Making History on the Web: Staff Bios

Staff Bios

David Gants

David is the Assistant Coordinator of Etext, and is in the final stages of his dissertation, a printing history of Ben Jonson's folio Works of 1616.

Jennifer recently received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Virginia. She currently maintains the Related Readings page at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and does other assorted odd jobs around the Institute. She is also a waitress at the C&O Restaurant in Charlottesville.

Peter Kastor

Peter is a Ph.D. candidate in American History at the University of Virginia, where he is currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of culture, politics, and policymaking in early 19th century Louisiana. He has worked at the University's IATH, Etext, and Multimedia Resource Center. He is currently the History Department's on-line coordinator.

Anne Rubin, Seminar Coordinator

Anne is a Ph.D. candidate in American History at the University of Virginia, writing a dissertation about the interplay between Confederate, Southern, and American identities at the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction. She is the manager of The Valley of the Shadow Project.

Amy Sexton

Amy is the project manager for The D.G. Rossetti Hypermedia Archive and The William Blake Archive. She is involved in all aspects of these projects, with a focus on SGML encoding and imaging techniques. Amy is also the electronic publications specialist at The University Press of Virginia, where she maintains the Press's website and assists in designing, editing and encoding electronic publications.

A 1995 graduate of the University of Virginia, Amy worked as managing editor of Postmodern Culture while pursuing her MA in English. She has a BA in Theater from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a supplementary major in English from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Melanie Shell