Madison is a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities, Trafficking of Cultural Heritage, at IIT-Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology. She is a historian and researcher of historical heritage management specializing in the modern Middle East and currently based in Venice, Italy. Areas of focus include the illicit antiquities trade, digitization and integration of new technologies, decolonization, and the use of material culture in the consolidation of identity and legitimacy. She received her PhD from Koç University (2022) in Istanbul, Türkiye, with a dissertation on the ways in which cultural heritage were leveraged for political legitimacy in 20th-century Iraq.
Madison Suzanne Leeson
Postdoc in Digital Humanities, IIT-Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology
Post DocCultural Heritage Technologies
Research center
CCHT@Ca'Foscari Venezia
About
Education
Title: PhD
Institute: Koç University
Location: Istanbul
Country: Türkiye
From: 2019 To: 2022
Title: MA
Institute: Athens University of Economics and Business
Location: Athens
Country: Greece
From: 2017 To: 2019
Title: MA
Institute: University of Kent
Location: Athens
Country: Greece
From: 2017 To: 2019
Title: BFA
Institute: OCAD University
Location: Toronto
Country: Canada
From: 2013 To: 2017
All Publications
2024
Leeson M., Giovanelli R., De Bernardin M., Ferro S., Traviglia A.
RITHMS Digital Platform: Social Network Analysis for Intelligence-Led Policing of Cultural Heritage Crime
Researching a Rigged Game: Open-Source Data & the Trade in Cultural Heritage, Publisher: Springer
Book Chapter
Book
2024
Leeson M., Luke C.
“Save Carthage”: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Postcolonial Tunisia
The Politics of Post-Conflict Heritage Reconstruction: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Chapter
Book
2024
Leeson M., Giovanelli R., De Bernardin M., Traviglia A.
War, Art, and Sanctions: Social Network Analysis on the NACP’s Databases of Sanctioned Russian Individuals and Art Collectors
International Journal of Digital Humanities
Article in Press
Journal
2023
Leeson M.
“The Aeschylus Museum as a Collections-Free Institution of the Muses: Community Consultation and Values Assessment"
International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 29, (no. 10), pp. 1075-1088
2023
Luke C., Leeson M.
"UNESCO-UNDP's “Save Carthage” Campaign: Americans and Internationalisation of Heritage in Tunisia”
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites
Colleagues of Cultural Heritage Technologies
