JAMIE L. BRUMMITT

Jamie L. Brummitt is a professor of religion, technology, and death at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She earned her PhD from Duke University. Her book Protestant Relics in Early America examines relic veneration, corpse inspection, and the art of mourning from the Protestant Reformation to the early United States. She also writes about death, mourning, and relics in the American Civil War. When she is not studying death, Jamie likes hunting for relics at thrift stores, preserving relics, and watching supernatural TV shows.

COURSES TAUGHT

Sensing the Supernatural Dead: Relic Veneration and Corpse Inspection from the Late Middle Ages to Modern America