Dr. Rania Ghosn Joins Pardee Center as Post-doc Fellow

Dr. Rania Ghosn joins the Pardee Center as a post-Doctoral researcher working on global energy transitions after completing her doctorate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Dr Ghosn will be working with Prof. Adil Najam and Prof Cutler Cleveland, the two principal investigators on a new project at the Pardee Center on studying global energy transitions.

The project, called the Sawyer Seminar Series on Energy Transitions, is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will bring an international group of scholars to Boston University in 2010-2011 in year-long series of interdisciplinary seminars on various aspects of global energy transitions and how that relates to various social, economic and technical issues.

Dr. Rania Ghosn’s dissertation, entitled Geographies of Energy: The Case of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, spatializes large-scale energy systems and in particular that of the transnational transport of crude oil through the history of a pipeline across the Middle East. She is a founding editor of the journal New Geographies, which focuses on contemporary issues of urbanism and architecture, and is editor-in-chief of the journal’s Landscapes of Energy.