The editors of the book Going Beyond – Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2 were supported by an independent Scientific Peer Review Committee composed of recognized experts in the field of heritage research. We therefore wish to thank Marc Jacobs, Simon Makuvaza, Clara Rellensmann, Dennis Rodwell, Roslyn Russell, Ilse Schimpf-Herken, Friedrich Schipper and Minja Yang. In cooperation with the Advisory-Board of the series, the committee reviewed, evaluated, ranked and rated research papers based on internationally established procedures and guidelines.
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Jacobs, Dr., Marc is Professor of Critical Heritage Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He studied history at the Universiteit Gent and European University Institute in Florence, and obtained his PhD in history from the VUB.
He is the director of FARO. Flemish Interface for Cultural Heritage and holds the UNESCO Chair on Critical Heritage Studies and Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the VUB. His research interests include heritage policy, popular culture and food studies. Jacobs is a member of the Social & Cultural Food Studies (FOST) research unit at VUB and of the HARP (history, arts & archaeology & philosophy) section of VUB. He was awarded the Prize for the Cultural Heritage of Flanders in 2004. Dr. Jacobs served as an external evaluator for this publication.
Makuvaza, Simon is a research fellow in the Faculty of the Built Environment, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
He holds a BA and a BA Hons Archaeology from the University of Zimbabwe, an MBA from NUST, an MSc in World Heritage Management from the University College Dublin and a PhD from Leiden University. Makuvaza has served as the site manager of two World Heritage Sites in Zimbabwe and has lectured in archaeology, architectural conservation and heritage management. His edited volume, The Management of Cultural World Heritage Sites and Development in Africa: History, nomination processes and representation on the Worldjj Heritage List (Springer) was published in 2014. His PhD thesis The Management of the Matobo Hills in Zimbabwe: Perceptions of the Indigenous Communities on their Involvement and Use of Traditional Conservation Practices (Leiden University Press) was also published in 2016. He has also published several articles on archaeology and heritage management in Zimbabwean and international journals. His research interests include local indigenous communities and sustainable cultural heritage site management. Dr. Makuvaza served as an external evaluator for this publication.
Rellensmann, Clara is a PhD candidate and academic assistant at the Chair of Architectural Conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).
She holds a Masters in “World Heritage Studies” from the BTU and a Bachelor of Arts in “European Studies” from the University of Passau. She has worked in the international culture sector for several years, including in Costa Rica, Bahrain, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. In 2010/2011 she was a fellow of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs. From 2012 to 2016 she worked as a project coordinator and technical consultant for the UNESCO Offices in Thailand and Myanmar with a focus on building technical capacity of local governments in cultural and natural heritage protection. Ms. Rellensmann served as an external evaluator for this publication.
Rodwell, Dennis, MA, DipArch (Cantab), DipFrench (Open), is an architect-planner and International Consultant in Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Urban Development.
His clients include the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Division of Cultural Heritage, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the World Bank, the British Council and the United Kingdom Local Authority World Heritage Forum. He studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and has lectured at universities in the United Kingdom, across Europe and beyond. Rodwell has over 40 years of experience as a practising architect, is highly regarded in the field and has written extensively on the subject of conservation and sustainability in historic cities. His book, Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities, (Blackwell Publishing) was published in 2007. Mr. Rodwell served as an external evaluator for this publication.
Russell, Dr., Roslyn, MA, is a historian, editor and museum curator in Australia. She has been involved with collection assessment since the mid-1990s, when she was one of the authors of the first General Guidelines to Safeguard Documentary Heritage for UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme.
From 1998 to 2001 she worked with the Heritage Collections Council and co-authors Kylie Winkworth and Dr Linda Young on a manual for the assessment of movable heritage collections, Significance: a guide to assessing the significance of cultural heritage objects and collections. Roslyn and Kylie Winkworth later revised this manual as Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections, published by the Collections Council of Australia in 2009. Roslyn is Chair of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee. In 2005 she was appointed to the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, serving as its elected chair from 2009-2013. Roslyn has conducted Memory of the World workshops around Australia; in South Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Timor-Leste in Asia; Barbados, Saint Lucia and Jamaica in the Caribbean; and in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Ethiopia. Dr. Russell served as an external evaluator for this publication.
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Schimpf-Herken, Dr., Ilse is director of the Paulo Freire Institute in Berlin and has been working in dialogical pedagogy in peace making in Colombia and Central America, in teachers' capacity building in Chile, Peru and Colombia.
She studied Social Sciences and got her PhD at the University of Bremen on Adult Education in Chile. She has lectured in the Technical University of Berlin, the Free University of Berlin, and given seminars in the Universities of Bremen, Kassel and Greifswald. Since 1999 she contributed in the dialogue between Chilean and German teachers, by coordinating exchange programs between the two countries. Her mayor field of research is memory studies in post-war societies, intercultural studies and Human Rights education. Dr. Schimpf-Herken served as an external evaluator for this publication.
Schipper, Prof. Dr., Friedrich is an archaeologist. He is professor for Cultural Heritage Studies at the School of Law of the Pan-European University Bratislava (Slovakia) as well as chairman of the Competence Centre for Cultural Heritage, Cultural Property Protection and Cultural Communication and lecturer in Communication Sciences at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna (Austria).
He occasionally teaches at Brandenburg Technical University (Germany) for both, the M.A. programme “World Heritage Studies” and the Ph.D. programme “International Graduate School: Heritage Studies”. Schipper is general secretary of the Austrian National Committee of the Blue Shield, the UNESCO-affiliated NGO-network for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and natural disaster, and general secretary of the Austrian Society for the Protection of Cultural Property. He serves as chairman of the task force on Cultural Property Protection at the Security Academy Vienna, an entity of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior coordinating the information and projects on combating illicit trafficking in cultural property. Schipper was DOC Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2002-2004 and Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 2009. He deals amongst others with the archaeology and cultural history of the Ancient Near East, cultural heritage studies and cultural communication, cultural property protection in the event of armed conflict, illicit trafficking in cultural property, and civil-military as well as civil-police cooperation. He authored more than 300 publications.
Yang, Prof., Minja has been President of the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation of the Catholic University of Leuven (RLICC/KU Leuven) in Belgium since 2010, a post she assumed upon retiring from 30 years of service in the United Nations, of which 20 at UNESCO.
She was formerly Chief of Angkor Unit launching the major UNESCO Safeguarding & Development Programme after the political settlement in Cambodia, then Chief of the Asia-Pacific Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, then promoted as its Deputy Director, while concurrently serving as Coordinator for the World Heritage Cities Programme, then Director for Museums prior to her posting as UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka & Director of the UNESCO Sub-regional Office in New Delhi. Throughout her career, she focused on capacity-building of local authorities in cultural resources management and in heritage-based urban development. Prof. Yang served as an external evaluator for this publication.
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