Position

Adjunct Professor, Memorial University

Contact

Email: rsl714@mun.ca

Research Interests

Funerary & burial tradition; 17th-century burial landscape; colonial settlement in the northeast; minority visibility in burial spaces; protective images and concealed items; remote burial practices; mourning through commemoration

Recent Publications

Spinelli, R. and R.S. Lacy, eds.
2026 Death, Commemoration & Cultural Meaning: Past and Present. Berghahn Books: New York.
Lacy, R.S.

Lacy, R.S.
2026 Community Archaeology & Burial Landscapes in New Perlican, Newfoundland and Labrador. Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology. Edited by Carolyn Dillian, Katie Clary, and Charles Bello. University Press of Florida: Gainseville.

Lacy. R.S.
2021 An Inconvenient Corpse: Settler Adaptation to Winter Death and Burial through Structural and Oral History. Northeast Historical Archaeology 50: Peripheral Spaces in Historical Places: Insights from Archaeology in the North Atlantic: 113-124.