Daniel Monterescu is associate professor of urban anthropology and director of the PhD Program at the department of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and is a recipient of the Marie Curie Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence. He currently studies wine cultures in Hungary, Italy and Israel through the concepts of terroir and territory. His research also analyzes the Jewish revival movement in Central European cities as well as ethnic relations in binational (mixed) towns in Israel/Palestine as part of a larger project on identity, sociality and gender relations in Mediterranean Cities. His previous projects examine the construction of Arab masculinity and the narration of life stories in Jaffa. His publications feature articles in Public Culture, Constellations, Identities, International Journal of Middle East Studies, World Development, Theory and Criticism, Megamot, Israeli Sociology and contributions to numerous edited volumes in English, Arabic and Hebrew. He is author of Twilight Nationalism: Tales of Traitorous Identities – a study of autobiographical narratives of elderly Palestinians and Jews in Jaffa (with Haim Hazan, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2011), and editor (with Dan Rabinowitz) of Mixed Cities, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics and Gender Relations in Jewish-Arab Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine (Ashgate Publishing, 2007). His book Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine is forthcoming at Indiana University Press.

Anthropology

Arab-Israeli Conflict

Colonialism

Conflict Resolution

Ethnic Groups

Ethnography

Gender/Women's Studies

Israel Studies

Mediterranean Studies

Nationalism

Pop Culture

Urban Studies

Israel

Mediterranean Countries

Palestine

The Levant

Ethnically Mixed Towns, Israel/Palestine, Jaffa, C

Binationalism

Masculinity

Arabic (fluent)

English (fluent)

French (fluent)

Hebrew (native)

Italian (advanced)

Hungarian (elementary)