Political Science scholar with an interest in military cemeteries and the role of deathscapes in nation building.
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.
Dr Nina Kreibig
Institute of History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr Nina Kreibig works at the Instit of History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and has an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to nineteenth century and contemporary cemeteries.
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 Łucja Lange
Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Institute of Sociology, University of Łódź, Poland
Dr Łucja Lange is an Assistant Professor at the University of Łódź in Poland and holds a doctorate in sociology. Her research focuses on themes of diversity, disease, death, mourning, and homelessness, with a particular interest in the therapeutic use of photography.
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.
Heather Leonard
Department of Archaeology, University of the Highlands and Islands, Orkney College, United Kingdom
PhD student in archaeology, studying identity and community in Orkney using grave markers and death registration data.
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
A graduate in Art History and doctor in Tourism, specialized in art, symbology, heritage and history of cemeteries. Currently working as an independent researcher, focused on creating routes and guided tours.
Professor Dr Pascal Mandelartz
International University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
Scholar whose work sits at the intersection of cultural heritage studies, ethics, memory studies and visitor experience.
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.
Gisela Monteiro
Cemetery Management Department, Municipality of Lisbon, Portugal
Gisela Monteiro is a researcher at the Cemetery Management Department of Lisbon Municipality, with expertise in the architecture of Lisbon cemeteries’ mausoleums and the Language of Flowers used in Portuguese cemeteries.
Professor Harold Mytum
University of Liverpool, UK
Harold Mytum has been recording and researching graveyards and cemeteries, and their monuments, for many years in Britain and Ireland, USA, Gibraltar and Australia.
Professor Claire Nally
Humanities and Social Sciences, Northumbria University
A scholar on modern and contemporary literature, with interest in the politics and ethics of writing, broadcasting and performance in Cross Bones Graveyard, Southwark.
