Lauren Harlow

Public Historian

Projects


Out of the Ashes


Archival project "Out of the Ashes" at St. Luke's Historic Church & Museum, which involved a collection of 50,000 burnt documents.


An Age of Confusion


Research into the domestic enslavement of women in Yorubaland during the nineteenth century.


Convict Leasing


A collection of my ongoing research on convict leasing in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.


Who Lies Beneath The Baptismal Font?


A Research Project completed in 2017. It investigated two mismatched coffin handles that emerged from a grave under a baptismal font in St. Luke's Historic Church in Smithfield, VA.