Atousa Ghannad

Atousa Ghannad is an interdisciplinary scholar whose academic and professional background bridges architecture, the arts, and the humanities. She holds a PhD in Architecture and is currently pursuing a second PhD in Human Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Laurentian University. Her research explores how space is socially produced and experienced, focusing on the entanglements between gender, architecture, and institutional power structures. Drawing from Marxist and feminist theory, her current work examines the spatial organization of higher education institutions in North America after the 1960s, with particular attention to the ways in which architecture reflects, reproduces, or resists normative gender relations.

Atousa has over nine years of teaching experience in postsecondary institutions, offering courses in architectural history and theory, visual culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Her work integrates both academic research and professional practice, with a focus on spatial analysis methods such as space syntax. She is committed to critically engaging the built environment as a site where cultural, political, and material forces converge