Digital History Directory
The field of digital history is growing as scholars begin to work with digital technologies to present their work, reach audiences, and test theories. The field is broad, including historians from a wide array of subfields and areas of study. Our goal here is to allow scholars to get in contact with each other and learn of new work and projects. Browse the directory or search by last name, institution, or field.
William G. Thomas
University of Nebraska
Professor; John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities
Contact Information
Email: wgt@unl.edu
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Projects
Railroads and the Making of Modern America;
The Differences Slavery Made;
Civil Rights Television News;
Valley of the Shadow ;
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History;
AHA Perspectives: What is Digital History? A Look at Some Exemplar Projects
The Differences Slavery Made;
Civil Rights Television News;
Valley of the Shadow ;
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History;
AHA Perspectives: What is Digital History? A Look at Some Exemplar Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers; Anne S. Rubin; Brooks M. Barnes; Douglas Seefeldt; Stephen Ramsay; Richard Healey; Andy Mink; Ian Cottingham
Research Areas
U.S. South; Civil War; 19th Century U.S.; Historical GIS; Digital History
About
Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History from 1998-2005
Other Affiliations
Douglas Seefeldt
University of Nebraska
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: dseefeldt2@unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William G. Thomas; Mike Furlough
Research Areas
U.S. West; Environmental; Digital History
About
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia's Virginia Center for Digital History from 2001-2004 where he directed the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project.
Other Affiliations
Edward L. Ayers
University of Richmond
President, University of Richmond
Contact Information
Projects
Valley of the Shadow;
The Differences Slavery Made;
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008;
The History Engine
The Differences Slavery Made;
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008;
The History Engine
Collaborators
William G. Thomas; Anne S. Rubin; Andrew Torget; Scott Nelson
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; U.S. South; Civil War
About
Ayers is the author of several books, including The Promise of the New South (1992) and In the Presence of Mine Enemies (2003), and was the founding executive directory of the Virginia Center for Digital History as well as the co-founder of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
Other Affiliations
Daniel Cohen
George Mason University
Professor; Director
Contact Information
Email: dcohen@gmu.edu
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Projects
September 11 Digital Archive;
Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool;
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool;
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
Collaborators
Roy Rosenzweig
Research Areas
European and American Intellectual History, History of Science
About
Author of Digital History with Roy Rosenzweig (2005) and Equations from God (2007). Co-director of several digital projects, including the September 11 Digital Archive, Echo, and the research tool Zotero.
Other Affiliations
William J. Turkel
University of Western Ontario
Assistant Professor; Interim Director Public History Program
Contact Information
Email: wturkel@uwo.edu
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Projects
NiCHE: Network in Canadian History and Environment;
Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the Infinite Archive (2005-2008);
The Programming Historian;
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the Infinite Archive (2005-2008);
The Programming Historian;
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
Collaborators
Edward Jones-Imhotep; Alan MacEachern
Research Areas
Environmental; Public; Science and Technology
About
Exploring ways to build historical interpretations into physical devices and environments, the co-author of the open source book The Programming Historian and The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau (2007).
Other Affiliations
Anne S. Rubin
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: arubin@umbc.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers; William G. Thomas
Research Areas
U.S. South; U.S. Social
About
Author of A Shattered Nation The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 (2005) and was the project manager for The Valley of the Shadow from 1993 to 1996.
Other Affiliations
Amy Murrell Taylor
SUNY Albany
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: murrell@albany.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers; William G. Thomas; Anne S. Rubin
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; Social; Families; Civil War
About
Served as the Interim Associate Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History for 1999-2000 and author of The Divided Family in Civil War America (2005).
Other Affiliations
Susanna Lee
North Carolina State University
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: susanna_lee@ncsu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers
Research Areas
U.S. Civil War; U.S. South; Women's History
About
Served as project manager for the Valley of the Shadow from 2001-2003.
Other Affiliations
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
University of North Florida
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: asheehan@unf.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers
Research Areas
U.S. South; Civil War; Historical GIS
About
Led the geographical and statistical data analysis team for the Valley of the Shadow from 2000 to 2003 and is the author of several books on the Civil War.
Other Affiliations
Scot French
University of Virginia
Director; Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: sfrench@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers
Research Areas
U.S. South; Civil War; African American
About
Currently the Director at the Virginia Center for Digital History. Formerly the co-director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute's Center for the Study of Local Knowledge.
Other Affiliations
Kirsten Sword
Indiana University Bloomington
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: ksword@indiana.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Early America; Women's History
About
Research examines the legal and social connections between marriage, slavery and servitude. Teaches a graduate colloquium on computing affecting the practice and perception of history
Other Affiliations
Anne Kelley Knowles
Middlebury College
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: aknowles@middlebury.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Historical Geography; Historical GIS; 19th Century Industrial Labor and Technology; Geographies of the Holocaust
About
Author of several books, including Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (2002) and Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship (2007).
Other Affiliations
Richard White
Stanford University
Margaret Byrne Professor in American History
Contact Information
Email: whiter@stanford.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William G. Thomas
Research Areas
U.S. West; Native American; Environmental
About
Author of five books, including The Middle Ground (1991). Currently authoring a new book about railroads in the West.
