Erin-Marie Legacey
Email: erin-marie.legacey@ttu.edu
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey is a historian of Modern France. Her book, Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 unearths the surprisingly lively burial culture that developed in the wake of the French Revolution. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, the Andrew W, Mellon Foundation, and the Newberry Library. As the only anglophone expert on the Catacombs, she has also had many opportunities to engage in public-facing work. Listen to her chat with Alie Ward on the podcast Ologies, and teach a short class to fourth graders on the educational YouTube channel, Exploring by the Seat of your Pants.
Dr. Legacey’s new research project pulls her up out of the Catacombs and into the
stratosphere, as she investigates spectacles of female aeronautic bravery in nineteenth-century
France: she is determined to learn as much as she can about women balloonists, parachutists,
and other high-flying daredevils throughout the nineteenth century.
Dr Legacey teaches classes and supervises graduate students in French and European
history. She also leads a summer study abroad trip to Paris. If this is something you’d like to learn more about, please get in touch!
Courses
HIST 1301 Western Civilization II
HIST 3353 History of Modern France
HIST 3355 Europe in Transformation, 1814-1914
HIST 4353 The French Revolution and Napoleon
HIST 4354 From Vampires to Death Tourism: The Dead in Europe
HIST 5360 Studies in French History
HIST 6301 Research Methods Seminar
Select Publications
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789. Co-edited with Kory Olson and Amanda Vincent. Routledge, 2025.
Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris. Cornell University Press, 2019.
“The Catacombs: Two Centuries of Pursuing the Past.” In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789,” edited by Kory Olson, Amanda Vincent, and Erin-Marie Legacey. Routledge, 2025.
“Disorder and the Dead in Revolutionary Paris.” In Turmoil: Instability and Insecurity in eighteenth-century Francophone Text, edited by Síofra Pierse and Emma M. Dunne. Liverpool University Press, 2022: 175-193.
“The Cemetery.” In The Routledge History of Death since 1800, edited by Peter Stearns. Routledge, 2021: 123-135.
“The Paris Catacombs: Remains and Reunion Beneath the Post-Revolutionary City.” French Historical Studies 40:3 (August 2017): 509-536.
“Cities of the Dead: Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Catacombs in Post-Revolutionary Paris.” In The Urban Uncanny: A Collection of Interdisciplinary Studies. Edited by Lucy Huskinson. Routledge, 2016: 75-89.
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