Jiawen Ai is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at the University of Melbourne. She has taught at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University and La Trobe University. She is the author of ‘The Refunctioning of Confucianism: Mainland Chinese Intellectual Response toward Confucianism since the 1980s’ (Issues & Studies, 44, 29–72), and ‘Two Sides of One Coin: the Party’s Attitude towards Confucianism in Contemporary China’ (Journal of Contemporary China, 18, 689–701).
Timothy P. Barnard is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the environmental and cultural history of Indonesia and Malaysia. He has published extensively on state formation in eighteenth-century Sumatra, and is currently working on a monograph focusing on the history of the Komodo dragon.
David Berliner is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium as well as co-editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. He has published various articles about transmission and memory, heritage-making, religion, art and gender. He is engaged in ethnographic research in Laos looking at the politics of heritage and nostalgia in Luang Prabang.
Birgit Bräuchler teaches at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Her main research interests are media and cyberanthropology, conflict and peace studies, and the revival of tradition. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (2005), editor of Reconciling Indonesia(2009), and co-editor of Theorising Media and Practice(2010). Her current research is on the cultural dimension of reconciliation in Indonesia.
Robyn Bushell is in the Institute for Culture and Society and Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests revolve around values-based heritage management and visitation. She works closely with a range of national and international bodies including UNESCO World Heritage Centre, IUCN and UN-World Tourism Organisation, establishing policies and planning frameworks for development strategies involving tourism in developed and developing countries.
Denis Byrne leads the research program in cultural heritage at the Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW) in Sydney. He is also Adjunct Professor at the TransForming Cultures Centre, University of Technology, Sydney. His interests include the materiality of popular religion, the everyday engagement of people in Asia and Australia with their material past, and fictocritical archaeological writing, the latter resulting in his 2007 book, Surface Collection.
Jeffrey W. Cody has been a Senior Project Specialist in the Education Department at the Getty Conservation Institute since 2004, when he began coordinating a series of ongoing educational and training activities for Southeast Asian conservation professionals. From 1995 to 2004 he taught architectural history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Building in China (2001) and Exporting American Architecture, 1870–2000 (2003); and the co-editor of Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts (2011) and Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China (2011).
Patrick Daly is Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on cultural heritage in conflicts and natural disasters, most recently looking at issues of reconstruction and recovery in Aceh, Indonesia, following the 2004 tsunami. He has conducted research in Palestine, Cambodia, Philippines and Indonesia on issues related to reconstruction and reintegration post-disaster/conflict.
Vinita Damodaran is an historian of modern India at the University of Sussex. Her work ranges from the social and political history of Bihar to the environmental history of South Asia. Her publications include Broken Promises, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar (1992), Nature and the Orient: Essays on the Environmental History of South and South-East Asia (1998), Post Colonial India, History Politics and Culture (2000) and British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (2010).
Alexandra Denes is Associate Researcher at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre in Bangkok, Thailand where she is the Director of the Culture and Rights in Thailand Research Project and the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation on Recovering Khmer Ethnic Identity from the Thai National Past: An Ethnography of the Localism Movement in Thailand. She is interested in issues of ethnic identity, ritual, memory, cultural rights and the politics of cultural heritage revitalisation.
Michael R. Dove is Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Professor in the Department of Anthropology; and Curator of Anthropology in the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Yale University. His most recent books are the co-edited Conserving Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia(2005), the co-edited Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader (2007), Southeast Asian Grasslands: Understanding a Folk Landscape (2008), The Banana Tree at the Gate: The History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo (2011), and the co-edited Complicating Conservation: Beyond the Sacred Forest (2011).
Kecia L. Fong is a Conservator and Project Specialist in the education department of the Getty Conservation Institute. She has worked internationally on such diverse projects as the revitalisation of the historic Islamic core of Cairo and the emergency stabilisation and conservation of the archaeological site of Zeugma, Turkey. She is currently working on a Built Heritage in Southeast Asia: Conservation Education and Training Initiative. She is Associate Editor for Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment.
Jyoti Hosagrahar is Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Her focus is on the relationship between urban development, modernity and cultural politics, especially in South and Southeast Asia. She also serves as an expert consultant for UNESCO on historic cities. Her recent book Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism (2005) won a 2006–7 award from the International Planning History Society.
Pinraj Khanjanusthiti is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Her areas of specialisation include architecture, heritage conservation and cultural management. She is a member of the Association of Siamese Architects (ASA) and has served as a member of ASA’s Conservation Commission. She is a committee member of ICOMOS Thailand and a jury member for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards since 2006.
