I have an MA in Folklore from the University of California Berkeley and an MA from St. John’s College following their “great books” curriculum. My work in Folklore has centered on the home funeral movement in the United States in which friends and families care for the dead body without the intercession of the funeral industry. I am curious about the dead body as object and subject and the ways in which relationships between the living and the dead are continued, ruptured, and/or re-formed.