Professor Elizabeth Martin-Malikian was awarded the Visuality, Memory and Text within Cities Fellowship in Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh.  Working within a multidisciplinary think-tank exploring methodologies of urban research and fieldwork; exhibition design; urban semiotic landscapes, visual knowledges and theories of visuality, visual cultures of cities, Liz’s research topic is entitled “Hedonistic Urbanism: The Beirut Post-war Experience.” Her first paper presentation of this initial research work was at the ACSA 2013 Annual Conference in San Francisco as part of the urban geographies of multiculturalism session.

Liz has also recently been appointed as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Civil Engineering and Architecture Journal. She has more than 10 years of experience as one of the U.S. overseas editors of Monument, an Australian design magazine.