Patrick Dunae
Honorary Research Associate
Alternate Phone: (250) 380-1633
Mail drop: 000
Email: Patrick.Dunae@viu.ca
Further Info:
Education
B. A. (Victoria), Ph. D (Manchester)
Specialization: British Columbia, Education, Public History
Editor: The Homeroom. British Columbia's History of Education Website
Project director: viHistory.ca The Vancouver Island History Website
I have worked as a public historian at the British Columbia Archives and the State Archives of Western Australia. I was a Killam Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Brtish Columbia and have taught at the University of Alberta and the University of Victoria. (I'm presently an adjunct associate professor in the History Department at UVic). I'm interested in using new technologies to distribute primary records and computer applications to create new perspectives on the past. I've produced a CD Rom entitled Maps, Manuscripts and Multimedia and have developed various web sites on historical themes. One of the web sites is called Make History on the Web! At the moment I'm working on a number of research projects using historical census records. One of the projects is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council's initiative for Image, Text, Sound and Technology. With a colleague at UVic, Dr. John Lutz, I'm hoping to create an immersive, 3-D environment that will simulate Victoria, B.C. in the 1890s. Imagine a Victorian-era Sim City populated not with "sims" but with real people from the 1891 census! I'm also intereted in using geographical information systems [GIS] technology in historical research and have developed an Historical GIS of Nanaimo, 1891.With colleagues at the University of Victoria and the University of Western Ontario, I'm building an historical GIS of Victoria, 1871-1911.The Victoria project is part of a larger project funded by the SSHRC, where we examine changes in racial space over time.