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D. Fairchild Ruggles

Co-Director

Dept. of Landscape Architecture

101 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, MC-620
Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: (217) 333-0176

Fax: (217) 333-0176

Email: dfr1@illinois.edu

Helaine Silverman

Co-Director

Dept. of Anthropology

109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: (217) 333-3616

Fax: (217) 244-3490

Email: helaine@illinois.edu

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CHAMP Co-Directors

 

Dr. D. Fairchild Ruggles

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds additional appointments in the School of Architecture, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Program in Art History, and Program in Medieval Studies. She is an architectural historian specialized in Islamic culture with particular attention to Moorish Spain and Mughal India and to the role of women patrons in the Islamic world (Women, Patronage and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies, 2000). She has studied the tenth-century Umayyad palace city as the first in al-Andalus to be influenced by eastern ideas, placing it within the regional agricultural context of Cordoba, and is a leading expert in the Alhambra in Granada (Gardens, Landscape and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain, 2003; Islamic Gardens and Landscapes, 2007). She is particularly interested in critical landscape and vision theory (Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision, 2007). Dr. Ruggles has spent many years co-directing the UIUC-Department of Landscape Architecture project in Champaner, India, whose focus is both design and heritage management. Champaner-Pavagadh was inscribed in 2004 in the prestigious UNESCO List of World Heritage as a notable outcome of the UIUC-India project there. In addition, Dr. Ruggles has curated several museum exhibitions dealing with Islamic material culture, has served as a heritage consultant to the Baroda Trust and National Geographic Society, and been a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, among other honors.

 

Dr. Helaine Silverman

Helaine Silverman is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds additional appointments in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Program in Art History, Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism, and the Campus Honors Program. She is interested in the production of national and local identities around appropriations and representations of the past as these intersect with cultural memory, tourism, globalization, urbanism and built environment, and nation branding. She recently finished a project on "the new Inca city of Cuzco, Peru" and hopes to conduct a comparative project in Asia. Among her recent publications in the areas of CHAMP's concern are Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America (University Press of Florida, 2006), "Mayor Daniel Estrada and the Plaza de Armas of Cuzco, Peru" (Heritage Management 1(2):181-218 [2008]), "Cultural Resource Management and Heritage Stewardship in Peru" (CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 3(2):57-72 [2006]), "Embodied Heritage, Identity Politics and Tourism" (Anthropology and Humanism 30(2):141-155 [2005]), and "Touring Ancient Times" (American Anthropologist 104(3):881-902 [2002]). She is editor of Left Coast Press's interdisciplinary book series called "Heritage, Tourism and Community." Dr. Silverman is an International Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites-ICOMOS, an Expert Member of the ICOMOS-International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), and an Associate Member of the ICOMOS-International Cultural Tourism Committee.