Faranak Miraftab | |
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فرانک میرآفتاب | |
Awards | Davidoff Book Award C. Wright Mills Award (finalist) |
Academic background | |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Norwegian Institute of Technology (MA) Tehran University, College of Fine Arts (BA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | urban planning |
Institutions | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Faranak Miraftab is an Iranian-American urban scholar and is currently a 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]