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Historical Exemplars and Contemporary Practices

Pilgrimages to the Western Front of World War I

The book introduces a multidisciplinary exploration of battlefield pilgrimages and situates these pilgrimages within the broader field of pilgrimage studies, examining their historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. The authors highlight how battlefield visits serve as transformative journeys for reflection, commemoration, and the construction of collective memory. Chapters reflect the structural conceptualization of pilgrimages as interactions of sites…

Peter Lang Pilgrimage Studies 2025

Art for Hartford: A Capital City and Its Public Art

Concurrent with its status as the capital city of the state, Hartford plays an outsize role in the development of public art in Connecticut. As a whole, the city has the largest and richest collection of Colonial, Victorian, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Modern and Contemporary public art in Connecticut. From cemeteries to parks…

Vernon Press 2026

Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban

Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels us to rethink our understanding of the urban. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the editors and contributors detail on-the-ground events and transformations of different cities embattled in social movements…

Bloomsbury Lexington Books 2024

Women on the Pilgrimage to Peace

This interdisciplinary volume examines intersecting journeys of women from around the globe on their pilgrimages to peace. It consists of twelve chapters that discuss theoretical and practical issues related to the study of peace. The focus of this volume is the successful movement from war to building peace through nonviolent means…

Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024

A History Lover’s Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County

History is nurtured and treasured in the City of Alexandria and in neighboring South Fairfax County. A History Lover's Guide to Alexandria & South Fairfax County focuses on this special area along the Potomac River. Travel through history from Old Town to Mason Neck and witness the practice of preservation as it continues to evolve today…

The History Press May 9, 2022

Was denkt das Denkmal? (What does the monument think?)

This unusual collection of essays is written in the guise of the first person experience of a monument, i.e., from the monument’s point of view. My chapter in this edited collection is titled “Spiel mit mir!” (Play with me), and is about the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. The editors are Tanja Schult (Stockholm University) and Julia Lange (University of Hamburg)…

Böhlau Verlag Autumn 2021

Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia Beyond the Academy

This important book provides insights into the experiences, talents, flexibility, and persistence of independent scholars. The work gives independent scholars the due recognition they justly deserve and offers motivation and inspiration for those who are committed to forging their own unique paths outside the space of academia. Gavin Wilk, author of Transatlantic Defiance: The Militant Irish Republican Movement in America…

University Press of Kansas Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia 2020

Nineteenth Century: Special Issue on Sculptors & Monuments

For those with an interest in public culture, the twenty-first century has produced a heightened awareness to the often marginalized medium of monuments. When in graduate school—not that long ago—my professors of art and architectural history rarely mentioned the social implications of American monuments for people of color and other under-represented communities…

Victorian Society in America Volume 39, Number 2 Fall 2019

Historic Virginia: A Tour of the State’s Top 75 National Landmarks

National Historic Landmarks are touchstones of our collective past that still resonate with our present. However, important doesn't always translate into interesting and so we have Historic Virginia: A Tour of the State’s Top 75 National Landmarks––those with the most intriguing and rewarding history…

Globe Pequot Press 2019