Research Interests
cultural heritage, cultural politics, cultural governance, cultural rights
anthropology of tourism
critical museum studies
memory, identity, nationalism
historic urban environments
architecture and the built environment
spatial theory
anthropology of death
encounters with the past as popular culture
geographical areas: Peru, Southeast Asia, England
Research Description
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Education
PhD, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
MA, Anthropology, Columbia University
BA, Anthropology, Queens College of the City University of New York
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Research Professor, Anthropology
External Links
Recent Publications
Silverman, H. (2025). What Would Mother Jones Have Said? The Progressive Miners of America and Their Monument. In C. C. Fennell (Ed.), Combating Oppression with New Commemorations (pp. 144-162). (Restorative Justice in Heritage Studies and Archaeology). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003471868-9
Silverman, H. (2023). Coal Mining and the University of Illinois. Illinois Heritage, 26(4), 16-18.
Silverman, H., & Hunter, D. (2022). The Mythic Mississippi Project: Investigate, interpret, invest in Illinois. Illinois Heritage, 25(4), 34-39.
Silverman, H. (2020). Learning from Ground Zero: The Presence of Absence at Two Sites of Destruction. In M. Nagaoka (Ed.), The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues: Heritage Reconstruction in Theory and Practice (pp. 187-201). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51316-0_12
Silverman, H. (2020). The Inca in the Plaza: debating change in the World Heritage historic urban centre of Cusco, Peru. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(11), 1092-1108. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1746921