ABSTRACT
Notes on contributor Michael Falser studied architecture and art history in Vienna and Paris. He wrote his PhD-thesis on ‘The Political History of Historic Preservation in Germany’ at the Berlin University of Technology. After practical experience as preservation architect in the USA and as consultant at the Austrian UNESCO-Commission, he worked at the Institute of Building Research and Conservation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and at the Art History Department at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Since 2009, he is research fellow at the Chair of Global Art History within the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’ at the University of Heidelberg. His research focuses on ‘heritage’ as a transcultural concept with the case study of Angkor Wat in Cambodia (https://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people/person/persdetail/falser. html). Since November 2012 he is Research Fellow of the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation and associated to the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art at Paris.
