Sylvia Grider, Ph.D.

Sylvia Grider is Principal Investigator of the Bonfire Memorabilia Collection Project which she organized and directed following the collapse of the student bonfire at Texas A&M University in November, 1999. She is currently on research leave from teaching at Texas A&M University in order to write a book-length study of the spontaneous shrine phenomenon.

Bibliography

• Preliminary Observations Regarding the Spontaneous Shrines Following the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (article)