Brian Boyd, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, participated in "Returning to Shuqba: community archaeology, museum anthropology and oral history," a workshop held at Birzeit University on June 5, 2023.

Brian is carrying out fieldwork related to his project Building Community Anthropology Across the Jordan Valley in Shuqba cave this summer. The project is funded by the Columbia University President’s Global Innovation Fund and is co-developed and co-led with Hamed Salem (Birzeit University).

Building Community Anthropology Across the Jordan Valley is a community-based museological and anthropological research and teaching project focused on the town and surrounding landscape of Shuqba in the Palestinian Territories. The overall aim of the project is to contribute to the creation of sustainable cultural heritage and tourism-related collaborations between local communities, the Palestinian diaspora, and local, regional and international institutions (ranging across academic, governmental and NGOs).