Emily Brodman is a junior majoring in history. She is working primarily on the railroad directors component of the Shaping the West project, from gathering historic data to visualization design. Emily enjoys the lab’s mixture of traditional historical research with design, as she happily splits her time in the lab between old books and Adobe Illustrator software.

Amanda Cravens is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford after completing a Masters degree at the University of Canterbury where she wrote "Stories about pristine mountains: History, visitor interpretation and conservation in New Zealand 's Te Wahipounamu world heritage area." Amanda is working on the Tooling Up for Digital Histories and Critical Habitat projects.

Michael De Groot is a junior majoring in History and minoring in German. He works with Professor Booker on the Between the Tides project. Michael is excited to study the development of the San Francisco Bay through visualizations and exploring his own research interests.

Hannah Gilula received her Master's Degree in Sociology with a concentration on Inequality in June 2009 and her Bachelor's degrees in History and Spanish and Portuguese in June 2008. Hannah has been working with Professor Frank on the Terrain of History project since June 2008. She has been working on the Rio de Janeiro street centerline ArcGIS map as well as translating Portuguese to English for database development. Hannah enjoys working with Professor Frank to use various Brazilian sources and database information to develop and answer a variety of research questions. In February 2010 she will be going to Brazil on a Fulbright grant to pursue a research project which will explore how author Joao do Rio used the geography and space in Rio de Janeiro to tell his tales of the city.

Alex McInturff is a Master's student in Earth Systems. In the spring of 2009, he walked from Oakland, California, to Yosemite National Park, retracing a trek that John Muir made in 1868. He is currently writing about that and creating a spatial history of this "California Transect" as part of the Critical Habitat and Tooling Up for Digital Histories projects.

Toral Patel graduated from Middlebury College with a joint degree in Geography and Political Science. She is working on the Terrain of History project this fall, and looks forward to exploring new ways to apply GIS to interdisciplinary research.

Melissa Runsten is a senior majoring in Human Biology (with a concentration in Environmental Change and International Health) and minoring in Creative Writing. She has just begun working with Jon Christensen on analyzing and visually representing national conservation and development trends, with an emphasis on the western US. She appreciates the interdisciplinary nature of the lab and looks forward to exploring environmental change from historical, technical, and spatial perspectives.

David Sabeti is a (rising) junior, majoring in Mathematical and Computational Sciences with a minor (or double major, if he's feeling ambitious) in history. He's working with Professor Frank on the Terrain of History project, spending most of his time working with the project's database. Unable make up his mind between the humanities and the sciences/technology, David's disciplinary indecision feels right at home in the Spatial History Lab, and he can't wait to apply new tools to old questions.

Peter Shannon is a fifth year senior majoring in Music and minoring in Film Studies. He worked at the Spatial History Lab last summer on developing a dynamic Flash-based program for visualizing GIS data (codenamed Project Steel). This summer, he is focused on creating interactive Flash visualizations for specific research projects across the Lab.

Evgenia Shnayder is a senior majoring in History and minoring in Political Science. She has been working with Professor White on the Shaping the West project since April 2008. Evgenia has helped organize and acquire historic documents, develop base data by digitizing rail lines, stations, and quads, create visualizations of Nebraska, stockholder data, and American Railway Union growth, and co-author the Shaping the West database paper. She likes the supportive lab environment and freedom to pursue her own research questions.

Moritz Sudhof is a junior majoring in who-knows-what. He is working with Jon Christensen (and other fabulous friends) on the Botanizing California and Tooling Up for Digital Histories projects. Moritz thinks plants are just about the coolest things ever, and he enjoys engaging with questions of design and visual story-telling.