Melathi Saldin Editor

José Antonio González Zarandona holds a PhD in Art History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies from the University of Melbourne. He has held fellowships from the British Academy and Columbia University. His latest book is Murujuga: Rock Art, Heritage and Landscape Iconoclasm. Antonio researches the intersections between heritage, art and media. He has published widely on heritage destruction and iconoclasm in Australia, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, Mexico, videogames and Google.

Emma Cunliffe holds a PhD in Archaeology from Durham University, where she studied site damage in Syria. She is a research associate in the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University (UK) and part of the Secretariat for Blue Shield International, the NGO named in the 1999 Second Protocol as an advisory body to UNESCO in matters of armed conflict. She is also the Secretary for the UK National Committee. She teaches cultural property protection for students, heritage professionals, and armed forces, and provides CPP subject matter expertise on military exercises.

Melathi Saldin is Project Officer (Enhancing Digital Participation Amongst Refugee and Migrant Background Youth) at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia. She has a PhD in Cultural Heritage Studies (Deakin University), a BA (Hons) and MPhil in Archaeology (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka). Melathi’s research looks at the politicisation of heritage and archaeology across Asia and the potential of heritage for resilience building in communities recovering from war.