The Imperiia Project: a spatial history of the Russian Empire

Studio

You know the joke: a historian, a map, and a microchip walk into a bar...

Doing spatial history well means maintaining a good sense of humor. It also means relying on the combined expertise of social scientists, humanists, data scientists, librarians, and GIS specialists. Together we develop ways to utilize sources that have been neglected for decades (if not centuries) because they are hard to work with. The volumes of dry statistical tables that make most people run in the opposite direction? For us they are the stuff of dreams. The maps most people treat as illustrations? For us they are primary sources. We like to experiment. And each project in the Studio has a trio of goals: 
  1. to create new historical knowledge;
  2. to solve a methodological problem;
  3. to produce a user-friendly piece of history.
Whether you happen to be in a classroom or a library, at a kitchen table or a busy cafe, if you find yourself poring over maps or pondering places or spaces, we are working on these projects with you in mind.

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