Dr. Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsArchitecture, Building and Construction History, Construction Research, Sustainable Building Technology,History of Science
KeywordsHospital, Iranians, Non-colonial, Isma'ili Muslims, Internationalism
Honours and awards

2025: British Academy International Fellowship

2023: International Liaison Fellowship, Goethe University and the Johanna Quandt Young Academy (IQYA).

2022: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2021: Annual Conference Independent Scholar Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians

2020: Partnership Online Seminar Scheme, Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London (I was a partner on this award)

2020: Publication Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

2019: Dr. Edward H. Bansley Osler Library Research Travel Grant, McGill University

2019: New Foundations Award from the Irish Research Council

2019: Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

2018: Research Support Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

2015: Conference Bursary from the University of Copenhagen

2015: Postgraduate Scholarship from the Irish Research Council

2015: Research Grant from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

2014: Conference Bursary from the Society for the Social History of Medicine

2013: Fee-waiver Scholarship from University College Dublin

Current contact address

CountryIreland
CityDublin
InstitutionUniversity College Dublin
InstituteSchool of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Carsten RuhlKunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Pirjo MarkkolaTampere University, Tampere
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2022

Programme(s)

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: Internationalism as lived experience: some critical reflections . In: Rethinking History, 2025,
2024Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā. In: ABE Journal 24, 2024,
2023Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: Gender, Mission, Emotion: Building hospitals for women in North-western British India. In: Hannah Parker and Josh Doble Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020. University of London Press, 2023. 169-94
2023Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: The Lived Experience of Hospital Design: A Case Study on Internationalism. In: HEX Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, 2023,
2022Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi and Padma Dorje Maitland: Centering Emotions in Architectural Historiographies of Modern European Imperialism. In: ABE Journal 20, 2022,
2022Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: Emotion, Mission, Architecture Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914. Edinburgh University Press, 2022
2022Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: Introduction: Exploring Architecture and Emotions through Space and Place. In: Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 6, 2022, 65-77
2022Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: Medical Missionaries and the Invention of the “Serai Hospital” in North-western British India. In: European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 79, 2022, 67-93
2022Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, Ismay Milford (edited and introduced): Roundtable: the archives of global history in a time of international immobility. In: Historical Research 95, 2022,
2022Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: The Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions and Anglo-Russian Rivalry, 1865–1914. In: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 24, 2022, 12-30
2019Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi: “Ploughing before Sowing”: Trust and the Architecture of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions. In: Architecture and Culture 7, 2019, 197-217