RiverWeb

RiverWeb CD-ROM Credits

Lead Investigators:

Vernon Burton
Professor Burton specializes in race relations, American South, family and community history, politics, agrarian societies, religion, quantitative techniques, and advanced information technologies. His current research focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction and race and the law, especially Age of Segregation and Civil Rights Movement. Selected publications include In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 1985); "A Gentleman and an Officer:" A Social and Military History of James B. Griffin's Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1996); and "South Carolina" chap. 7, pp. 191-232, 420-432 in The Quiet Revolution: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act in the South, 1965-1990, edited by Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman (Princeton University Press, 1994). Currently Professor Burton heads the NCSA initiative for Humanities and Social Science projects. Professor Burton received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1976.
David Curtis
Working in NCSA's Education & Outreach Division, David specializes in prototyping digital media applications and science-based web applications for education at the precollege and college levels. He combines a science background with experience in broadcast television and web-based multimedia. David originated RiverWeb concept in the aftermath of the Great Flood of 1993 that affected large areas of the Upper Mississippi River Basin.
Bonnie Styles
Bonnie Styles is Director of Sciences at the Illinois State Museum. She also directs the Landscape History Program at the Illinois State Museum. With a Ph.D. in Anthropology from NorthWestern University, Dr. Styles is supervising the Museum's contribution to this prototype landing site, namely the section entitled "An Introduction to Early Cultures of the American Bottom."

Development Team:

Ian Binnington
Ian Binnington is a UIUC Distinguished Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes inmid-nineteenth century American history, particularly the Civil War period and the American South. His current research interests include Confederate nationalism, emancipation, comparative slave societies, and academic technologies. Until recently he was Co-Editor of the electronic journal, History Reviews On-Line, and he continues to serve on its Editorial Board.
Gavin Suntop
As a student programmer specializing in both web programming and graphics, Gavin Suntop aided in the development of the RiverWeb SlideShow tool and general RiverWeb web programming.
David Herr
David Herr is pursuing his doctoral degree in American History at the University of Illinois. Herr holds a research position at the National Center for Super Computing Applications, is the Associate Director of the H-Net University of Illinois Regional Center, is an editor of H-Net's H-South list, and is involved with developing multimedia applications for history. Herr is currently researching the nature of community and property in the nineteenth century South.
Todd Larson
Todd E. Larson is a Ph.D. candidate in Modern British History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His other responsibilities include teaching academic technologies in the Department of History. In addition he is the Department's Web Designer. He is an author of the book The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997), and a founder and former co-editor of the Internet journal, History Reviews On-LIne.
Jim Oliver
Jim Oliver works in the Anthropology Section at the Illinois State Museum's Research & Collections Center, specializing in GIS analysis of environmental and archeological data, and its dissemination to the scientific and education communities, and the broader public. He is serving as the principal technical liaison between the teams at the Museum and NCSA.
Erich Schoeder
As the Illinois State Museum's Associate Curator of Anthropology and GIS Lab Manager, Erich Schroeder is responsible for a variety of scientific, technical and educational activities at the museum, including development and maintainence of its web site (https://www.museum.state.il.us). In the present project, Mr. Schroeder is providing technical support for the Museum's contribution, as well as developing specific applications, such as "VRML" flythroughs and QuickTime VR movies of the Cahokia Mounds.
Juhan Sonin
Sonin specializes in multimedia application and technology development. With both an engineering and film background, he works on both the technical and artistic sides of the digital industry. He has produced and managed R&D projects for both academic and real world (on-the-shelf) applications. Sonin has focused on many aspects of the computer development world, ranging from educational development tools and resources to interactive audio design to cinematic special effects. As Technical Director at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois, he has overseen the production/development of realtime CAVE environments, digital video tools/resources, Geographic Information Systems data visualization, and synchronous, collaborative virtual work spaces.