Meaningful early modern visualization and spatial research is currently hampered by the lack of accessible, authoritative layers representing historical data such as settlements, road networks, political boundaries, and altered coastlines and waterways.
We will bring Virginia researchers and students together for historical GIS training at two Mapathon events hosted during the Spring Semester 2025 at GMU and Virginia Tech.
The results will be published on ArcGIS Online under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and support project PIs in their NEH-funded research projects on historical travel infrastructure, violence and mortality, and unfree labor.
Assistant Professor of Digital and Early Modern European history. Her research areas include the history of travel, diplomacy, espionage, and information/communication in early modern Italy and the Habsburg Empire.
Assistant Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). Her resarch areas include digital spatial history, digital humanities, early modern Italy, the history of crime and violence, the history of women and gender, and the scholarship of teaching and learning
Associate Professor of Oral and Public History. Her research interests include early American history, historic preservation, and native American history.
Assistant Professor of History and the Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Her research interests include mathematics, plague, and cryptography in early modern England.
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