Historical Geography and GIS

The Historical Geography and GIS Network focuses on the application of spatial thinking to the study of the past, with a growing focus on GIS-based research. Our papers often take an interdisciplinary approach and incorporate topics such as demography, urban studies, environmental history, migration studies, and health, among others.

Recently proposed sessions:

• Building Historical “Big Data” Together: Crowd-sourcing, “Citizen Science” and large-scale online collaboration (Humphrey Southall, humphrey.southall@port.ac.uk)
• Architectures of Hurry (Richard Dennis, r.dennis@ucl.ac.uk)
• Ireland From Below: Mircroscale approaches in HGIS to understanding urban change in the Irish and Irish Diaspora (Nial Cunningham, niall.cunningham@durham.ac.uk)
• Historical GIS for Urban Research (S. Wright Kennedy, swk@rice.edu)
• From Historical GIS to Historical Spatial Data Infrastructures - Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead (John H Clark, clarkjh@lafayette.edu)
• Mapping Communication in Late Medieval Europe (Adam Franklin-Lyons, adamfl@marlboro.edu)
• “Big Data” and the renewal of ethnic studies : the spreading of French Canadians over the North American continent, 1850-1918 (Marc St-Hilaire, Marc.St-Hilaire@ggr.ulaval.ca)
• Historical GIS and European Environmental History (Robert Schwartz, rschwartz@mtholyoke.edu)
• Developing Trends in “Big” Historical GIS: Interdisciplinary Efforts and Methodological Advances (Andrew Beveridge, andy@socialexplorer.com)
• Stability, Mobility, Migration and Historical GIS
• GIS and Colonial History
• Historical GIS and the Study of War
• Urban and Rural Environments in the Past

Network Representatives

• S. Wright Kennedy
• Gergely Baics
• Megan Bodily