Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Dr. Mohammad Gharipour on his recent selection by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education as one of the twelve minority scholars who are making their mark in academia. Diverse magazine’s selection of Emerging Scholars is based on a number of factors, the most important being uniqueness of scholarship, commitment to teaching, community service, scholarly awards, honors, and academic accomplishments.
Dr. Gharipour, a tenured Associate Professor in the Morgan State University (MSU) School of Architecture and Planning, is a specialist of architectural and landscape history, and holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has received recognition for his academic achievements from the Society of Architectural Historians, Morgan State University, and the National Endowment in Humanities, among others. Dr. Gharipour is the author of Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in Poetry, Arts and History (I.B. Tauris, 2013) and the Editor of several other books on Islamic architecture. He is also the Director and Founding Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, an interdisciplinary journal which focuses on detailed analysis of the practical, historical and theoretical aspects of architecture in the historic Islamic world, with a focus on both design and its reception.
