Lana Salman

Lana Salman is a scholar of international development and urban politics. Her research and teaching focus on everyday statecraft, social reproduction, and urbanism in the Middle East and North Africa. She holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning with an emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the University of Toronto, she was postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Ghent University. Salman’s work is grounded in transdisciplinary inquiry and engaged research across the North/South divide.