Other Affiliations
Tom Costa
University of Virginia-Wise
Professor; Project Director Geography of Slavery in Virginia
Contact Information
Email: tmc5a@uvawise.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
English and American Colonial; Slavery
About
Director of the Geography of Slavery In Virginia project of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia and published in the fields of English and American colonial history.
Other Affiliations
Holly C. Shulman
University of Virginia
Research Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: hcs8n@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
David B. Mattern
Research Areas
U.S.; Women and Gender
About
Director of the Dolley Madison Project at the University of Virginia and coeditor of The Selected Letters of Dolley Madison (2003).
Other Affiliations
Steve Mintz
University of Houston
John and Rebecca Moores Professor
Contact Information
Email: Smintz@uh.edu
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Projects
Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research;
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
Interchange: The Promise of Digital History
Collaborators
Sara McNeil; John Lienhard
Research Areas
U.S; Family; Slavery and Antislavery
About
Creator of the Digital History website and a pioneer in the application of new technologies to history teaching and research.
Other Affiliations
John Lutz
University of Victoria
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: jlutz@uvic.ca
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Projects
Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History;
Who Killed William Robinson;
We Do Not Know His Name: Klatsassin and the Chilcotin War;
Victoria's Victoria.
Who Killed William Robinson;
We Do Not Know His Name: Klatsassin and the Chilcotin War;
Victoria's Victoria.
Collaborators
Ruth Sandwell; Peter Gossage
Research Areas
Canadian; Ethnohistory; Memory
About
Has published extensively on the history of British Columbia and is co-originator and project co-director of the teaching project "Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History." Also directed or co-directed "Who Killed William Robinson?," "We Do Not Know
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Paula Petrik
George Mason University
Professor; Associate Director of the Center for History and New Media
Contact Information
Email: ppetrik@gmu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
T. Mills Kelly; Tom Scheinfeldt; Daniel Cohen; Michael O'Malley
Research Areas
U.S. West; Women; Children; New Media
About
Author of several books on applying digital technology to teaching history and historical research.
Other Affiliations
Tom Scheinfeldt
George Mason University
Research Assistant Professor; Managing Director of the Center for History and New Media
Contact Information
Email: jscheinf@gmu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
T. Mills Kelly; Paula Petrik; Daniel Cohen; Michael O'Malley; Stephen Brier; Steven A. Barnes
Research Areas
Science; New Media
About
Author of several works on the history of popular science, the history of museums, history and new media, and the changing role of history in society, and has worked on traditional exhibitions and digital projects.
Other Affiliations
Michael O'Malley
George Mason University
Professor; Associate Director of the Center for History and New Media
Contact Information
Email: momalle3@gmu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Roy Rosenzweig; Daniel Cohen
Research Areas
U.S.; Cultural; Digital Pedagogy
About
Has done extensive work in digital media, including publications and presentations on web design and digital pedagogy as well as the production of video and audio for web based educational projects.
Other Affiliations
Michael Kramer
Northwestern University
Contact Information
Email: mjk@northwestern.edu
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Projects
Making History in a Virtual Archive: The Digital Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project;
Issues in Digital History: A Blog;
Culture Rover: A Blog of Cultural Criticism
Issues in Digital History: A Blog;
Culture Rover: A Blog of Cultural Criticism
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S.; Social; Cultural and Intellectual; Twentieth Century; Urban; United States Cultural and Intellectual History; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Popular Music and Culture; Digital History; Transnational History; Citizenship Studies
About
Michael J. Kramer (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 2006) is a lecturer in History and American Studies. He specializes in twentieth-century United States cultural and intellectual history, and has taught at Loyola University, Lake Forest College, and George Mason University, where he was the 2006-2007 J.N.G. Finley Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Art History. His current project, The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture, San Francisco-Vietnam, 1965-1975 (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), examines how rock music generated countercultural engagements with citizenship and public life in two crucial locales, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Vietnam War zone. Future research continues his focus on the intersection of the arts, citizenship, and public life: a biography of the writer and social critic Paul Goodman, a cultural history of the 1976 American bicentennial celebration, and a study of the history of arts criticism in the United States. He is also interested in digital history; as part of a book project about the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, he is working with students, librarians, and technologists to develop an interactive, multi-authored, multimodal platform for the archival study of American vernacular music. Professor Kramer maintains a blog about digital history at www.issuesindigitalhistory.net and a blog of cultural criticism at www.culturerover.com.
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Steve Railton
University of Virginia
Professor
Contact Information
Email: sfr@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
American Literature
About
Author of several articles on American literature and has authored two books, including Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Imagination (1978). He has also appeared on PBS’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer as an expert on Mark Twain.
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Gregg L. Michel
University of Texas-San Antonio
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: gregg.michel@utsa.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers; Anne S. Rubin; Aaron Sheehan-Dean; Amy Murrell Taylor
Research Areas
U.S. South; Political; Social
About
Served as the census expert for the Valley of the Shadow. Scholarly work focuses on movements for social change in post-World War II America, particularly in the 1960s South.
