Rachel Munn

Areas of Expertise

Architecture; Memorials; Memory


Email: rmunn@brandeis.edu

Current Project

I will continue with “Berlin Notebooks,” a non fiction work about living in Berlin as a Jewish architect. My second project is based on a photograph of a Jewish nursing school class of eight women taken in Berlin, 1942. I will trace the fate of each of the nursing students in the photograph.

Biography

Rachel Munn is an architect with over ten years of professional experience (formerly an Associate at MDS in downtown Boston). Her academic interests focus on the interrelation of architecture, place, memory and memorials.  In 1997–1998, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin, where she studied the history and built environment of this complex city. Since her return to the U.S., she has continued her research, teaching and reflections in these areas through undergraduate and graduate courses focused on how historical events, political ideals and cultural movements are inscribed into the urban environment.  She has given seminars at Harvard University’s Graduate Consortium for Women’s Studies at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Department of Architecture of Wentworth Institute of Technology, as well as guest lectures at several other area colleges and universities. 

Education

M.Arch., Harvard University

B.A., Princeton University

Representative Publications

Munn, Rachel. “Memory and Berlin.” The Tensions of Teaching the Holocaust in Colleges and Universities. Ed. M. Goldenberg and R. Millen. University of Washington Press, Forthcoming 2007.

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Curriculum Vitae