https://www.lashayahowie.com/home daily 1.0 2026-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/7f56caf9-a287-4a3d-b8d4-0ab72751114f/headshot.wideshot.website+banner+3.JPG Home Photography by Dario Cozier https://www.lashayahowie.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/7fe1e1d1-768c-44f6-98c4-a825f4ce695f/Headshot.orange.seated7.jpg Bio - Education The University of Chicago PhD Anthropology Dissertation: Death Work and the Body: Contemporary Black Funeral Practices in the United States New York University MA Social & Cultural Analysis Program in Africana Studies with a concentration in Museum Studies Thesis: Grave Contestations: The Struggle for Control and Ownership over the New York City African Burial Ground Howard University BA Afro-American Studies Full CV https://www.lashayahowie.com/curriculum-vitae daily 0.75 2022-03-13 https://www.lashayahowie.com/consulting daily 0.75 2022-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/ce4bdba4-8e07-4da4-9b40-2d8b8a72cd6f/Headshot.orange.seated2.jpg Consulting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lashayahowie.com/writingteaching daily 0.75 2026-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/3900b243-60ae-4e56-8d58-aa8e9e36232f/The+New+Death+Cover.jpg Writing & Teaching - Writing Curatorial Hutchinson House Permanent Exhibition. Edisto Island, SC. (2026) Follow the North Star: Freedom in the Age of Mobility . International African American Museum, Charleston, SC. (2024). “The Living Legacy of Moving Star Hall.” Online. (2023). The Living Legacy the International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1422 Online.(2023). The Living Legacy the Parks-Wilder Family of Sol Legare Island, South Carolina. Online. (2023). Print “Loss in/of the Business of Black Funerals” in The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the 21st Century. Edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese, 149-160. Santa Fe: University of New Mexico Press, 2022. “What the Bones at the Proposed Top Golf Site Ask of Us” Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), July 5, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/712e0f6a-20aa-40fa-9df6-c51105a162d0/proposal+hearing.jpg Writing & Teaching https://www.lashayahowie.com/research daily 0.75 2024-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/1647144246363-KKOCXMOXSW1TN9L0HHSN/unsplash-image-eq254Cqvmk8.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/2f593250-6df1-4116-9470-31672762b710/2253686955_b9bcc786be_c.jpg Research "NYC - Civic Center: African Burial Ground National Monument" by wallyg is marked with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 https://www.lashayahowie.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622b773664d4541af018b636/d4ba2bed-d879-4f7b-aa32-508e36e4eeb4/headshot.yellow.armsfolded.jpg Contact - Get in touch Feel free to email me at lashaya.howie@columbia.edu.