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Watson Jennison
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: wwjennis@uncg.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers
Research Areas
U.S. South; 19th Century U.S.; Race and Slavery
About
Headed the newspaper team for the Valley of the Shadow until 2003. Transcribed, tagged, and edited several years of various newspapers and converted text sources into XML.
Other Affiliations
Stephen Ramsay
University of Nebraska
Assistant Professor; Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Contact Information
Email: sramsay@unlserve.unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Kenneth M. Price; Brett Barney; Andrew Jewell; Brian Pytlik Zillig; Douglas Seefeldt; William G. Thomas
Research Areas
Theater History; Literary Theory; Digital Humanities; Electronic Texts
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Lynn Hunt
University of California-Los Angeles
Professor
Contact Information
Email: lhunt@history.ucla.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Jack Censer
Research Areas
Europe; French
About
Published on French and European history and the history of history as an academic discipline.
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Jack Censer
George Mason University
Professor; Dean College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact Information
Email: kclare@gmu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Lynn Hunt
Research Areas
French Revolution; Intellectual History
About
Scholarly pursuits have examined examined the French Revolution, intellectual history, and the press, with previous pubications including Exploring the French Revolution and Visions and Revisions in Eighteenth-Century France.
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Drew E. VandeCreek
Northern Illinois University
Project Director
Contact Information
Email: drew@niu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers
Research Areas
Abraham Lincoln; Illinois History
About
Worked as a research associate for the Valley of the Shadow.
Other Affiliations
Lisa M. Snyder
University of California-Los Angeles
Professor
Contact Information
Email: lms@ats.ucla.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Scott A. Friedman; Dave Sartoris; Zachary Rynew; Bill Jepson
Research Areas
Architecture
About
Currently a senior member of the Urban Simulation Team, associate director of outreach and operations for UCLA's Experiential Technologies Center, and the editor of the membership publication of the Los Angeles Conservancy.
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Philip J. Ethington
University of Southern California
Professor
Contact Information
Email: philipje@usc.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Robbert Flick; Vanessa Schwartz
Research Areas
Urban; Immigration; Race Relations; Segregation
About
Has completed numerous projects that visualize the presence and influence of the urban past.
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Stephen Brier
City University of New York
Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and External Programs
Contact Information
Email: SBrier@gc.cuny.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
T. Mills Kelly; Daniel Cohen; Tom Schienfeldt; Steven A. Barnes
Research Areas
Race; Class; Ethnicity
About
Co-founded the American Social History Project in 1981 and served as its director until 1998. Co-authored and edited the Project's Who Built America? textbook, co-authored and co-created the WBA? CD-ROMs.
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Gregory S. Wilson
University of Akron
Associate Professor; Publication Director of Web-based Northeast Ohio Journal of History
Contact Information
Email: gwilson@uakron.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Kevin Kern
Research Areas
20th Century U.S. Political Economy; Public; Environmental; Ohio; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
About
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Steven A. Barnes
George Mason University
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: sbarnes3@gmu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Tom Schienfeldt; Stephen Brier
Research Areas
Russian; Soviet; Eastern Europe
About
Project Director and Lead Historian of "Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives," and is currently writing a book on the history of the Gulag.
Other Affiliations
Eric J. Lohr
American University
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: elohr@american.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Russian; Soviet; Eastern Europe
About
author of Nationalizing the Russian Empire (2003).
Other Affiliations
John McClymer
Assumption College
Professor
Contact Information
Email: jmcclyme@assumption.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Women; Immigration; Civil Rights
About
Currently creating an online resource for high school teachers on antebellum America. He is also co-editor of H-Ethnic and a member of H-Net's Teaching Committee.
Other Affiliations
Kathryn Kish Sklar
SUNY Binghamton
Professor
Contact Information
Email: kksklar@binghamton.edu
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Projects
How Did the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977 Shape an Agenda for the Future?;
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Collaborators
Melissa Doak; Thomas Dublin; Aaron Spitzer
Research Areas
U.S. Women; Social Movements; Comparative
About
Scholarly interests center on women in social movements in the United States, comparatively considered with British and German women.
Other Affiliations
David P. Jaffee
Bard Graduate Center
Professor
Contact Information
Email: djaffee@bgc.bard.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
T. Mills Kelly; Miriam Forman-Brunell; Kelly Schrum
Research Areas
Early America; Material and Visual Culture; New Media and Pedagogy
About
Project director of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants to develop multimedia resources for the teaching of United States history.
Other Affiliations
Stefan A. Tanaka
University of California-San Diego
Professor
Contact Information
Email: stanaka@ucsd.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Modern Japan; Teaching and New Media
About
Interested in the technologies of communication and the ways that pasts have been formulated through various media.
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Kelly Schrum
George Mason University
Research Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: kschrum@gmu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
T. Mills Kelly; Miriam Forman-Brunell
Research Areas
20th-century US; Cultural; Digital History
About
Director of educational projects at the Center for History and New Media
Other Affiliations
E. Thomas Ewing
Virginia Tech University
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: etewing@vt.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Robert P. Stephens
Research Areas
Russian; Soviet; Europe; Women; Education; Global
About
Author of The Teachers of Stalinism (2002) and Project Director of the "Digital History Reader."
