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About Somayeh Chitchian

Somayeh Chitchian is an architect, urban researcher, and doctoral student at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is also a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany. Her wor...More

Somayeh Chitchian is an architect, urban researcher, and doctoral student at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is also a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany. Her work lies at the intersection of critical urban theory and migration studies and explores the emergent and shifting geographies of (im)migration and (im)mobility. Her work explores the reciprocal relationship between proceses of urbanization, changing geographies of urban governance, and spatialities and institutional terrains of migration. Moving beyond the inherent 'city'-centric and ethno-centric focus in migration research, Chitchian's work seeks to reconceptualize the spatialities of migration research and aims to hybridize 'the city' / non-city and 'the migrant' / non-migrant categorical dichotomies of analysis.
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Harvard University Graduate School of Design
- Doctor in Design
- 2013 to Present
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
- Master in Design Studies (MDes) with Distinction
- 2011 to 2013
Master’s thesis: Other[ed] City: (Re)presentations of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Urban West (the case of the city of Boston)
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
- Master of Science (M.Sc) in Architecture
- 2006 to 2008
Department of Interiors, Buildings, and Cities
Delft University of Technology
- Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Architecture
- 2002 to 2005