About Us


Amy Milne-Smith
Principal Investigator (2015-present)

Amy is an associate professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University with expertise on Victorian London, class, gender, and culture. You can follow her on twitter @AmyMilneSmith where she primarily posts about Victorian crime and mental illness and occasionally posts about her dog.
Contact: amilnesmith@wlu.ca


Matthew Hargreaves
Data Collection (2015-2016)

Matthew Hargreaves holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wilfrid Laurier’s History department and completed his Master’s Degree on Japanese Imperialism in Manchuria. Matthew has been performing research-based projects since 2015, mainly regarding primary source data collection, academic web portals, and social media research. Matthew hopes to continue in academia by pursuing a Ph.D. in the future, and lives in Cambridge, Ontario.


Darren Leung
Data Collection (2015-2016)

Darren worked on the project as a fourth year history major with expertise in Medieval Studies.


Ryan Orr
Data Collection (2015-2016)

Ryan worked on the project as a fourth year history major with expertise in Medieval Studies.


Haydn Lawrence
Webmaster and Data Analyst

Haydn Lawrence is a part-time PhD student at the University of Waterloo and full-time Higher Education Developer/Analyst at Esri Canada.  He received his Bachelor of Computer Science (Information Systems) from the University of New Brunswick in 2002 and later obtained his Advanced Diploma in GIS from the Centre of Geographic Sciences in 2011.  He completed his Master of Science in Geomatics at Wilfrid Laurier University.  His research interests are in creating better ways for automated systems to understand human thought, especially when using spatial language which is complex and often colloquial. He loves travelling, History (especially military history), and languages, dabbling in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and of course French as he is originally from New Brunswick in Canada.


Jennifer Ranni
GIS map work (2016)

Jennifer worked on the project as a fourth year geography student with GIS mapping expertise.


Kate Cameron
Data Collection (2016-2017)

Kate worked on the project as a third year history major with an expertise in Canadian history.


Katelyn Leece
Data Collection (2016-2017)

Katelyn started working on the project as a third year history major with expertise in Medieval and Victorian history.

David Chan Smith and Laura Vaughan were essential early collaborators to help frame and develop this project and secure funding.