In The Everyday Life of Memorials (Zone, 2022), Andrew Shanken (Architecture and American Studies) explores the relationship of memorials to the pulses of daily life, and their place within the development of modern cities. Bringing together two distinct strands of scholarship — the study of the everyday and memory studies — he examines how memorials end up where they are, grow invisible, fight with traffic, get moved, are assembled into memorial zones, and are drawn anew into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors never could have imagined.

He is joined by David Henkin (History).