Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Dr. Mohammad Gharipour on his appointment as tenure-track Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where he has been teaching since 2010. Dr. Gharipour 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.