Georgina Lloyd is the Siem Reap Project Officer of the Angkor Heritage Management Framework Project and the Deputy Director of the University of Sydney Robert Christie Research Centre in Siem Reap. She has conducted both doctoral and postdoctoral research on intangible cultural heritage at Angkor. Her doctoral research examined legal and policy approaches for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage across Asia, particularly in Cambodia.
William Logan is Alfred Deakin Professor and UNESCO Chair of Heritage and Urbanism at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His recent research publications focus on urban and intangible heritage in Asia (especially Vietnam), World Heritage, the heritage of places of pain and shame, and the links between cultural diversity, heritage and human rights. He is co-General Editor, with Dr Laurajane Smith, of the ‘Key Issues in Cultural Heritage’ series of books for Routledge.
Colin Long was Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage at Deakin University until October 2010, when he was elected Victorian Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union. He was Director of the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University. He has taught at universities in Germany and Thailand and undertook aid and development projects for the Vietnamese and Lao governments, UNESCO and the UN World Tourism Organisation. His recent publications include ‘Cultural heritage and the global environmental crisis’ (with Anita Smith), in Labadi and Long, Heritage and Globalisation (2010).
Maurizio Peleggi is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore and the author of Thailand, the Worldly Kingdom (2007), Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy’s Modern Public Image (2002), The Politics of Ruins and the Business of Nostalgia (2002) as well as several chapters in books and journal articles on Thailand’s visual and material culture and on cultural heritage. He also co-edited the volume Eye of the Beholder: Reception, Audience and Practice of Modern Asian Art (2006).
Himanshu Prabha Ray is Professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests include the archaeology of religion in Asia, especially Buddhism and the archaeology of the Indian Ocean. She has published a number of books on issues related to archaeology and heritage in India: Colonial Archaeology in South Asia (1944–1948): The Legacy of Sir Mortimer Wheeler in India (2007); Monuments in India (2007); The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia (2003); and The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia (1994).
Hae Un Rii has been Professor in Geography at Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea since 1984 and an Executive Committee member of ICOMOS International since 2005. Her research interests are city development, urban transportation systems and changing urban landscapes from the viewpoint of historical geography.
Kiran A. Shinde is Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of New England, Australia. His Ph.D. focused on the environmental issues associated with religious tourism in sacred sites in India. His research interests include urban planning, environmental management, tourism, heritage and urban design. His current project examines urban planning and management in pilgrimage sites in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Russell Staiff is in the Institute for Culture and Society and Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. He is Adjunct Lecturer in the Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism international program at Silpakorn University, Bangkok. His research focus is on the interface between heritage places and tourists. He is currently writing a book on heritage interpretation and co-editing a book on heritage and tourism.
Aparna Tandon has been a Project Specialist at ICCROM since 2004. She is leading the ICCROM’s training on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict. She is also developing the activities of the SOIMA (Sound and Image Collections Conservation) programme and has contributed to the planning and implementation of Teamwork for Integrated Emergency Management, a collaborative training initiative of ICCROM.
Ken Taylor is Adjunct Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, The Australian National University and is a former Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Cultural Heritage Research Centre, University of Canberra. He has had a research interest in the management of heritage places and cultural landscapes since the mid-1980s and published nationally and internationally on meanings, values and cultural landscape conservation, and undertaken conservation management plans for historic cultural landscapes. He is a member of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes and undertaken work with UNESCO, ICOMOS, and ICCROM.
Aki Toyoyama is Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, based in the Department of Art History at Osaka University. She has researched on artistic traditions of early historic sites in India, particularly Buddhist rock-cut monasteries of the Deccan. Her current research interests are the re-mapping of Indian cave temple traditions, colonial discourse on heritage in Asia, and the development of Asian art history, particularly of India and Japan.
Horng-luen Wang is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research interests include social theory, cultural analysis and political sociology, with special focus on the interplay between nationalism and globalisation. His co-edited volume, titled At the Edge of Empires: Modernity in Taiwan (2010), examines the historical formation of various aspects of modernity in Taiwan.
Tim Winter is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is author of Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism: Culture, Politics and Development at Angkor, and editor of Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism and Expressions of Cambodia: the Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change. Tim has consulted for the World Bank and World Monuments Fund and held Visiting Scholar positions at the University of Cambridge and Getty Conservation Institute. He is currently working on two books, one on the Shanghai Expo and the other a history of World’s Fairs.