In a co-authored piece for The Conversation, CERL Affiliated Faculty Lynn Meskell discusses findings from a survey gauging how residents across Mosul feel about the reconstruction of heritage sites that were destroyed by the Islamic State.

Lynn Meskell is Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Department of City and Regional Planning, Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences, and curator in the Middle East and Asia sections at the Penn Museum. Her award-winning book, A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace (Oxford, 2018), reveals UNESCO’s early forays into a one-world archaeology and its later commitments to global heritage. Read her bio here.