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Research Areas
Architecture; Memorials; Memory
Education
M.Arch., Harvard University
B.A., Princeton University
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Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Rachel Munn
Rachel Munn
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.
Current Projects
I will continue working on two projects. The first is “Berlin Notebooks” a creative non fiction work about living in Berlin as a Jewish architect. The second is a more personal work about renovating a hundred year old farmhouse and the intersection of natural time, the time of the house, the time of raising children and time in a Jewish world of current rituals and family Holocaust stories.
Representative Publications
Munn, Rachel. “Memory and Berlin.” Testimony, Tensions, and Tikkun: Teaching the Holocaust in Colleges and Universities. Edited by Myrna Goldenberg and Rochelle Millen. University of Washington Press: 2007.