People
Lab Directors
Steven Bednarski
Director
Director for the Environments of Change since 2019, Director for The Herstmonceux Project (2012 – 2017) and the DRAGEN Lab since 2016.
stevenb@uwaterloo.ca
Ann Marie Rasmussen
Co-Director
Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies at the University of Waterloo since 2015, Director of the Medieval Badges and Community Formation.
amrasmus@uwaterloo.ca
David Porreca
Associate Director
Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, St. Jeromes University.
dporreca@uwaterloo.ca
Andrew Moore
Assistant Director
PhD History, University of Waterloo; MA History, University of Waterloo (2013); DRAGEN Lab Member since 2016. Research Facilitator for Environments of Change.
a5moore@uwaterloo.ca
Shannon Blackmore
Assistant Director
MA Communications, Wilfrid Laurier University (2020); DRAGEN Lab Member since 2022; Project Manager for Environments of Change.
shannon.blackmore@uwaterloo.ca
Zack MacDonald
Associate Director
Map Librarian, Archives and Special Collections at Western University, Digital Librarian for Environments of Change
zack.macdonald@uwo.ca
Research Fellows
Richard Hoffmann
Senior Research Fellow
Professor Emeritus, York University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
PhD Medieval Studies, Yale University.
medfish@yorku.ca
Chris L. Nighman
Senior Research Fellow
Professor, History; Coordinator, Medieval and Medievalism Studies Program, Wilfrid Laurier University
cnighman@wlu.ca
Nicholas Must
Research Fellow
Sessional Lecturer, Wilfrid Laurier University; PhD History, McMaster University (2014), MA History, Wilfrid Laurier University (2007).
nmust@wlu.ca
Owais Hamid
Research Fellow
MASc System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo; DRAGEN Lab member since 2019.
owais.mateen.abdul.hamid@uwaterloo.ca
Stephanie Hartmann
Research Fellow
BEd, Wilfrid Laurier
University (2019); MA History, University of Waterloo (2017); DRAGEN Lab Member since 2016.
kentigurn@hotmail.com
Tim Alamenciak
Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bennett Lab, Carleton Universityl; Adjunct Associate Professor, Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo; PhD Social and Ecological Sustainability, University of Waterloo, (2024); DRAGEN Lab Member since 2024.
tim.a@uwaterloo.ca
Graduate Fellows
Jamie Zettle
PhD History Candidate, University of Waterloo; MA History, University of Windsor (1994); DRAGEN Lab Member since 2019.
jamie.zettle@yahoo.ca
Erin Kurian
Blog Administrator
PhD Candidate History, University of Waterloo; MA History, University of Waterloo (2021); DRAGEN Lab Member (Since 2017) & Communications Coordinator for Environments of Change.
erin.kurian@uwaterloo.ca
John Loudfoot
Blog Editor
PhD Candidate, History, University of Waterloo; MA History, University of Waterloo (2023). DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2022).
jchloudfoot@uwaterloo.ca
Kian Drew
PhD Student, Environment; MSc Earth Science, University of Waterloo; BSc, University of Waterloo (2022); DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2022).
kian.drew@uwaterloo.ca
Gillian Wagenaar
PhD Candidate, History, University of Waterloo; MA History, University of Waterloo (2023). DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2021).
gawagenaar@uwaterloo.ca
Muràd Alizada-Hamidlinski
PhD Candidate, History, University of Waterloo; MA History, University of Waterloo (2023). DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2021) DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2021).
malizada@uwaterloo.ca
Jordan Tardif
PhD Student, History, University of Waterloo; MLIS, Western University (2023), MA Classical Studies, University of Waterloo (2021); DRAGEN Lab Member (2016 - 2020, 2024).
jatardif@uwaterloo.ca
Étienne Chevalier
PhD Student, History, University of Waterloo; MA, History, Université de Sherbrooke (2024); DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2024).
Etienne.chevalier@waterloo.ca
Nicole Vankooten
MA History Candidate, University of Waterloo; BAS, University of Guelph (2023), DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2023).
nvankooten@uwaterloo.ca
Cat Huang
MA History Candidate, University of Waterloo; BA, University of Toronto (2024), DRAGEN Lab Member (since 2024)
c353huang@uwaterloo.ca