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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Scholar with an interest in the cemetery as multi-functional green space.
Professor of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the School of Design at the State University of Minas Gerais, developing research related to education on heritage, death and worship of the dead, especially nineteenth-century cemeteries, as well as the history and memory of design.
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.
PhD candidate with an interest in Norwegian crematorium architecture, explored through use of architectural competitions.
An anthropologist at the Haute école de travail social et de la santé Lausanne, involved in the field of Death Studies in relation with anthropological frameworks and social work professional activities.
Polish historian at the University of Warsaw with expertise in Jewish cemetery heritage.
Nuria Capdevila Roig is the founder and CEO of Circle Corporation, a pioneering company in sustainable solutions, training, and reporting for the funeral sector.
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.
Sociologist with an interest in memoryscapes within urban planning, architecture, and social memory.
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 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.
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.
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.
