Researchers affiliated with the Simulating History project:
Marion Barfurth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa.
Jamshid Beheshti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of McGill.
Michael Blondeau
C.E.O., ecentricarts inc.
Mike Clare, M.A.
Head (retired), Department of History, Huron Heights Secondary School, York Region District School Board.
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 Dunae, Ph.D.
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 Elliot
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.
Claude Frasson, Ph.D.
Professeur titulaire, département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal.
Sean Gouglas, Ph.D.
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 Graham, Ph.D.
Research Assistant, Simulating History Project, Brock University.
Josh Greenberg, Ph.D.
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 Kee, Ph.D.
Primary Investigator, Simulating History
Canada Research Chair of Humanities Computing
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brock University.
Mills Kelly, Ph.D.
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.
Andrew Large, Ph.D.
Professor CN-Pratt-Grinstad Chair in Information Studies, McGill University.
Stéphane Lévesque, Ph.D.
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 Levy, M.Arch, PhD, MCIP.
University of Calgary, Professor of Urban Planning, Director of Computing, Director, Real Estate & Development (Cont. Ed.), and Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science.
John Lutz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Victoria. Involved in history and the new media; 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 MacDougall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, History, University of Western Ontario.
Jeremiah McCall, Ph.D.
Jeremiah McCall has been teaching high school history for the past 8 years, and currently teaches at Cincinnati Country Day School. His primary training is in history with a Ph.D. in ancient history from Ohio State University and a book on the cavalry of the Roman Republic, but he has been gaming and programming computers as hobbies for decades.
Janet Murray, Ph.D.
Janet Murray 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 Nowviskie, Ph.D.
Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute. Her research interests include digital humanities, textual criticism, libraries, and scholarly communication.
Stephen Ramsay, Ph.D.
Stephen Ramsay 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 humanties and working on text analysis and visualization problems.
Geoffrey Rockwell, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. Involved in philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, humanities computing, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia.
Ruth Sandwell, Ph.D.
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). Involved in research and teaching in history education that continues to highlight the importance of the humanities to those trying to understand and work within the field of education.
Brenda Trofanenko, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Education, Culture and Community at Acadia University. Researches how much technological abilities students ought to have when dealing with historical inquiry.
Bill Turkel, Ph.D.
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. Also involved with NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment which explores ways to build historical interpretations into physical devices and environments.
Ethan Watrall, Ph.D.
Creative Director, Serious Games & Interactive Media Matrix – The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online. Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University.