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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 Distinguished Lecturers

 

Charles Birnbaum (2008)
Mr. Birnbaum is the President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. He has 15 years as coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, and a decade in private practice with a focus on landscape preservation. He is the author of Making Postwar Landscapes Visible, co-author of Pioneers of American Landscape Design, and co-editor of Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage and Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture I and II.

Donny George (2008)
Dr. Donny George was, until July 2006, Research Director of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, where he worked for more than 20 years, and he is the former Director of the once magnificent Iraq National Museum. He is Iraq’s foremost archaeologist and an internationally recognized scholar of ancient Mesopotamia. He has conducted archaeological research in Iraq since 1976 and holds a doctorate from the University of Baghdad. He has worked at such renowned sites as Nineveh and Babylon. He has lectured internationally at the British Museum, UNESCO in Paris, the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies at the Royal Ontario Museum, and the International Assyrian Conference, to name only the most prestigious venues. Currently he teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Dan Sherman (2007)
Dr. Sherman is a historian of French society and culture. He was the Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before moving to the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France and The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. He is the co-editor of Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles, and editor of Museums and Difference.

Christopher Steiner (2007)
Dr. Steiner is the Lucy C. McDannel ’22 Professor of Art History and the Director of Museum Studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of African Art in Transit, co-author of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation,  co-editor of Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, among other publications.

William Logan (2006)
Dr. Logan’s career has been dedicated to the field of cultural heritage and heritage preservation. He holds the UNESCO Chair of Heritage and Urbanism in the School of Social and International Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and is the founder of the university’s Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific. He is the author of Hanoi: Biography of a City; The Disappearing "Asian" City: Protecting Asia's Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World; andco-author of Vientiane: Transformation of a Lao Landscape.

Ruth Phillips (2006)
Dr. Phillips is the Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and Professor of Art History in the School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Canada. Among other publications she is the author of Native North American Art and Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art, and co-editor of Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds and Contested Histories in Public Space.