Dr. Johanna Sluiter

Postdoktorandin

Abteilung für Architekturgeschichte und Denkmalpflege

Telefon
+41 31 684 47 42
E-Mail
johanna.sluiter@unibe.ch
Büro
157
Postadresse
Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern
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on leave until 1. November 2025

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • History and theory of 19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism
  • Environmental studies, ecology, and issues of climate
  • Colonial networks and postcolonial critique
  • Historiography of architecture
  • Exhibition histories

Aktivitäten

Lehrveranstaltungen Frühjahrssemester 2025

Proseminar
The Sex of Architecture: Gender, Power, Pleasure

Lehrveranstaltungen Herbstsemester 2024

Proseminar
Unpacking the Archive: From Tool to Method of Architectural History

Lehrveranstaltungen Frühjahrssemester 2024

Proseminar
Material Matters: Material Histories of Architecture

Publikationen

2021 “From Crystal to Cryosphere: Architecture and the Future Ice Age,” in Drawing Climate: Visualising Invisible Elements of Architecture, Daniel Ryan, Eric l’Heureux & Jennifer Ferng, Eds. (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2021).
2020 “Charlotte Perriand: Pioneering Design in a Man’s World,” IFA Contemporary, 2020.
2019 “Stage Sets and Leisure Machine: Work and Play in Cedric Price’s Generator Project,” in The Museum of Modern Art Mellon Research Consortium Research Dossier 4 (New York: MoMA, 2019).
2018 “The Man in the Street: Shadrach Woods and ‘Pedestrian’ Urbanism,” in Urban Art: Creating the Urban with Art, Proceedings of the International Conference at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 15-16 July, 2016, Ulrich Blanché and Ilaria Hoppe, Eds. (Lisbon: SAUC, 2018).

Lebenslauf

Curriculum Vitae (Stand April 2025) (PDF, 205KB)
Since 2024 Early Postdoc, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Bern
Since 01/2023 Co-Director of the archival research and conservation project: “Building Memory in Casablanca, Morocco (1917-1980)” Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP)
Since 01/2022 Senior Researcher, Mémoire des Architectes Modernes Marocains (MAMMA)
09/2018 to 01/2023 PhD in Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Dissertation: “Building Habitat: Reconstruction, Decolonization, and the Atelier des Bâtisseurs, 1945-1962” (Director: Jean-Louis Cohen)
09/2019 to 08/2021 Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
(CASVA) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
09/2020 to 12/2020 Research Fellow, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris
10/2019 to 02/2020 Dissertation Research Fellowship, American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA), Oran and  The Tangier American Legation
Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), Tangier
09/2018 to 08/2019 Invited Researcher, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville, Paris
Institut Parisien de Recherche : Architecture, Urbanistique, Société (IPRAUS)
01/2018 to 05/2018 Remarque Doctoral Fellowship, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
01/2017 to 05/2017 Andrew W. Mellon Museum Research Consortium Fellow
Museum of Modern Art, New York
09/2016 to 05/2018 M.Phil. in Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
09/2014 to 05/2016 M.A. in Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Thesis: “Pipe Dreams: Underground Visions and Labyrinths in French Utopian Architecture and Dystopian Film, 1960-1970”
09/2010 to 01/2012 Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF)
French Ministry of Education, Académie de Versailles
09/2007 to 05/2010 Bachelor of Arts in Art History (Major) and French Studies (Minor), Purchase College, SUNY
Thesis: “Picturing Silence: A Portrait of America in the Works of Evans, Hopper, and Wyeth”