PUBLICATIONS
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Rovner, Melissa. “The Climate Injustice of ‘Blue Eyed Adobe’: Aesthetic Preservation vs. Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the American Southwest,” in Heritage, History, and Climate (In)Justice, edited by Mesut Dinler (forthcoming)
Rovner, Melissa, “The Bungalow as a Mediator of Modernity: ‘Eastern’ Experiments in Urban Renewal and their Translation to the ‘Western’ Metropolis” in Canon(s) and Icon(s): Re-Wondering a North-South Contamination, edited by Angela Gigliotti, Chiara Monterumisi and Monica Prencipe, ARID, Supplementa Book Series (Rome, Italy: Edizioni Quasar, 2024).
Peer-Reviewed Journals
_____ “Architectures of Coloniality: The Sherman Institute and the Indigenous Labor Behind the Development of Southern California,” Enquiry, the ARCC Journal for Architectural Research, ENQ 20, no. 2 (November 2023) DOI: 10.17831/enqarcc.v20i2.1161
_____ “(Dis)possession: The Racialized Development of View Park and Los Angeles’ Uneven Housing Market,” Critical Planning Journal, Vol 25 (Winter 2022) DOI: 10.5070/CP825051265
_____ “The ‘Social Science’ of Segregation: Between the ‘Charitable’ Surveys of the Progressive Era and the ‘Appraisal’ Surveys of the New Deal Era,” Journal of Planning History 20, no. 4 (April 2021). DOI: 10.1177/15385132211003481
_____ “Historic Contingency in Dolgeville, Los Angeles 1903-1910,” Ardeth 6 (2020): 49-65. DOI: 10.17454/ARDETH06.06
_____ “Between Ritual and Economy: A Brief History of Innovation in the Architecture of Death,” Pidgin 28, (2020).
_____ “(Dis)possession: The Racialized Development of View Park and Los Angeles’ Uneven Housing Market,” Critical Planning Journal, Vol 25 (Winter 2022) DOI: 10.5070/CP825051265
_____ “The ‘Social Science’ of Segregation: Between the ‘Charitable’ Surveys of the Progressive Era and the ‘Appraisal’ Surveys of the New Deal Era,” Journal of Planning History 20, no. 4 (April 2021). DOI: 10.1177/15385132211003481
_____ “Historic Contingency in Dolgeville, Los Angeles 1903-1910,” Ardeth 6 (2020): 49-65. DOI: 10.17454/ARDETH06.06
_____ “Between Ritual and Economy: A Brief History of Innovation in the Architecture of Death,” Pidgin 28, (2020).
Conference Presentations / Proceedings
Rovner, Melissa, "Indigenous Labor at the Sherman Institute," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference: Indigenous Education: Spaces of Tradition, Resistance, and Sovereignty" (2024)
_____ “Modernization Magic: The Growth of the Architecture Professional through Housing and Civic Development across the Pan-Pacific” ACSA 111th Annual Meeting: In Commons (2023)
_____ "Decolonizing Discourses of Progress: Interrogating the Conversion of Native Peoples into Domestic Laborers and Native Lands into Private Property During the Progressive Era," UPenn PhD Conference in Architecture: Precarity (2022)
_____ "The Labor of Domesticity: Making Model Homes and Model Subjects off of the Reservation," UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Thinking Gender Conference: Care, Mutual Aid and Reproductive Labor in a Time of Crisis (2021)
Rovner, Melissa, "Indigenous Labor at the Sherman Institute," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference: Indigenous Education: Spaces of Tradition, Resistance, and Sovereignty" (2024)
_____ “Modernization Magic: The Growth of the Architecture Professional through Housing and Civic Development across the Pan-Pacific” ACSA 111th Annual Meeting: In Commons (2023)
_____ "Decolonizing Discourses of Progress: Interrogating the Conversion of Native Peoples into Domestic Laborers and Native Lands into Private Property During the Progressive Era," UPenn PhD Conference in Architecture: Precarity (2022)
_____ "The Labor of Domesticity: Making Model Homes and Model Subjects off of the Reservation," UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Thinking Gender Conference: Care, Mutual Aid and Reproductive Labor in a Time of Crisis (2021)
Public Scholarship
Rovner, Melissa, “How Indigenous Labor was Diverted in the Making of L.A. Aqueduct and Owens Valley,” KCET Lost L.A. Series (August 17, 2022).
_____ “L.A.’s ‘Black Beverly Hills’ Still Threatened by Racist Past” KCET Lost L.A. Series (Oct 26, 2021).
_____ “They Built this City: How Labor Exploitation Built L.A.’s Attractions” KCET Lost L.A. Series (Aug 31, 2021).
_____ “L.A.’s ‘Black Beverly Hills’ Still Threatened by Racist Past” KCET Lost L.A. Series (Oct 26, 2021).
_____ “They Built this City: How Labor Exploitation Built L.A.’s Attractions” KCET Lost L.A. Series (Aug 31, 2021).