The Team
Team
Core Team:
Rosalind J. Beiler – Associate Professor of History, University of Central Florida (Co-Principal Investigator). Beiler is a historian of the early modern Atlantic world. Her research focuses on migration flows to the British colonies - especially from the German-speaking regions of Europe. Her book Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 is a microhistory about how Wistar adapted knowledge from Europe to British North America. Beiler is currently studying the ways religious communication networks found in PRINT shifted migration flows in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Amy Larner Giroux – Associate Director, Center for Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida (Co-Principal Investigator). Giroux assists faculty and graduate students with their digital projects. Dr. Giroux’s research involves the contact zone between humans and technology within the intersections of history and learning. By leveraging technologies such as AR/VR, she brings learning to both classroom and field. Dr. Giroux is the author of “Navigating People, Paper, and Pixels: Examining Contact Zones With(in) the Past” in Florida Studies (2018), and co-author of “Assessing the Impact of Game Modalities in Second Language Acquisition: ELLE the EndLess LEarner” in Journal of Universal Computer Science (2020).
Research Assistants & Student Contributors
Cassidy Michonski – History MA, UCF; transcription project process; educational materials
Rhiannon O’Neil – History MA, UCF; transcription project process; educational materials; video production
Evan Wallace – Text and Technology Ph.D. Candidate, UCF; Graphic Design; mapping tools; video production; grant proposal assistance
Casey Wolf – History MA, UCF; data clean-up; metadata creation; scanning; educational materials; video production; Historical Society of Pennsylvania Intern.
