Experience

Independent Scholar
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Co-director of the Houses of Worship Project at the University of Minnesota

  • Dec 1994 - Present

Marilyn J. Chiat Consulting
• Art & Architectural Historian, Author, Lecturer, Consultant

  • Jan 1979 - Present


Friends of B'nai Abraham

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Historical consultant

  • Jun 2003 - Nov 2019

  B'nai Abraham, the only synagogue structure in MN to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is currently being preserved and restored to be used as a museum and cultural arts center. I am working with the not-for-profit Friends of B'nai Abraham as a consultant on the building's restoration and reuse. B'nai Abraham, the only synagogue structure in MN to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is currently being preserved and restored to be used as a museum and cultural arts center. I am working with the not-for-profit Friends of B'nai Abraham as a consultant on the building's restoration and reuse.



University of Minnesota

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Sep 1983 - Dec 1995

  Taught classes in the Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies, including History of the Art and Architecture of the Jewish People; Religious Architecture; Material Culture Seminar Taught classes in the Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies, including History of the Art and Architecture of the Jewish People; Religious Architecture; Material Culture Seminar


IHRC
• Switzerland
• Human Resources
• research

  • 1980 - 1990