Tama­ra Mor­gen­stern received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in archi­tec­tur­al his­to­ry from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Ange­les and her B.A. from Brown Uni­ver­si­ty. Her areas of inter­est include ear­ly mod­ern archi­tec­ture and urban plan­ning under the Hab­s­burgs in south­ern Italy and Sici­ly, and ear­ly twen­ti­eth-cen­tu­ry archi­tec­ture in Los Ange­les and South Flori­da. Tamara’s research on Louis I. Kahn’s unbuilt project for the Hur­va Syn­a­gogue in Jerusalem appears in a recent­ly pub­lished book by Rout­ledge. In addi­tion, she is active in his­toric preser­va­tion, and serves on the Board of the Boca Raton Muse­um of Art, and Stand­With­Us Southeast.