Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is 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. Monk is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in International Peace and Security [SSRC-CIPS], as well as a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship [WWICS] for his contributions to research on contemporary conflict.

Michael Sorkin was Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York. He served as president of Terreform, a nonprofit urban research and advocacy center, publisher and editor of UR Books, and architecture critic for The Nation. Sorkin passed away from Covid-19 on 26 March 2020.