Jerzy Elżanowski is Assistant Professor in Canadian Studies/Heritage Conservation at Carleton Univeristy and a Faculty Associate at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. His work explores the relationships between architecture, violence and commemoration. He investigates cartographic and photographic representations of ruins in war-damaged cities, with a particular focus on imaginations of the human body. He holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from McGill University, and a joint PhD in Heritage Conservation, Architectural History, and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia and the Bauhaus University Weimar. He has taught and practiced in the fields of architecture and heritage conservation across Canada, Germany, and Poland.