Department of Anthropology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Helaine Silverman

Professor of Anthropology

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    Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, 109 Davenport Hall, 607 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
  • Phone: (217) 333-3616
  • Email: helaine@illinois.edu

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Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1986.

Research Interests

Central Andean archaeology, complex societies, urbanism, architectural and landscape history, spatial theory, heritage theory and management, critical museum studies, tourism, cultural memory, identity, globalization, nationalism, appropriations of the past, cultures of death, Southeast Asian archaeology and history

Courses

Central Andean Archaeology; Heritage Management; Global Studies in Cultural Heritage; Museum Theory and Practice; Ethnography of Museums; Social Construction of Space; Archaeology and Popular Culture; Archaeology of Death; Tourist Cities and Sites; I hold additional appointments in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Program in Art History, and the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism. I am a member of the Campus Honors Program faculty. I am the Co-Director CHAMP (Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices).

Publications

Books

  • Intangible Heritage Embodied. Ed. Helaine Silverman and D. F. Ruggles. New York: Springer, 2009.
  • Handbook of South American Archaeology. Ed. Helaine Silverman and William Isbell. New York: Springer, 2008.
  • Silverman, Helaine. Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.

Journal Articles

  • Silverman, Helaine. "Mayor Daniel Estrada and the Plaza de Armas of Cuzco, Peru." Heritage Management 1.2 (2008): 181-218.
  • Silverman, Helaine. "Cultural Resource Management and Heritage Stewardship in Peru." CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 3.2 (2006): 57-72.

Other

  • BOOKS: AUTHORED AND EDITED
  • Intangible Heritage Embodied. Eds. D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman. New York: Springer, 2009.
  • Handbook of South American Archaeology. Eds. Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. New York, Springer, 2008.
  • Cultural Heritage and Human Rights. Eds. Helaine Silverman and D. Fairchild Ruggles. New York: Springer, 2007.
  • Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America. Ed. Helaine Silverman. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2006.
  • Andean Archaeology III: North and South. Eds. William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. New York: Springer, 2006.
  • The Space and Place of Death. Eds. Helaine Silverman and David B. Small. Washington, DC: Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 11, 2006.
  • Andean Archaeology, Ed. Helaine Silverman. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. Silverman, Helaine. Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2002.
  • Silverman Helaine and Donald A. Proulx. The Nasca. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
  • Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society. Eds. Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. New York: Plenum/Kluwer, New York, 2002.
  • Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization. Eds. William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. New York: Plenum/Kluwer, 2002.
  • Silverman, Helaine. Ancient Peruvian Art. An Annotated Bibliography. New York: G. K. Hall/Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.
  • Silverman, Helaine. Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World. Iowa City:University of Iowa Press, 1993.
  • CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Comparaciones y contrastes entre la costa sur y la costa central del Perú durante el Período Formativo.” Arqueología del Período Formativo en la Cuenca Baja de Lurín. Eds. Richard L. Burger and Krzysztof Makowski. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2009. 429-490.
  • Ruggles, D. Fairchild and Helaine Silverman. “From Tangible to Intangible Heritage: An Introduction.” Intangible Heritage Embodied. Eds. D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman. New York: Springer, 2009.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Nasca. Nazca. Continuities and Discontinuities on the South Coast of Peru.” Global Perspectives on the Collapse of Complex Systems. Eds. Jim A. Railey and Richard Martin Reycraft. Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 2008. 83-100.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Continental Introduction.” Handbook of South American Archaeology. Eds. Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, New York: Springer, 2008. 3-26.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Between the Lines: Reading the Nazca Markings as Rituals Writ Large.” Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy. Ed. Anthony Aveni. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. 621-633.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Contemporary Museum Practice in Cusco, Peru.” Archaeology and Capitalism. From Ethics To Politics. Eds. Philip Duke and Yannis Hamilakis. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2007. 195-212.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “The Historic District of Cusco as an Open-Air Site Museum.” Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America. Ed. Helaine Silverman. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 159-183.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Differentiating Paracas Necropolis and Early Nasca Textiles.” Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society. Eds. Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. New York: Plenum/Kluwer, 2002. 71-106.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Mortuary Narratives of Identity and History in Modern Cemeteries of Lima, Peru.” The Space and Place of Death. Eds. Helaine Silverman and David B. Small. Washington, DC: Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 11, 2007. 167-190.
  • Isbell, William H. and Helaine Silverman. “Writing the Andes with a Capital A.” Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization. Eds. William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. New York: Plenum/Kluwer, 2002. 371-380.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Style and State in Ancient Peru.” Imagery and Creativity. Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the Americas. Eds. Dorothea S. Whitten and Norman E. Whitten. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1993. 129-169.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “The Paracas Problem: Archaeological Perspectives.” Paracas Art and Architecture: Object and Context in South Coastal Peru. Ed. Anne Paul. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. 349-415.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “The Early Nasca Pilgrimage Center of Cahuachi and the Nazca Lines. Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives.” The Lines of Nazca. Ed. Anthony Aveni. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1990. 209-244.
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Mayor Daniel Estrada and the Plaza de Armas of Cuzco, Peru.” Heritage Management 1.2 (2008): 181-218.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Cultural Resource Management and Heritage Stewardship in Peru.” CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 3.2 (2006): 57-72.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Embodied Heritage, Identity Politics and Tourism.” Anthropology and Humanism 30.2 (2005): 141-155.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Two Museums, Two Visions: Representing Cultural Heritage in Cusco, Peru.” The SAA Archaeological Record 5.3 (2005): 29-32.
  • Silverman,, Helaine. “Subverting the Venue: A Critical Exhibition of Pre-Columbian Objects at Krannert Art Museum.” American Anthropologist 106.4 (2004): 732-738.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Touring Ancient Times: The Present and Presented Past in Contemporary Peru.” American Anthropologist 104.3 (2002): 881-902
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Groovin’ to Ancient Peru: A Critical Analysis of Disney’s ‘The Emperor’s New Groove’.” Journal of Social Archaeology 2.3 (2002): 298-322.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Archaeology and the 1997 Peruvian Hostage Crisis.” Anthropology Today 15.1 (1999): 9-13.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “The First Field Season of Excavations at the Alto del Molino Site, Pisco Valley, Peru.” Journal of Field Archaeology 24.4 (1997): 441-457.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “The Formative Period on the South Coast of Peru: A Critical Review.” Journal of World Prehistory 10.2 (1996): 95-146.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “The Archaeological Identification of an Ancient Peruvian Pilgrimage Center.” World Archaeology 26.1 (1994): 1-18.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Paracas in Nazca: New Data on the Early Horizon Occupation of the Río Grande de Nazca Drainage, Peru. Latin American Antiquity 5.4 (1994): 359-382.
  • Browne, David M., Helaine Silverman, and Rubén García. “A Cache of 48 Nasca Trophy Heads from Cerro Carapo, Peru.” Latin American Antiquity 4.3 (1993): 274-294.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Beyond the Pampa: The Geoglyphs of the Valleys of Nazca.” National Geographic Research 6.4 (1990): 435-356.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Cahuachi: Non-Urban Cultural Complexity on the South Coast of Peru.” Journal of Field Archaeology 15.4 (1988): 403-430.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “Nasca 8: A Reassessment of Its Chronological Placement and Cultural Significance.” Michigan Discussions in Anthropology: Multidisciplinary Studies in Andean Anthropology 8 (1988): 23-32.
  • Silverman, Helaine. “A Nasca 8 Occupation at an Early Nasca Site: The Room of the Posts at Cahuachi.” Andean Past 1 (1987): 5-55.