Amy Larner Giroux, PhD, CG, CGL^*

I am an Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) at the University of Central Florida assisting faculty and graduate students with their digital humanities projects. My UCF publications include articles in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Current Research in Digital History, ImageTexT, and Florida Studies.

I completed my doctorate in Texts and Technology from the University of Central Florida in summer 2014. My dissertation, “Kaleidoscopic Community History: Theories of Databased Rhetorical History-Making,” included a digital history project about navigating the historical contact zones between whites, blacks, and mixed-race Creoles in early nineteenth-century Pensacola, Florida, and the contact zone with present-day users of the project. I received my MA in Anthropology in 2009 and I was awarded Best in Category for Social Sciences at the 2010 UCF Graduate Research Forum for my poster presentation on my thesis research “Mea Familia: Ethnic Burial Identifiers in St. Michael’s Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida.”

I have a B.S.E.T. (Computer Technology) and over 30 years’ experience in software development and project management. I also work as a professional genealogical researcher, lecturer and writer.  My genealogical research specialty is New York City and the Lower Hudson Valley.  I have articles published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, and The Genealogist (American Society of Genealogists). My research interests include historical, cultural, and genealogical research; digital ethnography; digital archives; cemetery burial iconography; and GIS analysis.

Email: agiroux@digitaleyeshistory.net