Just as a quilt has two sides, so does this thesis: one side of my thesis is The Quilt that memorializes people in each quilt block. The other side is the written portion that analyzes my family history, beliefs, and stories heard when interviewing close friends about their live…
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People have been memorializing the Holocaust since before it even ended, taking forms such as that of statues, plaques, entire museums, and numerous others. Many have criticized these ways of remembering the Holocaust, but at the same time plenty others see the good that comes f…
This dissertation explores the relationship between memorial museums and visitors, reexamining the process of remembering traumatic events in United States history. My work examines this meaning-making dynamic in case studies of four memorial museums: The 9/11 Memorial Museum, T…
Red Clay State Historic Park preserves and commemorates the last capital of the Cherokee Nation prior to removal, the Red Clay Council Ground. Since the forced removal, the land has ever since been contested ground. Whites quickly acquired it and turned what had been a Native Am…
This doctoral research project is a part of the quest for an inclusive telling of Canada’s national identity and will focus on the creation of a memorialization Keeping Place model to commemorate the Indian Residential School system in Canada. My dissertation is interdisciplinar…
This project examines the influence of the Institutions of Higher Learning in the monuments dedicated to the Lost and Won Cause present on Mississippi’s public college campuses. Monuments and memorials stand as representations of public history, and the IHL’s interpretations of …
Holocaust museums and exhibits, like other memorial institutions, express national cultures of remembrance. The Holocaust, however, is widely perceived as a unique historic event and therefore poses unusual challenges and raises aesthetic and ethical questions about how to visua…
Between 2002 and 2011, 158 Canadian Forces soldiers died while serving in Afghanistan and were repatriated via Canadian Forces Base Trenton to the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario in Toronto for autopsy. The repatriation route took their bodies along Highway 401 in central…