Rachel Rosengarten Hunnicutt
Ph.D.
Email:
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Research Interests:
Design history; architecture, interiors, and material culture; immersive museology; world’s fairs; corporate culture and design; histories, theories, and cultures of bureaucracy; occult studies; 20th-century US history
Biography
Rachel Rosengarten Hunnicutt is a doctoral candidate in American Studies. She holds an MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies from Parsons School of Design, The New School, and a BA in Art History from Trinity College. Her dissertation explores connections between large organizations—corporate, state, and military—and the occult in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American pop culture and public history narratives. Her project sheds light on the conspiracy theories, waning faith in institutions, and anxieties about technology and authority that shape our recent past and present moment. Rosengarten Hunnicutt has taught courses on decorative art, industrial design, visual culture, and interior design history and theory at Parsons, and her writing and reviews have appeared in Design Issues, Collections, the Journal of Design History, and Winterthur Portfolio. She formerly served as a cataloguer and curatorial fellow at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and is presently an Editorial Assistant at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.Education
B.A., Art History, Trinity College, 2012
M.A., History of Design and Curatorial Studies, Parsons School of Design, The New School, 2019
