is a Professor in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Gupta holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture and a Master's in City Planning from MIT. Currently, she is writing her first book The Architecture of Dispossession, which is based on her doctoral thesis on state-building and the architectural transformation of migrant reed-mat and mudbrick settlements in mid-century Iraq. Gupta is also an editor at Jadaliyya.com's Environment Page, "Environment in Context" podcast host, and film producer currently working on a documentary film set in the Iraqi marshes.
