Sally Raudon

Sally Raudon is an Isaac Newton Trust Fellow and social anthropologist at University of Cambridge. Raudon researches what people do with their dead. She will discuss her research on Hart Island, New York City’s massed grave for its unknown, unclaimed, and poor. Approximately a million people have been buried on Hart Island since 1869 in unmarked trenches, mostly by prisoners. It still operates today. How can we understand a massed grave as part of civil society? What lies underneath a passed grave?