Rachel Julia Engler
Education
Columbia University
PhD, Art History & Archaeology
Advanced certificate, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University
MA, Art History & Archaeology
Yale University
BA, History of Art
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Rachel Julia Engler is an art historian and writer, currently a lecturer in architectural history at the University of Oklahoma. She is particularly interested in histories of faith and the secular as they intersect with technology and broadcast media.
Rachel holds a PhD from Columbia University, where she studied architectural history, and a BA from Yale University, where she was a student of Northern Renaissance painting. She has taught at the Rice University School of Architecture (2021, 2022) and at Columbia.
For the past fifteen years, she has also worked as an editor, and as a translator from German to English. In 2019, her translation, with Reto Geiser, of Sigfried Giedeon’s 1929 illustrated manifesto Befreites Wohnen (Liberated Dwelling) was published by Lars Müller (Zürich).
At OU, Rachel has been contributing as a researcher to the American School project, specifically reading and writing about the life and work of Sausalito architect, and OU graduate, Violeta Autumn. She curated Autumn’s section of the Outré West exhibition that opened at the Oklahoma Contemporary in August.