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When faced with the destruction of archaeological sites through conflict, and the accompanying loss of knowledge, what can archaeologists do? Archaeologists, politicians, and many others recognise that damage to heritage is irreversible and has very serious, lasting consequences. The impact of war on archaeological sites is rightly an area of great significance and concern to archaeologists and other heritage professionals, and is increasingly an area of research and debate, both within and...
Liberian Archaeology for the Bicentennial and Beyond: Building Sustainable Practice and Inclusive Heritage at Providence Island (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In 1822, Black Americans first arrived at what would soon be proclaimed Providence Island, setting in motion the colonial project that would lead to the birth of Liberia, Africa’s first Republic, in 1847. In this bicentennial year of 2022, Liberians at home and around the globe are reflecting on this monumental yet poorly understood chapter of African Diasporic history. Almost two decades after a...
We Are Sons and Daughters of Bwoc': Refusal and Land Rights Protections in Rural Post-Conflict Acoliland, Northern Uganda (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2017)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Seven years after the guns ceased to thunder in Northern Uganda, and four years after people left the squalid displacement camps to return home to their 'ancestral' lands, clans in rural areas in Acoliland began to create their own non-profit foundations. In doing so, many clans have had to contemplate, debate, and finally write their foundations' constitutions, mobilizing, translating, and...