School of History Heritage and Society

Prof. William Logan
Position	Alfred Deakin Professor
Email	william.logan@deakin.edu.au
Area	School of History Heritage and Society
Phone	+61 3 924 43911
Campus	Burwood
Location	Burwood (Room D/1.13)
Role and profile	Professor William (Bill) Logan has been involved in cultural heritage conservation from the early 1970s when he took part in the resident action movement in inner Melbourne. He has been engaged in teaching, research and consulting on Australian and Asian heritage issues since then. He completed a doctorate in 1981 in the field of urban geography with a thesis focused on the politics of housing, planning and heritage conservation in inner Melbourne. He has held numerous senior administrative positions, including Dean, in the higher education sector since 1971. At Deakin University he was Research Director in the Faculty of Arts 1993-98. Professor Logan holds the UNESCO Chair of Heritage and Urbanism in the School of Social and International Studies. Since 1986 he has been an International Expert for the UNESCO Division of Cultural Heritage in Paris, where his work has mainly been related to UNESCO's international campaigns to safeguard world cultural heritage sites in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Vietnam. He has also acted for the UNESCO World Heritage Centre at international meetings of experts in Vietnam, Indonesia and Korea and has contributed to its 'State of the World Heritage' Report (2005). He is a member of Australia ICOMOS, the national committee of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites), based in Paris, and was the national president from 1999 to 2002. He has represented ICOMOS at international meetings in Japan and Korea. He has been a consultant to AusAID, the Australian Heritage Commission and Department of the Environment and Heritage, and the Victorian Department of Infrastructure, and he is a member of AusHeritage (including Board Member, 1998-9). This involvement with international and national heritage bodies has directly led to course innovations and research activities at Deakin University. Professor Logan introduced two courses in Vietnamese history and culture and instigated the development of an Asian Studies major. He led the establishment of the Cultural Heritage postgraduate program at Deakin in 2000. He is Director of CHCAP, a research and training centre that has UNESCO endorsement. His research record includes numerous Australian Research Council and other grants, three recent books on heritage in the Asian region (notably 'Hanoi: Biography of a City' , UNSW Press, University of Washington Press, & Select Publishing, Sydney/Seattle/Singapore, 2000, which won the International Planning History Society Book Prize in 2002; 'The Disappearing "Asian" City: Protecting Asia's Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World', Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 2002; and 'Vientiane: Transformation of a Lao Landscape', with Marc Askew & Colin Long, Routledge, London, 2006), articles in refereed and professional journals, and conference papers. He was awarded the Deakin University Researcher of the Year Award in 2002 and was made an Alfred Deakin Professor in 2004 for his contribution to the university's research profile. As well as establishing heritage programs in several Victorian universities, he helped develop postgraduate heritage courses at Silpakorn University in Bangkok and the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He is a member of the international advisory boards of the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster, UK. and the Centre for Cultural Heritage Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is a member of the editorial boards of Spatial Habitus, a series of monographs published by the University of Hawai'i Press and the China Institute in America, N.Y., and the electronic journal Cultural Landscapes, which is hosted by the Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.
Teaching responsibilities	Supervision of PhD and Master of Arts (Research) in various aspects of Cultural Heritage. AIM701, AIM 702, AIM704, AIM708 Master of Cultural Heritage
Research interests	Cultural heritage, especially heritage places in the Asia-Pacific region. Global heritage organisations, World Heritage. Urban planning history. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia.
Current research projects	Currently engaged in the following research projects: (1) Cultural Heritage and Human Rights; book chapter (2006, edited book (2007/8) (2) Places of Pain and Shame: The ‘Difficult’ Heritage of Imprisonment Sites, funded by Deakin University Central Research Grant (2003), ARC Discovery Grant (2006-9); edited book under preparation 2007/8 (3) 'Imperial Hue: Townscape Transformation of Vietnam's Nguyen Dynasty Capital, 1802-2002' (with C. Long) (4) 'Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam: significance and management'; journal article (2006)
Research link	View Deakin associated research data
Additional URLs	CHCAP website

Prof. William Logan