Daniel Monk's research is poised at the intersection between critical theory, political history, and architecture. In particular he has focused on the issue of religious geography as it has influenced urban planning. Drawing from his study of the secularization of the ethos of orientalism in the cultural politics of Mandate-era Palestine and contemporary Israel, Monk discusses the polemics of objectivity practised within architectural circles in Mandate Palestine, and their relation to contemporary representations of territory and dispossession. Daniel Monk is an Assistant Professor at Harvard GSD.