Teaching Team

Taylor Soja (Doctoral Candidate, Co-Designer) is a historian of the ways that war, gender, and empire intersect in modern British history. She is writing a dissertation on the experiences of British citizens and subjects who fought in multiple colonial wars at the turn of the twentieth century. Keep an eye out for her other class, “Images of War in History, Media, and Literature.”

Laurie Marhoefer (Co-Designer, 2021 Instructor, Associate Professor, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History) studies modern Germany, particular between 1918 and 1945, and the history of sexuality and gender. Prof. M. is excited to be teaching this class.

Ting-Chieh (David) Ou-Yang 2021 Teaching Assistant) studies cartography, information networking, and industrial development in the late 19th century of the Qing empire, China. His current research concentrates on the intelligence-gathering activities and how the information on geography, ethnicity, and culture was reconstructed and capsuled into maps during the Sino-French war and negotiations on Chinese-Vietnamese borderland. 

Adrian Kane-Galbraith (Webmaster).

Eric W. Johnson (Director of Technical Services for UW Dept. of History) is a historian of Russia, Central Asia, and the Muslim world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is also an expert in digital humanities and will be available to help student troubleshoot their DH work this quarter.

Acknowledgments

The Digital World Wars project was developed with support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, the UW College of Arts & Sciences, the UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the UW History Department, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

We are particularly grateful for feedback and advice from the 2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows at the Simpson Center for the Humanities.