17 10 422 https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/ce19ec16a1e14178c171b7003a766ee1.jpg cae0cfa02ca24efd5251c7bd0747e005 Person An individual. Name Jennifer Reeder Last Name Reeder Position(s) at CHNM Graduate Research Assistant (2006-2009) Began at CHNM 2006 Left CHNM 2009 Where are they now? Geographic Location Salt Lake City, Utah Current Position Historian at the LDS Church History Library Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jennifer Reeder https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/3ed810159173608970b999b1c4c632d7.jpg 6de07bf03acdbeb91d3a2473275ff076 Person An individual. Name Steve Barnes Last Name Barnes Position(s) at CHNM Project Director, Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives Began at CHNM 2006 Where are they now? Geographic Location Fairfax, VA Biographical Text Professor Barnes is a specialist in the history of the former Soviet Union. His first book, <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9452.html" target="_blank">Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society</a>, published by Princeton University Press in 2011, was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association and the Baker-Burton Award from the European Section of the Southern Historical Association for best first book in European history. It was also short-listed for the Central Eurasian Studies Society book prize. Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag—the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons—in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the will to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed “reeducated” through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who “failed” never got out alive. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist society. He takes readers into the Gulag itself, focusing on one outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, a location that featured the full panoply of Soviet detention institutions. Barnes traces the Gulag experience from its beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline following the 1953 death of Stalin. Death and Redemption reveals how the Gulag defined the border between those who would reenter Soviet society and those who would be excluded through death. Interviews about the book have appeared on <a href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Redemp">C-SPAN2</a>, on <a href="http://newbooksinrussianstudies.com/2011/09/23/steven-barnes-death-and-redemption-the-gulag-and-the-shaping-of-soviet-society-princeton-up-2011/">New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies</a>, and at <a href="http://ecepastandpresent.blogspot.com/2010/10/interview-with-ste-ven.html">East Central Europe Past and Present</a>. Additionally, with the National Parks Service and the Gulag Museum in Perm, Russia, Dr. Barnes was historical consultant for a traveling museum exhibit on the history of the Gulag. Working with the Center for History and New Media, Dr. Barnes built a website on the history of the Gulag. Information on both these projects can be found at <a href="http://www.gulaghistory.org/" target="_blank">Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives</a>. Dr. Barnes is the founder and a co-blogger at the <a href="http://russianhistoryblog.org/">Russian History Blog</a>. <div> </div> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steve Barnes https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/a00ecb8c16e95394720e1ded0d79a956.JPG 334368646cbddb17a934ce85d2dec0c5 Person An individual. Name Nicole Kahler (Roth) Last Name Kahler (Roth) Position(s) at CHNM Administrative Assistant Began at CHNM February 2009 Left CHNM September 2010 Where are they now? Geographic Location Fairfax, Virginia Current Position Graduate Program Coordinator, George Mason University Biographical Text Nicole Roth manages the paperwork for PHD History, MA History and MA Art History students within the department. She is also involved in admitting graduate students. She also manages website content and marketing for the History and Art History graduate programs. She has worked with George Mason University for several years, first with the Center for History and New Media and then with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Gradaute Admissions Office. She received her BA in English, Non-Fiction Writing & Rhetoric and Art History from GMU in May of 2008. In Fall 2013 she began her first term on the GMU Staff Senate. