Devorah Block

At Johns Hopkins, Devorah Block is a lecturer in the MA in Museum Studies program.

As an educator, advisor, and program developer with experience across three continents and multiple cultures, Block led the development and implementation of the internationally recognized Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi’s Learning program from 2009-2016. She has since worked with organizations as diverse as the Pinacoteca di Brera, Ferrari Museums, the Historical Archives of the European Union, and the Built Environment Trust in London.

In 2023, Block launched the Place Literacy Project to tackle the persistent challenges of communication across boundaries—cultural, disciplinary, and spatial—through the development of language and literacy tools that empower individuals and communities to understand, articulate, and reshape the places they inhabit.

She holds a BA in Art History and Theory from the University of Sydney, an MA in Art History from Syracuse University, and a PhD in Studies in Visual Culture from the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Scuola Normale Superiore.