Faranak Miraftab
فرانک میرآفتاب
AwardsDavidoff Book Award
C. Wright Mills Award (finalist)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Norwegian Institute of Technology (MA)
Tehran University, College of Fine Arts (BA)
Academic work
Disciplineurban planning
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faranak Miraftab is an Iranian-American urban scholar and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[1] She is known for her works on urban planning and development.[2][3][4][5][6][7] She is a winner of Davidoff Book Award and American Sociological Association's Global & Transnational Sociology section Book Award and a finalist in C. Wright Mills Book Award for her book Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking.[8][9][10]

Books

  • Miraftab, F. Salo, K. Huq, E. Aristabal D. and Ashtari A. (eds). Constructing Solidarities for a Humane Urbanism. Open source e-Book 2019
  • Miraftab, F. Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2016
  • Miraftab, F., D. Wilson and K. Salo (eds.) Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World. New York, London: Routledge 2015
  • Miraftab, F. and N. Kudva (eds.) Cities of the Global South Reader. New York, London: Routledge 2015

References

  1. ↑ "Iranian UI professor, ex-refugee feels travel ban's pain deeply". 7 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Current Fellows". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
  3. ↑ Wilson, David; Bonds, Anne; Jonas, Andrew E. G.; Kobayashi, Audrey; Walker, Richard; Miraftab, Faranak (October 2016). "Global Heartland: Displaced Labor Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking". The AAG Review of Books. 4 (4): 244–254. doi:10.1080/2325548X.2016.1222844. ISSN 2325-548X.
  4. ↑ Sandoval, Gerardo Francisco (March 2021). "Review: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking by Faranak Miraftab". Journal of Planning Education and Research. 41 (1): 119–121. doi:10.1177/0739456X19833762. ISSN 0739-456X. S2CID 150661313.
  5. ↑ Brahinsky, Rachel (December 2017). "Book review: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking". Urban Studies. 54 (16): 3863–3867. Bibcode:2017UrbSt..54.3863B. doi:10.1177/0042098017733442. ISSN 0042-0980. S2CID 148662219.
  6. ↑ Poster, Winifred R. (2018). "Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking by Faranak Miraftab (review)". Social Forces. 96 (3): 1–3. doi:10.1093/sf/sox072. ISSN 1534-7605.
  7. ↑ Irazábal, Clara (May 2017). "Faranak Miraftab 2016: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking . Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 41 (3): 532–533. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12504.
  8. ↑ "Faranak Miraftab".
  9. ↑ "A Closer Look with Faranak Miraftab Paul Davidoff Book Award Winner".
  10. ↑ "Small Town Urbanism in the 21st Century: Andrew Freear, Faranak Miraftab, and Todd Okolichany".


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