Other Affiliations
Robert P. Stephens
Virginia Tech University
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: rosteph2@vt.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
E. Thomas Ewing
Research Areas
Film; Drugs; Digital
About
Works with the Digital History Reader and The Digital History Reader and pursues research on the use of student-produced digital content to promote student learning.
Other Affiliations
Tim Hitchcock
University of Hertfordshire
Professor; Head of the Social Sciences; Arts; and Humanities Research Institute; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Contact Information
Email: t.hitchcock@herts.ac.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
Clive Emsley; Robert Shoemaker
Research Areas
18th Century England
About
Project Directory of the "Old Bailey Digital Archive" and currently working on "Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London," a digital edition of manuscript materials relating to the social policy provision in eighteenth-century London.
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Abby Smith
Library of Congress
Director of Programs; Council on Library and Information Resources
Contact Information
Email: asmith@abbysmith.net
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Russia
About
Development and preservation of research collections for the Library of Congress.
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Bruce G. Robertson
Mount Allison University
Professor
Contact Information
Email: brobertson@mta.ca
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Classics; Greek History
About
Director of the HEML and project member of the advisory board of Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities.
Other Affiliations
Vika Zafrin
Brown University
Project Director
Contact Information
Email: vika@wordsend.org
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Humanities Computing
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Project Director for the Virtual Humanities Lab.
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Janice L. Reiff
University of California-Los Angeles
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: jreiff@ucla.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Ann Durkin Keating; James R. Grossman
Research Areas
Urban; U.S. Social; Hypermedia and History
About
Author of Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1992) and a print version of The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005).
Other Affiliations
Robert Schwartz
Mt. Holyoke College
E. Nevius Rodman Professor
Contact Information
Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Historical Geography; Europe Environmental; 18th and 19th Century French; Victorian England; Intellectual
About
Uses GIS to examine the relationship between the extension of the rail system and uneven development in rural Britain and France from 1840 to 1914. In 1997 created a course on Computing Applications in History and the Humanities.
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Mary Beth Norton
Cornell University
Mary Donlon Alger Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Contact Information
Email: mbn1@cornell.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
American Colonial
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Shawn Graham
University of Manitoba
Course Tutor; e-Learning Consultant
Contact Information
Email: grahams@cc.umanitoba.ca
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Historical Archaeology
About
Digital interests in digital media for teaching, learning, and research in history and archaeology.
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James D. Harlan
University of Missouri-Columbia
Assistant Programs Director
Contact Information
Email: HarlanJ@missouri.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Historical GIS; Political; Cultural; Economic; Physical Geography
About
Heads the Historic Vegetation Project at the University of Missouri- Columbia.
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Patrick Manning
University of Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History
Contact Information
Email: pmanning@pitt.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Christopher Ehret;
Research Areas
World; Africa; African Diaspora
About
Published widely on African history and the president of the "World History Network."
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Alan Liu
University of California-Santa Barbara
Professor; Project Director
Contact Information
Email: ayliu@english.ucsb.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Rita Raley
Research Areas
Information Culture; New Media; Literary Theory; Cultural Studies
About
Founded the NEH-funded Teaching with Technology project at UC Santa Barbara called Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information and an undergraduate specialization on Literature and the Culture of Information.
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Peter K. Bol
Harvard University
Charles H. Carswell Professor; Director Center for Geographic Analysis
Contact Information
Email: pkbol@fas.harvard.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Merrick Lex Berman;
Research Areas
Chinese History; Geography
About
Director for the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, published widely on Chinese history.
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Crandall A. Shifflett
Virginia Tech University
Professor; Project Director
Contact Information
Email: shifflet@vt.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; Civil War; Victorian America
About
Creation of digital history libraries for teaching, learning, and research.
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Julia Maserjian
Lehigh University
Coordinator for Digital Library Activities
Contact Information
Email: jcm5@lehigh.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
James Talarico
Research Areas
Culture; Industry; Digital Initiatives
About
Currently works as the Project Coordinator at the Digital Scholarship Center at Lehigh University.
Other Affiliations
James Talarico
Bethlehem Area Public Library
Project Manager
Contact Information
Email: jtalatico@bapl.org
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Projects
Collaborators
Julia Maserjian
Research Areas
About
Project Manager of the Bethlehem Digital History Project.
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Abdul Alkalimat
University of Toledo
Professor
Contact Information
Email: abdul.alkalimat@utoledo.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Digital Inequality; African American; Intellectual History.
About
Creator of the Malcolm X research and teaching project.
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Mark L. Kornbluh
Michigan State University
Department Chair; Editor in Chief for H-Net
Contact Information
Email: mark@mail.matrix.msu.edu
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Projects
Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts; Letters; and Social Sciences Online;
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Collaborators
Wayne Dyksen; Peter Knupfer; Dean Rehberger; David Bailey
Research Areas
Political; 20th Century; African
About
Director of MATRIX at Michigan State University, examines the impact of new communication technologies on higher education, author of Why America Stopped Voting.
Other Affiliations
Bernard Frischer
University of Virginia
Professor; Project Director
Contact Information
Email: bernard.fischer@gmail.com
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Projects
Collaborators
Diane Favro; Patrick Geary
Research Areas
Classics
About
Has overseen several virtual recreations, including the Roman Forum, Roman Colosseum, Colonial Williamsburg. Conceived of SAVE (Serving and Archiving Virtual Environments), to database 3D models. Editor-in-chief of the Digital Roman Forum website.
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Diane Favro
University of California-Los Angeles
Professor
Contact Information
Email: dfavro@ucla.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Bernard Frischer
Research Areas
Architecture
About
Oversees Experiential Technologies Center projects, conducts research on the application of VR technology in the classroom. Author of several articles, reviews, and one book. Recently served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians.
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William D. Williams
University of Virginia
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: ww6f@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Mabel Wilson; Yolande Daniels; Lisa Henry-Benham; Walter Hood; Mario Gooden; David Brown; Craig Barton; Scott Ruff; Nathaniel Belcher
Research Areas
Architecture; U.S. South; Segregation
About
Founded and directed the Civic Arts Program in Houston and maintains a private architecture practice in Houston.
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Deborah Parker
University of Virginia
Professor; Director, Italian Graduate Program
Contact Information
Email: dwp7k@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
John Unsworth; Daniel Pitti; Worthy Martin
Research Areas
Italian Language
About
Authored books on Dante’s Renaissance commentators and Bronzino’s poetry.
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Jenny Strauss Clay
University of Virginia
William R. Kenen Jr. Professor of Classics
Contact Information
Email: jsc2t@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Classics; Greek Poetry
About
Scholarly work focuses on Greek and Latin poetry.
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Amy V. Ogden
University of Virginia
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Contact Information
Email: avo2n@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Worthy Martin; Daniel Pitti
Research Areas
French History; French Language
About
Research focuses on medieval French hagiography and new technologies. Her digital work is developing concurrently with a book-length study of French hagiographic poetics in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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Lisa Dobrin
University of Virginia
Research Assistant Professor
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Projects
Collaborators
David Golumbia
Research Areas
Linguistics
About
Interested in phonology and morphology, conducted fieldwork in New Guinea for her research on Arapesh.
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David Golumbia
University of Virginia
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: dgolumbia@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Lisa Dobrin; Daniel Pitti
Research Areas
History of Language; New Media
About
Technical Consultant for the Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive.
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Patrick Geary
University of California-Los Angeles
Professor
Contact Information
Email: geary@ucla.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Bernard Frischer; Barbara Schedl; Karl Brunner; Worthy Martin
Research Areas
Medieval Culture and Society
About
Published widely on Medieval history and leads the project team at the St. Gall Monastary Plan project.
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Stephen Plog
University of Virginia
Commonwealth Professor
Contact Information
Projects
Collaborators
Carrie Heitman; Abby Holeman; Adam Watson; Lynsey Bates; Amanda Bensey; Emily Cubbon
Research Areas
Pre-Columbia American Southwest; Archeology; Anthropology
About
Research focuses on culture change in the prehistoric American Southwest, particularly the changing nature of ritual and social organization.
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LaVahn Hoh
University of Virginia
Associate Chair, Drama Department
Contact Information
Email: lgh2b@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Fred Dahlinger Jr.; Janet Davis; Richard Flint; John Frick; Fred Pfening; Stuart Thayer; Deborah Walk
Research Areas
Theater; Drama
About
Produced a video on the Clyde Beatty Circus and wrote the history of clowning for the 1998 version of Microsoft Encarta.
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Anne Behnke Kinney
University of Virginia
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: aeb2n@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Sarah Wells
Research Areas
Ancient China; Chinese Literature
About
Author of Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China (2003) and has published numerous articles and scholarly publications. Serves as Project Director for Xwomen.
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Kathy Poole
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; Landscape Architect for Poole Design
Fellow
Contact Information
Email: kpoole@kathypoole.com
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Projects
Collaborators
John Unsworth
Research Areas
Civic Hydrology
About
Landscape architect and practitioner, principal of Poole Design. Her research focuses on Civic Hydrology, the potential to use water infrastructure to build better cities and communities.
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Benjamin C. Ray
University of Virginia
Professor
Contact Information
Email: bcr@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Sub-Saharan African Religion
About
Created the exhibit of the extensive African art holdings at the University of Virginia's Bayly Art Museum.
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Susan Schreibman
University of Maryland
Assistant Dean for Digital Collections and Research
Contact Information
Email: sschreib@umd.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
About
Formerly Assistant Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (2001-2004), Professor of Professional and Technical Communication at New Jersey Institute of Technology (2000-2001). Coauthored A Companion to Digital Humanities.
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Kirk Martini
University of Virginia
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: martini@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Seismic Design; Non-Linear Structural Analysis; Interactive Computer Animation
About
Developed the "Patterns of Reconstruction at Pompeii" project and the " Technologies for Teaching Design in Architecture and Engineering."
