IRES: Culture and Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS)

这个美国-西班牙IRES项目进一步发展和扩大了与欧洲文化和遗产人类学相关的研究和培训机会，该项目在2010-2013年NSF资助的国际象棋计划（OISE-0968575）中成功启动。该项目将为来自马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学和五所学院联盟的十五（15）名本科生和研究生提供早期职业国际研究经验。PI和co-PI将招募三组学生围绕“欧洲社会和空间的文化遗产（CHESS）”主题进行系统的比较研究，作为与西班牙巴塞罗那大学人类学系合作的三年研究项目和培训计划的一部分。三年中的每一年，研究项目将围绕一个中心研究流组织：突出美国和西班牙教师的具体优势：1）“危机，文化和遗产”（2013-2014年）; 2）“可持续遗产、社区和经济”（2014-2015年）;和3）“社会正义，遗产，和不断变化的价值形式”（2015-2016年）。 学生将通过研究设计和方法，在欧洲的实地研究，数据分析和写作出版的课程系列进行培训。 两所大学的国际研究和培训研讨会将为美国学生提供来自欧洲知名学者的密集指导，以及与国际同行的网络和合作。 智力优点：几十年来，人类学家一直在批判性地研究文化和遗产的概念，但遗产研究领域的兴起为民族志研究提供了新的机会，研究决策者、公民和其他社会行为者如何使用这些核心学科概念。通过开发与一组中心研究问题相关的项目，学生将为三个关键领域的调查做出贡献，以便对欧洲的文化和遗产进行更大的比较调查，作为冲突，冲突和凝聚力的网站。拟议中的国际象棋计划提供了一个民族志领域学校的综合框架，将吸引学生参与人类学的四个子领域（文化，语言，考古和生物），并作为跨学科研究团队建设的典范。更广泛的影响：政府机构面临着新的需求，以制定反映我们国家的多样性，多元文化遗产的公共方案，并有一个在遗产和相关领域的人类学培训的社会科学家的需求日益增长。 该项目的更广泛的影响包括：1）培训一个多元化的十五（15）美国学生的国际，比较人类学研究文化遗产政策和辩论，2）在美国和西班牙的人类学家之间发展科学研究网络，将形成进一步的国际研究项目和正在进行的关系，包括人类学的麻省大学之间的协同倡议，和新的证书课程在遗产和社会研究和现代欧洲研究，五个学院联盟，和欧洲合作伙伴机构; 3）与来自西班牙的教师和学生合作，对欧洲遗产管理的辩论进行系统的比较研究，包括研究报告，同行评审的出版物和会议报告，项目相关论文，和多媒体案例研究，供社区组织、决策者和课堂教员使用。这些出版物可通过国际象棋项目网站提供给公众，该网站由马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特图书馆专业存档。 每年在马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校举办国际象棋研讨会，进一步扩大了更广泛的影响，使至少30名美国学生能够发展国际专业网络，指导关系和合作者。

This US-Spain IRES project further develops and expands research and training opportunities related to the anthropology of culture and heritage in Europe successfully launched in the 2010-2013 NSF-funded CHESS program (OISE-0968575). This project will provide an early-career international research experience for fifteen (15) undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Five Colleges consortium. The PI and co-PI will recruit three cohorts of students to conduct systematic, comparative research around the theme of "Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS)" as part of a three-year research project and training program in collaboration with the Department of Anthropological Sciences at the University of Barcelona in Spain. For each of the three years, research projects will be organized around a central research stream: highlighting specific strengths of the US and Spanish faculty: 1) "Crisis, culture, and heritage" (2013-2014); 2) "Sustainable heritage, communities, and economies" (2014-2015); and 3) "Social Justice, heritage, and changing forms of value" (2015-2016). Students will be trained through a course series in research design and methods, field research in Europe, and data analysis and writing for publication. International research and training workshops at the two universities will provide US students with intensive mentoring from renowned European scholars, as well as networking and collaboration with their international peers. Intellectual merit: Anthropologists have critically engaged the concepts of culture and heritage for decades, but the rise of the field of heritage studies offers new opportunities for ethnographic investigation of how these central disciplinary concepts are being used by policymakers, citizens, and other social actors. By developing their projects in relation to a central set of research questions, students will contribute to three key areas of inquiry for the larger comparative investigation of culture and heritage as sites of contestation, conflict, and cohesion in Europe. The proposed CHESS program provides an integrative framework for an ethnographic field school that will draw the participation of students across the four subfields of anthropology (cultural, linguistic, archaeological, and biological) and serve as a model for interdisciplinary research teambuilding. Broader impacts: Government institutions face new demands to develop public programming that reflects our nation's diverse, multicultural heritage, and there is a growing need for social scientists trained in the anthropology of heritage and related fields. Broader impacts of the project include 1) training a diverse group of fifteen (15) US students for international, comparative anthropological research on cultural heritage policies and debates, 2) developing scientific research networks between anthropologists in the US and Spain that will form the basis for further international research projects and ongoing relationships, including synergistic initiatives between the UMass Department of Anthropology, and new certificate programs in Heritage and Society Studies and Modern European Studies, the Five Colleges consortium, and European partner institutions; 3) collaborating with faculty and students from Spain to produce a body of systematic, comparative research on debates surrounding heritage management in Europe, including research reports, peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations, project-related theses, and multimedia case studies for use by community organizations, policymakers, and classroom instructors. These publications are available to the general public through a CHESS project website professionally archived by the UMass Amherst library. Holding an international CHESS workshop at UMass Amherst each year of the program further extends the broader impacts enabling at least 30 U.S. students to develop international professional networks, mentoring relationships, and collaborators.