Publications: Books
Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the
Iraq War
Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of
Washington
Unsettling "Sensation": Arts Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy
 Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War
Lawrence Rothfield, Editor
AltaMira Press, 2008
Contact: Wendy Norris, wnorris@uchicago.edu, 773.834.3495
As Saddam Hussein’s government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillaging of from the Iraq Museum. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, has been the subsequent epidemic of looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country. If unaddressed, the same fundamental deficiencies that left Iraq’s museums and sites vulnerable to looters will threaten the cultural heritage of other politically unstable regions.
Antiquities under Siege examines the criminal activity that continues to erode the traces of Mesopotamian, Judeo-Christian and Islamic cultures buried in the desert of Iraq, and investigates the global implications of this ongoing catastrophe.
Its internationally renowned authors – experts in law, foreign affairs, archaeology and the military – provide first-hand accounts of the aftermath of the Iraq invasion and offer a series of recommendations for U.S. and international policymakers and NGOs.
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 Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington
Edited by J. Mark Schuster, Professor of Urban Cultural Policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center, 2003.
J. Mark Schuster is a public policy analyst specializing in government policies and programs with respect to the arts, culture, and urban design. His most recent publication is Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington (with David Karraker, Lawrence Rothfield, Colleen Grogan, Susan Bonaiuto, and Steven Rathgeb Smith), which applies the Council of Europe’s Program of Reviews of National Cultural Policies to the state of Washington.
Schuster is also the author of Informing Cultural Policy: The Research and Information Infrastructure; The Geography of Participation in the Arts and Culture; The Audience for American Art Museums; Preserving the Built Heritage— Tools for Implementation (with John de Monchaux); Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy (with Alan Feld and Michael O'Hare); and Who's to Pay for the Arts? The International Search for Models of Support (with Milton Cummings). He has served as a consultant to the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Canada Council, Canadian Heritage, the British American Arts Association, the London Arts Board, the British Museum , and National Public Radio, among many others. He also is joint editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. He and John de Monchaux served as co-chairmen of the Salzburg Seminar's session on "Preserving the National Heritage: Policies, Partnerships, and Actions," and he has served as Director of the Northeast Mayor' Institute on City Design. He has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Chicago (2001-2002) and the Universitat de Barcelona, Centre d'Estudis de Planificació (1992-1993). To view full text, click here.
View the Cultural Policy Center’s related conference page on A Public Conversation on Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington. (2004)
 Unsettling "Sensation": Arts Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy
Edited by Lawrence Rothfield, Faculty Director, Cultural Policy Center. Rutgers University Press, 2001. Rutgers Series on The Public Life of the Arts.
To view the table of contents and read the full introduction by editor Lawrence Rothfield, Faculty Director, Cultural Policy Center, click here.
View the Cultural Policy Center’s related conference page on Taking Funds, Giving Offense, Making Money: The Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy and the Dilemmas of Arts Policy (2000)
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