Gehan Selim is the Hoffman Wood Chair in Architecture at the University of Leeds. She is the Deputy Director at Leeds Social Sciences Institute and was a Fellow of The Senator George Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (2017/18). Her research covers interdisciplinary methods bridging between Architecture, Urban Politics, and Digital Heritage. Gehan is the winner of the Routledge Area Studies Impact Award (2023). She led an extensive portfolio of funded projects in the global south, including Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and India. She is the author of ‘Unfinished Places’ (Routledge, 2017), ‘Architecture, Space and Memory of Resurrection in Northern Ireland’ (Routledge, 2019), and ‘The Perpetuation of Collective Memory in the Built Environment’ (forthcoming).