Dr. David Monteyne
Professor
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Dr. David Monteyne's training is in architectural history and cultural studies, and he uses interdisciplinary approaches to study buildings, urban sites, monuments, public spaces, and landscapes in relation to a broadly defined social context. His scholarship incorporates analytic categories such as race and gender, thereby adding relations of identity and power to its examination of the meanings and uses of spaces and places.
In his work, a specific focus has been the relationship between built environments, bureaucracies, and national identity. He has studied this in different ways, through the architectural programs of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1910s-20s, the United States civil defence establishment during the Cold War, and the Canadian government departments responsible for immigration in the century after Confederation. His current research, drawing on the history of medicine and public health, takes a global look at the architecture of quarantine stations (also known as lazarettos), spanning from the late medieval period to the early 20th century.