# Fernando Casamayor Molina Islamic Architecture ![Casamayor profile](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/casamayor.jpg?itok=ksjVaXv5) email Fernando Casamayor Molina studies the archaeological landscape of Iraq during the early Islamic period. His research explores how urbanism and architecture reflect broader questions of inequality, state formation, and social control. He earned his Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) and MA by Thesis (Pass without Corrections) in Archaeology at Durham University, where he focused on the Abbasid city of Samarra, examining its residential and service architecture and social dynamics. He has participated in excavations in Italy, Spain, England, Tunisia, Turkey, and the West Bank. He has also collaborated with the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) Project, where he digitized maps, developed a comprehensive GIS of Samarra, and conducted a condition assessment of the site. He is currently working on the identification and classification of early Islamic sites in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, and serves as a landscape archaeologist with the Middle Kingdom Theban Project. - ## People [Graduate Students](/people/graduate) - ## G-Year [G3](/year-graduate-study-g-year/g3)