Dr. Asma Mehan is an architect, researcher, and educator interested in architectural humanities and critical urban studies. She is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, College of Architecture (TTU CoA). She is the author of the books Tehran: from Sacred to Radical (London: Routledge, 2022) and Kuala Lumpur: Community, Infrastructure, and Urban Inclusivity (London: Routledge, 2020). She was previously awarded four highly selective fellowships, including the Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual fellowship (CEEC IND), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and the Urban Citizenship Fellowship supported by the Municipality of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) among others. Her research reaches academic audiences through international exhibitions, artistic venues, policy toolkits, visual media, journalistic blogs, and online outlets.