Research interests
He was Director of Deakin's Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP), a UNESCO-endorsed research and training centre, from 2000 to 2009. 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. His research record includes numerous Australian Research Council and other grants, three recent books on heritage in the Asian region ('Hanoi: Biography of a City' , UNSW Press, University of Washington Press, & Select Publishing, Sydney/Seattle/Singapore, 2000, published in Vietnamese by the Hanoi Publishing House, 2010; '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 a member of the international advisory boards of the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster, UK. He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Heritage Studies and was on the editorial board of the Australia ICOMOS journal, Historic Environment. He initiated the Key Issues in Cultural Heritage series published by Routledge UK and is series co-editor with Laurajane Smith. He contributed chapters to eight volumes in the 17-volume series and co-edited four volumes: Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with Difficult Heritage (with Keir Reeves, 2009); Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice (with Michele Langfield and Mairead Nic Craith, 2010); Heritage, Development and Sustainability (with Sophia Labadi 2016); Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Heritage (with Christoph Antons 2018); and World Heritage and Sustainable Development (with Peter Larsen 2018).
Current research interests are:
- Cultural heritage and sustainable development.
- Management of heritage places and intangible heritage in Australia and Asia.
- The politics of World Heritage.
- Cultural diversity, heritage and human rights.
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Affiliations
International Council on Monuments and Sites
International Council on Museums
Professional activities
Logan was an invited expert at the Consultative Meeting on Cultural Rights at the UN Human Rights Commission, Geneva, in February 2011 and gave the keynote presentation at the Our Common Dignity: Towards Rights-Based World Heritage Management workshop conducted by Norway ICOMOS, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee in March 2011. He was co-edited the special human rights issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies (18, May 2012) based on the workshop papers.
Research groups
Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Awards
Alfred Deakin Professorship 2004
Projects
Currently engaged in the following research projects:
- Heritage of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (with Ngo Minh Hung)
- Heritage and Human Rights, with a focus in Asia
- World Heritage and Sustainable Development (with P. Larsen)
- Urban history and heritage in Asia
- The role of heritage conservation in Australia's international aid.
Publications
No publications found
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Making Room for the Past: Determining significance in archaeological collections from historic sites
Prof William Logan, Dr Jonathan Sweet, Ms Susan Balderstone, Dr Leah McKenzie, Dr Anita Smith
ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 1 APAI APDI
- 2006: $12,426
Remembering Places of Pain and Shame: Conservation of the Asia-Pacific Region's 'Difficult' Heritage of Imprisonment Sites
Prof William Logan, Dr Colin Long, Dr Fengqi Qian, Mr Keir Reeves
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2009: $59,197
- 2008: $64,644
- 2007: $60,258
- 2006: $79,442
Childhood, Tradition and Change: a national study of the historical and contemporary practices and significance of Australian children's playlore
Prof Kate Darian-Smith, Prof William Logan, Prof Graham Seal
ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2
- 2010: $5,332
- 2009: $22,272
- 2008: $25,318
- 2007: $21,424
Australian Heritage Abroad: Managing Australia's Extraterritorial War Heritage
Prof Andrea Witcomb, Prof William Logan, Prof Joan Beaumont, Dr Bart Ziino
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2016: $4,815
- 2012: $43,069
- 2011: $38,782
- 2010: $63,694
Vietnam: Heritage of a Nation
Prof William Logan, Dr Colin Long
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2011: $20,557
- 2010: $32,664
Intangible Cultural Heritage across Borders: Laws, Structures and Strategies in China and its ASEAN Neighbours
Prof Christoph Antons, Prof William Logan, A/Prof Carol Warren, Prof Jianfu Chen
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2015: $100,392
- 2014: $43,884
- 2013: $90,782
Supervisions
Natsuko Akagawa
Thesis entitled: Japan's Heritage Conservation in Global and Regional Cultural Diplomacy
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chao-Wang Wang
Thesis entitled: Inter-Generational Transmission of Taiwanese Traditional Arts through Digital Media
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Christine Landorf
Thesis entitled: Managing Industrial World Heritage Sites: Preservation, Presentation and Sustainability
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Jonathan Sweet
Thesis entitled: The Colonial Museum and UNESCO in the Asia-Pacific Region
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Binh Nguyen
Thesis entitled: The Making of Public Space in Haiphong, Vietnam
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Fiona Starr
Thesis entitled: Mobilising Corporate Social Responsibility for World Cultural Heritage Conservation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Herman Kiriama
Thesis entitled: Memory and Heritage: The Shimoni Slave Caves in Southern Kenya
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Hui Chi Huang
Thesis entitled: The Evolution and Conservation of Taiwan's Aboriginal Art Heritage
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Ilka Schacht
Thesis entitled: Determining Research Significance in Archaeological Collections from Historic Sites
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Lindsay Hasluck
Thesis entitled: The Andean Pre-historical Urban Planning Tradition
Master of Arts, School of History, Heritage and Society
Jane Louise Lennon
Thesis entitled: Reading between the Lines: Cultural Landscape Conservation in Australia
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Janette Philp
Thesis entitled: Cultural Politics and the Appropriation of Theravada Buddhism in Contemporary Burma
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Fengqi Qian
Thesis entitled: 'Shanghai's Western Townscape and Changing Perceptions of Cultural Heritage in China'
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Social & International Studies
Joseph Hajdu
Thesis entitled: Japanese Investment on the Gold Coast
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Australian & International Studies
Ha Van Que
Thesis entitled: The Changing Ideological Basis of Planning Practice in Hanoi
Master of Arts, School of Australian & International Studies
Shagufta Ahmed
Thesis entitled: Inflation and Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of Australia and the Philippines
Master of Arts, School of Australian & International Studies
Annabel Celia Biles
Thesis entitled: 'LANDSCAPE AS TEXT' - INTERPRETING LANDSCAPE IN COLONIAL WRITINGS ON FRENCH INDOCHINA.
Master of Arts, School of Australian & International Studies
Sally Watterson
Thesis entitled: Jinhin Mongol / True Mongolian: Mongolian museums and the construction of national identity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kendra Clegg
Thesis entitled: Ampenan: Sasak and non-Sasak in an Urban Environment
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
David Nichols
Thesis entitled: Leading Lights: The Promotion of Garden Suburb Plans and Planners in Interwar Australia
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Australian & International Studies