SAH Fellows

2021 CLASS OF FELLOWS

Zeynep Çelik

Zeynep Çelik (BArch Istanbul Technical University; MArch Rice University; PhD University of California, Berkeley) is distinguished professor emerita at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and adjunct professor of history at Columbia University. Celik's  publications include The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century (1986)—winner of the 1987 Institute of Turkish Studies Book Award, Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs (1992), Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (1993—co-editor), Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule (1997), Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830–1914 (2008—winner of the 2010 SAH Spiro Kostof Book Award), Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image (2009—co-editor), Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in Ottoman Empire, 1753–1914 (2011, co-editor) Camera Ottomana: Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840–1914 (2015—co-editor), and About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire (2016). Her most recent publication is Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse from the East, 1872–1932 (published in Turkish in Fall 2020; forthcoming in English in Spring 2021). Celik also served as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2000–2003) and wrote numerous articles on cross-cultural topics. She co-curated Walls of Algiers at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (May–October 2009), Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753–1914 at Salt, Istanbul (November 2011–March 2012), and Camera Ottomana at Koç University (2015). Her current research focuses on transformations to Middle Eastern cities from the late Ottoman to the early Mandate eras. She is also co-curating an exhibition, Palestine from Above, for the Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, West Bank. Professor Çelik has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2004), the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1992, 2004, and 2011), the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2012), Doctor Honoris Causa (Bosphorus University, 2013), Vehbi Koç Award (Istanbul, 2013), the Sarton Medal (Ghent University, 2014), the Giorgio Della Vida Award (UCLA, 2019), and the Tamayouz Award (2019).

Lynne Horiuchi

Lynne Horiuchi is an independent scholar who received her PhD in 2005 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has published numerous articles on the built environments of Japanese American incarceration. Race, space, architecture, and ethics are her theoretical interests crossing over into Asian American studies, art history, vernacular architecture, urban planning, and critical race studies. She has co-edited a volume with Tanu Sankalia, Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island, that examines the complete transformations of a man-made island for a world exposition, a military base, and a new neighborhood in San Francisco. She is co-writing with Anoma Pieris a volume on imprisonment during World War II from Singapore to North America, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War. She is completing a volume, Dislocations and Relocations: The Planning, Design, and Construction of Prison Cities, that interrogates the relationships between architecture and vernacular building and military design and construction. She has received numerous awards including NEH grants and a Civil Liberties Public Education Fellowship and was named a National Endowment for the Arts MacDowell Fellow. She has taught at the University of North Carolina in the Department or Architecture, and she is currently developing a course on race, redevelopment, and gentrification for the Future Histories Lab at the University of California at Berkeley. She has served on the board of the Rosie the Riveter Trust and numerous other community organizations and committees. She is a long-time member of SAH, participating in conferences, panels, and roundtables, and is currently the co-chair of the SAH Minority Scholars Affiliate Group and a member of the SAH IDEAS Committee.

Karen Kingsley

Karen Kingsley immigrated to California from the United Kingdom in the late 1960s. She earned a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980, while raising two children. After teaching at Virginia Tech from 1977 to 1980, she moved to New Orleans and taught architectural history at Tulane University’s School of Architecture, retiring in 2005 as professor emerita. While at Tulane, she also served from 2002 to 2005 as director of the Southeastern Architectural Archive, for which she organized several exhibitions. In 2006, Kingsley was appointed editor-in-chief and managing editor of the Society of Architectural Historians’ award-winning Buildings of the United States (BUS) series, with a phased retirement starting in late 2020. She has also been an editor for SAH Archipedia, the Society’s online encyclopedia of the history of the built environment in the United States. In the early twenty-first century, Kingsley led architectural tours of New Orleans, including one for SAH in 2004. She has also served on the boards of two SAH chapters: the Southeast Chapter and the Latrobe Chapter in Washington, DC (where she currently resides).

Kingsley has published widely on Southern architecture, including Buildings of Louisiana (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Buildings of New Orleans, which she co-authored with landscape historian William Lake Douglas, and was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2018. She co-authored with Guy W. Carwile, The Modernist Architecture of Samuel G. and William B. Wiener, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1920–1960 (Louisiana State University Press, 2016). Over the years, Kingsley has also published on gender issues and architecture and has contributed essays to the Journal of Architectural Education and Journal of American History, among other publications. For ten years she wrote the architectural history column for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities magazine, Cultural Vistas, and contributed essays to its digital publication, 64 Parishes. Her current project is a book for LSU Press on the intersection of architecture and politics in mid-twentieth-century New Orleans.

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FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS