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Early Modern Digital Itineraries


Data-Driven Approaches to Premodern Travel


EmDigIt Team

Brief profiles of project affiliates


Project Director


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Rachel Midura, Assistant Professor of Digital and Early Modern European History Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Primary Investigator of EmDigIt



Advisory Council


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Giovanna Ceserani, Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University, Director of Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), PI of The Grand Tour Project



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Paula Findlen, Professor of History at Stanford University, PI of Early Modern Mobility Research Group; Republic of Letters Project



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Karl Grossner, Research Affiliate, University of Pittsburgh, Technical Director of the World Historical Gazetteer



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Amanda Madden, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Geospatial History at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Primary investigator of Mapping Violence



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Gabriel Pizzorno, Senior Lecturer on History and Faculty Chair of the Digital Scholarship Support Group at Harvard University



Virginia Tech Institutional Consultants

  • Jonathan Briganti, Manager of DataBridge in the Data Services in Virginia Tech Libraries
  • Corinne Guimont, Digital Scholarship Coordinator in Virginia Tech Libraries
  • Alex Kinnamen, Digital Preservation Coordinator in Virginia Tech Libraries
  • Stewart Scales, Advanced Instructor in Virginia Tech Department of Geography
  • Michael Stamper, Data Visualization Designer and Consultant for the Digital Arts in Virginia Tech Libraries