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Aliki Economides is an Associate Professor at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture. Trained as an architect and holding a Ph.D. in architectural and urban history from Harvard University where she was a Frank Knox Fellow, her research focuses primarily on: the roles played by the built and natural environment in the construction of identity; the profound and mutually reinforcing relationships between social and spatial injustices; and the history, theory, and contemporary practice of ornament in architecture. With filmmaker Paul Carvalho, she collaborated on the documentary film, Une Tour sur la montagne : l’architecture d’Ernest Cormier et sa vie avec Clorinthe Perron [A Tower on the Mountain: the architecture of Ernest Cormier and his life with Clorinthe Perron], which is based on her doctoral thesis and was produced in 2020 for Radio-Canada. Throughout 2016, Aliki was a postdoctoral Scholar-in-Residence at McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (CIRM) where she continues to be an Associate Member. Her research has also been supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), the Laurentian University Research Fund, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) New Research Initiative Fund.
| 2025 | Conference Paper (with Michael Sirois): “Cultivating Resilience in the Territory of Greater Sudbury, Canada”, V Congreso Internacional – Cultura y Ciudad: Comida y Arquitectura [Food and Architecture International Conference], Granada, Spain |
| 2025 | Session Chair: “Contested Ground(s)”, Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) 50th Annual Conference, Ottawa |
| 2025 | Conference Paper: ““Architectures of Jurisprudence: Imperial Imperatives, Ornamental Skins, and the Tenacity of Precedent”, Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) 50th Annual Conference, Ottawa |
| 2023 | Session Chair: “Cast in (an undesirable) place: socio-spatial inequalities in the built environment”, Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) Annual Conference, Calgary |
| 2023 | Round table discussion panelist: Visionnement-discussion “Une tour sur la montagne : le Montréal d’entre-deux-guerres au prisme de l’oeuvre d’Ernest Cormier” [virtual] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLhGdy0c_A |
| 2021 | Session Chair: “Open Session”, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference [virtual] |
| 2021 | Invited lecturer: “The Mountain, the Monument, and the Muse”, Third Age Learning Guelph [virtual] |
| 2021 | Session Chair: “Design Process and Methods”, 109th Annual Meeting Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) [virtual] |
| 2021 | Moderator: “Labo F M-R – Patrimoine”, Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM/CIRM), Université McGill https://www.mcgill.ca/centre-montreal/fr/ressources/multimedia#le-labo-f-mr-patrimoine |
| 2020 | Round table discussion panelist: “Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present”, McEwen School of Architecture Public Lecture Series |
| 2019 | Speaker-panelist for: “Conférence-Expérience Émouvoir : Aménager – Expérience et Innovation d’un Quartier”, Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM/CIRM), Université McGill |
| 2019 | Conference Paper (with Kate Morawietz): “Engagements with the Matter of the Berlin Wall”, 2019 Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), Québec City |
| 2018 | Conference Paper: “Skin, or, the Enveloping Tactics of Architectural Ornament”, 71st Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), St Paul, Minnesota |
| 2018 | Session Chair: “Cosmopolitanism, Citizenship, and the City (19th to 21st centuries)”, European Association for Urban History (EAUH) International Conference, Rome |
| 2020 | Paul Carvalho and Aliki Economides. Une Tour sur la Montagne : l’architecture d’Ernest Cormier et sa vie avec Clorinthe Perron. [A Tower on the Mountain: the architecture of Ernest Cormier and his life with Clorinthe Perron]. Directed by Paul Carvalho. Montréal: Perception Films Inc for Radio-Canada, 2020. DVD (52 mins).
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| 2025 | Economides, Aliki and Michael Sirois. “Cultivating Resilience in the Territory of Greater Sudbury, Canada.” In Comida y Arquitectura: Casa, Calle, Territorio, tome 2, edited by Juan Calatrava, David Arredondo Garrido, and Marta Rodríguez Iturriaga, 861-874. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2025. |
| 2024 | Shelekpayev, Nari, and Aliki Economides. “Special Issue Introduction: Capital Cities in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts.” Urban History Review 52, no. 1 (March 2024): 65-72. doi:10.3138/uhr-02-2024-01 |
| 2021 | Economides, Aliki. « La beauté des villes ». Cahiers numériques du CRIEM / CIRM’s Digital Notebooks 4, n° 5 ‘Émouvoir’ (juillet 2021) : 36-43. |
| 2019 | Economides, Aliki. “The Cormier Residence in Relief.” In The Routledge Research Companion to Art Deco, edited by Bridget Elliott and Michael Windover, 39-66. New York: Routledge, 2019. |
| 2025 | Research Assistant Funding for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSHRC) |
| 2023-2024 | SSHRC Explore Grant – New Research Initiative Fund |
| 2019-2021 | Laurentian University Research Fund (LURF) |
| 2019 | Rogers Documentary Fund (with Producer Paul Carvalho, Perception Films) |
| 2018 | Radio-Canada Production Contract, funded by Ici Radio in conjunction with the Canadian Film Fund (with Producer Paul Carvalho, Perception Films) |
| 2018 | Rockefeller Archive Center Research Stipend |
| 2018 | Society of Architectural Historians’ George R. Collins Fellowship |