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College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Media Communication

Teaching areas

Media and Cultural Studies, Communication Theory, Public Relations, Social Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

Research areas

Critical Theory; Actor Network Theory; Urban, Architectonic and Social Space; Cybercultures and Cyberspace; International Political Economy; Contemporary French Theory

Education

PhD, Mass Communication, And International Political Economy, University of Illinois, United States, 1995

BA, Honours Political Science, Minor History, Concordia University, Canada, 1987

Professional experience

Associate Professor, Epartment Of Mass Communication, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2010 - Present

Assistant Professor, Epartment Of Mass Communication, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2007 - 2010

Head Of Communications And Market Strategy, Alduos Communications, British Columbia, Canada, 2007 - 2007

Head Of Communications, Marketing And Training And Development, InLine Networks, British Columbia, Canada, 2004 - 2007

Communications Consultant Environics International, Ontario, Canada, 2002 - 2004

Assistant Professor, York University, Ontario, Canada, 1995 - 2001

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma,, United States, 1993 - 1995

Memberships

American Association of Geographers, AAG, International, This is an academic organization comprised of professors and other intellectuals who research and publish on matters related to critical geography., July 2017

International Communications Association, ICA, International, September 2007

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2388

Dr. Harris Breslow

Associate Professor

PhD, University of Illinois, United States

Harris Breslow has been a visiting professor at the University of Tulsa and a professor in the Program in Communication Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has been a Doctoral and Post Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a McGannon Fellow (Fordham University) and the Edmund James Fellow at the University of Illinois. His research interests include urban and architectonic space, communication and cultural theory, and critical studies of Internet usage. He is a Principal Investigator in the Emirates Internet Project, a partner member of the World Internet Project.

Publications

Abeer Al-najjar And Harris Breslow. The Problem of Palestine’s Place in a Globalized Palestinian Cinema, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2024

Harris Breslow. Smart Cities and the Neoliberal Containment of Urban Complexity: The Case of Dubai

Harris Breslow. The smart city, informality and the governance of mobile subjects: The case of Dubai, Urban Studies Journal Limited, 3 March 2020

Harris Breslow. Technology and the Future of Integrated Marketing Communications

Harris Breslow. The Smart City, Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Urban Informality

Harris Breslow. Competing Visions of the Smart City: Space, Power and the Subject

Harris Breslow. Steps Towards the Spatial Disruption of the Public Sphere

Harris Breslow. A Perpetual Arrhythmia and a Fractured Public Sphere: The Disruption of Space, Time and Mobility in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Harris Breslow. Media Localism: The Politics of Place, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018

Mohammad Ayish And Harris Breslow. The Need for Interdisciplinary Research of the Arab Mass Media, Global Media Journal, 2014

Conference Presentations

The Dubai Frame: A Threshold Space, Twelfth International Conference On The Constructed Environment, 28 April 2022

Smart Cities and the Neoliberal Containment of Urban Complexity: The Case of Dubai, The City And Complexity: Life, Design And Commerce In The Built Environment, 18 June 2020

Globalization and the Changing Urban Morphology of Dubai, February 2020

The Dubai Frame as Heterotopic Mirror and Interstitial Space Between Formal and Informal Dubai, February 2020

The Smart City, Neoliberalism and Informality: The Imposition of Formality in Dubai, February 2020

Globalization and the Changing Urban Morphology of Dubai, January 2020

The Dubai Frame as Heterotopic Mirror and Interstitial Space Between Formal and Informal Dubai, January 2020

Tracing the Relations of Smart Cities, Neoliberalism and Urban Informality, January 2020

What Clients Really Want from Your Agency, The Mena Digital Conference 2019, December 2019

The Smart City, Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Urban Informality, Annual Meeting Of The American Association Of Geographers, 6 April 2019

Technology and the Future of Integrated Marketing Communications, Dubai In2 Innovation Summit, 13 February 2019

Steps Towards the Spatial Disruption of the Public Sphere, Ninth Annual International Conference On Spaces And Flows, 24 October 2018

A Perpetual Arrhythmia and a Fractured Public Sphere: The Disruption of Space, Time and Mobility in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, On Time. Temporal And Normative Ordering Of Mobilities, 14 September 2018

Competing Visions of the Smart City: Space, Power and the Subject, Annual Meeting Of The American Association Of Geographers, 8 April 2018

The Spatial Envelope of Portable Space, Ninth Annual International Conference On Spaces And Flows, 12 October 2017

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Faculty Research Grant--Small/Exploratory, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2019 - 31 May 2021

Grant, Professional Development Grant, American University of Sharjah, 23 October 2019 - 25 October 2019

Sponsored Research, Sabbatical Grant, American University of Sharjah, 1 August 2017 - 31 July 2018

Awards and Honors

Research Grant, National Research Foundation--United Arab Emirates, This was a four year AED 200,000 grant for the study of the social impact of internet usage on the UAE, January 2012

Summer Scholar in Residence, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1 June 1995