Jennifer Mack
Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS
Associate Professor of Theory and History of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Photo: Danish Saroee
Jennifer Mack is an anthropologist and historian of the built environment. She is Associate Professor and Docent at KTH and an elected member of the Young Academy of Sweden. She has previously held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University and at KTH and is a former architectural and urban designer.
Mack’s book, The Construction of Equality (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), received the Margaret Mead Award from SfAA/AAA in 2018. In this diasporic architectural history, she traces how Syriac Orthodox Christians transformed a Swedish city over five decades. Mack was co-editor, with Michael Herzfeld, of Life Among Urban Planners (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) and co-editor, with Sten Gromark and Roemer van Toorn, of Rethinking the Social in Architecture (Actar, 2019). She is currently co-editing, with Pablo Miranda Carranza, The Combinatorial Imperative (TU Delft, forthcoming 2026) and, with Ellen Braae, Mattias Qviström, and Ranja Hautamäki, Nordic Landscapes for the “Good Life” (Aarhus University Press, forthcoming 2026). Mack is an associate editor of Housing, Theory and Society and a member of the editorial boards of Human Organization and Thresholds. She has also published widely in journals like American Ethnologist, Environment and Planning D, Landscape Research, and Public Culture, and in numerous edited volumes. Her research has received funding from Forte, the Graham Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Formas, and Vetenskapsrådet, among others.
Mack’s manuscript, “Modernism’s Hereafters: Reports from the Welfare City,” analyzes Danish and Swedish modernist neighborhoods from their planning in the postwar period into the present, when they have been targeted for renovations and demolitions. This emerges from her ongoing Pro Futura project, “Public Modernism,” which counters the seemingly indelible idea of “failed” welfare cities by uncovering alternative narratives about them.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2025-26.