Education BA, Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996 M.Arch, Columbia University, 1999 PhD, Architecture, Columbia University, 2008
Research Interests Professor Zarecor researches the cultural and technological history of architecture in 20th-century Czechoslovakia. Her 2008 dissertation, “Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: The Architecture of Industrialized Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-56,” focuses on the intersection of architects, housing design, and the state apparatus between 1945 and 1956. The manuscript, which is currently under review at an academic press, follows the development and deployment of standardized mass-housing types such as the prefabricated structural panel building and examines the relationship between communism and architecture. Her publications include "Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Socialist Czechoslovakia," in Jill Massino and Shana Penn, eds. Gender and Everyday Life under State Socialism in East and Central Europe: New Scholarship from the United States and Europe since 1989. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming; "Czechoslovakia's Model Housing Developments: Modern Architecture for the Socialist Future," in V. Kulic, T. Parker, and M. Penick, eds. Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities. Univ. of Texas Press, forthcoming; "Stavoprojekt and the Atelier of National Artist Jiří Kroha in the 1950s/ Stavoprojekt a atelier národního umělce Jiřího Krohy v 50.letech” in Marcela Macharáčková, ed. Jiří Kroha (1893-1974) – Architect, Painter, Designer, Theorist. Muzeum města Brna, 2007; and “Jirí Kroha Reconsidered” in Umění (2004). She has received numerous fellowships and research grants including a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2002-2003), an ACLS Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship (2003-2004) and research grants from the Iowa State Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (2006, 2009). Her additional research interests include modernism in Eastern Europe, the history of prefabrication technologies, American urbanism and housing design.
Current Projects Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: The Architecture of Industrialized Housing in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia, book manuscript, under review.
"The Local History of an International Type: The Structural Panel Building in Czechoslovakia," submitted for review to Home Cultures.
