People

Anabel Quan-Hasse (PI): Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies and Sociology at the Western University. Dr. Quan-Haase received her Masters degree in Psychology from the Humboldt-University in Berlin in 1998 under the supervision of Dr. Herbert Hagendorf and her Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Toronto in 2004 under the supervision of Drs. Lynne Howarth and Barry Wellman.

Kathleen Schreurs (RA):  I am PhD student in Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario. I Graduated from York University with an honours BA in Professional Writing and The University of Toronto with a Master’s of Information Studies. My current research interests include the e-reading experience and digital authorship, specially how the process of literary text creation has shifted in response to ebooks, e-reading, and digital media.

Kimberley Martin (RA): Kim is a PhD candidate in Library and Information Science at the Western University.  Her research interests include the use of Ebooks by Humanist Scholars, the role of serendipity in the research process, and the information habits of Digital Humanists. Her academic background is in the areas of English Literature and History, and she is working to keep an interdisciplinary approach throughout her doctoral work by participating in the growing world of the DigitalHumanities.