York, PA 17403-3326
Research Interests
Cemeteries and Grave markers, Commemorative Culture, Memory
Publications
“Too mean to live, and certainly in no fit condition to die”: Vandalism, Public Misbehavior, and the Rural Cemetery Movement, Journal of the Early Republic
Death and the American South, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society - April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2017
A tabernacle for the dead: Antebellum Southern Identity and the Rural Cemetery Movement, Journal of Southern History
“Variety there must be”: Electicism, Taste, and the 19th century Rural Cemetery Landscape, Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association For Gravestone Studies
"Young and Littlefield's Folly": Fundraising, Confederate Memorialization, and the Construction of the Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview, Kentucky, 1907-1924, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2017
Bennett Young and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation, Race and/or Reconciliation: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Veterans in Society - 2016
The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravestone Studies: An International Bibliography, Markers XXXI: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2015
Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: The Complete History, Maine History - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2015
Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival - August, 2014
The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravestone Studies: An International Bibliography, Markers XXIX: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2014
Mainers in the Civil War, Maine History - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2014
The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravestone Studies: An International Bibliography, Markers XXVIII: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2013
The Americanized Sphinx: Civil War Commemoration, Jacob Bigelow, and the Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery, The Journal of the Civil War Era - March, 2013
Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed, The Florida Historical Quarterly - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2011
The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravestone Studies: An International Bibliography, Markers XXVII: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2011
Virtuous Women, Useful Men, & Lovely Children: Epitaph Language and the Construction of Gender and Social Status in Cumberland County, Maine, 1720-1820, Markers XXIV: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2007
Education
Ph D, History, University of Maine
MA, Historical Archaeology, University of Maine
BA, Anthropology and Music (Double Major), Bowdoin College