Dr. Samuel Merrill

Biography

Samuel Merrill is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in digital cultural sociology. His research interests focus on social movements, collective memory, cultural heritage, and digital media, broadly conceived to include underground dimensions such as spatial, political, and creative aspects of digital interactions. Samuel earned his PhD in Cultural Geography from University College London in 2014. His postgraduate degree in Heritage Studies was awarded by Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, Germany in 2009, and his undergraduate degree in Archaeology and Ancient History is from the University of Birmingham, UK, obtained in 2006. He has published several books and research articles that delve into themes such as cultural memories, landscapes, subterranean transport infrastructures, and digital commemoration of traumatic events. His doctoral thesis garnered the Peter Lang 2014 Young Scholar Memory Studies Competition prize, leading to the publication of his sole-authored monograph "Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories Railways London Berlin" in late 2017. Currently, he coordinates an advanced course on Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences and is involved in multiple collaborative research projects that investigate various aspects of societal remembrance and the implications of digital discourses.

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