Rebecca is a modern and contemporary art and architectural historian specialising in monuments and memorials. She completed her PhD, Contextualizing Britain’s Holocaust Memorials and Museums: Form, Content and Politics, in 2022 from the City University of New York (CUNY). Rebecca’s postdoctoral work analyses vernacular Holocaust memorials located within smaller Jewish communities around the UK. Rebecca has published her research in both Jewish studies and art history publications and has presented at the College Art Association, the Association for Jewish Studies and others. She has been teaching for a decade at universities in the New York City area and since immigrating to the UK she has taught within the study abroad sector. Through her teaching Rebecca is committed to raising diverse voices within academia, using new and innovative methods and pedagogical approaches to create an inclusive curriculum for all students. Rebecca also studied abroad in London her junior year, living on Queen’s Gate, just around the corner from Foundation House!
Selected publications:
- “The Politics of Space and Identity in the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial,” Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. Volume 54 (2022):1-29. UCL Press.
- “The Whitechapel Gallery’s Frieze: 100 Years in the Making,” in Museums and Public Art? Edited by Harriet Senie and Cher Knight, 74-87. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
- “Synagogue as Memorial: Architectural Interventions to Polish Synagogues,” in Reflections: The Auschwitz Jewish Center Journal. Volume 16 (2017): 33-39.
