{"id":50527,"date":"2016-01-06T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/emily-gunzburger-makas\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:55:30","slug":"emily-gunzburger-makas","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/people\/emily-gunzburger-makac5a1\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Gunzburger Maka\u0161"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><\/strong>Emily Maka\u0161 has a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University (2007), a Masters in Historic Preservation from Columbia University (1997), and a Bachelor\u2019s in History from the University of Tennessee (1995).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maka\u0161 is a founding leader of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chart.charlotte.edu\/\">Center for Community, Heritage, and the Arts (CHArt)<\/a>, a pilot research center in the College of Arts + Architecture supported by the UNC Charlotte Division of Research. CHArt works to empower communities to reclaim, elevate, and co-create cultural histories. It foregrounds interdisciplinary conversations that strengthen existing collaborations and build new research initiatives exploring the connection between community, place-making, culture, heritage, and the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maka\u0161\u2019s research focuses on connections between memory and identity and the built environment. She is interested in architecture, urbanism, heritage, commemoration, and politics. Here recent work focused on Southeastern Europe explores relationships between public history and urban and national identities in Sarajevo and Mostar from the late 19th century to the present. Current projects include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a monograph on commemoration, heritage reconstruction, and public space in Bosnia-Hercegovina titled&nbsp;<em>Urban and National Identities and the Rebuilding of Mostar<\/em>&nbsp;(forthcoming from Routledge)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a book chapter on the pavilion of Bosnia-Hercegovina at the 1900 World\u2019s Exposition in Paris<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a book chapter on the role of Islamic Heritage in the formation of identities and images of Bosnian cities (forthcoming from IRCICA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>encyclopedia entry on heritage and conflict in Mostar (forthcoming from Palgrave)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an edited volume&nbsp;<em>Planning Eastern European Capital Cities, 1945-1989<\/em>&nbsp;(forthcoming from Routledge)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has also turned closer to home and leads teams of faculty and students on public history and heritage project exploring identity in Charlotte and the wider Southeastern United States. She is working on a co-edited book proposal exploring the life and work of the architect Phil Freelon with architectural historian Arthur J. Clement.\u00a0In addition, recent exhibitions she has curated include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Freelon Group: Designs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities,\u201d Florida A&amp;M University, Tallahassee, FL, Spring 2023-20024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Container\/Contained: Phil Freelon: Design Strategies for Telling African American Stories,&#8221; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art and Culture, Charlotte, NC, Fall 2021 + North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, Spring 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cLegacy of Lynching\u201d, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cCharlotte Strong: Tragedy and Response,\u201d Art Gallery, Popp Martin Student Union, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America\u201d \/ \u201cIt Happened Here,\u201d Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC, 2019-2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maka\u0161\u2019s teaching relates to her research interests and includes upper-level history seminars on topics on Museums, Adaptive Reuse, Capital Cities, and Architecture and Identity. She has also taught Historiographic Methods, Graduate Research and Design Methods, and Reading, Writing, Thinking Architecture.&nbsp; She advises students in the Minor in Architectural History and Criticism and proposed MS in Architecture Critical Heritage Studies concentration.&nbsp;Maka\u0161 has co-led study abroad programs to Berlin (Spring 2010, Summer 2018) and Central European Capital Cities (Summer 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cHeritage Reconstruction in Mostar: Memories and Identities in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Hercegovina,\u201d In Transforming National Heritages in the former Yugoslavia: Synchronous Pasts, ed. by G. Badescu, B. Baille, F. Mazzucchelli, an. London: Palgrave MacMillan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;\u201cRebuilding Mostar: International and Local Visions of a Contested City and its Heritage.\u201d In On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites, edited by D.F. Ruggles. New York: Springer, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;<em>Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas<\/em>&nbsp;(Wiley, 2011, co-authored with J.H. Stubbs)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;\u201cShaping Central and Southeastern European Capital Cities in the Age of Nationalism,\u201d with T.D. Conley. In Capital Cites in the Aftermath of Empires, edited by E.G. Maka\u0161 and T.D. Conley. London: Routledge, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;\u201cSarajevo.\u201d In Capital Cites in the Aftermath of Empires, by E.G. Maka\u0161 and T.D. Conley. London: Routledge, 2010<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe<\/em>&nbsp;(Routledge, 2010, co-edited with T.D. Conley)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cInterpreting Multivalent Sites: New Meanings of Mostar\u2019s Old Bridge,\u201d Centropa 5:1 (January 2005) special issue \u201cMethodology and Theory in Central European Art and Architecture,\u201d guest edited by Christopher Long<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EXPLORE HER&nbsp;RECENT WORK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Container \/ Contained: Phil Freelon:&nbsp;<\/strong>This series of exhibitions critically examines Freelon\u2019s work, including museums, libraries, cultural centers, public parks, and educational buildings. The&nbsp;focus on projects that foreground African American communities and identities and tell African American stories through architecture.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganttcenter.org\/exhibitions\/container-contained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more&nbsp;about the Gantt Center exhibition \u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ncartmuseum.org\/exhibition\/container-contained-phil-freelon-design-strategies-for-telling-african-american-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more about the NCMA exhibition \u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ncartmuseum.org\/from-ideas-to-buildings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more of Maas on Freelon&nbsp; \u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YQBua6tV_CU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Watch a making of video&nbsp; \u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Urban and National Identities in a Post-Conflict Mostar:&nbsp;<\/strong>In this publication in progress, Makas argues that on the &#8216;architectural front&#8217; conflict continued long after the war ended: the struggle between Bosnia&#8217;s possible multicultural identity and its three particular nationalisms &#8211; Serb, Croat, and Muslim &#8211; has been consciously and unconsciously articulated through the rebuilding of destroyed heritage and the construction of new buildings and memorials.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/2211309\/Rebuilding_Mostar_International_and_Local_Visions_of_a_Contested_City_and_Its_Heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more&nbsp; \u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Community Remembrance Project:&nbsp;<\/strong>Makas is on the local steering committee working with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initative to foster public conversations and increase the memory of lynching in Mecklenburg County. With her students, she co-curated an exibition at the Levine Museum and with community partners she is working to install markers in Charlotte to recognize the victims.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2019-03-04\/students-help-design-levine-museum-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more&nbsp;about the Levine Museum Exhibition&nbsp;\u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=245243643969149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Watch a making of video&nbsp; \u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eji.org\/projects\/community-remembrance-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Read more about EJI&#8217;s Community Remembrance Project&nbsp;\u2192&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Maka\u0161 has a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University (2007), a Masters in Historic Preservation from Columbia University (1997), and a Bachelor\u2019s in History from the University of Tennessee (1995).&nbsp; 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