Shaping the West
Railroad Repeats: The Alfred A. Hart Photo Project
Terrain of History
Rio de Janeiro Historical Address Locator
Critical Habitat
Botanizing California, 1840-2008
Between the Tides
Morgan Oyster Holdings, 1909: Height of Bay Oyster Industry
Our Team
Matthew Booker
Visiting Professor
Matthew Booker is a Visiting Assistant Professor from North Carolina State University and is the principal investigator for the Between the Tides project. This project aims to reveal, visualize, and analyze the changing relationship between society and nature on San Francisco Bay's dynamic tidal margin. Professor Booker has been working on this project since spring 2008.
Matthew Booker is a Visiting Assistant Professor from North Carolina State University and is the principal investigator for the Between the Tides project. This project aims to reveal, visualize, and analyze the changing relationship between society and nature on San Francisco Bay's dynamic tidal margin. Professor Booker has been working on this project since spring 2008.
Jon Christensen
Principal Investigator
Jon Christensen is the principal investigator for the Critical Habitat and Tooling Up for Digital Histories projects. He is Executive Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford. Critical Habitat is examining the spatial history of ideas, narratives, science, and practices of conservation across multiple spatial and temporal scales in the American West. Tooling Up for Digital Histories is a collaboration between the Spatial History Project and the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University and others compiling, testing, and creating new tools for digital and spatial research in the humanities.
Jon Christensen is the principal investigator for the Critical Habitat and Tooling Up for Digital Histories projects. He is Executive Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford. Critical Habitat is examining the spatial history of ideas, narratives, science, and practices of conservation across multiple spatial and temporal scales in the American West. Tooling Up for Digital Histories is a collaboration between the Spatial History Project and the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University and others compiling, testing, and creating new tools for digital and spatial research in the humanities.
Zephyr Frank
Associate Director
Zephyr Frank is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and is the principal investigator for the Terrain of History project. This project is an international collaborative project that seeks to reconstruct and analyze the social, cultural, and economic spaces of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Professor Frank has been conducting this research for the last eight years.
Zephyr Frank is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and is the principal investigator for the Terrain of History project. This project is an international collaborative project that seeks to reconstruct and analyze the social, cultural, and economic spaces of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Professor Frank has been conducting this research for the last eight years.
Richard White
Director
Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University and is the principal investigator for the Shaping the West project. This project explores the construction of space by transcontinental railroads in North America during the late nineteenth-century. Professor White has been conducting this research for the last twelve years.
Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University and is the principal investigator for the Shaping the West project. This project explores the construction of space by transcontinental railroads in North America during the late nineteenth-century. Professor White has been conducting this research for the last twelve years.
