CHAMP is the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy at the University of Illinois. CHAMP is a strategic research unit dedicated to the critical study of cultural heritage and museum practices around the world. CHAMP offers an outstanding education in these areas with faculty members who teach a range of courses and conduct research across the globe, including in the United States. More than a dozen graduate students have worked with CHAMP at any one time, pursuing our interdisciplinary graduate minor in Heritage Studies and the interdisciplinary graduate minor in Museum Studies. CHAMP has sponsored lectures, campus and international conferences, film series and other events and its publication program of thematic edited volumes is well known. CHAMP has partnered with the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK, the Critical Heritage Studies Network at Stockholm University, Sweden, and the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Dr. Helaine Silverman, Director Emerita

Dr. Brett Kaufman (Classics),
Associate Director for Eurasia and Africa

Dr. Erin P. Riggs (Anthropology),
Associate Director for South Asia

Dr. Windy Zhao (Architecture),
Associate Director for East Asia

Dr. Renata Endres (Recreation, Sport and Tourism)
Associate Director for Europe

With many thanks, CHAMP bid farewell in August 2024 to its long-term Associate Director, Paul Kapp, who took a new position at Notre Dame University.