Dr. Tammy Gaber is Director and Associate Professor at the McEwen School of Architecture, which she joined as Founding Faculty in 2013 and helped create new curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate programs. Dr.Gaber has won awards for the impact of her teaching and research, won several federally funded grants, and has published extensively and taught in architecture programs for the past two decades. Dr.Gaber’s ground breaking book , Beyond the Divide A Century of Canadian Mosques Design published by McGill-Queen’s press was profiled in the Globe and Mail and various journals, periodicals and television. In 2019, Dr. Gaber won the Women Who Inspire Award from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and in 2020 she was awarded Laurentian University’s Teaching Excellence Award for a Full-time professor. Dr.Gaber was awarded Canadian Federal funding, again, in 2022 for her research on the sacred spaces designed by the Modernist architects Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto and is currently working in collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Foundation in Finland on an exhibition set for 2024. As an acclaimed pedagogue and academic, Dr.Gaber’s leadership of the McEwen School of Architecture has demonstrated tenacity and proactive initiatives to address the particular challenges during her term. As one of the first women of colour to lead a school of architecture in Canada, she has led the amelioration of curriculum and set the course visioning the future.
