The CURIA Lab supports innovative analysis to measure the impacts of loss to culture including both property and heritage. We promote data and analytical tools that are flexible and responsive to the needs of key stakeholders. In doing so, we aim to support accountability and cultural justice processes. Our data collection and analysis efforts currently include Syria, Egypt, and Italy with plans to expand geographically over the next 5 years. We invite participation and input from researchers, practitioners, and community members directly affected by cultural heritage loss and recovery.

The long-term vision is to provide a flexible platform for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of research on cultural heritage dynamics and community impacts, particularly in the aftermath of loss.

CURIA seeks to create a space dedicated to disseminating data and analyses of cultural heritage and cultural property research, with an emphasis on creating tools that are flexible and respond to the needs of key stakeholders. In doing so, the lab will serve as a point of connection for practitioners, researchers, and community members affected by cultural property loss and recovery to improve capacity building and resilience.

RESILIENCE

because we are committed to a research agenda that studies long-term institutional responses to cultural property change and loss;

INFORMATICS

to denote our work on data processing and metadata documentation;

ANALYSIS

for our focus on empirical mixed-methods research questions and rigorous answers.

The CURIA Lab was created by Dr. Fiona Greenland of the University of Virginia and Dr. Michelle D. Fabiani of the University of New Haven. The Lab has received funding from the Department of State, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia, and the Quantitative Collaborative at the University of Virginia.