CHAMP’s CURRENT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECT (2019-2024)
THE MYTHIC MISSISSIPPI – please visit our website:
mythicmississippi.illinois.edu

CHAMP’s PREVIOUS SIGNATURE PROJECT (2012-2019)
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUES IN CULTURAL HERITAGE: a collaboration between CHAMP, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Critical Heritage Studies Network at Stockholm University. This included the “Dark Matters” theme.  

CHAMP FACULTY PROJECTS

Lynne Dearborn (Architecture)
Homeland, Diaspora, Dwelling: Community Development Influences on Hmong Cultural Heritage 

Christopher Fennell (Anthropology)
Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage (founding editor)
Archaeology of Edgefield, South Carolina Pottery Communities
Tradition and Modernity on Great Blasket Island, Ireland
Historical Landscapes of New Philadelphia, Illinois
Brooklyn, Illinois Archaeology and Heritage Project

Kathryn Holliday (Landscape Architecture)
New Philadelphia Stakeholder Design

Laila Hussein Moustafa (Library)
Heritage Protection in the Middle East in a Time of War

Alice Novak (Urban and Regional Planning)
Historic District Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for Downtown Urbana

David O’Brien (Art History)
Memories and Heritage of Napoleon in 19th-Century French Material Culture

Robert Pahre (Political Science)
Politics of U.S. National Parks

Erin Riggs (Anthropology)
Partition Settlement Heritage in India

Helaine Silverman (Anthropology)
Mining Heritage in Durham, England (with Andreas Pantazatos, U. of Cambridge)
The Mythic Mississippi (co-PI with Devin Hunter at UIS)

Mike Twidale (ischool – Graduate School of Library and Information Scienc)
Digital Heritage and Museum Informatics

Windy Zhao (Architecture)
Cultural Heritage and the Built Environment in Rural China