Visiting Scholars at HCCH
Three international visiting scholars are currently conducting research as part of the working group at the HCCH.
Elham Cheraghi is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Lodz in Poland. In her doctoral thesis entitled “Cultural and Creative Industries as a Primary Driver of Place Branding (In the Case of UNESCO Cities of Music)” and within the Department of Management and Quality Studies, she focuses on how cultural and creative industries (CCIs) influence place branding. The project explores the role of institutional actors in shaping a city's brand through collaborative efforts and cultural narratives. Her research interests include music tourism, place identity, place branding, creative cities, cultural and creative industries, cultural heritage, and cultural events and festivals.
She can be reached by email at elham.cheraghi@edu.uni.lodz.pl
Costanza Fusi is a visiting scholar at the team of the professorship for Cultural Heritage at the HCCH . Her home university is IULM University in Milan, Italy. In her PhD project, with the working title: Sacredness at dis(play): The Inbetweenness of a Sámi Shamanic Drum’s new Exhibition. Situated within the disciplines of museum anthropology, critical heritage studies, and post- and decolonial studies, she investigates the status of 'numinous' and culturally sensitive indigenous material culture in ethnography museums' exhibitions. The case study of her research is the analysis of the process of display, in the new permanent exhibition of the MUCIV – Museo delle Civiltà in Rome (IT) and in a temporary exhibition at Mudec - Museo delle Culture in Milan (IT), of the Sámi drum preserved within the ethnographic collections of the Museum in Rome.
She can be reached by e-mail at costanza.fusi1@studenti.iulm.it
Xu Chang, a doctoral candidate at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, will be a visiting scholar at the HCCH for 18 months. During this time, she will conduct research for her doctoral thesis, entitled 'Food Heritagization and Territorial Construction: Cultural Practices in the Making of Macanese Food Heritage”. Her research focuses on the processes and motivations through which postcolonial culinary heritage becomes institutionalised. Building on this, she examines how the classification of food as cultural heritage produces diverse meanings.
She can be reached by email at kari68252756@gmail.com
