Third-year PGR candidate from the University of Leicester, researching the determination and definition of medical death in Georgian England.
Dr Georgio Scalici
University of Palermo, Italy
For years I worked with the Wana people of Morowali, Indonesia, exploring and documenting their shamanic and funeral rituals. Now I am currently working on religious freedom, minorities and funerals in Italy.
Professor Dr Erik Sidenvall
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden
I have been Professor of Practical Theology at Lund University since September 2024. My research interests include cemetery material culture and cemeteries as places of social cohesion. I am PI for the research project Cemeteries of the Future.
Sidenvall, E. (2024) ‘Missionary enthusiasm and human rights activism: a study of the religiopolitical world of the Swedish Slavic Mission, c. 1965-1985’, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte (SZRKG), 118.
Sidenvall, E. (2024) ‘Transforming church strategies in a changing social landscape: Sunday school statistics from a Swedish diocese, […]
Milan Simonović
Independent Scholar, Serbia
My work focuses on studying cemeteries in Serbia, particularly old cemeteries in rural areas that are at risk of disappearing. Additionally, I conduct genealogical research, documenting burial sites, family migration patterns, and historical contexts related to these topics. You can find more about my work on my website.
Simonović, M. (2024) ‘Jewish cemeteries and burial customs in the territory of the Jewish municipality of Pancevo’, MA Thesis, University of Belgrade.
Dr Dineo Skosana
Political Studies, Wits University, South Africa
My work investigates cases of exhumations and reburials because of extractive industries in South Africa.
Lee Sulkowska
Deakin University, Australia
My research explores societal conflict in nineteenth century Victorian cemeteries and suggests that the history of burial spaces in Australia offers postcolonial insights.
Dr Hannah Thomas
Bar Convent, York
Dr Hannah Thomas is the Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent, York.
Professor Katharina Vajta
Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Scholar conducting research on language and semiotics in cemeteries located in French border regions.
Kitty Vega
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Exeter
Kitty Vega is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, examining 19th-century British women’s mourning and funerary rituals as paratheatrical performance, with a focus on British colonial India.
Professor Heather Veneziano
Historic Preservation, Tulane University, US
Scholar with a focus on cultural heritage sites, vernacular architecture and deathscapes, with a strong emphasis on historic preservation and placemaking, and the ways that inequities in life shape selective and collective memory after death.
Gina Venneri
Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy
Scholar with an interest in historical and contemporary cemetery tourism and the place of cemeteries within the living fabric of contemporary cities.
Dr Agnieszka Wedeł-Domardzka
Faculty of Law and Economics, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka is a doctor of law and an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the Faculty of Law and Economics, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Her research interests include legal aspects of burial, voluntary and inflicted death, bioethics, the right to privacy, and the protection of human rights.
Dr Mariske Westendorp
Utrecht University, Netherlands
As an anthropologist and religious studies scholar, I am mostly interested in how diverse people experience dying, death, and spaces of disposal.
