Dr Anne-Laura Kraak Email & Phone Number

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Eg

Remote

Consultant to the Heritage Commission, specialised in the application of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention

Cairo, Egypt

Developed and taught the following undergraduate courses:- Society and Environment (Architecture department / Département Architecture) | 20 students- Urban anthropology (Architecture department / Département Architecture) | 10 students- Business anthropology (Business department / Faculté de Gestion et Systèmes d'Information) | 60 students

Remote

Supervised and marked the master dissertations of 12 students in the MA International Heritage Management at the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage

Remote

Provided research consultancy services regarding the archaeological history of the United Arab Emirates

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Teaching Fellow in the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage- Developed and taught the following courses for the MA in World Heritage Studies and MA in International Heritage Management (for both on-campus and distance learners): World Heritage Case Studies; Issues in World Heritage Management; Tourism and World Heritage; Heritage Interpretation- Supervised dissertations- Personal tutor of 10 students- Organised domestic and international excursions- Assessed assignments- Maintaining student administration- Member of staff-student committee

Melbourne, Australia

School for Social Sciences and Humanities- Assisted the teaching of courses in the MA in Cultural Heritage- Prepared and gave lectures and seminars- Assessed assignments- Coordinated distance learning courses

Melbourne, Australia

PhD title: World Heritage and human rights in Bagan, MyanmarMy PhD was about the intersection between cultural heritage conservation and human rights. It was an interdisciplinary project, drawing on on history, anthropology, sociology, international law and political science.More details:It was concerned with the extent to which engagement with human rights can help to reconcile the often different agendas of conservation, religion, and development at the historic site Bagan in Myanmar, for which a World Heritage nomination was being prepared and many rights were at stake. For example, development, land and economic rights risk being undermined when heritage designation restricts where and what people can build and where and how they can run their businesses, while religious and cultural rights are at stake when the conservation and protection of ancient monuments excludes people from their religious practices.Using qualitative research methods – including documentation analysis, interviews and observation – I investigated the challenges and opportunities of implementing rights-based policies on the ground. Accordingly, this research project involved extensive interaction with people from communities in the field – including residents of Bagan, heritage organisations in Yangon, activists and bureaucrats in Bangkok, and international World Heritage consultants. Six months of fieldwork in Myanmar allowed me to closely observe and analyse the (dis)connections between theory, policy and practice when it comes to cultural heritage and human rights.The results of this research have been published in several international peer-reviewed journals and I actively made use of opportunities to communicate my research and expand my network through presentations at (international) conferences. In addition, I was a finalist for the 3-Minute Thesis Competition of Deakin University (2015).

Melbourne, Australia

Representative for Higher Degree Research (doctoral) candidates of the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and Pacific and in 2015 for the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.- Point of contact between doctoral researchers and staff to facilitate information channels and support a collegial atmosphere- Successfully set up a monthly reading and writing group- Co-organised the PhD Research Day (November 2015), offering doctoral researchers the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from peers (30 presenters, 50 attendees)- Co-organised the Postgraduate Symposium on Cultural Heritage, Sustainability and Social Justice (November 2016) and co-edited a publication that resulted from this symposium (20 presenters, 50 attendees)

Melbourne, Australia

School for Global, Urban and Social Studies- Prepared and taught tutorials for the BA course ‘The Urban Age’- Assessed assignments

ICOMOS Norway, on behalf of the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee, was leading a project to strengthen understanding of rights-based approaches in the context of World Heritage management.My contribution to this project included:- policy analysis to identify and map existing ICOMOS policy and documentation related to human rights - literature review around human rights-based approaches in World Heritage management- organisation of a Round Table for Australian heritage practitioners to explore the potential of rights-based approaches in their work

Melbourne, Australia

Research on international heritage conservation efforts as cultural diplomacy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for Professor Tim Winter

Leiden

Africa Department- Library and archival research on the origins of a South African collection

Wellington

Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme- Library and archival research on the collection and trade of Maori human remains- Traced current locations in Europe- Communicated with Dutch institutions about their human remains collections- Internship formed fieldwork for my BA thesis

London

Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas- Library and archival research on human remains collection and Maori portrayed in the photography collection- Photography and documentation of Oceanic collections

Mphil In Archaeological Heritage And Museums, Heritage And Museum Studies

Phd, Critical Heritage Studies

PhD title: World Heritage and human rights in Bagan, Myanmar

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History, Museum Studies, Art History, Anthropology, Magna Cum Laude

Exchange Programme, Southeast Asian Art And History