Samira Daneshvar

Samira Daneshvar is a PhD candidate in Theory and History of Architecture and an AM candidate in History of Science at Harvard University. She explores critical episodes in environmental thought across histories of science, media, and technology. Samira’s dissertation focuses on the history of radiation at the turn of the twentieth century, investigating conceptual leaps in understanding space and materiality that arose alongside innovative techniques of visualization for tracing radiation. Her research is supported by the Deutsches Museum, the Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Chateaubriand Research Fellowship by the Embassy of France in the United States, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, and Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Award. Samira holds 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.