Meet our Network

Researchers

Laurie Bertram

Laurie Bertram

Assistant Professor

Type of research:
North America, material culture, research project, website, mapping, history, archives

Research projects:
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America + “Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History

Kristen Bos

Kristen Bos

Assistant Professor of Indigenous Science and Technology Studies

Research projects:
Technoscience Research Unit

Elspeth H. Brown

Elspeth H. Brown

Professor of History

Type of research:
LGBQT2+; digital archives; community archives; video; podcasts

Research projects:
LGBQT Oral History Digital Collaboratory

Mark Campbell

Mark Campbell

Assistant Professor of Musicology, Music Technology & Digital Media

Beth Coleman

Beth Coleman

Associate Professor of Data & Cities

T.L. Cowan

T.L. Cowan

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Type of research:
ethics, collaboratory, LGBQT, digital archive

Research projects:
Cabaret Commons + Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)

Anver Emon

Anver Emon

Professor of Law and History

Type of research:
racism, Canada, contemporary, law

Research projects:
Under Layered Suspicion

Alex Gillespie

Alex Gillespie

Vice-President & Principal UTM

Type of research:
history of the book, Micro CT, eZooMS, codex, Arabic, Turkish, medieval, manuscript, bindings, digitization, Omeka, pedagogy, palaeography, codicology, Mirador, IIIF, Viscoli, Middle Ages, literature, Europe, VisCodex, English

Research projects:
The Book and the Silk Roads + Digital Tools for Manuscript Study

James Ginther

James Ginther

Timothy Harrison

Timothy Harrison

Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology

Type of research:
archeology, Near East, OCHRE, Turkey, Syria, data mining, visualization, database, simulation, mapping, 3D modeling, petography

Research projects:
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)

Pamela Klassen

Pamela Klassen

Professor, Department of Religion

Type of research: digital storytelling, Indigenous, Iroquois, community, settler-colonialism, 17th century, 19th century, 20th century, contemporary, Canada

Research projects:
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations

Alejandro Paz

Alejandro Paz

Professor of Anthropology

Thy Phu

Thy Phu

Professor of Media Studies

Bhavani Raman

Bhavani Raman

Associate Professor of History

Ajay Rao

Ajay Rao

Associate Professor, Historical Studies; Director of Graduate Studies

Type of research:
database, manuscripts, South Asia, digital archive, repository, Sanskrit

Research projects:
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)

Jasmine Rault

Jasmine Rault

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Type of research:
ethics, collaboratory, LGBQT, digital archive, interdisciplinarity, platforms, apps, digitality, new media

Research projects:
Cabaret CommonsDigital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC) + Critical Digital Methods Institute (CDMI)

Natalie Rothman

Natalie Rothman

Associate Professor of History, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies Chair

Type of research:
Ottoman Empire, Europe, 16th century, 17th century, History, Renaissance, collaboratory, Renaissance, History, Zotero, Middle East

Research projects:
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform + Serai: Premodern Encounters

Timothy Sayle

Timothy Sayle

Assistant Professor of History and Director of the International Relations Program

Avery Slater

Avery Slater

Assistant Professor

Nick Terpstra

Nick Terpstra

Professor of History

Research projects:
Decima + Hidden Florence

Tamara Walker

Tamara Walker

Associate Professor of History

Type of research:
afrolatinx, digital archive, Latin America, Black, visual culture, database, repository, History

Research projects:
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America

Jennifer Wemigwans

Jennifer Wemigwans

Assistant Professor and Director, Indigenous Digital Practice Initiative

Type of research:
Indigenous knowledge education, community empowerment

Research projects:
Augmented Reality Teaching on Wendigo

Kevin Coleman

Kevin Coleman

Associate Professor, Historical Studies

Type of research: Latin American History
Research projects:
Visualizing the Americas