Ehssan Hanif

Ehssan Hanif is a Ph.D. student in the HAUD program at Cornell University. In his research, incorporating a postcolonial perspective, he aims to study the interrelations between modernity and commodity flows in the Middle East. Before coming to Cornell University, he worked as an independent researcher and translator. He translated fourteen books from English into Persian, including Architecture and Modernity (H. Heynen), Bourdieu for Architects (H. Webster), Benjamin for Architects (B. Elliot), Story of Post-modernism (Ch. Jenks), and Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts (M.F. Gage). His most recently published work was editing and translating the 2nd volume of Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (2005–2020). He received an M.A. from the Iran University of Science and Technology, where he also served as a research assistant between 2013–2015. His committee members are Samia Henni (architecture), Seema Golestaneh (Near Eastern studies), Richard F. Bensel (government), and Esra Akcan (architecture).