EDUCATION. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Department of History

1 BRIAN BEATON

Assistant Professor

School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh

622 Information Science Building 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 United States

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 2012 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Department of History Dissertation Committee:

Prof. Michelle Murphy, Dept. of History (Supervisor) Prof. Elspeth H. Brown, Dept. of History

Prof. David J. Phillips, Faculty of Information (iSchool) Dissertation: "Everyday Data”

Abstract: A study of local and community information practices in the period just before personal computing and the rise of digital social media (ca. 1970s).

Dissertation Defense Date: July 13, 2012 Comprehensive Exam Date: Winter 2006 *Passed with Highest Distinction

M.A., 2002 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (NYU), New York, NY

John W. Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought

Concentration: History of Technology; Public History; Archives; Humanities Computing MA Thesis: "The Making of Public History."

Supervisor: Peter Wosh, Director of NYU Program in Public History and Archives

Abstract: A study of the public history movement in the United States between the 1960s and the 1990s, with a focus on the field's history, mission, and purpose.

B.A., 2000 EMORY UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, GA

Concentration: History (major)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Beaton, B. (forthcoming 2013). “Drawing Crowds to Citizen Science: Data Collection and Analysis as Everyday Gaming.” Status: forthcoming in the Center for Gaming Research Occasional Paper Series. Las Vegas: Center for Gaming Research, University Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Beaton, B. (forthcoming 2012). “Apps Against Abuse: A Technology Assessment.” Status: accepted by the journal Violence Against Women (Sage)

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Beaton, B. (forthcoming 2012). “Other People’s Digital Tools: Cold War History as Seen Through the GSA’s Real

Property Utilization and Disposal Website.” Status: forthcoming in the Journal of Interactive Technology and

Pedagogy

Beaton, B. (forthcoming 2012). "Media Technology and Women’s Everyday Security Culture.” Status: forthcoming in the journal Mediatropes

Beaton, B. (2007). “Racial Science Now: Histories of Race and Science in the Age of Personalized Medicine,” The Public Historian, Vol. 29, No. 3, 157-162.

GRADUATE LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2012- School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Responsible for graduate course design and delivery; grading; student advising; course administration; managing course websites

LIS2220 Archives and Records Management (Fall 2012) LIS2674 Digital Preservation (Spring 2013)

LIS2970 Special Topics: Citizen Science (Spring 2013)

UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2011-2012 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE INSTRUCTOR,

Program in American Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Responsible for course design and delivery; grading; supervising doctoral student teaching assistants; course administration; managing course websites

USA310H "Technology and American Life." (Spring 2011) Enrollment: 45; primarily 3rd and 4th year undergraduates (lecture) Temporal Scope: 18thc-present; Geographic focus: transnational U.S. USA310H "Quantitative Cultures." (Spring 2012)

Enrollment: 45; primarily 3rd and 4th year undergraduates (lecture) Temporal Scope: 18thc-present; Geographic focus: transnational U.S. USA495Y Independent Studies (Course Supervisor, Summer 2011)

Adam Rogers-Green: "A Cultural History of Human Capital Theory." Senior Project

2007-2012 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE INSTRUCTOR,

Department of History, University of Toronto

Responsible for course design and delivery; marking; supervising doctoral student teaching assistants; course administration; managing course websites

HIS202 "Gender, Race and Science." (Spring 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012) Enrollment: 100; primarily 1st and 2nd year undergraduates (lecture)

Temporal Scope: 18thc-present; Geographic focus: U.S., Europe, and Colonial Sites HIS378 "America in the 1960s."

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Enrollment: 50; primarily 3rd and 4th year undergraduates (lecture) Temporal Scope: 1940s-1980s; Geographic focus: transnational U.S. HIS496H "Transnational Histories." (Summer 2008)

Enrollment: 20; 4th year undergraduates (senior methods seminar) Temporal Scope: 1960s-2000s; Geographic focus: transnational U.S.

HIS499Y Independent Studies in History (Course Supervisor, 2007-2008)

Isaac Lowes: "Race and the Politics of Health in post-1945 Los Angeles." Senior Project 2011-2012 SERVICE LEARNING TEACHING ASSISTANT

Service Learning Program, New College, University of Toronto Responsible for providing instructional and program support

2005-2006 TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of History, University of Toronto

Undergraduate course: "20thc American Popular Culture." Professor: John Ingham Undergraduate Course: "Introduction to African History." Professor: Jon Soske Undergraduate Course: "American History Since 1607." Professor: Erin Black Undergraduate course: "History & Film." Professor: Charlie Keil

2005-2006 TEACHING ASSISTANT, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto Undergraduate course: "Film Theory." Professor: Corinne Columpar

Undergraduate course: "History of Film." Professor: Nic Sammond 2005-2006 Teaching Assistant Training Program, University of Toronto

Certificate of Completion: April 2006

2004-2005 TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of History, University of Toronto Undergraduate course: "The American City." Professor: Angela Blake Undergraduate course: "History & Film." Professor: Charlie Keil

2003-2004 TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of History, University of Toronto

