Ipek Türeli is Assistant Professor of Architecture at McGill University. Her work lies at the intersection of visual culture, comparative urbanism, and architectural history. She has published on the politics of the past in photography, cinema, architectural exhibitions, theme parks and museums in edited books as well as in refereed journals such as History of Photography, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, European Journal of Turkish Studies. Dr. Türeli is the co-editor of Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? (Routledge, 2010), a book that explores how processes of creative production and exhibition are intertwined with neoliberal urban restructuring.