Assistant Professor of Latin American an Global Architectural History
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About
Valentina Rozas-Krause is an architect and architectural historian whose research interests lie in the intersection of public art, the built environment, and global cultural practices across the Americas and Europe. She is Assistant Professor in Latin American and Global Architectural History at the University of Michigan, and was the 2024-2025 Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism at Bard College. She was also the 2023-24 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Her most recent publications include the collective volume Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory and Public Space (Fordham, 2024), the article “Our Auschwitz is the ESMA: Preservation and the Holocaust in Argentina” in Future Anterior (2024), and Decolonization, a special issue of journal ARQ (2022).
She serves as an elected board member for the Society of Architectural Historians (2023-25), and as a founding member of Rumbo Colectivo, a Chilean political foundation, through which she engages in public scholarship across media, including a monthly participation in Ciudad Pauta, a Chilean nation-wide radio show, in which she talks about public space, heritage, migration, public housing, monuments, and more.
I am currently accepting PhD students to start in Fall 2027.
* Recent article: Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center (Memory Studies, 2024)
* Last book: Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory and Public Space (Fordham Press, 2024)
* Recording of 2023 Harvard Radcliffe Public Talk Memorials and the Cult of Apology
Courses I teach regularly:
- Architecture and Memory
- Space and Power
- Deep Fakes: Artificial Intelligence, Images and Visual Literacy
- Women in Public Space
