Graduate Student, History
Graduate Research Assistant
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I am a Master’s degree student in Idaho State University’s innovative, Historical Resources Management program, which is based on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for research and teaching in historical studies, an intriguing approach to history. Information about the program can be obtained at the URL:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
I am also a graduate research assistant in the Geographically-Integrated History Laboratory at Idaho State University (USA), which is directed by Professor J. B. Owens. My position and the laboratory are funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Award Number SES-0740345 ($394,000; 2007-2010). The funded project, which is multidisciplinary and multinational, is entitled “Dynamic Complexity of Self-Organizing Cooperation-Based Commercial Networks in the First Global Age” (acronym: DynCoopNet). It is one of the projects within the European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme’s program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading” (TECT). An attractive, heavily illustrated booklet (aka Brochure), which includes Prof. Owens’ article on the DynCoopNet Project, is available for a free download from the TECT web site:
http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/tect.html
I am currently preparing a digital, georeferenced gazetteer of the places along the commercial and pilgrimage routes described by Pedro Juan Villuga in his 1546 book , _Reportorio de todos los caminos de España ..._ (1967 facsimile of Medina del Campo, 1546, originally published in 1902). The “España” to which the title refers is the entire Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal. I have also prepared a digital, georeferenced gazetteer of the geographical places in Professor Sara T. Nalle’s database for her project on Castilian and Portuguese family history. Prof. Nalle’s family history research is part of the DynCoopNet project of the TECT program.
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