Dr. Marisa Brown

Ph.D. Yale University, 2014

M.A. University of Chicago, 1999

B.A. Princeton University, 1996

Marisa Angell Brown has managed the biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art since 2008.  She is an architectural historian, specializing in modern and contemporary architecture, adaptive reuse/spatial practices, and public art.  Her writing has appeared in Places Journal, Perspecta, Manual, Buildings and Landscapes, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and her curatorial projects have been featured in Metropolis, Architectural Record, the Associated Press, the Providence Journal and the Public’s Radio.  Brown’s most recent article, in the Spring 2023 Journal of Architectural Education’s Reparations! issue, is titled “Notes Toward a Critical Race Practice of Preservation.”  Brown has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design and in the women’s prison in Rhode Island.