Associate Professor of History, University of Waterloo
Ian Milligan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, where he teaches Canadian and digital history. He is currently the principal investigator of the Archives Unleashed project, which seeks to make web archives accessible to humanities and social sciences researchers. Ian has published several books: the forthcoming History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web is Transforming Historical Research (April 2019), the SAGE Handbook of Web History (co-edited with Niels Brügger, 2018), Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope (co-authored with Scott Weingart and Shawn Graham, 2015), and Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young workers, and New Leftists in English Canada (2014). In 2016, Ian was named the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities’s recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Award.
Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter has placed its user-generated archives in danger
Nov 23, 2022 05:02 am UTC| Technology
Twitter is in disarray. This is troubling for a platform that comprises no small part of the historical record of today. While only used by a percentage of Americans (some 23 per cent in 2022) and Canadians (42 per cent...
Don’t despair if your teen wants to major in history instead of science
Nov 24, 2019 14:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
It might be your worst nightmare. Your child, sitting at the kitchen table, slides you a brochure from the local university. Ive been thinking of majoring in history. Before you panic and begin calling the nearest...
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