People

Jeremy Boggs

Jeremy "My dad looks like Wade" Boggs is the Creative Lead at the Center for History and New Media, and development team manager for Omeka. He is also a history PhD student at George Mason where, after changing it at least three different times, his dissertation is on methodological approaches to using design for digital history. Jeremy is almost as comfortable programming in PHP as he is designing in CSS, but not there yet.

After he's done with his PhD, Jeremy plans to start a book and website about Doc Boggs. But, if this whole digital humanities thing doesn't work out, Jeremy is going to try his hand at dirt track racing.

Jason Casden

Jason is the Digital Technologies Development Librarian at NCSU Libraries, where he develops and implements scalable digital library applications. He served as the technical lead of the new NCSU Libraries Mobile site, as well as the WolfWalk geo-enhanced mobile initiative. In addition to his recent mobile services work, he's is also involved in several other projects designed to help the NCSU community access library resources and services in new ways.

Although he has degrees in Linguistics, English and Library Science, his innate nerdiness snuck up and took the wheel. He has recently started to realize that developing software in a library is the perfect merger of two earlier streams of interest. In a weird way, his high school experience from internships with a free local music paper and a pirate radio station has combined perfectly with his love of building software. Now he gets to build software that helps people find information

Boone Gorges

Boone "DOES NOT COMPUTE" Gorges grew up in Northeast Wisconsin. As a youngster, he spent his summers raising barns (er, houses) in meatspace as a carpenter, and his winters distracting himself during math class by emulating popular arcade games on the TI-85. He attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA, with a triple major in Philosophy, French, and Russian, and minors in Ironic Mischief and Metavandalism. He then moved to New York City to pursue a PhD in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Boone is the Lead Developer and Curly Bracket Omitter behind the CUNY Academic Commons. He spent several years as an instructional technologist at Queens College, CUNY. He is still trying to writing his dissertation but is finding it difficult to concentrate given his ongoing interest in pizza and art. He develops lots of plugins for WordPress and especially the BuddyPress social networking add-on for WordPress, and is a regular contributor to BuddyPress core.

Kathie Gossett

Kathie “What is it you do again?” Gossett is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & New Media at Old Dominion University (ODU). She recently co-founded and co-directs the CeME Lab, an interdisciplinary lab at ODU that focuses on innovating and enhancing experiences with technology in the humanities. Her research interests include intellectual property, open source design, new media theory & practice, user-centered design and medieval rhetoric. (And yes, there is a logical connection between technology and medieval rhetoric!) Kathie earned a BA in Classical Literature and Creative Writing at UC San Diego, an MA in Medieval Literature and Composition Studies from CSU East-Bay, and a PhD in New Media and Medieval Rhetoric from the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Kathie is currently an associate editor for the online journal Kairos. She is the project manager for the journal redesign, the first phase of which won the 2008 Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award. Before returning to graduate school Kathie worked in the information technology sector as an implementation project manager, interaction designer, systems designer, Y2K integration manager, web designer/architect, and technical communicator.

Scott Hanrath

Scott Hanrath is Web Services Manager at the University of Kansas Libraries, where among other things he works with the institutional repository, open access journal publishing, and resource discovery tools.  In past professional lives he developed data collection and analysis tools for a land use survey in a university research center and for program evaluation projects at an education research firm.

Effie Kapsalis

Chefef, mistress of the secret sauce

Effie Kapsalis is the Head of New Media at the Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI, photography.si.edu), a division of the Smithsonian Institution Archives which maintains the historical records of the Institution. She oversees click! photography changes everything (click.si.edu) a program that gathers experts from a variety of fields to talk about how they use photography in their discipline. She also is contributor and co-editor of THE BIGGER PICTURE (blog.photography.si.edu), a blog about visual archives. She currently leads the Smithsonian's effort on the Flickr Commons to engage visitors with the Smithsonian's diverse photography archives representing over 150 years of history, art, culture, and design. She has more than 15 years experience managing, designing, and developing content for online environments in museum, corporate, and educational settings. She received her master's degree in pervasive technologies and social media at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2003. At SPI, she focuses on leveraging cutting-edge technology to provide the public meaningful experiences with the Smithsonian Institution's vast visual archives.

Doug Knox

Zachary McCune

Zachary “That’s No Moon” McCune was raised on the green glow of an Apple IIe, and spent his afternoons testing education software for his mother, an elementrary school computer teacher. Four games defined this period of his childhood: Zoombinis, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, The Journeyman Project: Legacy of Time, and Myst. Zack only finished Myst in February 2010, just in time to write his senior thesis on the game.

For the past four years, Zack has studied Modern Culture & Media at Brown University. In 2007, he was part of the Osiris Project, which received a $25,000 Digital Incubator Award from MTVu and Cisco System to develop an “intelligent” music visualizer that matched song lyrics with tagged flickr images. In 2008, he worked as a Communications Intern at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society focusing on developing education tools for the Digital Natives project. Zack spent last summer in Providence, co-developing a History Seminar on European Political Cinema. He skipped the first week of school to attend the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria on a Brown Visual Arts Grant, which was probably the most badass thing he’s ever done.

