At the heart of my scholarship lies the fundamental conviction that pilgrimage is among the most profound human responses to suffering, longing, and the need for meaning. For over a decade, my work has explored the full psychological arc of the pilgrim's journey, ranging from the inner forces that compel people to leave home, to the transformations that reshape identity, to the healing that becomes possible when body, spirit, and sacred ground converge. Motivation, meaning-making, liminality, grief, heritage, collective memory, and connection have all found a home in my research.

Since 2021, that inquiry has deepened into territory both historically vast and personally sacred. I have merged psychological approaches with historical methods to better understand battlefield and military pilgrimages, and the psychology of sacred memory. My work has been scaffolded by the following questions: What does it mean to walk ground soaked in sacrifice? How do the living carry the dead? How do battlescapes, and associated ritual practices, evolve? How do nations, families, and individuals find coherence in the aftermath of catastrophic loss?

The work that follows represents a selection of these thematic commitments.

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