Zoya Brumberg
Adjunct Faculty
Ph.D. in American Studies -
University of Texas at Austin (2016 - 2022)
M.A. in Visual & Critical Studies -
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013 - 2015)
B.A. in Art Studio, Russian -
Mount Holyoke College (2010 - 2012)
Visual and Material Culture, architecture and the built environment, immigrant history, urban studies, labor and political history, Modernism
Professional Experience
Zoya Brumberg-Kraus holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (2022) and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015). In the 2023-24 academic year, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as part of the “Jewish Visual Culture” theme year cohort. She taught as a full-time Lecturer in the Department of American Studies at UT Austin in 2022-23 and has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
PUBLICATIONS:
“A Bridge at Powell and Clay: Designing Chinese American Community in the San Francisco Chinatown YWCA,” Buildings and Landscapes (Spring 2024).
“Simcha,” Frankel Center Annual, 2023-24: Jewish Visual Cultures (Fall 2024).
“Washrooms and Waterfalls: The Pleasure Architecture of the Madonna Inn’s Bathrooms” SCA Roadside journal (Fall, 2023).
“A Tabernacle in the Mojave Desert: George Van Tassel’s Integratron,” SCA Roadside journal (Spring, 2022).
“No More [green] Than Any Other City,”‘Merica Magazine (September 27, 2015).
“Preliminary Materials Toward the Theory of the Female Intellectual,” Writing From Below vol. 2 (2014).
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Invited Talk: “A Room of Her Own: Julia Morgan and the Architecture of Working-Class Women’s Spaces in San Francisco” Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati (February 2024)
Conference Presentation: What Am I—Chopped Suey?: Belonging and the Ambivalent Taste of American Exceptionalism (co-authored with Dr. Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus). Dublin Gastronomy 2022: Food and Movement. Virtual/Dublin, Ireland (June, 2022)
Conference Presentation: “‘Cooperate to Achieve:’ Constructing Chinese American Identity for Los Angeles’s Tourism Economy in New Chinatown” as part of the panel Architectural Fragments of Chinatowns across the Pacific Association for Asian American Studies 2022 Annual Conference: Ruin and Renewal (April, 2022)
Visiting Scholar Panel Participant: “Between Matter and Spirit: The Radical Politics Behind the Future-Building of Paolo Soleri’s Arcologies” A Line in the Sand: Art, Ecology, and Precarity, Berkeley/Stanford Symposium. SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA (April, 2018).
Conference Presentation: “Looking Forward: On Socialism and its Aesthetic Discontents” Elsewhere in Elsewhen: Autofiction as Utopia Conference, Kleve, Germany (March, 2018).
Conference Presentation: “Free Energy: George Van Tassel’s UFOlogy as Reactionary Science” Historical Society of Southern California Conference, Pomona, CA (February, 2018).