Andrew Herscher

Name: Andrew Herscher

Title(s):

• Assistant Professor, Architecture
• Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures

Contact Information: 734.764.7480 , herscher@umich.edu

Website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/herscher

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CREES
• CICS
• WCED

Department Affiliation(s):

• Architecture & Urban Planning
• Slavic Languages & Literatures

Education Background: B.A., Architecture, Yale College, 1983; Master of Architecture, Harvard Design School, 1989; Diploma, Program on Art and Architectural History of Central Europe, Central European University, 1992; Ph.D., Architectural History and Theory, Harvard University, 2002

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• Russian and East European Studies

Related Countries:

• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Czech Republic
• Slovenia
• Hungary

Research/Teaching Specialization: Modern and postmodern architectural, literary and cultural theory; modernism, socialism and post-socialism; architecture and media; architectural and urban formations of violence; memory, trauma and cultural heritage; area specializations in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Territories of Memory: Culture, Heritage, Landscape; The City after Catastrophe: Post-traumatic Urbanism; Violence and Space; Violence and Culture: Rethinking Ethnic, Religious and Nationalist Conflict in the Post Cold War Context