Faranak Miraftab | The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faranak Miraftab is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning with joint appointments in Women and Gender Studies and Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her established transnational feminist urban scholarship focuses on urbanization, citizenship, and insurgent practices of marginalized people based on class, race, and gender in many areas of the world—United States, Middle East, Southern Africa, and Latin America. Her most recent book, Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking, received the American Sociological Association’s Global & Transnational Sociology Award and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Davidoff book award, and it was a C. Wright Mills book award finalist by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Miraftab is currently working on a collaborative project on co-production of knowledge by academics and urban movements, on grassroots practices of radical care and how they produce hope and build alternative humane urbanisms as alternatives to the dominant profit-centered bully urbanism.