Erick DuPree, PhD, author and cultural anthropologist
Erick DuPree, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and historian of Western esotericism whose research examines the interplay of ritual, identity, and power as articulated through material culture, literary production, and lived practice.
A Victorianist by specialization, thier research highlights how questions of intimacy, power, and embodiment shaped both cultural practice and intellectual life during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Discover Queen Victoria’s mourning gown at Kensington Palace. Explore how her lifelong grief shaped Victorian mourning rituals—black crepe, jet jewelry, and public displays of loss—turning private sorrow into a powerful cultural and political tradition.