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Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, specializing in cultural heritage, environmental anthropology, political anthropology, and international development. Her research explores the intersection of heritage management with global challenges such as climate change, human rights, and democracy-building.
- Education: PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University.
Her work is supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Institute of Maghrib Studies, the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. She has co-edited two influential volumes: Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (2015) and Making Roman Places: Past and Present (2012). Her research emphasizes transnational heritage practices and their implications for international development and environmental policy.
At the ACHS 2016 conference, she participated as a moderator in the session Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges and as a participant in Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective. Her publications and grants reflect a sustained focus on heritage as a dynamic, politicized tool for addressing contemporary global issues.
