Francesco Orlandi

My research background combines archaeology of the contemporary past and socio-cultural anthropology to strengthen intercultural practices and decolonial histories of heritage rights. I have conducted fieldwork in the South Central Andes, strengthening collaborative synergies with local communities and organisations to counter-mapping sites of Indigenous heritage making and eliciting socio-material narratives to make visible community rights-based struggles for recognition and territorial governance. 
As an early career researcher in critical heritage studies and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Archaeology of the Americas, University of Exeter, I have developed a strong network of research collaborations with academic and non-academic partners on a range of issues in the social sciences and humanities related to heritage, decoloniality and sustainability. 
I have been teaching the postgraduate course in Archaeology, Media and the Public as an Adjunct Professor for the international MA curriculum in Applied Critical Archaeology and Heritage (ACRA) at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna. 
I have recently joined the University of Macerata as a Research Fellow and coordinator of the research cluster in “Critical Heritage Studies: Restorative Justice, Digital Ethics and the Governance of Sustainability” within the European Reformed Universities Alliance (ERUA).