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Michael Levenson
University of Virginia
Professor
Contact Information
Email: mhc@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
David Trotter; Anthony Wohl; Mike Furlough
Research Areas
Modern Literature; Critical Theory
About
A leading expert on modern literature and critical theory. Co-author of The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family.
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Orville Vernon Burton
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor
Contact Information
Email: vburton@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Simon Appleford; Kalev Leetaru
Research Areas
African American Studies, Sociology
About
Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (ICHASS).
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Stephen Baxter
King's College London
Lecturer in Medieval British History
Contact Information
Email: stephen.baxter@kcl.ac.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
Dame Janet Nelson
Research Areas
Medieval Europe; Eleventh-century England
About
Working on a collaborative project to produce an edition of the Anglo-Saxon charters of the church of Worcester; acting as the literary executor of the late Patrick Wormald.
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Arthur Burns
King's College London
Chair in Modern British History
Contact Information
Email: arthur.burns@kcl.ac.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
K. C. Fincham; S. J. C. Taylor
Research Areas
Religion; Politics; Modern Britain; Late Hanoverian Period; Digital Humanities
About
Director of The Clergy of the Church of England Database, 1540-1835 (CCE).
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David Carpenter
King's College London
Chair in Medieval History
Contact Information
Email: david.carpenter@kcl.ac.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Medieval Britain; Henry III; Westminster Abbey; Digital Humanities
About
Written widely on English social, economic, architectural, military, and political history in the thirteenth century
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Dame Janet Nelson
King's College London
Emeritus Professor of Medieval History
Contact Information
Email: janet.nelson@kcl.ac.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
Stephen Baxter
Research Areas
Medieval Europe; Anglo-Saxon England; Women and Gender
About
Published widely on kingship, government, and political ideas, on religion and ritutal, and on women and gender during Anglo-Saxon England.
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Ian Gregory
Lancaster University
Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Contact Information
Email: I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Historical GIS; 19th and 20th century Britain and Ireland
About
Serves on the editorial boards of the journals Social Science History and Historical Methods. Co-chair of the Social Science History Association's Historical Geography.
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Raymond G. Siemens
University of Victoria
Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing; Professor of English
Contact Information
Email: siemens@uvic.ca
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Literary Studies; Computational Methods
About
Co-editor of several books on humanities computing, including Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities (with Susan Shreibman and John Unsworth) and Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Susan Schreibman). Director of the Digita
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Andy Mink
Contact Information
Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas
Research Areas
About
Director of Outreach and Education at the Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH)
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Jason Heppler
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: jason.heppler@huskers.unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas; Doug Seefeldt; Brent Rogers; Robert Voss; Michelle Tiedje; Leslie Working; Nic Swiercek
Research Areas
20th Century U.S.; North American West; Great Plains; Political
About
Project manager for Framing Red Power and also serves as a web editor for Digital History
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Brent Rogers
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: brentrogers21@huskers.unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas; Doug Seefeldt; Jason Heppler; Rob Voss; Nic Swiercek; Michelle Tiedje; Andrew Torget
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; North American West; Colonialism and Decolonization
About
Project manager of What Shall be the Character of this Vast Western Territory?
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Robert Voss
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: robert.voss@huskers.unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas; Jason Heppler; Brent Rogers; Nic Swiercek; Michelle Tiedje
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; North American West; Technology
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Project manager of Crossing Oklahoma.
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Nathan Sanderson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: nsanderson@huskers.unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas; Leslie Working; Kurt Kinbacher; Richard White
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; North American West; Borderlands; Environmental
About
Project manager of William Jennings Bryan and the Railroad and project manager of Railroads and the Making of Modern America from 2006-2009.
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Leslie Working
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: lworking@huskers.unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas; Doug Seefeldt; Nathan Sanderson; Kurt Kinbacher
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; North American West; Cultural and Intellectual; Women
About
Project manager of Women on the Rails and served as a research assistant with the Mountain Meadows Massacre project.
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Michelle Tiedje
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: mtiedje@huskers.unl.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Jason Heppler; Brent Rogers; Nic Swiercek; Robert Voss
Research Areas
19th Century U.S.; Cultural and Intellectual; Social
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Project manager of Editing Populism.
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Kurt Kinbacher
Spokan Falls Community College
Professor
Contact Information
Email: KurtK@spokanefalls.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas
Research Areas
Historical GIS; Immigration; North American West
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Nic Swiercek
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: ndswiercek@hotmail.com
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Projects
Collaborators
William Thomas; Jason Heppler; Brent Rogers; Robert Voss; Michelle Tiedje
Research Areas
20th Century U.S.; Urban; African American
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Project manager of Resistance and Relocation.
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Dot Porter
University of Kentucky
Program Coordinator
Contact Information
Email: dot.porter@gmail.com
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Projects
Collaborators
Bethany Nowviskie
Research Areas
Library Science; Medieval Studies
About
Currently the Program Coordinator at the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities at the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments at the University of Kentucky, and the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory.
