faculty
Elgin Klugh PhD
5th Floor, Room 541
2500 W. North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21216
Elgin Klugh is Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Applied Social and Political Sciences at Coppin State University. He is an alumnus of Morehouse College and the University of South Florida doctoral program in Applied Anthropology. His primary research interests include heritage, cultural landscapes, community revitalization, and Genealogy. In his current role as President of the Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project, Inc., he focuses on the history and remembrance of Baltimore’s former Laurel Cemetery.
Klugh, E. (Forthcoming). In Plain Sight: A Forgotten Landscape of Burial and Remembrance. In. I. Jones & G. Dean (Eds.). Memory We Hold in Our Hands: Black History Artifacts in Baltimore and Beyond. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Klugh, E. (2024). Black Cemeteries as Archives (Commentary). Museum Anthropology, 47(2): 111-113.
Klugh, E. & Shearn, I. (April 2024). The Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project. In African Diaspora Archaeology: A Collaboration with Descendants. Archaeological Society of Maryland. Maryland Archaeology Month Booklet.
Shearn, I. & Klugh, E. (Eds). (2023). A Place for Memory: Baltimore’s Historic Laurel Cemetery. Rowman & Littlefield.
Klugh, E., & Franklin, B. (2019). Freddie Gray’s Baltimore. Talon (Spring, pp12-13), Coppin State University.
Klugh, E. (2019). The Laurel Cemetery Project of Baltimore. Anthropology News, January 18, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1064
Klugh, E. (2018). Delmos Jones and the End of Neutrality. In I. Harrison, D. Johnson-Simon & E. Williams (Eds.). The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology, 1960-1969 (pp. 52-67). University of Illinois Press.
Williams, R., & Klugh, E. (2017). Creating a University Driven Ingepreneurial Ecosystem: A Strategy for Rust Belt Revitalization. Metropolitan Universities. 28(2), 103-122.
Klugh, E. (2016). Displacing Community: In Baltimore Development isn’t just about “Business getting built”—it’s also about community relations. Anthropology News, 57(11-12): 30-31.
Rodwell, G., & Klugh, E. (2014). Collaborative Constructions: Constituency, Power, and Engagement in West Baltimore. Metropolitan Universities, 25(2), 72-88.
Howell, A., & Klugh, E. (2013). Decolonization Continued: Anthropology and HBCUs. Anthropology News (June). American Anthropological Association.
Klugh, E. (2012). Alternative Landscapes and Rootlessness in a Suburban Community. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(2), 23-33.
Klugh, E. (2010). African American Placemakers in the Tamarack Triangle Community of Silver Spring, Maryland. City & Society, 22(2), 183-206.
Klugh, E. (2009). Challenges to the Maintenance and Stability of African American Landownership in the Rural South: The Case of Bealsville, Florida. Africalogical Perspectives, 6(1), 160-182.
Klugh, E. (2006). The Glover School Historic Site: Rekindling the Spirit of a School Community. In S. Dorn, D. Cobb-Roberts, & B. Shircliffe (Eds.), Schools as Imagined Communities: The Creation of Identity, Meaning, and Conflict in U.S. History (pp. 181-209). Palgrave Macmillan.
Klugh, E., & Borman, K. (2006). Districts Employees Weigh-In on Comprehensive School Reform in the Context of No Child Left Behind. In K. Borman, & D. Aladjem (Eds). Examining Comprehensive School Reform (pp. 237-293). Urban Institute Press.
Klugh, E. (2005). Reclaiming Segregation-Era, African American Schoolhouses: Building on Symbols of Past Cooperation. Journal of Negro Education, 74(3), 246-259.
Department Chairperson
Ph.D., Applied Anthropology, University of South Florida
Heritage, Cultural Landscapes, Ethnography, Genealogy, Oral History
2025 Historian/Scholar Honors (Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project), Baltimore City Historical Society. October.
2023 Preservation Award, Baltimore Heritage, Inc., October.
Honorable Mention in College Professor Category, Baltimore Sun’s Best: Readers’ Choice 2022 Awards
First Place, Faculty Research Poster Competition, Coppin State University, 2019
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