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Kari Kraus
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Kraus
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Zotero Evangelist
Began at CHNM
2006
Left CHNM
2007
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College Park, Maryland
Current Position
Associate Professor at the University of Maryland
Website
<a href="http://www.karikraus.com/">http://www.karikraus.com/</a>
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<p>Kari Kraus is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching interests focus on new media and the digital humanities, digital preservation, game studies and transmedia storytelling, and speculative design. She was a local Co-PI on two grants for <span><a href="http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw2/" target="_blank">preserving virtual worlds</a><span>;</span> </span>the PI on an IMLS<span><a href="http://www.ischooldh.org/" target="_blank">Digital Humanities Internship grant</a></span>; and, with Derek Hansen, the Co-Principal Investigator of an NSF grant to study <span><a href="http://www.arcanegalleryofgadgetry.org/" target="_blank">Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and transmedia storytelling in the service of education and design</a></span>. Her <a href="http://www.karikraus.com/?p=297" target="_blank">latest transmedia work </a>is likewise funded by the NSF. Currently she is Co-PI on “Exploring Invisible Traces in Historic Recordings,” a collaborative project with Min Wu (PI) and Doug Oard funded by an ADVANCE seed grant at UMD. The project applies audio forensics techniques to help recover provenance information about undated recordings.</p>
<p>Kraus has written for the <em>New York Times</em> and the <em>Huffington Post, </em>and her work has been mentioned in the <em>Atlantic</em>, Baltimore Public Radio, the <em>Huffington Post</em>, Gamasutra, <em>Wired</em>, and the Long Now Foundation. She is writing <span><a href="http://www.karikraus.com/?p=141" target="_blank">a book</a></span> about how artists, designers, and humanities researchers think about, model, and design possible futures. A copy of her CV can be found<span><a href="http://www.karikraus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kraus_cv_april2014_kmk.pdf" target="_blank"> here</a>.</span></p>
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Beasley (Burgess)
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Research Assistant
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Fairfax, Virginia
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Research Assistant
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Jeri Wieringa
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Wieringa
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Graduate Research Assistant
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August 2011
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Fairfax, Virginia
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Graduate Research Assistant
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http://jerielizabeth.github.io/
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Anastasia Mikheeva
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Mikheeva
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Graduate Research Assistant
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2006
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2007
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Legal Counsel to Russia for the Kinross Gold Corporation
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Bestebreurtje
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Fairfax, Virginia
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Graduate Research Assistant
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August 2012
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Lindsey Bestebreurtje
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Dan Stillman
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Stillman
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Lead Developer for Zotero
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2006
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Dan Stillman is technical consultant and server administrator for CHNM and is a lead programmer on the Zotero project.
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Sharpe
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Fairfax, Virginia
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Graduate Research Assistant
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http://celestesharpe.com/
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August 2012
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Celeste Sharpe
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Trevor Owens
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Owens
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Community Lead and Manager on Zotero
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2006
Left CHNM
2010
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Washington, DC
Current Position
Digital Archivist. Office of Strategic Initiatives, The Library of Congress
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<a href="http://www.trevorowens.org/">http://www.trevorowens.org/</a>
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<p>Trevor Owens is a Digital Archivist/Historian with the <a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/">National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program</a> (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the <a href="http://loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a>. Broadly speaking, he works on digital strategy for cultural heritage organizations. His work focuses on analysis and preservation of born digital artifacts and tools and practices for making digital and digitized cultural heritage objects accessible and useful to a wide range of audiences.</p>
<p>At the Library of Congress he plays a key role in defining national strategy for digital preservation. In this respect, he contributed to <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/10/preserving-exe-report-toward-a-national-strategy-for-preserving-software/">Preserving.exe Report: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software</a> and <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/call-to-action-to-preserve-science-discourse-on-the-open-web/">Science at Risk: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Online Science</a>. He also serves as a co-chair for the <a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_groups/infrastructure.html">National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Infrastructure working group</a> and as a project manager for the open source source <a href="http://viewshare.org/">Viewshare</a> cultural heritage collection visualization tool.</p>
<p>In 2013, he served as the Special Curator for an expansive online collection and thematic exhibition <a href="http://www.loc.gov/collection/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/about-this-collection/">Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond</a>. Before joining the Library of Congress he was the community lead for the Zotero project at the <a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/">Center for History and New Media</a> and before that managed outreach for the <a href="http://www.glsconference.org/">Games, Learning, and Society Conference.</a></p>
<p>Trevor has a doctorate in social science research methods and educational technology from the<a href="http://gse.gmu.edu/"> Graduate School of Education</a> at <a href="http://gmu.edu/">George Mason University</a>. Trevor’s research focuses on the history and design of online community software systems, video games and culture, and software tools for humanities scholarship. His training is in the history of science, digital history and research methods in the social sciences.</p>
<p>His work has been published in <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cura.12012/abstract"><em>Curator: The Museum Journal</em></a>, <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/2/000136/000136.html"><em>Digital Humanities Quarterly</em></a>, <a href="http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/towens/"><em>The Journal of Digital Humanities</em></a>, <a href="http://www.dlib.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?words=%22Trevor+Owens%22&search=Go%21&config=htdig&restrict=&exclude="><em>D-Lib</em></a>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878110366277"><em>Simulation & Gaming</em></a>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547010379578"><em>Science Communication</em></a>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11422-009-9177-6"><em>Cultural Studies of Science Education</em></a> and <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1906440"><em>On the Horizon</em></a>. In 2009 he was chosen by Read Write Web as one of the <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/50_semantic_web_pros_to_follow_on_twitter.php">50+ Semantic Web Pros to Follow on Twitter</a>, and won the <a href="http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/awards/160">C. W. Bright Pixel Prize for the Best History and New Media Project</a> for building <a href="http://www.playinghistory.org/">PlayingHistory</a>, an open collaborative directory of digital historical games and interactives. He also wrote a book for Arcadia Press about the <a href="http://bit.ly/9zH5RM">history of Fairfax County told through postcards</a>.</p>
<p>Trevor holds a bachelors degree in the <a href="http://histsci.wisc.edu/">history of science</a> from the <a href="http://wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin,</a> and a masters degree in American History with an emphasis on digital history from <a href="http://gmu.edu/">George Mason University</a>. He is also a violinist. He likes to read graphic novels. Trevor lives <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke,_Virginia">Burke Virginia</a> with his wife <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevorandmarjee/tags/marjee/">Marjee Chmiel</a> and their dogs <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevorandmarjee/tags/bowser/">Bowser</a> and<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevorandmarjee/tags/zelda/">Zelda</a>.</p>
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Nate Sleeter
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Sleeter
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Graduate Research Assistant
Began at CHNM
August 2012
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Fairfax, Virginia
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Megan Brett
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Brett
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Graduate Research Assistant
Digital History Associate
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August 2011
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Digital History Associate
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http://meganrbrett.net/
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I am a doctoral student at George Mason University, focusing on the Early American Republic (1780-1830, roughly).
I have a BA in History from Vassar College and an MSc in Scottish Studies from the University of Edinburgh. I worked for three years for a historic house museum in Virginia before being accepted to my doctoral program. In addition to my studies, I am a Digital History Association at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. I am one of two Graduate Student At-Large Representatives on the Executive Committee of the Southern Association for Women Historians, for which I also serve as Associate Web Editor.
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