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Ryan Alexander Hunt
[email protected]
www.ivrytwr.com@Ryan__Hunt
PERMANENT ADDRESS
681 Princess Ave.
London, Ontario
N5W 3M2
EDUCATION
2013-2014 Master of Arts: Public History, University of
Western
Ontario
2010-2011 Master of Arts: Medieval Studies, University of York
(UK)
Dissertation: Masculinity and the Performance of Civic Life
in
Late Medieval York
Advisor: Dr Sarah Rees Jones
2004-2009 Bachelor of Arts with Honours and Distinctions:
Medieval
Studies (Honours), Greek and Roman Studies (Major), History
(Minor); University of Victoria
Dissertation: Law and Order: an examination of legal
manuscripts
in the long twelfth century
Advisor: Dr Erik Kwakkel
HONOURS
2013 University of Western Ontario, Graduate Scholarship
2012 University of Victoria Digital Humanities Summer
Institute
Tuition Scholarship
2010 University of York Centre for Medieval Studies
Scholarship
- Awarded to most promising incoming student
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- N.B. Due to my deferral of enrollment I was awarded
this award two years in a row
2009 University of York Centre for Medieval Studies
Scholarship
-Awarded to most promising incoming student
2009 University of Victoria Medieval Studies Research Grant
- Awarded to the top three students in the program to
fund a research trip to examine the manuscript holdings
on the University of Montpellier
2008 University of Victoria Medieval Studies Program
Scholarship
2007 University of Victoria Medieval Studies Program
Scholarship
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Digital humanities and public engagement
Public history and conservation
Digital and hybrid pedagogy
Applications for 3D printing
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013 University of Western Ontario Continuing Studies
Instructor,
London, Ontario
- Instructor for Teaching with Technology
- Course covered using social media in education, usingpodcasts
and videos in education, and using blogging in
education
- Responsible for designing syllabus, assigning readings,
teaching the in-class course, and the teaching online course
- Three week blended learning course consisting of two days
in-class instruction and 19 days of online instruction
2011-2012 Elementary School English Teacher, Hosan Elementary
School,
Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea- Primary English educator for
students learning English
as their second language
- Responsible for planning lessons, recording podcast
tests, organizing and planning curricula for summer and
winter camps
- Gained an appreciation for the challenges facing
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learners for whom English is a second language
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2012-2013 Ontario Museums/Heritage on Social Media
- Collaborating with Public History Program alumna Jenn
Nelson on her project to build a database of all Ontario
museums and heritage sites using social media
- Social media usage of nearly one third of the 785 total
museums and heritage sites have been documented
2012-2013 Research Project, Mapping Middle English Romance
- Building a database of the place names found in Middle
English Romance using Omeka and Neatline
- Project also examines how smart phone applications
can be used to crowd source database information
2010-2011 Graduate Student, Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of
York
- Masters project examined gender hierarchies within
the social networks of the urban elite of late medieval
York
- Research combined traditional historical approaches
(palaeography, Latin translation, primary and secondaryresearch)
with digital humanities perspectives (using
open source social networking software to create a social
network of relationships draw from wills and charters)
2009 Research trip, University of Montpellier
- One of three students in the Medieval Studies Program
at the University of Victoria to receive a research grant to
work with manuscripts in the library of the University of
Montpellier- Research focused on a twelfth century canon law
book
MASSIVELY OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCs)
2013 Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, Introduction
to
Infographics and Data Visualization
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2013 Hybrid Pedagogy, MOOCMOOC II
2012 Hybrid Pedagogy, MOOCMOOC
2012 Udacity, CS 101: An Introduction to Computer Science
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2013 Research Assistant,Digging Digital Humanities, University
of Western
Ontario
- Research assistant with duties including: visual design;
conducting
interviews; web programming; and scholarly research
2011 Graduate representative, Graduate Students Committee for
the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
2011 Co-chair, Kings Manor Interdisciplinary Conference
- Co-founded and organized an interdisciplinary graduate
conference at the University of York
- Papers were given by twelve graduate students from four
Northern English universities
- Co-organized two workshops
- A Beginners Guide to Wikipedia - hosted by Wikimedian
Simon Smith
- Communicating Ideas Across Disciplines: a
brainstorming session for interdisciplinary discussion
2010 Co-chair, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference
- Co-organized an undergraduate conference at the University
of Victoria
- Papers were given by twelve undergraduate students from
three British Columbian universities over the course of two
days
2009 Founder and Co-chair, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate
Conference
- Conceived of conference and organized planning committeeand
co-ordinated conference funding from three departments
- Co-organized an undergraduate conference at the University
of Victoria
- Papers were given by fourteen undergraduate students from
the University of Victoria over the course of two days
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2006-2009 President and founder, the Medieval Studies Course
Union at the
University of Victoria
- Represented Medieval Studies students and promoted the
program within the university
- Created to create a community of students within the
program
CONFERENCES
2013 HASTAC 2013, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Short paper: Reading, Writing, and Digital Humanities?
