PhD Hala Alarashi
Humanities, Prehistoric archaeology
Prof. Dr. Anna Minta
Nominated by
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- AcademiaNet member since 26.07.2016
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Kath. Privatuniversität Linz
- Universität Zürich
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Arts and humanities
- Social sciences, journalism and information
Field
Arts, Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Area of specialisation
Art and Architectural History
Research interests
Space / Space conceptions in Modernity, Socia-Spatial Theories; Processes and Practices of Auratization and Sacralization
Architecture, Art, and Design in the 19th to 21st centuries, their influence on constructing (national) identies and social order; Geographic focusses: Europe, Palestine / Israel, USA
Historiography; Preservation history and politics
Languages
English, French, German, Hebrew, Latin
Doctorate
- 2003: Israel bauen. Architektur, Städtebau und Denkmalpolitik nach der Staatsgründung 1948 ("Nation-building in Israel: Architecture, town planning, and the politics of preservation between the War of Independence of 1948/49 and the Six-Day-War of 1967")
PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation
- 2013: Staatsbauten und Sakralarchitektur in Washington/DC. Stilkonzepte patriotischer Baukunst ("Political and religious architecture of representation in Washington/DC. "The Battle of the Styles" in the 19th and 20th centuries")
Short CV/Education and training
Education and record of studies
- 1998Master's Degree in Art History, Free University Berlin. Minor Fields: Modern European History; Media and Communications Studies. Thesis: Zeev Rechter: "House Engel" in Tel Aviv, 1933, in the context of Le Corbusier's architectural theory. Architecture and iconography in Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century.
- 2003Ph.D. in Art History, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel
- 2013Habilitation (second book) in Art History, Bern University
Professional experiences in academia
- 1999 – 2003Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer) at the Department of Art History, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. Ph.D. project on Nation-Building and architecture in Israel after 1948
- 2003 – 2005Wiss. Mitarbeiterin (Researcher), interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Institutionality and Historicity", Technical University Dresden, Dept. of Architectural History, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Research project on religious architecture in the United States
- 2005 – 2014Wiss. Assistentin (Assistant Professor), Department of Art History, Bern University, Switzerland. Habilitation (second book) on Contested historicisms: Uses and interpretations of architectural formulas in Washington/DC
- Since 2014SNSF-Professor, Department of Art History, Zurich University, Switzerland
- Since 2016Full Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, Catholic Private University Linz, Austria
Selected publications
Books and editorships
Auratische Räume der Moderne, kritische berichte, Heft 2, 2016; Redaktion und Editorial mit F. Schmitz.
Staatsbauten und Sakralarchitektur in Washington/DC. Stilkonzepte patriotischer Baukunst, Berlin 2015.
Kunsttopografien globaler Migration: Orte, Räume und institutionelle Kontexte transitorischer Kunsterfahrung, kritische berichte, Heft 2, 2015; Redaktion und Editorial mit B. Dogramaci, B. Mersmann und M. Schieren.
Deutsche/deutschsprachige Kunstgeschichte seit den 1960er Jahren, kritische berichte, Heft 4, 2014; Redaktion und Editorial mit R. Mader und Ä. Söll.
Parlamentarische Repräsentationen: Das Bundeshaus in Bern im Kontext internationaler Parlamentsbauten und nationaler Strategien, hrsg. mit B. Nicolai, Bern 2014.
Glaubenssache(n), kritische berichte, Heft 2, 2013; Redaktion und Editorial.
Modernity and early cultures – Reconsidering non-western references for modern architecture in cross-cultural perspective, hrsg. mit B. Nicolai, Bern 2011.
Israel bauen. Architektur, Städtebau und Denkmalpolitik nach der Staatsgründung 1948, Berlin 2004.
Complete list of publications
Selected projects
SNSF-Professorship, Research Project: "Holy Spaces in Modernity. Transformations and Architectural Manifestations", 2014 – 2018
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