David Charles Sloane

How the 1918 flu pandemic can inform our COVID-19 future

fefifolios — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 06:07:40 +0000

Explores How the 1918 flu pandemic can inform our COVID-19 future 19 March 2021

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Coronavirus could change funerals — and, with them, how we handle death

fefifolios — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:13:09 +0000

Interviewed in the Tampa Bay Times, Coronavirus could change funerals — and, with them, how we handle death.

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Folding paper cranes sparks global movement to remember COVID-19 victims

fefifolios — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:10:51 +0000

Interviewed in LA Times, Folding paper cranes sparks global movement to remember COVID-19 victims

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What’s the Difference Between a Cemetery and a Graveyard?

fefifolios — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 06:14:41 +0000

Interviewed by Snopes, What’s the Difference Between a Cemetery and a Graveyard?

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Death Rituals are Changing, Let’s Talk About How and Why

dcsloane53@gmail.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:16:37 +0000

Professor David Sloane, author of Is The Cemetery Dead?, discusses how our attitudes toward death are changing — and disrupting the funeral industry including three trends: cremation, green burials and social grieving.

Mutual of Omaha, 10/2019

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Canadian Cremation Rates are Rising, Why?

dcsloane53@gmail.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:14:15 +0000

Professor David Sloane, author of Is The Cemetery Dead?, is quoted about general trends around cremation, and why cremation has increased so rapidly.

by Madeline Cummings, The cost of dying: How a spike in cremation is changing the funeral industry. Canadian Broadcast Company (2/16/2020)

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The cost of dying: How a spike in cremation rates is changing the funeral industry Social Sharing

fefifolios — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:16:06 +0000

Interviewed by CBD Radio, The cost of dying: How a spike in cremation rates is changing the funeral industry.

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New Book is Out!

dcsloane53@gmail.com — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:33:38 +0000

I am pleased to announce that the University of Chicago Press has published my new book, Is the Cemetery Dead? (2018). A brief description of the book can be found under Publications. The book examines contemporary challenges to the cemetery as a lens into broader questions of shifting cultural attitudes toward nature, mourning, and commemoration.

Welcome to my new website!

dcsloane53@gmail.com — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:45:26 +0000

2013 has been a very good year so far:

My colleagues and I have published new articles related to street gangs and civil gang injunctions, identifying high risk youth for secondary prevention, and improving GIS methodology related to fear of crime, as well as a wonderful article primarily researched by my doctoral student Bryce Lowery on outdoor advertising.

Professor LaVonna Lewis and I are evaluating two new grants that Community Health Councils received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as initiating a new study of food in City Height, San Diego under a grant from the Sol Price Institute for Social Innovation.

You also will find a new syllabus on Community Health Planning under Teaching that I taught last spring.

As papers and syllabus are ready, I will be adding them to the site, so be sure to check it out.