People

Co-Director Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and the Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. Dr. Saunt is the author of two award-winning books on Southeastern Indians and of multiple articles published in the leading journals in the field. He has been working in spatial history for the last several years. [department page] [website]

Co-Director Stephen Berry is Associate Professor of History and coordinator of the War & Society Workshop at UGA. He is the author of multiple books on America in the Civil War Era, including House of Abraham: Lincoln & the Todds, A Family Divided by War (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) and All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (Oxford, 2003). [department page] [website]

Associate Director Alex DeVine is GIS Technical Coordinator for UGA’s Office of University Architects. He has over ten years of experience in Spatial Information Science, including the development and management of enterprise GIS and Building Information Systems and Building Information Model Systems. He is currently involved in research in digital geovisualization of 3D landform and structure models and utilization of Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) survey techniques for the generation of visualizations and models.


Project Manager Kurt Luther is a Ph.D. candidate in social computing at the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, where he specializes in the design and study of social computing systems that support creative collaboration. He has interned at Google/Youtube (2010), Newgrounds (2009), Microsoft (2008), and IBM (2007), and was recently named a Foley Scholar, the GVU Center’s highest honor, awarded for “overall brilliance and potential impact.” [website]