PhD scholar at Northumbria University with an interest in eighteenth century funeral practices in England.
Robert Hartle
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities, University of Sheffield
WRoCAH (AHRC) funded PhD student researching the history and archaeology of body-snatching in Britain. Robert has extensive experience in the archaeological excavation of post-medieval burial grounds in London and is interested in funeral archaeology and medical history. Find his university staff page here.
Hartle, R. (2024) ‘The Corporation of Corpse-stealers’: archaeological and historical evidence of bodysnatching in early-eighteenth-century London’, in E. Craig-Atkins & and K. Harvey (eds) The Material Body: Embodiment, History and Archaeology in Industrializing England, […]
Dr Ciara Henderson
Independent Scholar, Ireland
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. In addition, I have a strong interest in after death communications. The history of Irish death and burial through the 19th and 20th century is complex, and I trace the evolution of funeral customs through this period, […]
Kathryn Herschell
St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies, University of St Andrews, UK
Postgraduate student in Gender Studies with an interest in gender in the context of historic cemeteries.
Samuel Holleran
University of Melbourne, Australia
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.
Fran Flett Hollinrake
St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney
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.
Dr Pia Interlandi
College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University, Australia
Dr Interlandi is an academic/practitioner in Fashion and Textiles with an interest in materials and materiality in relation to dress, death, and decomposition.
Dr Joachim Jacobs
Germany
Joachim Jacobs is a landscape architect, who has specialised in conservation and restoration projects including designing an extension to the Jewish cemetery in Grunewald.
Dr Simon Kilbane
School of Design, University of Western Australia
A landscape architecture scholar with an interest in design solutions for burial, cremation and more broadly memorialization and operating at the nexus of people, place and ecology.
Robyn S. Lacy
Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, Canada
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.
Dr Georgina Laragy
Trinity College Dublin / Dublin Cemeteries Trust - Ireland
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.
Dr Linda Levitt
Stephen F. Austin State University, US
My primary research sits at the intersection of memory studies and media, considering media’s role in shaping understandings of the past.
Dr Ka Nok Lo
Department of History, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China
Historian from the University of Macau with an interest in Chinese cemetery economics under Portuguese colonial rule.
Dr Louise Loe
Oxford Archaeology/University of Oxford
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.
Dolores Lupiáñez
Independent Scholar, Spain
My name is Dolores Lupiáñez, graduate in Art History and doctor in Tourism, specialized in art, symbology, heritage and history of cemeteries. Independent researcher, focused on creating routes and guided tours. My professional and academic experience, both in the tourism field and in art history, have led me to promote the potential of cemeteries at a business level. I have created a company that offers routes to cemeteries in several cities in Europe. The objective is to promote public interest in spaces full of history, […]
Dr Roger Marjavaara
Department of Geography, Umeå University, Sweden
Cultural geography scholar with an interest in the geography of the deceased and all types of spatial aspects of death, dying, mourning and remembrance.
Janine Marriott
Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust
Janine is the Public Engagement Manager at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol (UK).
Dr Brenda Mathijssen
University of Groningen, Netherlands
My academic expertise concerns the human engagement with dying, death and bereavement in contemporary Europe.
Professor Lawrence Mbanga
Geography and Planning, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon
Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Planning, the University of Bamenda, Cameroon, with an interest in the dynamics of cemeteries in terms of development, use and environmental change.
Dr Brice Molo
GSPR, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Dr Brice Molo’s research focuses on the socio-history of the environment, risks, disasters, and collective deaths in Cameroon.
