THE CULTURAL RESILIENCE
INFORMATICS AND ANALYSIS
LAB

Satellite image of Western Desert in central Egypt
Photo by USGS on Unsplash

We collect data on broad-scale changes to material cultural heritage, and generate mixed models to measure impacts and inform accountability and cultural justice processes.

Projects

Conflict Observatory
(2023-25)

The US State Department's Conflict Observatory was a consortium of researchers tasked with documenting evidence of potential war crimes and other atrocities committed during Russia's war against Ukraine.

Cultural Violence and Civilian Deaths in Syria

In this National Science Foundation project, we partnered with the Uppsala Conflict Data Program to analyze patterns of cultural destruction and civilian deaths in Syria's civil war.

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOOTING

This project develops novel geospatial analysis to identify patterns of archaeological looting in Lower Egypt and how the broader contextual factors influence these patterns.

QUANTIFYING ART CRIME and the global antiquities trade

Is art crime really the third-largest illicit trade, after narcotics and weapons? Why do estimates of its value range so dramatically? These are fundamental questions for which CURIA has developed novel approaches.

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OSINT for cultural heritage

Our work is at the cutting edge of open source investigations & cultural heritage loss

CURIA's investigations include conflict zones and looting networks in 4 global regions

We gather targeted data to advise policymakers and NGOs on cultural heritage atrocities

TEAM

Michelle Fabiani

Co-director

Fiona Greenland