Associate Professor of Architecture
Trained as an architect and historian of architecture, Andrew Herscher writes on the spatial politics of violence, humanitarian and human rights issues, exile and migration, and public and counter-public memory. His research and writing is informed by his long-term participant-observation in Kosovo’s post-conflict environment, including work with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and the Kosovo Cultural Heritage Project, a nongovernmental organization he co-founded and co-directed. He has also been involved in collaborative research both in and out of the academy; he co-organized the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency, an open-access platform for the study of urban crisis using Detroit as a focal point, and he is currently a member of the We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective. Among his publications are Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict, published by Stanford University Press in 2010, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2012, and the forthcoming Spatial Violence, co-edited with Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.