Annalisa Bolin
@agbolin.bsky.social
archaeologist || anthropologist || essayist
My book manuscript GHOST MAPS has won the 2025 Dzanc Books nonfiction prize and will be published in spring 2027!
An award-winning independent press, Dzanc publishes “unconventional, no-holds-barred, rule-breaking” literary writing. I'm thrilled by their support.
www.dzancbooks.org/blog/announc...
An award-winning independent press, Dzanc publishes “unconventional, no-holds-barred, rule-breaking” literary writing. I'm thrilled by their support.
www.dzancbooks.org/blog/announc...
Announcing the Winner of the 2025 Dzanc nonfiction prize — Dzanc Books
Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Dzanc Books Nonfiction Prize: Ghost Maps by Annalisa Bolin. In addition to publication by Dzanc in Spring 2027, the prize also comes wit...
www.dzancbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My book manuscript GHOST MAPS has won the 2025 Dzanc Books nonfiction prize and will be published in spring 2027!
An award-winning independent press, Dzanc publishes “unconventional, no-holds-barred, rule-breaking” literary writing. I'm thrilled by their support.
www.dzancbooks.org/blog/announc...
An award-winning independent press, Dzanc publishes “unconventional, no-holds-barred, rule-breaking” literary writing. I'm thrilled by their support.
www.dzancbooks.org/blog/announc...
My latest, on how Rwanda plan to manage community engagement with its new World Heritage sites, with an emphasis on peacebuilding. But given Rwanda's structural constraints, is grassroots peacebuilding through heritage really possible? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Building Peace at Sites of Memory: Community Relationships with UNESCO World Heritage in Post-Genocide Rwanda
In 2023, Rwanda inscribed a set of genocide memorials on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, based in part on the memorials’ value to peace. Considering the importance of communities to the sustainabilit...
www.tandfonline.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My latest, on how Rwanda plan to manage community engagement with its new World Heritage sites, with an emphasis on peacebuilding. But given Rwanda's structural constraints, is grassroots peacebuilding through heritage really possible? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Society for Humanistic Anthropology's 2025 creative ethnographic prose competition is open! I'm a judge this year and can't wait to read your fiction and nonfiction work. Submissions are due by June 20. sha.americananthro.org/ethnographic...
Call for Submissions | Society for Humanistic Anthropology
sha.americananthro.org
April 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Society for Humanistic Anthropology's 2025 creative ethnographic prose competition is open! I'm a judge this year and can't wait to read your fiction and nonfiction work. Submissions are due by June 20. sha.americananthro.org/ethnographic...
My latest, a discussion of how Crucians are reassessing and reclaiming the built heritage of slavery—like sugar mills and plantation great houses—as a tribute to their enslaved ancestors: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘Our monuments’: Reclaiming St Croix's elite heritage for descendants of the enslaved
Sites of plantation slavery that are now interpreted as heritage frequently spatialize their narratives by emphasizing White elites in monumental spaces and associating the Black enslaved with smalle....
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:23 PM
My latest, a discussion of how Crucians are reassessing and reclaiming the built heritage of slavery—like sugar mills and plantation great houses—as a tribute to their enslaved ancestors: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I am an art critic now! (I am not an art critic.) My short essay on Gerhard Richter's "Birkenau" paintings and depictions of horror is up now at the Ekphrastic Review: www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
On Birkenau, by Gerhard Richter, by Annalisa Bolin
On Birkenau , by Gerhard Richter During an April in Berlin, when it is still winter, I wear fingerless gloves through a blank white day and take the bus to the Neue Nationalgalerie. Here in the...
www.ekphrastic.net
March 11, 2024 at 3:44 PM
I am an art critic now! (I am not an art critic.) My short essay on Gerhard Richter's "Birkenau" paintings and depictions of horror is up now at the Ekphrastic Review: www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
My review of Ferdinand de Jong's "Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal" is up now at African Arts. I talk about the state of play in decolonial heritage research and explore time, utopian ideas, repair and reworking: direct.mit.edu/afar/article...
Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong
The idea of decolonization has come to the fore in recent years’ scholarship on cultural heritage. Not that the concept is a new one: but with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall protests roilin...
direct.mit.edu
November 14, 2023 at 2:58 PM
My review of Ferdinand de Jong's "Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal" is up now at African Arts. I talk about the state of play in decolonial heritage research and explore time, utopian ideas, repair and reworking: direct.mit.edu/afar/article...
Tomorrow!
Please join us next week to talk heritage rights, access, and control! For attendance instructions see the bottom of this invite.
November 6, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Tomorrow!
Please join us next week to talk heritage rights, access, and control! For attendance instructions see the bottom of this invite.
October 31, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Please join us next week to talk heritage rights, access, and control! For attendance instructions see the bottom of this invite.
Join us November 7 to talk about how people claim heritage rights in practice, not theory! The arguments they make might surprise you. Free, online, and featuring me doing my best not to brag about getting to do fieldwork in the Virgin Islands.
October 24, 2023 at 11:39 AM
Join us November 7 to talk about how people claim heritage rights in practice, not theory! The arguments they make might surprise you. Free, online, and featuring me doing my best not to brag about getting to do fieldwork in the Virgin Islands.