Dr. Tammy Gaber

Dr. Tammy Gaber is a Director and Associate Professor at the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University, where she teaches architecture design and theory courses. Dr.Gaber was one of the MSoA founding faculty in 2013 and previously taught at the University of Waterloo, American University in Cairo and the British University in Egypt. Dr.Gaber completed an SSHRC funded research project which led to her book with McGill Queen’s Press, Beyond the Divide: A Century of Canadian Mosque Design and has also published chapters on vernacular and regional architecture in Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet (Thames and Hudson) and Diversity and Design: Perspectives from the Non-Western World (Fairchild Publishing), and has two chapters in The Religious Architecture of Islam (Brepol Publishing). In 2019 Dr. Gaber won the Women Who Inspire Award from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and in 2020 she was awarded Laurentian University’s Teaching Excellence Award for a Full-time professor.