Shelley Hornstein

Shelley Hornstein is Senior Scholar and Professor Emerita of Architectural History & Urban Culture at York University.  

She explores a wide-ranging set of themes located at the intersection of memory and place in architectural and urban sites: tourism, cosmopolitanism, nationhood, Jewish architectural and cultural heritage, and theories and histories of heritage sites generally.  Her latest book, Architectural Tourism: Site-Seeing, Itineraries and Cultural Heritage is published by Lund Humphries,  is an investigation of how architecture is the key to tourism through tangible and intangible places. Her other books include Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place (Ashgate, 2011), Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art (McGill-University Press, 2000 co-edited with Jody Berland), Image and Remembrance: Representation and The Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2002, co-edited with Florence Jacobowitz), and Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2003 co-edited with Laura Levitt and Laurence Silberstein).  Hornstein is the recipient of the Walter L. Gordon Fellowship, Canadian and International awards, and serves on on advisory boards for several academic journals.