Andrew Shanken is Professor of Architectural History and American Studies at U.C. Berkeley. He writes about memory and the built environment, words and buildings, and consumer culture and architecture, among other topics. His books include: 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Homefront (Minnesota, 2009), a study of architecture on the American homefront; The Everyday Life of Memorials (Zone Books, 2022), which explores the meaning of memorials in daily life; and the co-edited Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Women, Memory, and Public Space (Fordham, 2024). He is currently working on Men and the American Home and a book about keywords in 19th-century architecture.