Zack has become completely addicted to ice hockey in college, starting an intramural low-intensity program called “That’s No Moon.” They made a surprising run during the 2010 play-offs stunning favorites “The Frozen Seaman” before losing in the championship game. His Divided United IM soccer team has had consistently more success, losing just 6 games in four years, but all of which ended their playoff hopes. He is part of a Shakespeare troupe that performs only outdoors, and enjoys inaccessible foreign films alongside incomparable American action flicks. He will be making a short documentary in Ireland this summer on the role Gaelic Games in Irish conceptions of nationalism and cultural identity. He probably needs a job after that.

Julie Meloni

Julie Meloni recently completed her Ph.D. in English (C19 American literature, textual studies) and is the INKE postdoctoral fellow in Information Management at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at University of Victoria. She is also lucky enough to teach a class each semester in the Department of English at University of Victoria.

Because she's a little nuts, Julie is still the technical director of an interactive media company in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her responsibilities include enterprise web application planning and development, database design, system administration, user interface consultation, and social media/social networking strategies. She also writes technical books for Sams/Pearson; her latest book is Sams Teach Yourself HTML & CSS in 24 Hours (8th ed.). Additionally, Julie is managing editor of ProfHacker, a blog hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education that delivers tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.

She doesn't get enough sleep.

Patrick Murray-John

Former medievalist, now doing digital academic stuff at University of Mary Washington. I spend lots of time with Drupal, Wordpress, Omeka, hacking away in PHP and Javascript, and playing with Semantic Web/Linked Open Data

After an undergrad degree in Math with minors in Physics and English at Iowa State University, I went on to an MA and a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Anglo-Saxon Literature. A friend once said, "Went from Math to Anglo-Saxon? Makes perfect sense -- you just went from one indecipherable set of symbols to another."

During a few contingent faculty positions at University of Mary Washington and University of Richmond, I spent a lot of time learning about and experimenting with various technologies for teaching and learning. When I found that I enjoyed those pursuits more than I enjoyed being teaching faculty, I switched over to become an Instructional Technology Specialist at University of Mary Washington. From there, I started teaching myself Javascript and PHP -- more indecipherable symbols -- and now spend a lot of time hacking on Omeka, Wordpress, and Drupal. My major research and development interest is putting the semantic web and linked open data to work in academia.

Trevor Owens

Trevor Owens is the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. His work focuses on open source platforms for learning and research, games and learning, and the history of science education. He received a bachelors degree in the history of science form the University of Wisconsin, and a masters degree in American History with and emphasis on digital history at George Mason University. He has published a book on the history of Fairfax County Virginia in postcards, as well as articles on the history of science in children's books and the kinds of historical thinking which video game players engage in. Before joining the Center for History and New Media’s staff, Trevor served as press coordinator for the Games + Learning + Society Conference while studying the history of science at the University of Wisconsin.

Steve Ramsay

Stephen Ramsay is an Associate Professor English and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Patrick Rashleigh

Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, where I was hooked early on programming for artsy ends.

Career thus far: BA in English Lit., Master's in Ethnomusicology (thinking about the role of technology in the musical composition process), some campus instructional technology gigs, fun times at IBM preparing for the inevitable Y2K collapse, and some 6 years at the Government of Ontario as a hybrid programmer/communications person. Now a "Faculty Technology Liaison for the Humanities" at Wheaton College.

Some passions, somewhat matched by skills: XML technologies & applications (XSL, TEI, SVG, all that); the usual web standards (HTML, CSS, Javascript); data visualization and manipulation; artificial intelligence; user interface design; computers and pedagogy; text processing (Perl is my go-to language, but I'm not married to it); all manner of communication -- written text, video, speech, graphic design, audio, whatever it takes.

Jana Remy

AKA Jana "Twitter-pated" Remy

By day Jana works as the Associate Director of Instructional Technology at Chapman University, supporting web-based technologies for faculty research and teaching. By night she's writing those last few chapters of her history dissertation about medical practices during the late 1800s in the American West. Jana has degrees in Biology, History and English, but has yet to garner a job in any of those fields. On weekends Jana paddles the Pacific in her outrigger canoe and putters around in her organic vegetable garden. Somewhere in between all those other activities she records the Making History Podcast (makinghistorypodcast.com) and contributes to several blogs. Jana lives in the OC with her two teen-aged kids. She thinks that joining the "One Week | One Tool" team might be the uber-geekiest thing that's happened to her since her total domination of the 1988 Kern County Academic Decathlon competition.

Jana attempted to crowdsource her #oneweek nickname and the replies ranged from Jandroid to Humanitor to Spank-o-matic (oh, my!). And now she is wondering what kind of people her friends & followers really are? Instead of any of those suggestions, she's going with the moniker earned during her sorority years--which meant something a wee bit different two decades ago.

Tom Scheinfeldt