Academic Articles & Chapters
Most recent! 2024 “‘They don’t care about Crucian culture’: Legitimising claims to heritage rights in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands,” International Journal of Heritage Studies.
forthcoming “A Day Without Global North Researchers: Making Space for Equitable Collaboration after COVID-19” (with Tatiana Carayannis, Gino Vlavonou, and David Nkusi), Qualitative Research.
forthcoming “Heritage, Society, and Justice in Central Africa,” in: A. Sinamai, J. Giblin, S. Chirikure (eds.), Routledge Handbook for Cultural Heritage Studies in Africa, Routledge.
forthcoming “Rural Radicalisms and the Politics of Order: Public Authority, Performance and Precarity in Africa.” Special issue of African Studies Review (co-edited with Tatiana Carayannis, Michael Watts, and Koen Vlassenroot).
2023 “Toward Social Sustainability: Ethics and Community Engagement in Heritage Management” (with David Nkusi), in: S. Mahler Kraaz, C. DeMille (eds.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art. London: Bloomsbury.
2022 “Rwandan Solutions to Rwandan Problems: Heritage Decolonization and Community Engagement in Nyanza District, Rwanda” (with David Nkusi), Journal of Social Archaeology 22(1): 3-25.
2022 “Das elites e da ética: a quem interessa os estudos de patrimônio cultural? Reflexões a partir da etnografia do patrimônio em Ruanda” [“Of Elites and Ethics: Who Interests Cultural Heritage Studies? Reflections from the Ethnography of Heritage in Rwanda”] (with Tiago Silva Alves Muniz), Revista de Ciências Humanas CAETÉ 3(2): 1-11.
2022 “Heritage Futures: A Conversation” (with Cornelius Holtorf), Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. doi: 10.1108/JCHMSD-09-2021-0156
2021 “The Strategic Internationalism of Rwandan Heritage,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 15(3): 485-504.
2020 “Imagining Genocide Heritage: Material Modes of Development and Preservation in Rwanda,” Journal of Material Culture 25(2): 196-219.
2019 “Dignity in Death and Life: Negotiating Agaciro for the Nation in Preservation Practice at Nyamata Genocide Memorial, Rwanda,” Anthropological Quarterly 92(2): 345-374.
2018 “Temporal Palimpsests and Authenticity in Rwandan Heritage,” in: N. Aksamija, C. Maines, P. Wagoner (eds.), Palimpsests: Buildings, Sites, Time, Architectural Crossroads. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, pp. 203–215.
2012 “On the Side of Light: Performing Morality at Rwanda’s Genocide Memorials,” Journal of Conflict Archaeology 7(3): 199-207.
Reports & Policy Papers
forthcoming “Cultural Heritage, Armed Conflict, and Atrocity Crimes.” Policy paper for the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and Social Science Research Council.
2023 “Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict.” Literature review for Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Social Science Research Council.
2022 “Africa-China Knowledge Networks: State of the Field,” with Tatiana Carayannis, Lucas Niewenhuis, and Gino Vlavonou. Report for China and the Global South Project, Social Science Research Council; funded by the Ford Foundation.
Research Essays for General Audiences
2022 “What We Save, What We Destroy: A Reading List on Difficult Heritage,” Longreads.
2022 “The Body Snatchers: Colonial Museum Collection as Violence and Violation,” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences.
2022 “Violent Encounters: Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Dynamics of Violence,” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. Introduction to curated essay series “Where Heritage Meets Violence.”
2021 “What Does It Mean to Decolonize Heritage?” (with David Nkusi), SAPIENS.
2021 “Future Heritage and Fashion Design: Rwandan Traditional Culture in the Global Market,” UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures Blog.
2020 “After Repatriation, What Next?” Africa Is a Country.
2020 “Corona Crisis, UNESCO and the Future: Do We Need a New World Heritage?” (with Cornelius Holtorf), Seeing the Woods: A Blog by the Rachel Carson Center.
2020 “Research in Insecure Times and Places: Ethics of Social Research for Emerging Ecologies of Insecurity” (with Tatiana Carayannis), Items: Insights from the Social Sciences.
2020 “Coronavirus and the Changing Practices of Memory in Rwanda,” UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures Blog.
2019 “#PublicAuthority: Governing Memory and Cultural Heritage after Conflict in Rwanda,” Africa at LSE Blog.
2019 “Practicing Heritage Means Life or Death in Rwanda,” Anthropology News.
Book Reviews
2023 Review of Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong, African Arts 56(4).
2022 Review of Developing Heritage – Developing Countries: Ethiopian Nation-Building and the Origins of UNESCO World Heritage, 1960-1980 by Marie Huber, Journal of Tourism History 13(3): 318-320.
Multimedia
2021 The Future of Heritage Repatriation video.
2020 HumPodd podcast interview.
2020 Walk’n’Talk with Ulrikke Voss, YouTube video.