Involving Korean ESL Students in Digital Humanities
2013 Technology in Education Symposium, University of Western
Ontario,
London, Canada
- Paper: How to make non-linear PowerPoint Presentations
2012 Japanese Association of Digital Humanities 2012, University
of
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Short paper: The Importance of Storytelling in a Digital
Age:
Or, What the Digital Humanities can learn from TED
2010 Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference, University of
Victoria,
Victoria, Canada
- Paper: Sex is Boring, Foucault is Fun: Examining
theHistoriography of Gender Theory in the Middle Ages
2009 Near Eastern and Religious Studies Graduate Conference,
University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Paper: Law and Order: an Examination of Legal Manuscripts in
the
Long Twelfth Century
2009 Qualicum Conference, Simon Fraser University, University of
British
Columbia, and University of Victoria, Parksville, Canada- Paper:
Law and Order: an Examination of Legal Manuscripts in
the Long Twelfth Century
2008 Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference, University of
Victoria,
Victoria, Canada
- Paper: The Death of Rebirth: an Examination of the
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Historiography of Renaissance Studies
PUBLIC OUTREACH
2013 DHMakerBus, London, Canada
- Co-Founded a project to build Canadas first mobile maker
space
and digital humanities classroom
- Raised funds through community donations to buy a used
school
bus
- In the process of raising funds through grants and donations
to
outfit the bus with cutting-edge educational technology
- Working with community partners to create adult digital
literacy
classes, childrens maker classes, and public history
programs
- Received local, national, and international attention for
the
project
2012 Digital Adventure Summer Camp, Hosan Elementary,
Gangwon-do,
Republic of Korea
-Created and planned an English summer camp for Korean ESL
students ages 7-12
- Camp focused on teaching students digital literacy skills
2011 Time Travel Winter Camp, Hosan Elementary, Gangwon-do,
Republic
of Korea
- Created and planned an English winter camp for Korean ESL
students ages 7-12
- Introduced students to basic concepts of history
2009 Public History Tour Guide, Maritime Museum, Victoria,
Canada
- Lead tours of Victorias historic Inner Harbour- Responsible
for writing and delivering engaging content that
would interest people in the history of Victoria
WEB PRESENCE
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2013 Untitled Digital Humanities Network
- In the process of establishing a network of young/early in
career digital humanities scholars with a group of DH
students
spanning Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdoms, and the
United States
- Collaborating to create a digital humanities how to wiki and
to
record a monthly podcast
2012-2013 ivrytwr.com, www.ivrytwr.com
- Created a personal website/blog dedicated to digital
humanities, public history, and the role of the humanities
in
contemporary society
- Website includes regular public history podcast and a
regular
video series exploring the museums and cultural heritage sites
of
Korea
- Receives roughly 2000 visitors each month.
2008-2013 Twitter, username @Ryan__Hunt
- Actively involved in digital humanities (#digitalhumanities),
higher
education (#highered), twitter historians (#twitterstorian),
and
public
archaeology (#pubarch) twitter communities
- Regularly communicate with a number of top researchers and
graduate students
LANGUAGES AND SKILLS
Reading knowledge of Latin and an introduction to Korean
Familiarity with Python, Omeka, Neatline, DEVON Agent, 123D
Design, Pixelmator,
Adobe Services, Mendeley, Zotero, and Final Cut Pro, and,
Audacity
Good command of social network services including Twitter,
Facebook, Pinterest,
Google+, Youtube, and major blogging services
