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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Dr Gian Luca Amadei is an independent academic researcher and internationally recognised design and architectural journalist.
My cemetery-related research focuses on how burial grounds in the US have been planned for and managed since World War II.
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.
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.
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 research interests focus on popular funerary customs, past and present, and I’m interested in cemeteries as spaces (or places?) where death and dying are constructed, performed and contested.
Marie Fruiquière is an architect and engineer in Town and Country Planning. She is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg/ENSAS and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning/CAUP of Tongji University in Shanghai (China).
Pavel Grabalov is an urban researcher with a PhD degree from the Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Samuel Holleran is a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne, where he is examining public participation in the reimagination of urban cemeteries with the DeathTech Research Team.
I work for a local authority, and I am the Visitor Services Officer for the medieval cathedral of St Magnus. I’m interested in historic mortuary practices, including intra-mural church burials.
Joachim Jacobs is a landscape architect, who has specialised in conservation and restoration projects including designing an extension to the Jewish cemetery in Grunewald.
My research explores death and burial through the lens of historical archaeology, with a focus on the construction and organization of the colonial burial landscape in northeast North America.
Primarily interested in nineteenth and twentieth century histories of death and burial in Ireland, specifically with reference to suicide and institutional burial but beyond that as well.
My primary research sits at the intersection of memory studies and media, considering media’s role in shaping understandings of the past.
Holding a BA in Archaeology and a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Bristol, Louise has over 20 years’ experience in the excavation and analysis of human remains from archaeological sites.
Janine is the Public Engagement Manager at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol (UK).
My academic expertise concerns the human engagement with dying, death and bereavement in contemporary Europe.
Harold Mytum has been recording and researching graveyards and cemeteries, and their monuments, for many years in Britain and Ireland, USA, Gibraltar and Australia.
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.