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Bethany Nowviskie
University of Virginia
Contact Information
Email: bethany@virginia.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Dot Porter
Research Areas
Digital Humanities; Textual Criticism; Libraries; Scholarly Communication
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Director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute.
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Thomas Dublin
SUNY Binghamton
Professor
Contact Information
Email: tdublin@binghamton.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Kathryn Kish Sklar
Research Areas
Social; Immigration; Gender; Quantitative Methods;
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Co-Director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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Randolph Hollingsworth
University of Kentucky
Assistant Provost
Contact Information
Email: dolph@uky.edu
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Projects
History of Kentucky Women in the Long Civil Rights Era in partnership with UK Libraries Oral History Dept.;
H-Kentucky; part of H-Net moving from Listserv to Drupal 2.0 platform;
University of Kentucky SecondLife Initiative in partnership with UKIT UK Libraries and more;
SAWH Teaching Wiki; led by Elsa Barkley Brown;
Digital Distillery University of Kentucky led by Dr. Jenny Rice
H-Kentucky; part of H-Net moving from Listserv to Drupal 2.0 platform;
University of Kentucky SecondLife Initiative in partnership with UKIT UK Libraries and more;
SAWH Teaching Wiki; led by Elsa Barkley Brown;
Digital Distillery University of Kentucky led by Dr. Jenny Rice
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S.; African American; Civil War; Military; Native American; Social; Legal; Cultural and Intellectual; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century; Urban; Women & Gender
About
As a former administrator with the Kentucky Virtual University (in Frankfort), my work in digital scholarship at the University of Kentucky (in Lexington) has continued to span both my personal research in US women's history and pedagogical innovation/experimentation. I continue to teach in SecondLife and my students' work in Kentucky women's history has blossomed with the Open Knowledge Initiative launched from my course, "Sisters in the Struggle." My most recent publication is a blog-like essay in Blee and Deusch's _Women of the Right_, titled: "Memoirs of an Avatar: a Feminist Exploration of Right-Wing Hate Groups in SecondLife.com.
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Jeffrey McClurken
University of Mary Washington
Chair and Associate Profrssor
Contact Information
Email: Jmcclurk@umw.edu
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Projects
See McClurken.org for links to various class-related projects.
Collaborators
Variety of students and the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies
Research Areas
U.S.; Civil War; Military; Science and Technology; Social; Cultural and Intellectual; Nineteenth Century; Women & Gender
About
Worked on the Valley of the Shadow Project in the mid-1990s. Written several articles on teaching with digital technology, digital history, and digital literacy.
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Julie Golia
Brooklyn Historical Society
Public Historian
Contact Information
Email: jgolia@brooklynhistory.org
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S.; African American; Civil War; Immigration; Social; Legal; Cultural and Intellectual; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century; Urban; Women & Gender
About
I am a public historian interested in creating digital sites that make archival material and engaging contextual stories available to students, virtual museum-goers, history enthusiasts, and many others.
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Alan Flower
University of York
Chief Commissioning Editor
Contact Information
Email: hsm-hq@hotmail.co.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
Europe; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century; World
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Anne Whisnant
UNC-Chapel Hill
Deputy Secretary of the Faculty; Adjunct Associate Professor of History and American Studies
Contact Information
Email: anne_whisnant@unc.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Anne M Whisnant
Research Areas
U.S.; Environmental; Social; Twentieth Century; National Parks; Public history; U.S. South
About
Longtime database user for personal research underlying scholarly book, Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (UNC Press, 2006). Scholarly advisor for grant-funded digital history project, Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway (2009-11), hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Digital Library and Archives. Active participant in social media and and around fields of digital history and public history.
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Christopher Cantwell
Newberry Library
Assistant Director
Contact Information
Email: christopher.d.cantwell@gmail.com
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Projects
Collaborators
Daniel Greene
Research Areas
U.S.; Social; Twentieth Century; Urban; Protestant Fundamentalism; Lived Religion
About
I'm a historian of American religion that focuses on Protestant evangelicals in America. My current book project, "The Bible Class Teacher: Piety and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalism," is a microhistory that uses the life of a single Sunday school teacher form Chicago to reinterpret the rise of Protestant fundamentalism at the turn of the twentieth century. In my role as Assistant Director of the Newberry Library's Scholl Center, I design digital exhibits and curricular materials for research and classroom use.
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Jason Kelly
Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: Jaskelly@iupui.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Tim Hitchcock
Research Areas
Europe; Modern Europe; Cultural and Intellectual; Women & Gender; British History
About
Project Co-Director of History Working Papers, a project developing open peer review code for Drupal and an open peer review working papers series
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Brian Sarnacki
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate Student
Contact Information
Email: bsarnacki@gmail.com
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Projects
The Corrupt Network;
Watering the Big Horn Basin: William F. Cody and the Environmental Transformation of the American West
Watering the Big Horn Basin: William F. Cody and the Environmental Transformation of the American West
Collaborators
Douglas Seefeldt
Research Areas
U.S.; Social; Nineteenth Century; Urban
About
I am a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in History and a certificate in the digital humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to my own digital work, I blog on the digital humanities and serve as an editor for H-Net's H-AHC (Association for History and Computing) listserv.
