Curriculum Vitae
TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
ArcGIS Desktop v. 9.3-10.6 August 2007-PresentExtensions: Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, Network Analyst
This software package is one of my main research tools. From spatial analysis of parsed textual data and weather proxy data to networked trail and archaeological materials, this software provides spatial layers and map making abilities.
ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Certifications:
Creating, Editing, and Managing Geodatabases for ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI January 2008
Learning Visual Basic for Applications for New ArcGIS Developers, ESRI April 2008
Google Earth Pro August 2007-Present
I have used this program for dissertation research and to develop supplementary class assignments and resources for students. I provide layered maps from the textbook information. I have used this technology to explore new perspectives to represent historical data visually.
Sketch-Up May 2008-Present
This software provides a user-friendly 3D modeling tool for recreating historical structures. It’s programming allows me to natively embed models within Google Earth. Buffalo Village Reconstruction, 46Pu31 at http://www.dremrickhistorian.tech/CV/CVGIS.htm
Web Management
Dreamweaver (9 years experience) (http://www.dremrickhistorian.tech) My professional website was designed and is maintained using Dreamweaver with Flash plugins.Photoshop (12 years experience) As a research and archival tool, I use this program to maintain and edit historical imagery for presentation and archiving.
Illustrator (15 years experience) Examples at http://www.dremrickhistorian.tech/images/BnF1671-72.jpg This high end vector drawing program has been used to design and edit maps, create catchy imagery for posters.
Lightroom (10 years experience)
InDesign (8 years experience)
For more information and examples of Digital History go to GIS
PUBLICATIONS
“Getting Lost in the Digital Woods: Filling the Gaps in the Indigenous History of the Kanawha-New River Valley” in West Virginia History, forthcoming 2018.Book Reviews
Review of James D. Rice, Nature & History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) in forthcoming West Virginia History.Review of A. Martin Byers, From Cahokia to Larson to Madisonville: Death, World Renewal, and the Sacred in the Mississippian Social World of the Late Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Libraries, Newfound Press, 2015) in West Virginia History, 10, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 74-76.
Review of Sami Lakomäki, Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014) in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 113, no. 4 (Autumn 2015): 730-732.
Review of Michael Dickey, The People of the River's Mouth: In Search of the Missouria Indians. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2012) in The Southern Historian, 35 (Spring 2014): 93-94.
Review of Matthew Jennings, New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011) in West Virginia History, 6, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 92-94.
Review of David Andrew Nichols, Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier. (University of Virginia Press, 2008) in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 77: 3 (Summer 2010): 355-357.
Review of Phillip W. Hoffman, Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero, The Most Hated Man on the Early American Frontier (Franklin, 2008) in West Virginia History, 3, no.2 (Fall 2009): 105-106.
Maps
Map Credits in Connie Rice and Marie Tedesco, eds. Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015).Map Credits in Tyler Boulware, Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region, and Nation Among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011).
Articles
“A Lonely Cemetery: Rowlesburg’s Irish Cemetery and the B&O Railroad” Proceedings and Papers of the Monongalia Historical Society (Morgantown, WV), No. 3, December 2004, 17-30.“Lewis Street’s Meeks Family Mine” Proceedings and Papers of the Monongalia Historical Society (Morgantown, WV), No. 3, December 2004, 31-37.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Society of Ethnohistory (ASE)Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (OIEAHC)
American Historical Association (AHA)
Council for West Virginia Archaeology (CWVA), Board of Governors
West Virginia Archaeological Society (WVAS)