Elijah Gaddis is Assistant Professor of Public History at Auburn University. A dedicated public historian, he is also the co-director of the Community Histories Workshop in the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina. Through the CHW, he has led several projects researching and interpreting the long histories of place at sites ranging from plantations to textile mills. Elijah's research focuses on spatial, material, and cultural histories of the post-Emancipation Black South. His first book, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, is entitled Gruesome Looking Objects: Material Culture and the Landscape of Lynching. Elijah has also written extensively on memorial landscapes, adaptive reuse, and digital humanities.