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Andrew Torget
University of North Texas
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Email: andrewtorget@gmail.com
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Projects
Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical Newspapers;
Texas Slavery Project;
History Engine: Tools for Collaboration and Research;
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008;
Valley of the Shadow Project
Texas Slavery Project;
History Engine: Tools for Collaboration and Research;
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008;
Valley of the Shadow Project
Collaborators
Edward L. Ayers; Scott Nesbit; Rob Nelson; William G. Thomas; Jon Christensen
Research Areas
U.S.; African American; Borderlands; Civil War; Immigration; Native American; North American West; Nineteenth Century; U.S. South
About
Project director at the Virginia Center for Digital History; Founding Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond; Director of Digital History Lab at University of North Texas.
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Adam Arenson
University of Texas at El Paso
Assistant Professor of History
Contact Information
Email: aiarenson@utep.edu
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Projects
The Cultural Civil War: Blogging about New Research on Art and Architecture Home Savings and Loan; as well as published book The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War;
Past Tense - seminar on the nature of history writing at the Huntington Library; co-blogger and podcast cohost; Making History Podcast
PI; Hypercities Node for Historic El Paso Maps;
Advisor Borderlands Radio
Past Tense - seminar on the nature of history writing at the Huntington Library; co-blogger and podcast cohost; Making History Podcast
PI; Hypercities Node for Historic El Paso Maps;
Advisor Borderlands Radio
Collaborators
Jana Remy; Aaron Margolis; Adrian Perez; Rob Warren
Research Areas
U.S.; African American; Borderlands; Civil War; North American West; Legal; Cultural and Intellectual; Nineteenth Century; Urban; Cultural Civil War; African Americans from Canada; Home Savings and Loan
About
Using historical geographical information systems (GIS) research, data mining, linked open data, and other digital tools to expand my tools for historical analysis. Using websites, blogs, podcasts, and social media to expand the reach of and audience for my scholarship -- and teaching others to do the same.
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Scott Weingart
Indiana University
Ph.D. Student
Contact Information
Email: scbweing@indiana.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S.; Early Modern Europe; Medieval Europe; Modern Europe; Renaissance; Science and Technology; Social; Cultural and Intellectual; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century; World
About
Historian of science looking at how communication patterns affect discourse on the largest possible scale.
Other Affiliations
"Longtime database user for personal research underlying scholarly book, Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (UNC Press, 2006). Scholarly advisor for grant-funded digital history project, Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkw Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, University of Virginia, 2010"
Contact Information
Projects
Collaborators
anne_whisnant@unc.edu
Research Areas
About
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Bob Nicholson
University of Manchester
Postgraduate Researcher & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Contact Information
Email: Bob.Nicholson@postgrad.Manchester.ac.uk
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S.; Modern Europe; Social; Cultural and Intellectual; Nineteenth Century
About
Winner of the 'Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media' (2009). An annual prize awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and Gale Cengage for research which makes innovative use of digital archives.
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Jon Christensen
Stanford University
Executive Director
Contact Information
Email: jonchristensen@stanford.edu
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Projects
Home page;
Bill Lane Center for the American West;
Spatial History Project;
Mapping Historical Texts
Bill Lane Center for the American West;
Spatial History Project;
Mapping Historical Texts
Collaborators
Andrew Torget; Michael Kahan
Research Areas
U.S.; Environmental; North American West; Science and Technology; Urban
About
Historian of the environment and science, former science writer and environmental journalist, author of the forthcoming book "Critical Habitat: A History of Thinking with Things in Nature.
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David McKenzie
George Mason University
History Ph.D. Student
Contact Information
Email: dpmckenzie@gmail.com
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S.; Borderlands; Immigration; Latin America; Native American; North American West; Nineteenth Century
About
New graduate student, researching the late colonial and early national periods in the Americas, particularly the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
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Sharon Leon
George Mason University
Director of Public Projects and Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: sleon@gmu.edu
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Projects
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S.; Science and Technology; Social; Legal; Cultural and Intellectual; Twentieth Century; Women & Gender; Religion
About
Sharon Leon is the Director of Public Projects at the Center for History and New Media and Associate Professor in the History and Art History Department. Leon received her bachelors of arts degree in American Studies from Georgetown University in 1997, and her doctorate in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2004. Her book, An Image of God: Catholics and American Eugenics is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Her work has appeared in Church History and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. She is currently doing research on the Catholicism in the United States after Vatican II. At CHNM, Leon oversees collaborations with library, museum, and archive partners from around the country. She manages the Center's digital exhibit and archiving projects, as well as research and tool development for public history. Finally, Leon writes and presents on using technology to improve the teaching and learning of historical thinking skills.
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Yoni Appelbaum
Brandeis University
Doctoral Candidate
Contact Information
Email: yaa4@brandeis.edu
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Projects
The Atlantic Online
Collaborators
Research Areas
U.S., Cultural and Intellectual, Nineteenth Century