Website and project lead
Dr. Laura Ishiguro
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia.
Find out more about my teaching, research, and other work here.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me at Laura.Ishiguro@ubc.ca
Team members and contributors
Gold Rush Program
Alice Gorton
Lauren Hyde
Elizabeth Benoy
Thea Bridger Denz
Amrit Toor
Genevieve Forsyth
Elizabeth Shepherd
Carmen Watson
McKenzie Young
The Gold Rush Program was a multi-year research-training program for undergraduate students, generously supported through the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. The vast majority of resources and all student on this website has emerged from this program, with the exception noted below. For more – including a discussion of how to integrate the Doing History modules into a research program or course – see this detailed explanation of the program.
Gold Rush in a Digital Age
Meghan Longstaffe, Graduate Academic Assistant
Students in History 305: History of British Columbia, 2014-15 and 2015-16
This website’s module on transcription began with the Gold Rush in a Digital Age project, which was supported by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund at the University of British Columbia, and carried out in collaboration with Larissa Ringham (Digital Initiatives), Paul Joseph (Systems Librarian), and Sarah Romkey and Krisztina Laszlo (Special Collections). Through this project, Meghan Longstaffe and I developed teaching resources on transcription, and students in History 305 used them to transcribe letters in the Royal Fisk collection held by UBC Special Collections. I was then able to hone and revise this material for the website. The resulting module thus owes much to Meghan’s hard work and the students’ close engagement with the project, as well as my co-investigators in the Library and the TLEF funding program.
Sofia Santamaria reviewed the website and made astute suggestions. I’m very grateful to her, and to the UBC History department for supporting her work.
Finally, while the website’s materials have been primarily developed with the support of these teaching-based programs, I have also drawn specific examples and exercises from my own research work on mid-nineteenth-century British Columbia. This work has been funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Settler Colonialism, Global Families, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871).