Urban Humanist

I am involved in public history and digital humanities. I use the regional urban environment as a research laboratory in my courses. Recently, in conjunction with undergraduates and regional teachers, and colleagues, I developed a website devoted to the history Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Currently, students in my courses are contributing to the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project in collaboration with Cleveland Public Art, ideastream and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority. We have crafted a parallel oral history project. To date, we have collected over 300 oral histories. Moveover, in conjunction with our partners, we are interpreting the region’s history in multimedia stories that will appear in interactive, multimedia kiosks located along Euclid Avenue in 2009. We demonstrated a prototype of the kiosksat the Ingenuity Festival in 2007.