He is Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Heritage Futures Research Programme (www.hertage-futures.org); Director of the Heritage Futures Laboratory at UCL; and leads the Work Package on “Theorizing heritage futures in Europe: heritage scenarios” as part of the EC funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie action [MSCA] Doctoral Training Network CHEurope: Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe (http://cheurope-project.eu/).
I joined the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 2012 after working as a Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the Open University from 2007-2012, where I led, and contributed to the development of teaching on global critical heritage studies and material culture studies. Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies in the UCL Institute of Archaeology and • History and philosophy of conervation, museums, anthropology and archaeologyHe is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, and a founding executive committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.Rodney Harrison is currently AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow. The competition has been developed by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Heritage Priority Area, led by Professor Rodney Harrison (UCL Institute of Archaeology (IoA)), in partnership with Colin Sterling (IoA), Henry McGhie (Curating Tomorrow), and Emma Woodham (GSC). My Some of these have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish versions. I am (co)author or (co)editor of 17 books and guest edited journal volumes and … He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology (https://journals.equinoxpub.com/JCA/index), and was a founding executive committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (https://www.criticalheritagestudies.org/). During the period from 1997-2007 I also worked as an archaeological heritage consultant, conducting and leading on field surveys, excavations, and contributing to and overseeing the production of a range of conservation management planning reports for different kinds of cultural and natural heritage sites and landscapes in both remote and urban contexts in Australia, as well as undertaking research and preparing expert witness reports in relation to Indigenous Native Title claims.
Rodney Harrison organised the session Archaeology and Heritage Studies in, of and after the Anthropocene at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference at UCL in December 2019. In addition to the AHRC his research has been funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, British Academy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the European Commission. A new open access volume Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices has been published recently by UCL Press. I also previously worked as Historical Archaeologist and Regional Aboriginal Heritage Studies Coordinator in the Cultural Heritage Research Unit of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service in Sydney. Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and AHRC I have previously held teaching and research positions at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at the Australian National University, the Centre for Archaeology at the University of Western Australia, and as an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Rodney Harrison, University College London, Institute of Archaeology, Faculty Member.
Studies Anthropology, Archaeology, and Material Culture Studies. Manuel Arroyo-Kalin presented a paper on Human Demography in pre-Columbian Amazonia at the Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Demography workshop (CROSSDEM, March 2019). A range of foundational collaborative research undertaken with Indigenous colleagues and mentors in the early part of my academic career in Australia continues to inform my work in a number of different ways, including an ongoing focus on concepts of colonialism, power/inequality, material agency, the interconnections of natural and cultural heritage, posthumanism, ontological perspectivism, and world-making.
At UCL I am joint Director of the UCL-University of Gothenberg Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, and part of the leadership group of the Centre's Making Global Heritage Futures cluster. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of more than a dozen books and guest edited journal volumes and over 80 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies in the UCL Institute of Archaeology and AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow His research interests include: • Critical Heritage Studies • Heritage, multiculturalism and globalisation Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow (www.heritage-research.org). Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies in the UCL Institute of Archaeology and AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow His research interests include: • Critical Heritage Studies • Heritage, multiculturalism and globalisation