Shadia Taha

Dr Shadia Taha

Qualitative Research, Cultural Heritage (tangible/intangible), Material Culture, Ancient Nubia, Kushites Kingdoms, Traditional Knowledge, Sustainable Development, Nomads and nomadic heritage, Coastal communities', Ethnographic techniques.

Research Interest

Ancient Nubia, Kushites Kingdoms, Oral traditions, cultural heritage (tangible/intangible), traditional knowledge, local communities, forced relocation, memory and identity, sustainable development, nomadic routes and the heritage of incense in Sudan

Research Fellow Department of Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.

Collaborative Research Project examining 'Global Pilgrimage and Circuits of Exchange'.
Tutor Wolfson College Cambridge
Guest Lecturer, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge
Affiliated Research Scholar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
Researcher with the Civilisation in Contact Project
Independent Researcher
Research Associate with the Indian Ocean World Centre

Consultant for Google Project: Uncover Sudan's Pyramids with Google Arts & Culture

Consultant for the ‘Rising from the Depths’ East Pemba Maritime Heritage Project

Workshop: Connecting Art Histories: Exploring the Nile in the Arts of Ancient Northeast Africa, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), October 28–Friday, November 1, 2024 (By Invitation).
Keynote Lecture: Ena Thompson Annual lecture series, History Department, Pomona College, S. California. Keynote Lecture and teaching, March 2024 (By Invitaiton).

Section Editor for: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, edited by Professor Ihab Saloul and Dr Britt Baillie
Included in the TrowelBlazers series of Women in African Archaeology

Research Fellow, School of Global Studies, Department of Anthropology and International Development, University of Sussex
A collaborative research project, directed by Professor Raminder Kaur, University of Sussex. Funded by The Leverhulme Trust. The main focus is on diverse Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish and Catholic communities in Birmingham along with their conceptual, material and physical mappings of pilgrimage sites in South Asia

On the Editorial Board of

The Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, published by ‘Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.

Nubia: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Northeast Africa,’ published by Brepols Publishers.

Section Co Editor, The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict

Background

PhD Heritage Studies. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
MPhil Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
BA (Hons) Social Policy, Department of Social Studies, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
BA (Hons) Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Khartoum (Sudan)

Availability

Available for consultancy and collaborative projects - Fieldwork & Research Projects

Geographical Areas

Africa, Gulf States, Middle East

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Websites

Sudan plendid Heritage, by Dr Shadia Taha

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