Sherry McKay contributes to the history and theory components of the MArch, MASA, and ENDS programs, via courses, seminars and collaborative research projects with students. Her research is framed by the ‘present past’ and consequently includes studies ranging in time from the 18th to the 21st century, and in space from Vancouver to North Africa. It emphasizes architectural history that is responsive to the complex contemporary entanglements of different, plural and contested, pasts and places. McKay’s exploration has taken many forms, including research and preparation for exhibitions and publications, studies abroad and devising of representational venues. It has resulted in publications ranging from the interdisciplinary study of a gymnasium, to post war ‘urban housekeeping’ in Vancouver to colonial deflections of avant-garde modernism in the 1930s and exhibitions on cultural transformations effected by Japanese prefabricated housing. The ambition is that critical inquiry and critical practice will be advanced by exploring the various ways in which cultural, political and ideological investments are made in our assumptions about what is of value in architectural history.