Hamed Goharipour
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies; Middle Eastern & North African Studies (On Leave for Fall 2024)
Phone: 330-263-2186
Office: Kauke 128
Degrees
- B.Sc., University of Art, Tehran 2010
- M.A., Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran 2013
- Ph.D., Kansas State University 2020
Areas of Interest
My research focuses on the urban legacy of sporting mega-events, examining how host cities function before, during, and after events like the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup. I explore topics such as the use and control of public spaces, city securitization, and social and environmental justice, with attention to the unique context and characteristics of each host city. Over the past twelve years, I have also studied cinematic representations of cities and urban spaces, developing a conceptual and methodological framework called Urban Cinesemiotics. This approach integrates urban theory and semiotics to interpret the physical and sociocultural representations of cities in film.
Courses Taught
- URBN 10100: Contemporary Urban Issues
- URBN 10200: World Cities
- URBN 20106: Social Justice & the City
- URBN 20200: Cities in Cinema
- URBN 29901: Web-based GIS
- URBN 30100: Urban Studio
- FYSM 10100: First-Year Seminar (Sport & the City)
- URBN 45100 & 45200: Independent Study Thesis
Publications
- Goharipour, H (2024). Tales of a City’s Evolution: Tehran in Iranian Pre-revolution Cinema. In M. Langford, et al. (Eds.) The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema (183-202). Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ib-tauris-handbook-of-iranian-cinema-9780755648160/
- Goharipour, H. (2024). Fan zone vs. fun zone: FIFA Fan Festival, ‘wandering there’, and the triumph of Souq Waqif in Qatar 2022. Soccer & Society, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/ 14660970.2024.2446855
- Goharipour, H. (2023). Piazza Navona’s Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Cinema, Peirce, Lynch, and the dynamicity of spatial perception. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 8(2). https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/06/piazza-navona/
- Goharipour, H. (January 18, 2023). The cinematic image of the city: Tehran in Iranian post-revolutionary films. Cinema Iranica. Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation. https://cinema.iranicaonline.org/article/the-cinematic-image-of-the-city/
- Goharipour, H., & Gibson, H. (2021). Reading the represented city and society: Signs, theory and the dynamic interpretativeness of Peircean semiotics. Qualitative Research 23(4), 962-980. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14687941211063484
- Goharipour, H., Gibson, H., & Latifi, G. (2021). Regardless if it is comedy, action, thriller, or biography: A review of urban crime in the 1980s cinema of Chicago. Frontiers of Architectural Research 10(3), 555-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2021.02.005
- Goharipour, H (2019). Narratives of a lost space: A semiotic analysis of central courtyards in Iranian cinema. Frontiers of Architectural Research 8(2), 164-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.foar.2019.01.004
- Goharipour, H (2016). A Review of Urban Images of Tehran in the Iranian Post-revolution Cinema. In F. Arefian & S. Moeini (Eds.) Urban Change in Iran (47-57). The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26115-7_5
Presentations
- Goharipour, H. (2024). Urban public spaces and geographies of mega-event in Qatar 2022. American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Goharipour, H. (2022). Emerging host cities reveal emerging issues: A pre-event discussion of space exclusion and new conflicts of public interest in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 62nd Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
- Goharipour, H. & Pezeshkpoor, Z. (2020). The Role of movable furniture in improving sociability in university campus. ACSP 60th Annual Conference (virtual).
- Goharipour, H. & Gibson, H. (2019). Narratives of crime, violence, and darkness: A journey into Chicago in the 1980s. ACSP 59th Annual Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.
- Goharipour, H. (2019). Cry and demand: A dramatic interpretation of Iranian women’s urban praxis toward the right to the city. ACSP 59th Annual Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.
- Goharipour, H. (2019). Toward Urban Cinesemiotics: Context, Urban Theory and the Dynamicity of an Image-sign. American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Professional Affiliations
- Urban Affairs Association (UAA)