Rebecca Krucoff

Rebecca Krucoff is a teacher, museum educator, and historic preservationist with many years of experience in the fields of education, public history and heritage. She teaches courses in education and historic preservation for Pratt Institute’s Art and Design Education Department and Graduate School for Planning and the Environment’s Historic Preservation Program.

Rebecca is a member of various cross-disciplinary projects at Pratt. She is a founding member of the Institute’s Preserving Activism project, an interdisciplinary initiative of collaborative research and coursework focused on activism within Pratt and extending out to the surrounding community. The project includes faculty from Art and Design Education, Interior Design, Historic Preservation, Pratt Archives, and Pratt Library. The project was awarded a Pratt Institute Impact Award in 2021.

She was awarded a 2025 Taconic Faculty Fellowship for the project “Crown Heights North: Holistic Neighborhood Preservation through Community Archiving,” a partnership with the Crown Heights North Association (CHNA), which is digitizing and making publicly available documents and ephemera important to CHNA’s history and advocacy. This project provides access to 23 years of preservation and organizational activity and highlights the challenges in landmarking an African American and Caribbean minority neighborhood.

Rebecca is an active member of Pratt’s Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Learning Community.  Through this work she and a cross-disciplinary group of colleagues engage in research and develop methodology for peer-based, empathetic classroom observations in a effort called Watching Teaching.

In 2023 Rebecca was awarded a Faculty Fellowship through the Pratt Center for Teaching and Learning to explore implementation of culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy models in post-secondary pre-service education programs. She was awarded a 2023 AICAD Faculty Fellowship to explore implementation of culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy models in post-secondary pre-service education programs.

In addition to her work at Pratt Institute, Rebecca provides instructional support for NYC schools across the five boroughs, and develops curriculum and programming for arts and cultural organizations including the New York Public Library, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and the Public Art Fund. She is the Co-founder and Director of the Urban Memory Project, an organization that explores the vital connection between NYC residents’ personal histories and their city’s history.

MS Historic Preservation, Pratt Institute
MS.Ed Bank Street College of Education
B.A. University of Iowa