Emeritus ProfessorWilliam Logan

He was Director of Deakin's Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
(CHCAP), a UNESCO-endorsed research and training centre, from 2000 to 2009. He
was awarded the Deakin University Researcher of the Year Award in 2002 and was
made an Alfred Deakin Professor in 2004 for his contribution to the
university's research profile. His research record includes numerous
Australian Research Council and other grants, three recent books on heritage
in the Asian region ('Hanoi: Biography of a City' , UNSW Press, University of
Washington Press, & Select Publishing, Sydney/Seattle/Singapore, 2000,
published in Vietnamese by the Hanoi Publishing House, 2010; 'The Disappearing
"Asian" City: Protecting Asia's Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World', Oxford
University Press, Hong Kong, 2002; and 'Vientiane: Transformation of a Lao
Landscape', with Marc Askew & Colin Long, Routledge, London, 2006), articles
in refereed and professional journals, and conference papers.
He was a member of the international advisory boards of the Academy of Irish
Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster, UK. He is a member of the
editorial boards of the International Journal of Heritage Studies and was on
the editorial board of the Australia ICOMOS journal, Historic Environment. He
initiated the Key Issues in Cultural Heritage series published by Routledge UK
and is series co-editor with Laurajane Smith. He contributed chapters to eight
volumes in the 17-volume series and co-edited four volumes: Places of Pain and
Shame: Dealing with Difficult Heritage (with Keir Reeves, 2009); Cultural
Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice
(with Michele Langfield and Mairead Nic Craith, 2010); Heritage, Development
and Sustainability (with Sophia Labadi 2016); Intellectual Property, Cultural
Property and Intangible Heritage (with Christoph Antons 2018); and World
Heritage and Sustainable Development (with Peter Larsen 2018).
Current research interests are:
* Cultural heritage and sustainable development.
* Management of heritage places and intangible heritage in Australia and Asia.
* The politics of World Heritage.
* Cultural diversity, heritage and human rights.

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Projects
Currently engaged in the following research projects:
1. Heritage of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (with Ngo Minh Hung)
2. Heritage and Human Rights, with a focus in Asia
3. World Heritage and Sustainable Development (with P. Larsen)
4. Urban history and heritage in Asia
5. The role of heritage conservation in Australia's international aid.