Fernando Casamayor Molina

Fernando Casamayor Molina is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture and Middle Eastern Studies. He specializes in architectural archaeology, urbanism, and inequality in the early Islamic period, particularly in the Middle East. He earned his BS (First with Honours) and MA by thesis in archaeology at Durham University, UK, focusing on the Abbasid site of Samarra, its residential architecture, and social dynamics. He has participated in numerous excavations in Italy, Spain, England, Tunisia, and the West Bank. He also collaborated with the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa Project on digitizing maps, creating a comprehensive GIS of Samarra, and conducting a condition assessment. He is currently working on identifying and classifying early Islamic residential and service infrastructures in Iraq. He is also interested in digitizing and quantifying inequality using architectural and archaeological evidence from the early Islamic MENA region, ancient Egypt, and Gaza.