Researchers

Matthew Milner

Matthew Milner is a digital historian of late medieval and early modern England. He completed his PhD in History at the University of Warwick in 2007, and postdoctoral degrees and fellowships in Toronto and Montreal. His work focuses on two main areas: the history of sense perception & sensory cultures of late medieval and early modern England, with attention to the intersections of natural philsophy, theology, and medicine in religious life over the course of the Reformation; and digital historical methodologies and modeling, large scale collaborative research environments, linked open data, chronometry, and historical social networks, centering on the use of network theories for documenting historical phenomena. He is the author of The Senses and the English Reformation (Ashgate, 2011), published articles and essays, and given keynote lectures in Canada, the US, UK, and Germany on sensory history and religious life in late medieval and reformation Europe. Until 2016 he was the Associate Director for the Centre for Digital Humanities at McGill University in Montreal. In 2018 he joined the Department of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland as Adjunct Professor, and now works as a Grant Facilitation Officer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. As a freelance developer he has worked with Agile Humanities Agency on several digital humanities projects, including being lead consultant for Gale-CENGAGE's Digital Scholar Lab, a high-performance computing text analysis platform for some 900million pages of digitize materials available in Gale's various online collections.

Nanohistory: An Experimental Historical Methodology

Matthew Milner, University of Saskatchewan (Principal Investigator)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019-)

Team

• Susan M. Cogan, Utah State University (Co-Applicant)
• Rochelle Cote, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Co-Applicant)
• Constance Crompton, University of Ottawa (Co-Applicant)
• Michael Driedger, Brock University (Co-Applicant)
• Shawn Graham, Carleton University (Co-Applicant)
• Alison Hedley, McGill University (Collaborator)
• Julia Laite, Birkbeck, University of London (Co-Applicant)
• Kimberly Martin, University of Guelph (Co-Applicant)
• Brent Nelson, University of Saskatchewan (Co-Applicant)

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Julia Stryker, Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Students

• Brock University: Ace Gammon-Burnett
• Carleton University: Jaime Simons
• Memorial University of Newfoundland: Erica Making, Mick Stevens
• University of Guelph: Adrian Gerbrand
• University of Ottawa: Lori Antrinakian, Farinaz Bes
• University of Saskatchewan: Adam Epp
• Utah State University: Frankie Urrita, Kalli Hull, Thomas Shaw, Robb Young

We're (Indigenous) Still Here: Amplifying Urban Indigenous Stories in Saskatoon, Prince Albert, and St. John's through Indigenous-led Partnerships

Kristina Bidwell, University of Saskatchewan (Principal Investigator)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2023-)

Team Includes

• Rochelle Cote, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Co-Applicant)
• Matthew Milner, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Co-Applicant)