Rebecca Choi
Rebecca Choi is an Assistant Professor of architectural history at Tulane University. Her research considers how movements for racial justice have had a pivotal role in the making of urban America.
Charting the racialization of politics, culture, and representation within architectural forms and urban spaces, her book project Black Architectures examines architecture’s relationship to the changing landscape of American race relations between 1940—1970. Paying close attention to how anti-racist protests, boycotts, sit-ins, and insurrections related to civil rights and Black Power movements impacted the field of architecture, she brings underexamined Black architectural producers to the surface of 20th century history.
Rebecca holds a PhD in architectural history and theory as well as a Master’s degree in urban planning from the University of California Los Angeles. She is the recipient of several research awards and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, and the 2020–23 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH in Zurich. She has contributed writing to Perspecta, gta papers, the Journal of Architectural Education, the Avery Review, Ardeth, Places Journal, and Harvard Design Magazine.