Academics from across the globe are engaged in intriguing, insightful and thought-provoking research spanning multiple disciplines.
Their work demonstrates the breadth of theoretical approaches and range of methodologies that can be taken in researching funerary practices. These pages aim to facilitate networking between scholars, to encourage active dialogue and collaboration. Click on each name to find out more.
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Scholar with an interest in the cemetery as multi-functional green space.
Professor of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the School of Design at the State University of Minas Gerais, developing research related to education on heritage, death and worship of the dead, especially nineteenth-century cemeteries, as well as the history and memory of design.
Dr Gian Luca Amadei is an independent academic researcher and internationally recognised design and architectural journalist.
Curator, researcher and archivist of the burial ground at Wainsgate Chapel, a redundant Baptist chapel on the hillside above Hebden Bridge in the UK.
My cemetery-related research focuses on how burial grounds in the US have been planned for and managed since World War II.
A scholar with an interest in cemetery typography and gravestone lettering, at the intersection of visual culture, social history, and material heritage.
I am currently lecturing at the Faculty of Architecture in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Interior Design Department in Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania), and working on a monograph “Už miesto, miške” to be published in 2023 by LAPAS.
PhD candidate with an interest in Norwegian crematorium architecture, explored through use of architectural competitions.
General interests in cemeteries through Bristol Archives as a major custodian of general and municipal cemetery records for the Bristol area:
Bristol Archives – Source Guide to Cemetery and Burial Records
An anthropologist at the Haute école de travail social et de la santé Lausanne, involved in the field of Death Studies in relation with anthropological frameworks and social work professional activities.
Polish historian at the University of Warsaw with expertise in Jewish cemetery heritage.
A scholar whose research has focused on the themes of religion and ecology, and religion and politics.
Nuria Capdevila Roig is the founder and CEO of Circle Corporation, a pioneering company in sustainable solutions, training, and reporting for the funeral sector.
Historian and Archives Manager of the Dublin Cemeteries Trust, established in 1828.
My research unites death studies, literature, and the history of medicine. My dissertation explored how nineteenth-century authors of color used corpses in fiction to resist the weaponization of biopolitics, scientific racism, and racial terror against Black communities in this period.
Sociologist with an interest in memoryscapes within urban planning, architecture, and social memory.
Dr Coutts is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University (FSU).
My research focuses on the influence of ecological thought and practices in the evolution of the French cemeteries, particularly from a technical and anthropological point of view.
My primary research is into the development and management of Liverpool’s nineteenth-century cemeteries and reflections of aspects of identity through the memorials in them.
My research explores death, grief, and funerary practices in the Lakshadweep archipelago, with a particular emphasis on how these experiences are shaped by Islamic eschatology, local cosmologies, and the affective rhythms of everyday life.
