Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels is Associate Professor and Director of the Cultural and Heritage Resource Management (CHRM) graduate program in the Department of Anthropology. She also serves as Editor for the journal Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. Much of her work integrates archaeology and ethnography around issues of cultural heritage, focusing especially on the transnational contexts of heritage (international development, human rights, democracy building, and global climate change). Her current research projects center on the nexus between cultural heritage and climate change, including interests in biodiversity loss as well as the persuasive capacity of heritage to mobilize change in democratic societies. She is the author of Mobilizing Heritage (2018), co-author of World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate (2016), and co-editor of Heritage and Democracy (2023), Heritage Keywords (2015), and Making Roman Places: Past and Present (2012).