Kaylee Alexander, PhD
@kpalex91.bsky.social
📚🪦 Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah. Historian of visual culture, monuments, and cemeteries. Digital Humanities x Data & Information Science. 🏳️🌈♾️
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Chapter 17 Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery
Abstract Contrary to pre-Modern burial practices, Napoleonic-era burial reforms promised separate graves for all and permanent burial for those who could afford it, thereby establishing a pseudo-democ...
doi.org
🪦 Thrilled to share that my chapter, “Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery,” has been published in a new volume for Brill’s Intersections series, Funerary Inscriptions in Early Modern Europe: Shaping Identities to Remember.
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
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The cover's out! Happy to say that I've got a chapter on how libraries explore the Necrocene and ecological grief in "Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief", edited by @librarianchef.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social. Out from Bristol Uni Press next year!
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief (2026) will be released with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings.
@kpalex91.bsky.social
@kpalex91.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief (2026) will be released with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings.
@kpalex91.bsky.social
@kpalex91.bsky.social
Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
The volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have been working on since like 2022, 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present', is being published on Dec 1st, 2025! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you to all the wonderful authors!!
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have been working on since like 2022, 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present', is being published on Dec 1st, 2025! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you to all the wonderful authors!!
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
Great gathering this morning for an in-depth look at how we in #Utah do Open Access research and publishing! #oaweek #openaccess
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Great gathering this morning for an in-depth look at how we in #Utah do Open Access research and publishing! #oaweek #openaccess
📣 The RDAP Summit call for proposals is now open! This year’s theme is “Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World.”
Summit Dates: Apr. 13-16
Proposal Deadline: Nov. 14
Submit a Proposal: forms.gle/AiSWSTxVcyFA...
More Info: rdapassociation.org/summit
Summit Dates: Apr. 13-16
Proposal Deadline: Nov. 14
Submit a Proposal: forms.gle/AiSWSTxVcyFA...
More Info: rdapassociation.org/summit
RDAP 2026 Summit Proposal Submission Form
Thank you for your interest in the Research Data, Access, and Preservation (RDAP) Association’s 2026 Summit. This year’s theme is Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World, a...
forms.gle
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
📣 The RDAP Summit call for proposals is now open! This year’s theme is “Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World.”
Summit Dates: Apr. 13-16
Proposal Deadline: Nov. 14
Submit a Proposal: forms.gle/AiSWSTxVcyFA...
More Info: rdapassociation.org/summit
Summit Dates: Apr. 13-16
Proposal Deadline: Nov. 14
Submit a Proposal: forms.gle/AiSWSTxVcyFA...
More Info: rdapassociation.org/summit
Check out this new article—"The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections"—that Dorothy Terry, Jasmine S. Kirby, @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, and @annaneat.bsky.social just published in ITAL!
ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...
ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...
The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections
| Information Technology and Libraries
ital.corejournals.org
September 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Check out this new article—"The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections"—that Dorothy Terry, Jasmine S. Kirby, @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, and @annaneat.bsky.social just published in ITAL!
ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...
ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...
Tune in to #NISOPlus25 on September 16 at 3pm ET to hear more about what the MaRMAT team has been up to!
@racheljwittmann.bsky.social
@annaneat.bsky.social
@racheljwittmann.bsky.social
@annaneat.bsky.social
Love #metadata? #NISOPlus25 (September 16–17) has got you covered with sessions like Reparative Metadata Assessment with MaRMAT, presented by @lib.utah.edu librarians @kpalex91.bsky.social Aiden deBoer & Rachel Wittmann. Join from anywhere (it's a virtual conference!): niso.plus/niso-plus-20...
August 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Tune in to #NISOPlus25 on September 16 at 3pm ET to hear more about what the MaRMAT team has been up to!
@racheljwittmann.bsky.social
@annaneat.bsky.social
@racheljwittmann.bsky.social
@annaneat.bsky.social
Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
It's finally happening!! The edited volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social & I have been working on with so many amazing researchers is finally available for Preorder with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social! I'm so proud!! #amwriting #archaeology #deathstudies
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinel...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinel...
Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's finally happening!! The edited volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social & I have been working on with so many amazing researchers is finally available for Preorder with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social! I'm so proud!! #amwriting #archaeology #deathstudies
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinel...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinel...
It’s been awesome to work with @graveyardarch.bsky.social and @librarianchef.bsky.social to get a sneak peak at some new work included in their collection!
Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present is now available for preorder! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinellideath
Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present is now available for preorder! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinellideath
Presentwww.berghahnbooks.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It’s been awesome to work with @graveyardarch.bsky.social and @librarianchef.bsky.social to get a sneak peak at some new work included in their collection!
Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present is now available for preorder! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinellideath
Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present is now available for preorder! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinellideath
🎙️Plan for a coffin train I mention on @deathstudiespod.bsky.social! This would have transported corpses ~30 km from Paris to Méry-sur-Oise, where Haussmann planned to build a 5k-acre Necropolis (that’s roughly 45x the size of Père-Lachaise!) to accommodate Paris’s dead for the next 600 years 🚂⚰️
August 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🎙️Plan for a coffin train I mention on @deathstudiespod.bsky.social! This would have transported corpses ~30 km from Paris to Méry-sur-Oise, where Haussmann planned to build a 5k-acre Necropolis (that’s roughly 45x the size of Père-Lachaise!) to accommodate Paris’s dead for the next 600 years 🚂⚰️
Always a pleasure to nerd out over cemeteries and data!
New episode ft. @kpalex91.bsky.social ! If you like cemeteries, than this is the episode for you!
open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...
open.spotify.com/show/4n3l0Z7...
The Death Studies Podcast
Podcast · The Death Studies Podcast · The Death Studies Podcast is a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Find out more at www.thede...
open.spotify.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Always a pleasure to nerd out over cemeteries and data!
New blog post for Flatpage!
Guide to Writing Alt Text for Museum Websites and Guides
Learn the key strategies for writing alt text for museums to make visual content accessible and engaging for diverse audiences.
flatpage.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New blog post for Flatpage!
Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.
July 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.
Thanks for documenting us, @annaneat.bsky.social!
June 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thanks for documenting us, @annaneat.bsky.social!
Come check out MaRMAT at #ALAAC25!
Please join @racheljwittmann.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social for Reparative Metadata Assessment with MaRMAT: A New Tool for Identifying Harmful and Outdated Language today at 2:00 cdmcd.co/5n5ywB #ALAAC25 - session will demo the tool with time for you to get it up and running on your laptop!
ALA 2025 Annual Conference
cdmcd.co
June 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Come check out MaRMAT at #ALAAC25!
Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
We're presenting in just a few minutes as part of the Metadata Interest Group program on Assessing Metadata for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Cultural Heritage Institutions cdmcd.co/LE4qmd #ALAAC25 @kpalex91.bsky.social @racheljwittmann.bsky.social
ALA 2025 Annual Conference
cdmcd.co
June 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We're presenting in just a few minutes as part of the Metadata Interest Group program on Assessing Metadata for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Cultural Heritage Institutions cdmcd.co/LE4qmd #ALAAC25 @kpalex91.bsky.social @racheljwittmann.bsky.social
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Our great team at the University of Utah is presenting at ALA on a new, free open source tool that helps with reparative metadata projects! #ALAAC25 www.marmatproject.org
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MaRMAT Marriott Reparative metadata assessment tool Download MaRMAT 2.6.0-RC Heading to ALA in June? Be sure to find us at the Philadelphia Convention Center for our MaRMAT presentation and demo, "Rep...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
New issue published! **Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage** - www.radicalhistoryreview.org/memory-over-...
June 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New issue published! **Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage** - www.radicalhistoryreview.org/memory-over-...
Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and fragmentation, all this would be chapter 1 or 2.
June 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and fragmentation, all this would be chapter 1 or 2.
Reposted by Kaylee Alexander, PhD
PhD fellowship advertised here at the Center for Digital Narrative to research Computational Narrative Systems with @docmofo.bsky.social - applications due August 15! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellowship in Digital Culture with the Center for Digital Narrative (280653) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Digital Culture with the Center for Digital Narrative (280653), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
May 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
PhD fellowship advertised here at the Center for Digital Narrative to research Computational Narrative Systems with @docmofo.bsky.social - applications due August 15! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🪦 Thrilled to share that my chapter, “Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery,” has been published in a new volume for Brill’s Intersections series, Funerary Inscriptions in Early Modern Europe: Shaping Identities to Remember.
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
Chapter 17 Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery
Abstract Contrary to pre-Modern burial practices, Napoleonic-era burial reforms promised separate graves for all and permanent burial for those who could afford it, thereby establishing a pseudo-democ...
doi.org
May 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
🪦 Thrilled to share that my chapter, “Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery,” has been published in a new volume for Brill’s Intersections series, Funerary Inscriptions in Early Modern Europe: Shaping Identities to Remember.
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...