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Dr. Tammy Gaber is Director and Associate Professor at the McEwen School of Architecture, Laurentian University (Canada) where she teaches architecture design and theory courses, which she joined as founding faculty in 2013. Dr.Gaber previously taught at University of Waterloo, American University in Cairo and the British University in Egypt. Dr.Gaber completed a SSHRC funded research project which led to her forthcoming book with McGill Queen’s Press, Beyond the Divide: A Century of Canadian Mosque Design and has published on gender and architecture with a chapter in the forthcoming Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture (Bloomsbury press). Dr.Gaber has also published chapters on vernacular and regional architecture in Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet (Thames and Hudson) and Diversity and Design: Perspectives from the Non-Western World (Fairchild Publishing), and has two chapters in the forthcoming The Religious Architecture of Islam (Brepols Publishing). In 2019 Dr. Gaber won the Women Who Inspire Award from the Canadian Council of Muslim women and in 2020 she was awarded Laurentian University’s Teaching Excellence Award for a Full-time professor. Dr.Gaber was awarded SSHRC funding in 2022 for her research on the sacred spaces designed by the Modernist architects Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto.
| 2022 | “Losing Faith: Continuity and Community of Aaltos’ Sacred Spaces ”. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant |
| 2021 | “Beyond the Divide A Century of Canadian Mosque Design”. Co-Applicant with McGill Queen’s Press for forthcoming book. Award for Scholarly Publications Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council |
| 2020 | “Beyond the Divide A Century of Canadian Mosque Design”. Laurentian University Faculty Research Fund Grant (LURF) Publication Subvention |
| 2020-2021 (sabbatical) | CENTER FOR THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Invited Scholar of 2020-2021 Research Workshops on Religion and the Built Environment. [remote] |
| 2020 (sabbatical) | AALTO RESIDENCY PROGRAM, SÄYNÄTSALO TOWN HALL Säynätsalo, Finland. Invited Scholar for October-November, in person. |
| 2019 | “Cosmic Ordering of Sub-Tropic of Capricorn Mosques”. Laurentian University Faculty Research Fund Grant (LURF) |
| 2021 | UPHERE FESTIVAL MURAL, Sudbury, Canada. “Collage City”, Mural designed and painted permanently on downtown building façade covering over 4000m2. |
| 2020 | UPHERE FESTIVAL POWER-UP BOX, Sudbury, Canada. “School Axo”, Mural designed and painted permanently on Greater Sudbury Utilities power-up box. |
| 2020 | MCEWEN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE NUIT BLANCHE, Sudbury, Canada. “Grids Breathing”, Installation designed, built and exhibited with A.Hudyama, H.Clark, A.Polito. |
| 2019 | MCEWEN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE NUIT BLANCHE, Sudbury, Canada. “Breathing Grid”, Installation designed, built and exhibited with Thomas Strickland. |
| 2019 | CAGE GALLERY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, Oxford, Ohio. “A Century of Canadian Mosque Design and Gender Allocations” exhibition of 40 large format photographs. |
| 2018 | KORACH GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Miami, Florida. “A Century of Canadian Mosque Design and Gender Allocations” exhibition of 40 large format photographs. |
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| 2023 | Gaber, T. “Water and Ritual Ablutions (Wudu) in Canadian Mosques,” Water and Sacred Architecture. Anat Geva, Ed. Routledge press. Forthcoming. |
| 2023 | Gaber, T. “Canadian Mosques: Hybridity in Form and Program,” Expanding Dialogues of Diaspora: Manifestation of Middle Eastern Architecture in the Americas. Caroline Olivia Wolf, Ed. Intellect / University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming. |
| 2023 | Gaber, T. “Egyptian Pioneers and Trailblazers,” Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015. Lori Brown, Karen Burns, Eds. Bloomsbury Publishing. Forthcoming. |
| 2022 | Gaber, T. Beyond the Divide, A Century of Canadian Mosque Design. McGill-Queen’s University Press. ISBN 9780228008262 |
| 2022 | Gaber, T. “Canadian Mosques,” The Religious Architecture of Islam Volume II: Africa, Europe and the Americas. Hasan-Uddin Khan and Kathryn Blair Moore, Eds. Brepols Publishing. (300-315) ISBN 978-2-503-58936-7 |
| 2021 | Gaber, T. “New Australian Mosques,” The Religious Architecture of Islam Volume I: Asia and Australia. Hasan-Uddin Khan and Kathryn Blair Moore, Eds. Brepols Publishing. (454-473) ISBN 978-2-503-58935-0 |
| 2021 | Gaber, T. “Gardens of Paradise: Aalto’s Encounters with the Islamic World”, (Ever) Green Alvar Aalto Seminar Proceeding. Helsinki: Alvar Aalto Academy. (113-121). Conference in Pori, Finland. May 2021. [remote] |
| 2020 | LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR FULL-TIME FACULTY. Recipient of this annual award, with research stipend |
| 2019 | WOMEN WHO INSPIRE AWARD. CANADIAN COUNCIL OF MUSLIM WOMEN. Biennial award to six leading women in the country, Toronto. |