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与遗产人类学相关的研究和培训机会，该项目已成功启动于2010-2013年美国国家科学基金会资助的国际象棋项目（OISE-0968575）。该项目将为来自马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校和五大学院联盟的15名本科生和研究生提供早期职业生涯的国际研究经验。项目和合作项目将招募三组学生，围绕“欧洲社会和空间中的文化遗产”这一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科学系合作的一项为期三年的研究项目和培训计划的一部分。每三年，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）；2)“可持续遗产、社区和经济”（2014-2015）；3)“社会正义、遗产和变化的价值形式”（2015-2016）。学生将通过一系列课程进行研究设计和方法、欧洲实地研究、数据分析和写作等方面的培训。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知名欧洲学者的密集指导，以及与国际同行的交流和合作。知识价值：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，研究这些核心学科概念是如何被政策制定者、公民和其他社会行动者使用的。通过发展与一组中心研究问题相关的项目，学生将为欧洲文化和遗产作为争论、冲突和凝聚力的地点进行更大的比较调查的三个关键领域做出贡献。提议的国际象棋项目为民族志实地学校提供了一个综合框架，它将吸引人类学四个子领域（文化、语言、考古和生物学）的学生参与，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，需要发展反映我国多元文化遗产的公共项目，并且越来越需要在遗产人类学和相关领域受过培训的社会科学家。该项目的更广泛影响包括：1)为文化遗产政策和辩论的国际、比较人类学研究培训十五（15）名美国学生组成的多元化小组；2)发展美国和西班牙人类学家之间的科学研究网络，这将为进一步的国际研究项目和正在进行的关系奠定基础，包括马萨诸塞大学人类学系、遗产与社会研究、现代欧洲研究、五学院联盟和欧洲合作机构的新证书课程；3)与来自西班牙的教师和学生合作，就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演讲、项目相关论文和多媒体案例研究，供社区组织、政策制定者和课堂教师使用。这些出版物通过国际象棋项目网站提供给公众，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.