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicole Kahler (Roth) https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/991902e2d81fcd82defd91ab25b1ef6f.png 11f0c1d40ba2082a099c72a8218532e4 Person An individual. Name James McCartney Last Name McCartney Position(s) at CHNM NHEC Web Developer Senior Software Developer Where are they now? Geographic Location Fairfax, Virginia Current Position Senior Software Developer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James McCartney https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/987a1c9ac4d4f1325fc3b486eb93c3e2.jpg 9faa0cf22d76e1fd650012b0d089858c Person An individual. Name Chris Hamner Last Name Hamner Position(s) at CHNM Editor-in-chief, Papers of the War Department Began at CHNM 2006 Left CHNM 2013 Where are they now? Geographic Location Fairfax, VA Current Position Associate Professor of History Biographical Text Christopher Hamner’s first book, Enduring Battle: American Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776-1945, was published by the University Press of Kansas in spring 2011 as part of its Modern War series. The book examines the changing experience of ground combat from the War for Independence to the Civil War to the Second World War, focusing on ways that individual soldiers’ motivations to withstand the trauma of combat evolved as technological advances recast the battlefield. His second book, tentatively titled The Weight of War: American Soldiers in Post-Industrial Combat from Vietnam to Iraq, picks up some of the themes of soldiers’ experiences on the ground, examining the changing nature of battle from the Vietnam War and the 1991 Gulf War to the twenty-first century wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on the ways that the experience of combat changed on the increasingly asymmetrical, irregular battlefield. In addition, Hamner serves as Editor-in-Chief of the <a href="http://www.wardepartmentpapers.org/" target="_blank">Papers of the War Department 1784-1800</a>, an innovative online archive that seeks to reconstitute the files of the original War Office, destroyed by fire in autumn 1800. By collecting and uniting surviving sender and recipient copies of documents destroyed in the conflagration from hundreds of archives, the archive helps open a window to a critical part of early American history long believed lost to posterity. Mason’s Center for History and New Media has hosted the site, which features a growing index and high-resolution images of more than 45,000 documents from early American history, since 2006. His teaching interests include war and American society, the individual experience of combat, and the effects of technological change on the experience of warfare. He serves as Lead Historian for two Teaching American History programs in Virginia and Maryland, working with public school teachers to develop more effective ways to incorporate primary sources into the history classroom. In addition, he serves as co-chair of Mason’s annual War on the Silver Screen film festival. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chris Hamner https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/0d0abf18d9ebba7fa29bf40f99104733.jpg 6edfc43710efdd6eeade858978b7904e Person An individual. Name Roberto Sanchez Last Name Sanchez Position(s) at CHNM Assistant Webmaster Web Developer Began at CHNM April 2009 Where are they now? Geographic Location Fairfax, Virginia Current Position Web Developer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roberto Sanchez Person An individual. Name Susan Douglass Last Name Douglass Began at CHNM August 2009 Left CHNM September 2010 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Susan Douglass https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/6df3446ed759a1be541ae51ae09d95fc.jpg 9862c186f304ba4758819050c92cca38 Person An individual. Name Dick Harless Last Name Harless Position(s) at CHNM Graduate Research Assistant Began at CHNM 2006 Left CHNM 2010 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dick Harless https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/cedc003611fc9afdeda0c1027638cd8b.jpg ee3391d6e975aeeef2589ae077c76a2c Person An individual. Name John Flatness Last Name Flatness Position(s) at CHNM Web Developer Omeka Lead Developer Began at CHNM August 2009 Where are they now? Geographic Location Fairfax, Virginia Current Position Omeka Lead Developer Biographical Text John Flatness is a the Omeka Lead Developer. He can code with his eyes closed, and sometimes does. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Flatness https://wiki.wardepartmentpapers.org/files/original/ffcf2172f30b8a5ce85c06d1d593ed37.jpg 21ab114bcf7cc7457cdbab1711ae57fd Person An individual. Name Kristopher Kelly Last Name Kelly Position(s) at CHNM Web Developer Began at CHNM 2006 Left CHNM 2011 Where are they now? Geographic Location San Francisco, CA Current Position Software Engineer, Pivotal Labs Biographical Text I'm a web/mobile developer with around 8 years of professional experience. I consider myself full-stack, and I have done everything from gathering requirements, to application architecture, feature design, coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. I like to work on a variety of different things at any given time. I know enough to be able to tune an SQL query on the back end, then rewrite the front end in the JavaScript MVC flavor-of-the-moment. Lately I have been working on an Android app. In the past, I was the core dev and maintainer of an open source CMS that is popular with historians and academic institutions. Currently I am an engineer at an industry-leading agile dev shop, where I have worked on web and mobile projects for a wide variety of clients. Currently digging AngularJS and Android, but open to any other technologies that also begin with the letter 'A'. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristopher Kelly