Samia Kirchner
Secretary; Chair, Governance Committee
  • Tenured Associate Professor of Architecture and City Design at Morgan State University in Baltimore
  • Research and practices focus on Port Cities Urban Regeneration and Waterfront Redevelopment
  • Trained facilitator in cross-cultural learning and received the 2020 Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award
  • Middle East Area Editor for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arabian Studies
  • Desk Reviewer for ICOMOS on the UNESCO World Heritage List
  • Chair of the Morgan Internationalization of Education Task Force
  • Served as Chair of the Leadership Committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
  • Member of Morgan State University Memorial Chapel