Author Biographies
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Shujie Chen is a Ph.D. student of the ETCAEH program (Economics and Techniques for the Conservation of the Architectural and Environmental Heritage) at the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and IUAV University of Venice (Italy). The research topics for her Ph.D. thesis are on (1) conservation philosophy and systems of historic urban areas focused on a Chinese context, (2) management of heritage resources in historic urban areas, and (3) renewal and functional transformation of historic buildings. She is a member of the scientific committee in IRMA 2014 Conference (The Effects of Irrigation and Drainage on Urban and Rural Landscape).
Cari Goetcheus is an Associate Professor in the College of Environment + Design at the University of Georgia. With twenty-five years of experience in cultural landscape research, planning, preservation, and project management in public and private practice as well as academia, Goetcheus currently teaches in the graduate Historic Preservation Program and directs the Cultural Landscape Laboratory (CLL). Goetcheus is a contributing member of the ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes. Her research interests include the intersection of cultural landscape documentation, interpretation, and technology; landscape preservation education; and the impact of African-American culture on landscapes of the Southeastern United States.
Kateryna Goncharova is a senior scientific researcher and head of the Scientific Research Section in Ukrainian State Institute for Preservation of Historic and Architectural Sites. She is a Member of ICOMOS (Ukraine). She has been involved with the preservation of architectural heritage and historical sites for the past ten years, including research, management, and scientific support in the development of projects for the preservation of several UNESCO World Heritage sites. Goncharova holds a Ph.D. in history with a focus on historic preservation and heritage science. Her doctoral dissertation was devoted to the formation of preservation methodology in Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth century to the twenty-first century.
Claudine Houbart is an architect and art historian and has a master in conservation of historic towns and buildings. She teaches architectural history and heritage conservation at the faculty of architecture of the University of Liège (Belgium) and is finalizing her Ph.D. research at KULeuven on the theme: Raymond Lemaire (1921–1997) and the Conservation of [End Page 471] the Historic City: Historical and Critical Approach of His Belgian Projects in an International Perspective. Her major research and publications are in the field of history and theory of heritage conservation and urban renovation.
Toshiyuki Kono (BA, Kyoto; LL.M. Kyoto) is Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan). He currently serves as a member of ICOMOS Executive Committee (since 2011). He chairs the Committee on Cultural Affairs of the UNESCO National Commission in Japan as well as the Committee on Intellectual Property and Private International Law in the International Law Association (London). He is vice president and titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Paris) as well as science advisor of Ministry of Education, Cultures, Sport, Science and Technology of Japan.
Christopher Koziol is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Colorado Denver. He is a licensed architect and preservation professional with interests that range from the history of technology and the growth of the industrial city to contemporary interpretive and design-based approaches to urban heritage. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Heritage on the Make: Assembling Chicago’s Architectural Past [and Future] (contracted with Ashgate Publishing).
Ashima Krishna is Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. She codirects the graduate programs in historic preservation. Her research focuses on three broad areas related to cultural heritage and its preservation: the management of historic urban landscapes in developing countries like India; issues in adaptively reusing religious historic structures and landscapes; and contemporary problems with World Heritage sites in the developing world. She holds a B.Arch. from the School of Planning and Architecture (New Delhi, India), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in historic preservation planning from Cornell University.
Pierre Laconte is president of the...
