Dr Reza Masoudi-Nejad
Academic Visitor
Dr Reza Masoudi-Nejad is an urbanist with a cross-disciplinary background in architecture, urban studies, and anthropology. His research examines urban history and transformation, the spatial logic of crowds and protest, and Shiʿi rituals—particularly the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in Iranian cities and Mumbai. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, spatial analysis, and historical research, he explores religious rituals and processions as integral to urban dynamics and negotiation.
Dr Masoudi-Nejad has been a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen), the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) in Berlin, and SOAS University of London. He completed his PhD at the Bartlett School of Built Environment, UCL, in 2009.