About the Journal
The Journal of Comparative Heritage Studies (JCHS) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary scholarly journal published by the Comparative Heritage Project (CHP). The journal is dedicated to advancing critical and comparative research on heritage as a dynamic process of meaning-making, memory production, identity formation, power, and social transformation across cultures, histories, and intellectual traditions.
JCHS provides an international forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners whose work investigates how heritage is produced, negotiated, contested, preserved, and mobilized in diverse social, political, religious, linguistic, technological, and ecological contexts. Rather than treating heritage as merely inherited cultural property, the journal understands heritage as an active and evolving phenomenon that shapes human relationships, institutions, and knowledge systems.
The journal welcomes original research articles, theoretical essays, comparative analyses, methodological innovations, review essays, and critical book reviews from across the humanities, social sciences, and related interdisciplinary fields. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Comparative Heritage Theory
- Heritage Analytics and Digital Heritage
- Cultural Memory and Public History
- Indigenous and Decolonial Heritage Studies
- Religion, Scripture, and Heritage
- Museums, Archives, and Heritage Institutions
- Heritage, Identity, and Nationalism
- Heritage Politics and Cultural Diplomacy
- African, African Diaspora, and Global South Heritage
- Language, Literature, and Heritage
- Migration, Diaspora, and Transnational Heritage
- Heritage, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
- Heritage Preservation and Sustainability
- Comparative Civilizations and Knowledge Systems
Committed to intellectual rigor, methodological diversity, and global scholarly dialogue, the Journal of Comparative Heritage Studies encourages research that transcends disciplinary boundaries and challenges conventional understandings of heritage. The journal seeks to cultivate innovative conversations that illuminate the complex ways in which heritage structures human experience, mediates social relations, and informs contemporary and future societies.
Published by the Comparative Heritage Project and Comparative Heritage Institute, JCHS serves as a platform for advancing comparative scholarship and fostering international collaboration among academics, heritage professionals, policy practitioners, and independent researchers committed to the critical study of heritage in all its forms.
