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Michal Huss is a Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. His research intersects architectural and political theory, focusing on the built environment in postcolonial divided cities, and the ways it shapes daily life, rituals, and practices of repair and resistance. He completed his ESRC-funded PhD in Architecture at the University of Cambridge in 2021, where his thesis challenged state-centric, crisis-driven framings of migration and borders by foregrounding the spatial agency of refugees and reimagining urban heritage. This work employed participatory 'walk-along' ethnography and artistic practices to reconceptualize heritage as a dynamic, contested, and transcultural process. Huss's Leverhulme project investigates the everyday spaces of living and dying in contested environments, focusing on housing, ruins, cemeteries, and urban ghost stories to illustrate how cities are haunted by colonialism, division, and capitalist accumulation. His approach combines participatory ethnography, archival research, and artistic methods to trace the circulation of spatial laws and practices in South Asia and the Middle East. He is currently developing a monograph titled 'Bulldozer Injustice Necropolis: Death and Life in Post/Colonial Cities' and has a forthcoming book titled 'Remaking Urban Heritage,' scheduled for publication by Amsterdam University Press in October 2025.
Includes MSc in Advanced Electrical Power Systems and MSc in Communications and Signal Processing.