Undergraduate Course: "American History Since 1607." Professor: Robert Teigrob

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

2011-2012 FACULTY ADVISOR, Undergraduate Reading Group, "How I Read.” Undergraduate Program in American Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

2010-2011 COORDINATOR, Undergraduate Reading Group, "Mapping with Fanon: Medicine and Politics." Technoscience Research Unit, New College, University of Toronto

2009-2010 Co-COORDINATOR (with Michelle Murphy), Technoscience Research Unit, New College, University of Toronto

2008-2009 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto Project on Cold War Security Culture

Advisor: Michelle Murphy

2006-2007 Co-ORGANIZER (with Michelle Murphy), Biopolitics + Technoscience Series, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

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An interdisciplinary roundtable and lecture series exploring questions of science, technology, biomedicine, and government

2006-2008 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, University of Toronto, Project on Museum Practice and Racial Violence in the U.S.

Advisor: Roger I. Simon

2004-2005 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Visual Culture and Communications Program, University of Toronto, "Technocultures: Sight, Sound, and the Question of Difference Project"

Advisor: Elspeth H. Brown

2002-2002 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, NYU Humanities Computing Group Project on digitization practices in libraries and archives

Advisor: Lorna M. Hughes PUBLIC HISTORY PROJECTS

2005-2007 Co-EDITOR (with Michelle Murphy), Racesci: History of Race in Science Website, Department of History, University of Toronto

One of the earliest electronic resources for scholars and students concerned with the critical examination of 'race' in the histories of science, technology, and medicine.

2006-2008 ADVISER, The Methodology Lab

Department of History, University of Toronto

A laboratory and speaker series on the practice of public history. 2005-2006 FOUNDER and COORDINATOR, The Methodology Lab

Department of History, University of Toronto

A laboratory and speaker series on the practice of public history. Public Keynote Lecture: Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario

2001-2002 DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER, NYU Graduate Program in Public History Project on Historical Memory and Minority Youth

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS (INVITED)

2013 Gaming Research Colloquium Talk

Las Vegas, Nevada, UNLV Center for Gaming Research, May 16, 2013.

Research paper presentation: “Drawing Crowds to Citizen Science: Data Collection and Analysis as Everyday Gaming”

2012 Workshop on the Pedagogy and Practice of University-Community Engagement University of Toronto, May 2, 2012

Panelist: “How Does Community-Based Learning Change Teaching, Learning, and Research?” 2012 School of Information Sciences

University of Pittsburgh, February 23, 2012

Paper Presentation: “Technology, Information, and Women’s Everyday Security Culture” 2012 Forum on “Graduate Student Research: Practices and Processes”

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2013 National Council on Public History (NCPH), Annual Meeting Ottawa, Ontario, April 17-20.

Research paper presentation: “Drawing Crowds: Lessons from Las Vegas for Citizen Science.” (proposal under consideration)

2013 iConference 2013

Fort Worth, Texas, February 12-15, 2013

Research paper presentation: “Online Citizen Science Games: Work or Play?” (proposal under consideration)

2012 Material Culture in Closed Spaces STS Workshop University of Luxembourg, October 11-12, 2012

Research paper presentation: “Unrooting the Rules: The Social Life of Plants in Libraries and Archives” (proposal accepted)

2012 Society for the History of Technology, Annual Meeting

Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 4-11, 2012

Research paper presentation: “Reducing the Cost of Conversion: Christian Experiments with Telephones and Telephone Answering Machines in the 1960s and 1970s” (proposal accepted) 2012 Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture

University of Alberta, September 6-8, 2012

Research paper presentation: “Extra-scientific Communication in 1970s Petroleum Geology” (proposal accepted)

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & SCHOLARSHIPS

2012 Gaming Research Fellowship, Center for Gaming Research, UNLV

2011 Pam Laird Research Grant in the History of Communications Technology (Finalist) 2007; 2008 Doctoral Completion Grant, University of Toronto

2008 Dean’s Student Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

2007 Craig Brown Research Travel Grant, University of Toronto

2007; 2008 School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto 2005; 2007 Dept. of History Conference Travel Grant, University of Toronto 2005 Annette K. Baxter Travel Grant, American Studies Association 2005 Smithsonian Institute Graduate Student Fellowship (Runner-up) 2003-2008 University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2006-07 Academic Board, University of Toronto Governing Council Appointed Graduate Student Member

2006-07 Graduate Education Council, University of Toronto

Elected Graduate Student Representative, Division I (Humanities) 1 of 12 students elected to represent 12,000 graduate students in regard to all policy and program matters at the School of Graduate Studies

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2006-07 School of Graduate Studies Program Committee, University of Toronto Elected Graduate Student Representative, Division I (Humanities) 2005-06 School of Graduate Studies Council, University of Toronto

Elected Graduate Student Representative, Division I (Humanities) 1 of 12 students elected to represent 12,000 graduate students in regard to all policy and program matters at the School of Graduate Studies

2005-06 School of Graduate Studies Executive Committee, University of Toronto Elected Graduate Student Representative, Division I (Humanities) 2004-05 Graduate History Society, Department of History, University of Toronto

President PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for Social Studies of Science Society for the History of Technology National Council on Public History