Heidi Aronson Kolk
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Aronson Kolk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi Aronson |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolk |
| SIGNATURE | KOLK H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Picturing Hart Island
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.During COVID lockdown, many became transfixed by drone footage of a mass grave on Hart Island, the U.S.’s largest potter’s field, which over 150+ years has absorbed more than 1 million burials, including Confederate POWs, the city’s unclaimed or ‘indigent’ poor, and victims of pandemics past. This essay interrogates pivotal acts of representational violence that have co…
Negative heritage
This article assesses the defining features and cultural significance of the haunted history tour as it has come to be practiced in American urban spaces. A distinctive cultural form that has risen to prominence in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and other places, haunted history taps into public fascinations with “dark” history and ghosts, but does so to engage unresolved and troubling elements of local history and memory. Practitioners engage creat…
Taking Possession
The Many-Layered Cultural Lives of Things
The St. Louis house of famed fur trader–turned–entrepreneur Robert Campbell and his wife Virginia was preserved as a museum, with many of its 1850s furnishings and architectural features and thousands of the family’s possessions and papers intact. Preservationists’ mythologies of the Robert Campbell House as a remnant of the once-glorious Lucas Place neighborhood and a symbol of the American dream informed 1940s museum practice and continue to sh…
Tropes of Suffering and Postures of Authority in Margaret Fuller's European Travel Letters
This article traces the prodigal child mythos in Fuller's autobiographical travel letters, arguing that the povera soletta and similar types appearing in her later correspondence were the culmination of the material realities and competitive practices inherent in nineteenth-century travel experience
Negative heritage
This article assesses the defining features and cultural significance of the haunted history tour as it has come to be practiced in American urban spaces. A distinctive cultural form that has risen to prominence in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and other places, haunted history taps into public fascinations with “dark” history and ghosts, but does so to engage unresolved and troubling elements of local history and memory. Practitioners engage creat…
Tropes of Suffering and Postures of Authority in Margaret Fuller's European Travel Letters
This article traces the prodigal child mythos in Fuller's autobiographical travel letters, arguing that the povera soletta and similar types appearing in her later correspondence were the culmination of the material realities and competitive practices inherent in nineteenth-century travel experience
The Many-Layered Cultural Lives of Things
The St. Louis house of famed fur trader–turned–entrepreneur Robert Campbell and his wife Virginia was preserved as a museum, with many of its 1850s furnishings and architectural features and thousands of the family’s possessions and papers intact. Preservationists’ mythologies of the Robert Campbell House as a remnant of the once-glorious Lucas Place neighborhood and a symbol of the American dream informed 1940s museum practice and continue to sh…
Taking Possession
Negative heritage
This article assesses the defining features and cultural significance of the haunted history tour as it has come to be practiced in American urban spaces. A distinctive cultural form that has risen to prominence in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and other places, haunted history taps into public fascinations with “dark” history and ghosts, but does so to engage unresolved and troubling elements of local history and memory. Practitioners engage creat…
Picturing Hart Island
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.During COVID lockdown, many became transfixed by drone footage of a mass grave on Hart Island, the U.S.’s largest potter’s field, which over 150+ years has absorbed more than 1 million burials, including Confederate POWs, the city’s unclaimed or ‘indigent’ poor, and victims of pandemics past. This essay interrogates pivotal acts of representational violence that have co…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 work)