FELLOW 2024/25
Fiona Rose Greenland is associate professor of sociology and associate professor of anthropology (by courtesy) at the University of Virginia, and founder and co-director of the Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis Lab (CURIA). She studies cultural heritage protection and recovery processes, with particular interest in how new technologies are incorporated into national and international cultural heritage frameworks. Since January 2024 she has directed the Conflict Observatory Ukraine’s CURIA investigation team. She was principal investigator on two grants funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, “Insurgent Artifacts: Remote Sensing and the Rise of Conflict Archaeology” (2017–2022) and “Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Social Disintegration” (2020–2023). A trained OSINT investigator, she welcomes opportunities to collaborate with other open-source intelligence researchers with shared interests in documenting cultural losses for legal accountability and post-conflict restitution.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “War Ruination and Artifact Sacrifice in Simmel’s Late Writings on Culture”. In Elgar Companion to Georg Simmel, edited by Miloš Broćić and Dan Silver. Edward Elgar Publishing, in preparation.
- “The Restitution of Antiquities and the Modern Italian State”. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 68 (2023): 63–99.
- With Michelle D. Fabiani. “Satellite Images in Conflict Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations”. In Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change, edited by Eric W. Schoon, and Thomas V. Maher. Emerald Publishing, 2023.
- “Pixel Politics and Satellite Interpretation in the Syrian War”. Media, Culture, and Society 45, no. 1 (2022): 19–35.
- Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities: New Theoretical Perspectives. Edited with Fatma M. Göçek. Routledge, 2020.
