Maria Fernanda Escallon

Maria Fernanda comes to Stanford from Bogotá, Colombia where she earned a B.A in Anthropology and a Master of Arts in Archaeology from the Universidad de Los Andes. She has worked in sustainable development and heritage issues for non-governmental organizations and Colombian public entities such as the Ministry and the Secretary of Culture. She hopes to examine cultural heritage discourses and practices in Colombia and Brazil and is interested in the intersections between heritage, cultural diversity, public policy making and development. Topics of primary interest include intangible heritage, identity, nationalism, heritage ethics, tourism and the political uses of memory.

 

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