Participants
Timothy Compeau
Tim is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Western Ontario studying honour culture and loyalism in Revolutionary North America. His work in public history has focussed on how small museums and heritage sites can maximize their potential with digital media.
Patrick is an Research Associate at Vancouver Island University and Adjunct Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Victoria. He is interested in using new technologies to distribute primary records and create new perspectives on the past. He is the editor and a director of the Vancouver Island history web site, viHistory.ca.
Devon is a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Western Ontario. His dissertation project focuses on magic tricks and magicians from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries.
Sean is the Director of Humanities Computing, and an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics and the University of Alberta. His research interests include computer games, HGIS, and the history of Western Canada.
Shawn is a Registered Professional Archaeologist, who has worked with the British School at Rome, the University of Manitoba, Cambridge University, and the National Capital Commission in Ottawa. He is interested in the use of digital media for teaching, learning and research in history and archaeology.
Josh is the Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at the New York Public Library (NYPL). His interests encompass the intersection of scholarship, education and information technology. His initiatives at NYPL engage the nascent disciplines of digital asset management.
Kevin is the Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brock University. His research is focused on best practices for the design, development and use of computer simulations and serious games for history.
Mills is an Associate Professor in the the Department of History and Art History, the Associate Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and presently the Associate Dean for Enrollment Development in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He researches modern East Central Europe, and the teaching of history with technology.
Stéphane is associate professor of history education at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. His research focuses on students’ historical thinking, Canadian history, citizenship education, and new media and technology in education.
Richard is Professor of Urban Planning, Director of Computing, Director, Real Estate & Development (Cont. Ed.), and Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary.
John is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. He also serves as co-director of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project and as director or partner in several history-oriented website projects.
Rob is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is a longtime player and sometime designer of tabletop board and roleplaying games, and is interested in possibilities for history education through play. He is also a historian of business, technology, and pseudoscience, especially in the U.S. Gilded Age.
Jeremiah McCall has been teaching high school history for the past 10 years, the past 8 at Cincinnati Country Day School. His primary training is in history with a PhD in ancient history from Ohio State University; he authored a book on the cavalry of the Roman Republic and has almost finished writing a guidebook for using simulation games in the history class. He has also been gaming and programming computers for decades as a hobbyist. As an extension of his teaching philosophy — that history is primarily the study and evaluation of competing interpretations of the past — McCall has conducted numerous classroom experiments of the effective use of historical simulations as historical interpretations. He maintains the website www.historicalsimulations.net, one of the primary sites devoted to the use of historical simulations in classroom teaching.
Janet is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is the director of graduate studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. She is well known as an early developer of humanities computing applications, a seminal theorist of digital media, and an advocate of new educational programs in digital media.
Bethany is the Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute. Her digital projects always lie at the intersection of algorithmic or procedural method with traditional humanities interpretation.
Stephen is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. He spends most of his time writing about digital humanities and working on text analysis and visualization problems.
Geoffrey is a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. His research interests include philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, humanities computing, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia.
Ruth is an Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy of Education Program at the Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). She is involved in research and teaching in history education that highlights the importance of the humanities to those trying to understand and work within the field of education.
Brenda Trofanenko
Brenda is the Canada Research Chair in Education, Culture and Community at Acadia University. She researches how much technological abilities students ought to have when dealing with historical inquiry.
Bill is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario, and the Project Director, Digital Infrastructure, for the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. His research explores ways to build historical interpretations into physical devices and environments.