Rachel Munn

Areas of Expertise

Architecture; Memorials; Memory

Email: rmunn@brandeis.edu

Current Project

On leave for the 2008-2009 Academic Year.

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.

Rachel has also been an active member of the Boston Society of Architects, including being an invited editorial board member of their magazine ArchitectureBoston and a participant in the national conference 2020 Vision: A Diversity Conference for Design Professionals.

She is currently living in Santa Rosa, California with her husband, young daughter and toddler son.

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.

Links

Curriculum Vitae