Constance Crompton is an associate professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Ottawa, where she is also the director of the Humanities Data Lab. Crompton holds the position of Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities,[1][2] is vice-president (English) of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, and is an associate director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of Victoria).[3] In 2023, Crompton was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
Teaching and education
editCrompton holds a Bachelor of Arts and Masters from Toronto Metropolitan University, as well as a PhD from York University.[4] After completing her postdoc at the University of Victoria in 2012 Crompton became an assistant professor of Digital Humanities (DH) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) campus where she taught DH, English, and Cultural Studies.[5] There she founded the Humanities Data Lab in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, which is now called the AMP Lab.[6] Crompton eventually left UBC to teach at the University of Ottawa.[7] She has worked on numerous projects, and is a key member on the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, and Transgender Media Portal projects.[8]
Achievements
editIn 2023, Crompton was elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists for “innovation and advancing knowledge in the humanities”.[9] Crompton was named one of the University of Ottawa's early career researchers of 2019 which recognized excellence in research and teaching.[10] In 2015, while teaching at UBCO, Crompton received an Insight Grant of almost $300,000 for the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project.[11] Crompton has contributed to several books, including Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research and Cultural Mapping and Digital Sphere: Place and Space.[12] She has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters.[13]
Research
editCrompton's research involves turning history into linked data format, and other interests include queer history, data modelling, and Victorian popular culture.[14] She is the co-director of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project alongside Michelle Schwartz (Ryerson University),[15] an interactive database that tracks lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) history in Canada from 1964 to 1985.[16]
References
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- ^ "Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities". Government of Canada. 2021-06-25.
- ^ Proximify. "Members". uniweb.uottawa.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Constance Crompton". carleton.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ Proximify. "Members". uniweb.uottawa.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Meet the ETCL Team: Constance Crompton | Electronic Textual Cultures Lab". etcl.uvic.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Meet the ETCL Team: Constance Crompton | Electronic Textual Cultures Lab". etcl.uvic.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Constance Crompton". carleton.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Impressive cohort of uOttawa researchers elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2023". Faculty of Social Sciences. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "The University of Ottawa honours two researchers for their early career accomplishments". Research and innovation. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Constance Crompton receives grant for LGLC project". fccs.ok.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Books by Constance Crompton (Author of Bodies of Information)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ Proximify. "Members". uniweb.uottawa.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ Proximify. "Members". uniweb.uottawa.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ Proximify. "Members". uniweb.uottawa.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ^ "Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada". lglc.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-03.