Michal Huss is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester. Working at the intersection of architectural, urban, and political theory, her research examines post/colonial and divided cities, focusing on how everyday spaces of living and dying shape practices of belonging, memory, resistance, and repair.
She completed an ESRC-funded PhD in Architecture at the University of Cambridge (2021), and her current Leverhulme-funded project explores struggles over housing, cemeteries, and everyday urban spaces on the geographical and theoretical margins of the city. Her work integrates participatory ‘walk-along’ ethnography, archival research, and artistic methods to trace the circulation of spatial laws and practices between South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
Michal has an established publication record in leading international journals including Antipode, Political Geography, Environment and Planning D, Urban Geography, Memory Studies, and Social & Cultural Geography, and is the author of Remaking Urban Heritage: Refugee Walking Tours in Berlin, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv (Central European University Press, 2025). She is currently working on a second monograph, Bulldozer Injustice in the Necropolis: Death and Life in Post/Colonial Cities.
Alongside her research, she teaches across architectural and urban studies programmes, with a focus on critical urban theory, displacement, memory, and participatory research methods, and is actively involved in postgraduate teaching and research training.