A programmer in a former life, I wish that I had more time to blog and/or write code, I am now a professor of history at Cleveland State University, and founding director of the Center for Regional and Public History. We have created several digital humanities projects with an array of partners, including faculty, cultural institutions, teachers, students, and community partners. Broadly speaking, our efforts seek to remake Cleveland as a place, to rethink how cities are taught and experienced, and to build civic engagement. My involvement in digital history began several years ago when I sought to integrate scholarship and teaching, which resulted in a dynamic website that explores the Cleveland Cultural Gardens as a unique historical place.

Several years ago, I was asked to get involved in the public art for an urban transit & renewal project. I initiated the Euclid Corridor History Project, which seeks to turn the landscape of Northeast Ohio into a literal and virtual history museum. Phase I of the project opens in November 2008; there will be 19 touch-screen interactive history kiosks located at 12 transit stops along the newly redeveloped Euclid Avenue; we unveiled a prototype at Cleveland's 2007 Ingenuity festival.

I am fan of Omeka. We are seeking to integrate more deeply into our work, including using it as a tool to remake our relationship to the CSU Library's marvelous digital archive, the Cleveland Memory Project.