Title

Lunch with Keynote Addresses by Anne Knowles & Diana Sinton

Presenter Information

Janine Glathar

Description

Bios for keynote speakers:

Anne Kelly Knowles is Associate Professor of Geography at Middlebury College. For more than fifteen years, she has been a pioneer in historical GIS. Her two edited books, Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (ESRI Press 2002) and Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (ESRI Press 2008), along with special issues of the journals Social Science History and Historical Geography, have become benchmarks in this interdisciplinary field. As an historical geographer, Knowles has specialized in American immigration and industrialization, the subjects of Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier (University of Chicago Press 1997) and Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2012). Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Anne is currently Principal Investigator with Alberto Giordano (Texas State at San Marcos) on the Holocaust Historical GIS project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Start Date

17-11-2012 12:30 PM

End Date

17-11-2012 2:00 PM

Location

Terrace Room, Elaine Langone Center

 
Nov 17th, 12:30 PM Nov 17th, 2:00 PM

Lunch with Keynote Addresses by Anne Knowles & Diana Sinton

Terrace Room, Elaine Langone Center

Bios for keynote speakers:

Anne Kelly Knowles is Associate Professor of Geography at Middlebury College. For more than fifteen years, she has been a pioneer in historical GIS. Her two edited books, Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (ESRI Press 2002) and Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (ESRI Press 2008), along with special issues of the journals Social Science History and Historical Geography, have become benchmarks in this interdisciplinary field. As an historical geographer, Knowles has specialized in American immigration and industrialization, the subjects of Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier (University of Chicago Press 1997) and Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2012). Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Anne is currently Principal Investigator with Alberto Giordano (Texas State at San Marcos) on the Holocaust Historical GIS project, funded by the National Science Foundation.