Kecia L. Fong
I am a conservator by training and have worked at multiple scales and contexts from archaeological sites of Roman antiquity to 20th century North American cities, from the revitalisation of Al Darb Al Ahmar (historic Islamic Cairo) to Ancient Puebloan Native American sites. I am innately interested in cross-cultural contexts of heritage production and conservation and have been committed to conservation education which naturally raises pertinent questions of cultural values, epistemology, pedagogy, and socio-political frameworks.
After two decades of professional practice I am pursuing a Ph.D. My research examines the nascent heritage conservation movement in Yangon, the former capital and largest city of Burma to explore three lines of inquiry: 1) what does the movement reveal about how conservation is configured and practiced in one of the most rapidly developing cities of the Asian urban global south; 2) how is conservation being deployed to effect other transformative work; and 3) what do these arrangements suggest for an increasingly global conservation practice?
I am the Senior Associate Editor of "Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment" and am currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Historic Preservation.
After two decades of professional practice I am pursuing a Ph.D. My research examines the nascent heritage conservation movement in Yangon, the former capital and largest city of Burma to explore three lines of inquiry: 1) what does the movement reveal about how conservation is configured and practiced in one of the most rapidly developing cities of the Asian urban global south; 2) how is conservation being deployed to effect other transformative work; and 3) what do these arrangements suggest for an increasingly global conservation practice?
I am the Senior Associate Editor of "Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment" and am currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Historic Preservation.
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