Rebecca Krucoff

Adjunct Associate Professor, GCPE and Art and Design Education Department
Rebecca Krucoff is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment’s Historic Preservation Program and the Art and Design Education Department. Her overarching disciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research, both in Art and Design Education and Historic Preservation, is framed by NYC’s institutions, its physical and cultural landscape, and how they impact the lives of the city’s residents. Her teaching in both departments draws on research methodologies such as field-based, archival and oral history research. Her publications and conference presentations, based on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, examine how and why her teaching helps K-12 and college-level students develop research skills to investigate the history of neighborhood development and institutions, and equips them with the skills and strategies needed to address educational, housing, and economic inequities. She teaches two ongoing public history and research methodology courses. Heritage Documentation applies field-based, archival, database, and oral history methodologies to research the history and significance of neighborhoods, and Beyond and Between Pratt’s Gates focuses on silenced histories of activism through oral history and archival research.

Project

Crown Heights North: Holistic Neighborhood Preservation Through Community Archiving (2026)