Dr. Asma Mehan is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture and Director of the Architectural Humanities and Urbanism Lab (AHU_Lab). She is also Editor-in-Chief of PlaNext: Next Generation Planning, an international open-access journal affiliated with AESOP. Her research focuses on architectural humanities, critical urban studies, spatial planning, and heritage studies.
Dr. Mehan has authored over 50 publications in multiple languages, with notable books including The Affective Agency of Public Space (De Gruyter, 2024), Tehran: From Sacred to Radical (Routledge, 2022), and Kuala Lumpur: Community, Infrastructure, and Urban Inclusivity (Routledge, 2020). Her work appears in top Q1 journals such as Cultural Geographies, Frontiers, and Journal of Urbanism. With an h-index of 23, her contributions are widely recognized.
She previously taught at TU Delft and Politecnico di Torino and has been a guest lecturer and researcher at TU Munich, ZK/U Berlin, University of Porto, and Deakin University. Dr. Mehan is a Co-Principal Investigator on the NSF-funded Co-DREAM Tech project to advance community resilience through adaptive emerging technologies. Her accolades include fellowships from FCT Portugal, NIAS-KNAW, and the Municipality of Amsterdam. In 2023, she contributed to the Co-Production of Liminal Spaces exhibition at the Venice Biennale’s ECC. Her work extends beyond academia through exhibitions, policy toolkits, and visual media, shaping global conversations on architecture and urbanism.