I am a public historian and a WMU alum. I study the social and cultural history of death/dying, postmortem photography, and medieval tomb sculpture. Mostly, I am interested in how cultural notions of death/dying and imagery interact. I am an avid collector of postmortem photography both from my family members and from other sources. All photos that I upload to memorials are not for sale and they are from my personal archive. I do not upload postmortem photographs per FindAGrave's policy. All suggested information for graves is based on my own research through archives or my collection of funeral home ledgers.

I am a public historian and a WMU alum. I study the social and cultural history of death/dying, postmortem photography, and medieval tomb sculpture. Mostly, I am interested in how cultural notions of death/dying and imagery interact. I am an avid collector of postmortem photography both from my family members and from other sources. All photos that I upload to memorials are not for sale and they are from my personal archive. I do not upload postmortem photographs per FindAGrave's policy. All suggested information for graves is based on my own research through archives or my collection of funeral home ledgers.