Our Team
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Dr Kristen Treen
Project Director
Kristen is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of St Andrews. She specialises in the literary afterlives of the Civil War’s material culture.
Dr Jillian Caddell
Project Director
Jill specializes in American literature of the long 19th century, with a focus on issues of geography, genre, race, and gender. She is interested in the relationships between literature, history, and place.
Dr Alan Miller
Project Director
Alan has been involved in the use of Virtual World technologies for Cultural Heritage and in the complementary strands of real-time multimedia operating systems and technology-enhanced learning.
Dr Kamila Oles
Digital Design and Curation
Kamila develops UX/UI and curates metadata and digital assets of the monuments for the project’s front-end platform. She uses digital technologies to present the project content and communicate the project outcomes.
Dr Catherine Anne Cassidy
Project Outreach
Catherine has devised outreach mechanisms for the project site, ensures the relevance and impact of the project, and promotes the dissemination and utilization of the findings.
Dr Iain Olivier
System Developmentr
Iain has been engaged in utilizing virtual world technologies for cultural heritage. He is currently working on a project aimed at developing systems for mapping and recording Civil War monuments.
Josh Haslett
Editorial Assistant
Josh was the first research assistant on the project and played a key role in shaping the project’s aims and content.
Dr Clare Fisher
Editorial Assistant
Clare is a former research assistant who specialises in American monument culture. She contributes to our pedagogical work and outreach efforts, and played a key part in establishing the project and its aims.
Conall Treen
Editorial Assistant
Conall is a volunteer researcher who specialises in settler colonialism and natural history collections. He researches for the project, contributes to our pedagogical work, and played a key part in establishing the project and its aims.
Dr Chelsea Reutcke
Volunteer
Chelsea is a former research assistant and current volunteer who specialises in early modern British book history. On the project, she creates virtual tours, offers research support, mentors student contributors, and assists with outreach.
Contributors
& Friends
Lewis Selfridge
University of St Andrews
Kris Plunkett
Tulane University, Louisiana
Helena Niemann-Erikstrupp
University of Oxford
Professor Michael Lemahieu
Clemson University, South Carolina
Lisa Bain
Denver, Colorado
Annemarie Mott Ewing
University of Maryland
Marios Diakourtis
University of St Andrews
Dr Hilary Green
University of Alabama
Alisa Matyunina
University of St Andrews
Professor Christopher Hanlon
Arizona State University
Former Students
Sigi Macias
Lewis Selfridge
Emily Amarelo
Collette Mourier
Emefa Dzivenu
Audrey Herrin
Chloe Moore
Ramsay Bader
Cooper Stovall
Mahan Nikbakhsh
Kathryn Arnold
Xinyi Yuan
Arjun Reddy Varanasi
Brigid Contreras-Ridlington
Omar Ayman
E.H. Gould
Elizabeth Hayslett
Clara Tipper
Hassan Ghanem
Alilx Ramillon
Delaney Toomer
Nanda Saravanan
Alexandra Upton
Nikhil Ponndurai
Maya Fenyk
Sam Fayhee
Devon Davila
Fennel Difeliciantonio
Katherine Knisely
Birte Burkart
Would you like to start a project with us?
Over the past five years, Commemorative Cultures has grown from a small research group based in the UK to an international network. Contact us to get involved.