Valentina Rozas-Krause is an assistant professor in design and architecture at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile and was the 2023-24 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She holds a Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a master’s degree in urban planning, and Bachelors of Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She held a postdoctoral fellowship in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan. She has published three books: Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco (Ril, 2014), the co-edited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018), and the collective volume Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Memorials and Gender (Fordham, 2024). These publications join peer-reviewed articles in Future Anterior, History & Memory, e-flux, Latin American Perspectives, Anos 90, ARQ, Revista 180, Cuadernos de Antropología Social, Memory Studies, and Bifurcaciones alongside a chapter in Neocolonialism and Built Heritage (Routledge, 2020). She edited a special issue of the ARQ journal on Decolonization, and is currently leading a multiyear research project examining female representation in public space(s) in three Chilean cities.
Her research has been supported by numerous institutions, including Mellon/ACLS, the UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities, the UC Berkeley Institute of International and Comparative Studies, the German DAAD, and the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID-Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo de Chile). She serves as an elected board member for the Society of Architectural Historians (2023-25), and is an adjunct researcher of the Center for Conflict and Social Cohesion Studies, which brings together interdisciplinary researchers from four universities across Chile. As a founding member of Rumbo Colectivo, a Chilean political foundation, she engages with public scholarship across media, including a monthly participation in Ciudad Pauta, a Chilean nation-wide radio show, in which she talks about public space, heritage, migration, public housing, monuments, and more.