dr. Emily Mannheimer

Emily Mannheimer is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of History, Communication and Culture. She is part of the Erasmus Initiative ‘Vital Cities and Citizens’ which is concerned with making cities more healthy and inclusive places. Emily's sub-project, 'Imagining the Divided City', investigates the role of tourism as a means for (re)defining heritage and identity in the post-conflict context of Belfast, Northern Ireland.  The project is supervised by prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders and prof. dr. Maria Grever and dr. Amanda Brandellero. Emily obtained her BA in International Development Studies at Portland State University with a Minor in Arabic Language. She also received an MSc in Cultural Anthropology at Universiteit Utrecht.