Karen Burns (other)
Karen Burns may refer to: * Karen Burns (academic) Karen Burns (born 1962) is an architectural historian and theorist based in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently a senior lecturer in architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne. Early years and education Born in ... (born 1962), architectural historian and theorist * Karen Ramey Burns (?–2012), American forensic anthropologist {{hndis, Burns, Karen ...
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Karen Burns (academic)
Karen Burns (born 1962) is an architectural historian and theorist based in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently a senior lecturer in architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne. Early years and education Born in January 1962, Burns grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Beaumaris. Her feminist activism first found expression in 1978 when she worked as a volunteer at a newly established refuge for women and children escaping family violence. Burns studied English literature and art history at Monash University, the latter with Patrick McCaughey and Conrad Hamann. She was Hamann's first honours student. Burns graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (hons) in 1984 and a Master of Arts in 1987. She began studying architecture at RMIT University in 1986, and began editing the magazine ''Transition'' the same year. Her PhD, "Urban Tourism, 1851-53: sightseeing, representation and ''The Stones of Venice''" was completed in 1999 at the School of Fine Arts, Classi ...
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