
     10.1080/1369801X.2020.1854102 
  •  '“Ploughing before Sowing": Trust and the Architecture of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions.' Architecture and Culture 7,
          no. 2 (2019): 197-217. DOI: 
    10.1080/20507828.2019.1608051        
Book review

  • Review of The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture by Talinn Grigor. Forthcoming in ABE Journal.
  • Review of The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place edited by Angeliki Sioli and Elisavek Kiourtsoglou. Emotions: History, Culture,
         Society
    7, no. 1 (2023): 190-92. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010197
  • Review of Doing Global History: An Introduction in 6 Concepts by Roland Wenzlhuemer. History: Journal of Historical Association 107,
         no. 374 (2022): 193-4.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13256
  • Review of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and Discontents by Hilde Heynen. History: Journal of Historical Association 106,
         no. 372 (2021): 703-4.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13188
  • Review of The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu. Journal of the History of
         Medicine and Allied Sciences
    76, no. 2: 226-28.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrab005

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.



Emotion, Sense, Experience in British Art and Architecture

Online Conference 22.-24.06.2023

Neuerscheinung: 

Emotion, Mission, Architecture

Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914

An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions

  • Raises important historical questions about the process of civilising emotions in Christian missionary contexts
  • Utilises archival research in the UK and Canada, and field work in Persia
  • Weaves together the history of emotions and Christian missions with the history of colonial built environments and colonial medicine to bring new insight to the history of medicine and the history of architecture
  • Highlights and examines the involvement of female missionaries in the design process of mission buildings, engaging concepts of feminist historiography
  • Focuses on Iran/Persia to extend our understanding of the transnational dimensions of architectural history, medical history and 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.

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