ABOUT
THE PROJECT

Memorial Women is a global digital archive of monuments to women. We hope it serves the public, scholars, non-profits, NGO's, municipalities, and other public organizations that are interested in how women are represented in public space, both historically and in the contemporary moment. In a moment when people are coming to terms with the extreme underrepresentation of monuments to women, as well as the difficulties in producing compelling work, this website aspires to be a place that can help us think through these dilemmas. We hope it becomes a site of critical engagement with the topic.

Valentina Rozas-Krause

Project supervisor

Valentina Rozas-Krause is an architectural and urban historian who teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has published two books in Spanish and articles in Future Anterior, ARQ, History & Memory amongst others. Her most recent article Neither words nor materiality are enough: The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center was published in Memory Studies. Together with Andrew M. Shanken she co-edited Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space, in 2024.

Andrew Shanken

Project initator

Andy Shanken is an architectural and urban historian who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published The Everyday Life of Memorials in 2022 and co-edited Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space, with Valentina Rozas-Krause.