Michal Huss is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester. Working at the intersection of architectural and political theories, she studies the built environment of post/colonial and divided cities as it facilities daily life, rituals, and acts of repair and resistance.
She completed an ESRC-sponsored PhD in Architecture at the University of Cambridge in 2021, and her current Leverhulme-funded project studies the struggle over every-day spaces of living and dying on the geographical and theoretical margins of the city.
Seeking to redefine conventional urban and architectural knowledge, her work integrates participatory ‘walk-along’ ethnography, archival research, and artistic methods to illuminate the multidirectional movement of spatial laws and practices between South Asia and the Middle East. Her research involves the study of housing, ruins, in/visible cemeteries, and urban ghost stories to illuminate how cities are haunted by the legacies of colonialism, ethnic division, and capitalist accumulation.
Her forthcoming book, Refugees, Urban Belonging and the Transgressive Art of Walking, will be published by Amsterdam University Press in 2025; and a she is currently working on another monograph, provisionally entitled Bulldozer Injustice in the Necropolis: Death and Life in Post/Colonial Cities.