Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies [P-CON] at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle East Studies. He is the author of An Aesthetic Occupation as well as a number of other studies on the territorial and spatial practices of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He has written about: Middle East Wars, the Geography of the Post-Conflict Environment; Refugees and Humanitarianism; Urbicide and Urbanism in the neoliberal present. He is currently completing a co-authored work called The Global Shelter Imaginary, which is a critique of contemporary humanitarianism’s concept of ‘Protection Space.’ Monk has been awarded a Mac-Arthur Foundation Fellowship in International Peace and Security [SSRC-CIPS], as well as a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship [WWICS] for his research on the morphologies of contemporary conflict.
Most of the architecture and urban design projects assembled on this site were produced in the early 2000’s. The texts concerning architecture and urbanism span a longer period and extend into the near present. In both instances, these are just selections from a sustained period of work.