Degrees:
| Graduate Certificate |
Graduate Certificate - Museum Studies, University of Michigan, United States |
| Ph.D. |
Urban & Regional Planning, University of Michigan, United States |
| M.A. |
Heritage Management, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| M.A. |
Archaeology, University of Jordan |
| B.Sc. |
Architecture, University of Jordan |
Research Interests:
- Urban design and place making
- International development and
comparative planning
- Participatory planning
- Historic preservation and
cultural resource management
- Museum studies
Contact Louna Khirfan for more information on research opportunities.
Graduate Student Supervision:
| |
# of students currently
supervising/co-supervising |
Total # of student
supervisions/co-supervisions |
| Masters |
7 |
7 |
| PhD |
0 |
0 |
Recent/Key Publications:
- Masoud, F., Margolis, L., Khirfan, L. 2011. Integrated Water-Management: Landscape Infrastructure & Urban Morphology in the Jordan River Watershed. Proceedings of Conservation of Architecture, Urban Areas, Nature & Landscape, a CSAAR Conference. 2011.
- Khirfan, Luna. 2011. Place experience and place making in World Heritage Cities. The proceedings of World Heritage and Tourism: Managing the Global and the Local (2010), Quebec City, Canada, June 2-4, 2010.
- Khirfan, Luna. 2011. From Toronto to Amman: the cross-national transfer of planning knowledge. The Journal of Planning Theory and Practice 12 (4): 1-23.
- Khirfan, Luna. 2011: “GIS, town plan analysis, and historical archival research: understanding the links between inherited built forms and contemporary urban design”. Urban Morphology 5 (1): 39-53.
- Khirfan, Luna. 2010. From Documentation to Policy Making: Management of Built Heritage in Old Aleppo and Old Acre. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 21 (2): 35-54
- Khirfan, Luna. 2010. Traditional Urban Landscapes in Jordan: between cultural intimacy and mass mediation. Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). Beirut, Lebanon. IASTE Working Paper Series Volume 238: Architecture, Tradition, and the Utopia of the Nation-State.
- Khirfan, Luna 2009: Heritage and Community Engagement: from Tokenism to Empowerment Paper presented at the conference “Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region” organized by Leeds Metropolitan University in Amman, Jordan between April 4-7, 2009
- Khirfan, Luna 2009: Documentation and policy-making: preserving the built heritage or the life within? Paper presented at the 6th Savannah Symposium: World Heritage in Perspective held at the Department of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA between 19-21 February 2009.
- Khirfan, Luna 2008: From documentation to policy-making, the missing links in the curatorial management of built heritage. Paper presented at the 6th Conference on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, Rome, Italy between 8-14 December 2008.
- Khirfan, Luna 2007: Khirfan, Louna, November 2007: Regulations and the Life Within. Paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Khirfan, Luna 2006: Three historic cities, three historic preservation approaches, and three consequences. Paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference, Ft Worth, Texas.
- Khirfan, Luna, November 2005: Place-as-Product: planning for heritage tourism in historic towns. Paper presented at the ACSP Conference, Kansas City, Missouri.
- Khirfan, Luna. 2005. Welcome to Our Traditional Home. The proceedings of “On Voyage: new directions in tourism theory”. October 7-8, 2005, UC Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Khirfan, Luna. 2010. Traces on the palimpsest: Heritage and the urban forms of Athens and Alexandria. Cities 27 (5): 315-325.
- Khirfan, Luna, April 2005: Welcome to Our Traditional Home. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, NM.
- Khirfan, Luna 2003: Tourism, Sustainability, and Fragile Eco-Systems: the case of the Dead Sea. Paper presented at the UTEP Distinguished Faculty and Student Symposium “Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries”.
- Khirfan, Luna 2002: From Glasgow to Amman: Historic Cities, Tourism and the Sense of Civic Pride. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, Zarqa, Jordan.
- Khirfan, Luna 2002: A Framework for Sustainable Tourism at the Dead Sea Basin. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, Zarqa, Jordan.
Courses Taught:
02/08/12
