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.

Urszula Frick is a PhD student: her research project focuses on representations of children on early modern grave monuments in Sweden and the national and international context of this phenomenon.

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).

Hajar Ghorbani is a Ph.D. student in the field of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Alberta.

Dr Michelangelo Giampaoli is an anthropologist and cultural heritage curator whose PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology focused on the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. For the past two decades, he has worked on researching and promoting cemeteries as spaces of collective memory, identity, and public education and now regularly teaches courses on death and cemeteries in Chicago.

An archaeologist with an interest in landscapes of belief in the North Atlantic region, focusing on Christian practice and pilgrimage.

Specialist in human osteology and mortuary archaeology, and with a current interest in Victorian cemetery heritage.

Pavel Grabalov is an urban researcher with a PhD degree from the Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Hans Hadders is associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has a PhD is in social anthropology and has done research on mortuary rituals and standardization of death in Norwegian health care and South Asia.

My research focuses on ethnography and irregualarized migration, in particular on border deaths and disappearances. I am interested in the problems of representing the deceased in numerical form or through lists, and explore local and family responses to these violent, premature deaths. I also study refugee graves, both in contemporary contexts and in the past, particularly from the Second World War. Besides, I am involved in documenting deaths along the so-called Balkan Route through the 4D Database project and I am active in commemorating border deaths, […]

PhD scholar at Northumbria University with an interest in eighteenth century funeral practices in England.

WRoCAH (AHRC) funded PhD student researching the history and archaeology of body-snatching in Britain.

As an interdisciplinary researcher, I am interested in human connection and empathy and the ways in which responses to death are socialised. My research focuses on bereaved parenthood, and explores contemporary and historic responses to maternal, child and reproductive mortality both from a social and policy perspective.

Postgraduate student in Gender Studies with an interest in gender in the context of historic cemeteries.

Samuel Holleran is postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University, Australia, working on a project that examines inclusive memorial making practices.

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.

A MCSA scholar whose project SEPOLCRI examines the funerary rituals and burial practices of religious minorities in Italian cities between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Dr Interlandi is an academic/practitioner in Fashion and Textiles with an interest in materials and materiality in relation to dress, death, and decomposition.

Joachim Jacobs is a landscape architect, who has specialised in conservation and restoration projects including designing an extension to the Jewish cemetery in Grunewald.