Teaching
Devorah has held postgraduate teaching positions at Johns Hopkins University and Marist College, and has taught in the field for Syracuse University across fourteen cities in Italy. Her teaching spans museum studies, art and architectural history, and place-based inquiry. She draws on twenty years of practice across cultural strategy, museum education, and organisational learning.
Her pedagogical approach centres on observation, critical inquiry, and the integration of field-based methods — moving students from received knowledge toward independent analytical practice.
Current and Recent Teaching
Johns Hopkins University, MA in Museum Studies (2026)
Devorah co-teaches Museum Architecture, a graduate-level course covering the history, theory, and practice of museum buildings. She has introduced a place-based framework to the course — reorienting the study of museum space from architectural object to relational system, and integrating observation-based methods drawn from Place Thinking Strategies. The course is delivered online.
Marist University / Lorenzo de’ Medici, MA in Museum Studies, (2018–2019)
Devorah co-taught Field Research and Methodology, a required graduate course in research design, ethical practice, and independent project development. She also coordinated the practicum stream, supervising students undertaking targeted museum interventions as capstone projects. She also served as guest lecturer and thesis reader across the programme from 2010.
Syracuse University in Florence (2006–2009)
Devorah taught art and architectural history in the field across fourteen cities in Italy. She served as teaching assistant on three courses: Experimental Museology at MA level with James Bradburne, and Renaissance Art and Renaissance Architecture at BA level.
Devorah contributes to professional qualification programmes, teaching Place Literacy and Place Thinking Strategies to students in built environment, construction management, and primary education. This includes the School of Building CityShaper programme, a Construction Management qualification programme with Unthinkable, and Teaching Place — a pilot integrating Place Literacy into Primary PGCE and teacher apprenticeship training at the University of East London, developed with Sandra Hedblad and supported by the Ove Arup Foundation.
Professional Teaching
Devorah has served as external reviewer for doctoral theses in Reggio Childhood Studies in the Department of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2023–present).
Supervision and Examination