ABOUT OUR TEAM
people behind owa
Principal Investigators
Project Director, Historian
Alexander Cors is a Digital Scholarship Specialist at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.
He is a historian and public scholar who combines archival research with digital methods, such as historic Geographic Information Systems (hGIS). Alexander also works with faculty and students on projects relating to mapping, digital publishing, project management, and community-engaged research.
Web-Publishing Expert
Bailey built and designed the Open World Atlanta website and trains our student team in WordPress. As a Digital Publishing Specialist, Bailey consults with students and faculty who want to mount public-facing digital materials and projects. A former middle and high school teacher and an English PhD, she also provides classroom instruction and develops collaborative methods and strategies with instructors to incorporate digital tools into their pedagogy.
Geographer
Michael manages map and data libraries, GIS infrastructure, and consults on research projects that have a geospatial technology/spatial data component. His primary research focus involves cartography, geospatial technologies, and urban geography, and his key projects include American Excavations Samothrace, Georgia Coast Atlas, and OpenWorld Atlanta.
Lead Software Engineer
As the lead software engineer at ECDS, Jay takes the great ideas from the Emory community and turns them into code.
Primarily working in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, he strives to develop usable and accessible applications to aid and showcase scholarly research. He enjoys creating new ways for people to interact with old stuff.
Xiao Huang
Geo-Artificial Intelligence Lead
Xiao Huang is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Emory University.
He is leading the work on an AI-based method to automatically extract road networks from historical maps. Dr. Huang is the faculty co-PI Emory-Yonsei University collaboration, funded by the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning
Pedagogy Lead
Christina Crawford is Associate Professor Modern and Contemporary Architecture in the Art History Department at Emory University.
Her research investigates international transfer of ideas about social housing using the first federally-funded housing projects in the US—Atlanta’s University and Techwood Homes (1933-37)—as principal nodes.
International co-PIs
University of Bonn
Yonsei University
Yonsei University
Other Team Members
Video Production, ECDS
A historian by training, Alexander leads the Historical Research Team. He develops research guidelines for graduate and undergraduate students on the project, collects materials in archives around Atlanta, and wrote the Cabbagetown ArcGIS Storymap example. Alex works with faculty and students on projects relating to mapping, digital publishing, project management, and community-engaged research.
3D Modeling, ECDS
A historian by training, Alexander leads the Historical Research Team. He develops research guidelines for graduate and undergraduate students on the project, collects materials in archives around Atlanta, and wrote the Cabbagetown ArcGIS Storymap example. Alex works with faculty and students on projects relating to mapping, digital publishing, project management, and community-engaged research.
Geographer
Michael manages map and data libraries, GIS infrastructure, and consults on research projects that have a geospatial technology/spatial data component. His primary research focus involves cartography, geospatial technologies, and urban geography, and his key projects include American Excavations Samothrace, Georgia Coast Atlas, and OpenWorld Atlanta.
University of Bonn
A historian by training, Alexander leads the Historical Research Team. He develops research guidelines for graduate and undergraduate students on the project, collects materials in archives around Atlanta, and wrote the Cabbagetown ArcGIS Storymap example. Alex works with faculty and students on projects relating to mapping, digital publishing, project management, and community-engaged research.
University of Bonn
A historian by training, Alexander leads the Historical Research Team. He develops research guidelines for graduate and undergraduate students on the project, collects materials in archives around Atlanta, and wrote the Cabbagetown ArcGIS Storymap example. Alex works with faculty and students on projects relating to mapping, digital publishing, project management, and community-engaged research.
Students
Madison Beasley, Division of Physical Therapy
Elijah Chou, Department of Computer Science
Diana Duarte Salinas, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Anqi Hu, Department of Sociology
Sara Kaplan, School of Business
Shoibolina Kaushik, Department of Computer Science
Joe Larios, Department of Comparative Literature
Audrey Lin, Department of Art History
Wenxin Liang, Department of Comparative Literature
Jessica Locklear, Department of History
Kaelyn McAdams, Department of History
Alicia (“Lily”) Rodriguez, Department of French and Italian
Chidalla Veda Varshith Sai, Department of Computer Science
Surbhi Shrivastava, Department of Sociology
Ekram Towsif, Department of Computer Science
Josh Winston, Department of English
Chris Wyllie, Computer Science and German Studies