Dr. David Monteyne

Biography

David Monteyne is a Professor at the University of Calgary in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. His research focuses on architectural history and cultural studies, employing interdisciplinary approaches to study the built environment, urban sites, monuments, public spaces, and landscapes within their broader social contexts. Monteyne’s scholarship integrates analytic categories of race and gender, allowing for an examination of the relationships between identity and power within the meanings and uses of spaces and places. His work specifically explores the relationship between built environments and bureaucracies, as well as national identity. He has investigated historical architectural programs, including those of the Hudson's Bay Company from the 1910s-20s and the civil defense establishment in the United States during the Cold War, along with Canadian government departments responsible for immigration since the Confederation. Currently, his research, which draws on the history of medicine and public health, takes a global perspective on the architecture of quarantine stations, also known as lazarettos, spanning from the late medieval period to the early 20th century.

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