Ryan K Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan K Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0074-4189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Grave History
Beacons for a Troubled Age
In the second half of the twentieth century, automation and other modern technologies displaced traditional aids to navigation across the shorelines of the United States, leaving historic light stations imperiled as obsolete. Hundreds of those light stations faced ruin until local initiatives, working in partnership with the US Coast Guard and state and federal agencies, found innovative ways to preserve the light towers and their supporting stru…
Signs of Community
Final Resting Places
Recovering a Black Cemetery
Estimates suggest that over 15,000 people are buried at East End Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, that until recently received no public funding for upkeep. Here, we present a case study analysis and potentially replicable methodology for counting and locating unmarked burial depressions in non-forested areas using a low-cost sUAV (drone) and simple, hydrology-based geographic information systems analyses. Upo…
Religion, Art, and Money
The publication of Peter W. Williams’s Religion, Art, and Money brings a long, fruitful career full circle. Ever since his 1970 dissertation at Yale University, which explored Unitarians’ cultural
Teaching teachers about retirement and investments
The authors describe a project that compared the effects of three interventions on the retirement investment knowledge of public school teachers in the Midwest. They interpret outcomes from three different interventions (online training, site-based workshop, and hybrid of online and site-based). While the study results indicate that program participants increased their investment and retirement knowledge of content presented in the measured appro…
The “Mad” Engineer
The Cross
In 1834 the rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Burlington, New Jersey desired to place a cross atop his newly-refurbished sanctuary. No ordinary rector, George Washington Doane also served as the Episcopal bishop of New Jersey. Shortly after taking charge of St. Mary's in 1833, he and his vestry had decided to renovate their old church, and their ambitious new design featured a cruciform plan with Greek details, including a pediment adorned…
Recovering a Black Cemetery
Estimates suggest that over 15,000 people are buried at East End Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, that until recently received no public funding for upkeep. Here, we present a case study analysis and potentially replicable methodology for counting and locating unmarked burial depressions in non-forested areas using a low-cost sUAV (drone) and simple, hydrology-based geographic information systems analyses. Upo…
The Cross
In 1834 the rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Burlington, New Jersey desired to place a cross atop his newly-refurbished sanctuary. No ordinary rector, George Washington Doane also served as the Episcopal bishop of New Jersey. Shortly after taking charge of St. Mary's in 1833, he and his vestry had decided to renovate their old church, and their ambitious new design featured a cruciform plan with Greek details, including a pediment adorned…
The Cross
In 1834 the rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Burlington, New Jersey desired to place a cross atop his newly-refurbished sanctuary. No ordinary rector, George Washington Doane also served as the Episcopal bishop of New Jersey. Shortly after taking charge of St. Mary's in 1833, he and his vestry had decided to renovate their old church, and their ambitious new design featured a cruciform plan with Greek details, including a pediment adorned…
The “Mad” Engineer
Teaching teachers about retirement and investments
The authors describe a project that compared the effects of three interventions on the retirement investment knowledge of public school teachers in the Midwest. They interpret outcomes from three different interventions (online training, site-based workshop, and hybrid of online and site-based). While the study results indicate that program participants increased their investment and retirement knowledge of content presented in the measured appro…
Religion, Art, and Money
The publication of Peter W. Williams’s Religion, Art, and Money brings a long, fruitful career full circle. Ever since his 1970 dissertation at Yale University, which explored Unitarians’ cultural
Recovering a Black Cemetery
Estimates suggest that over 15,000 people are buried at East End Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, that until recently received no public funding for upkeep. Here, we present a case study analysis and potentially replicable methodology for counting and locating unmarked burial depressions in non-forested areas using a low-cost sUAV (drone) and simple, hydrology-based geographic information systems analyses. Upo…
Signs of Community
Final Resting Places
Grave History
Beacons for a Troubled Age
In the second half of the twentieth century, automation and other modern technologies displaced traditional aids to navigation across the shorelines of the United States, leaving historic light stations imperiled as obsolete. Hundreds of those light stations faced ruin until local initiatives, working in partnership with the US Coast Guard and state and federal agencies, found innovative ways to preserve the light towers and their supporting stru…
History (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (2 works)