About me
Danna Masad is an architect and doctoral researcher at Tampere University and part of the project 'Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence' (HOMCRI). She has substantial experience in earth architectural practice and education at Birzeit University. Her current research examines the practice of herding as a mode of home-making and un-making in the occupied West Bank. Masad’s research interests cross disciplinary boundaries in political geography, political ecology, landscape studies, Indigenous studies and settler-colonial studies. She is part of the Palestine Research Group GoCEP and the Space and Political Agency Research Group SPARG at Tampere University. She has served on the board of directors of several Palestinian institutions, including Khalil Al-Sakakini Cultural Center, Birzeit University’s Institute for Women Studies, and Sakiya: Art, Science and Agriculture.
Research fields
Political geography, political ecology, Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, landscape studies, architecture
Selected publications
Masad, D. & Dajani, M. (2024) “ʼinjaṣa Cisterns as Vessels of Knowledge: How Palestinian Traditional Building Knowledge Endures” in Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence, edited by Nadi Abusaada and Wesam Al Asali. Zurich: gta Verlag,
Dader, K., Ghantous, W., Masad, D., Joronen, M., Kallio, K. P., Riding, J., & Vainikka, J. (2024). Topologies of scholasticide in Gaza: education in spaces of elimination. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 202(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.147002