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May Khalife

Educational Credentials

• Ph.D. in Architecture, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
• Historic Preservation Graduate Certificate, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
• Master of Urban Design, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Bachelor of Architecture, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

Teaching Experience

• Assistant Professor, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio, 2023-present
• Visiting Assistant Professor, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio, 2022-2023
• Adjunct Faculty, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio, 2020-2022
• Adjunct Faculty, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 2020-2023
• Adjunct Faculty, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Fall 2021

Courses Taught (past two academic years)

• ARC 188 Ideas in Architecture
• ARC 201 Architecture Studio
• ARC 408 Interior Design Capstone Studio
• ARC 634 Architecture Theory

Areas of Expertise

• History
• Theory
• Architecture
• Urban Studies

Professional Experience/Licenses/Registrations

• Field designer on the Rehabilitation of the Southern Souks in Tripoli, Lebanon (Phase III), JESCO Contracting Trading & Enterprising, 2018
• Architect & Urban Researcher at theOtherDada, in Downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 2014-2016
• Lebanese Order of Engineers and Architects (OEA syndicate), Beirut, Lebanon, 2014-present

Professional Development

• Howe Center for Writing Excellence, Faculty Writing Fellows Program, 2023-2024
• Indigenizing the Curriculum Workshop, Myaamia Center, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio, 2023-2024
• Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE), Supporting Graduate Learning through Writing, Fall 2023
• New Faculty Teaching Enhancement Program (NFTEP) in the Center of Teaching Excellence at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio, 2022-2023

Professional Memberships and Service

Memberships

• SAH (Society of Architectural Historians)
• SESAH (Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians)
• SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference)
• CAA (College Art Association)

Service

• Graduate Committee, Department of Architecture and Interior Design, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio
• Dean’s Advisory Council, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio
• Women in Architecture and Interior Design Group (WiAID), ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Oxford, Ohio

Awards/Recognitions/Grants/Competitions

• Ph.D. in Architecture Scholarship, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati, 2017-2019
• Urban and Sustainable Design Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2016-2017
• Dean's High Distinction Honor List and Full Merit Scholarship, 2009-2014, School of Architecture and Design, Lebanese American University

Significant Publications/Creative Projects/Paper Presentations

• “Urban Protests Beyond the Plaza - Precarious State of Solidarity in Beirut City Center,” SAH Annual Conference, April 2024, Albuquerque, New Mexico (ongoing - part of a prospective edited volume in Routledge Series or University of Minnesota Series).
• “Learning from Maya Settlements in Ancient Mesoamerica: Baking Pot and Caracol, Belize,” SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference), October 2023, Richmond, Virginia.
• “From Drawing to Building: Designing the Long Island University Campus in Brooklyn,” The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, September 2023, Little Rock, Arkansas.
• “A Feminist and Environmentalist Figure in Architectural Modernism: Noel Phyllis Birkby,” Docomomo US National Symposium, June 2023, New Haven, Connecticut.
• “The Rise and Fall of Community Architecture: Philadelphia’s South Street Corridor and 1976 Bicentennial Exposition,” The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, November 2022, Memphis, Tennessee.
• “Reimagining the Habitat in the 1950s: The Modern and the Regional in Postwar Europe,” Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, April 2019, Providence, Rhode Island.