Anne Kelly Knowles (born 1957) is an American

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and a specialist in

Historical GIS A historical geographic information system (also written as historical GIS or HGIS) is a geographic information system that may display, store and analyze data of past geographies and track changes in time. It can be regarded as a tool for historic ...

. After teaching for over ten years at Middlebury College in

Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...

as a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

of geography, she is now a professor of

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universities, flagshi ...

. She received her MA and PhD from

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

. Her first book, ''Calvinists Incorporated Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier'' examined the influence of immigrants’ traditions and social values on their economic behavior during the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. In 2002 she edited the first book ever published with case studies of the use of

in various disciplines. She was the guest editor of a special issue of the journal ''

Social Science History ''Social Science History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal. It is the official journal of the Social Science History Association. Its articles bring an analytic, theoretical, and often quantitative approach to historical evidence. I ...

'' about this field. Her research has included

spatial analysis Spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which studies entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techniques, many still in their early deve ...

of the role of skilled

ironworkers An ironworker is a tradesman who works in the iron-working industry. Ironworkers assemble the structural framework in accordance with engineered drawings and install the metal support pieces for new buildings. They also repair and renovate ...

in the transfer of technology in the U.S. iron industry 1800-1868, and the mapping of the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship (2015).
John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Award, Association of American Geographers (2014). American Ingenuity Award for Historical Scholarship, '' Smithsonian'' magazine (2012). National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant, Holocaust Historical GIS, with Alberto Giordano as fellow PI (2008 – 2011). National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship (2005). American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (1999).

References

Works

* Knowles, Anne Kelly; Tim Cole; Alberto Giordano (eds.). 2014. ''Geographies of the Holocaust'' Bloomington: Indiana University Press
At IU Press
. . * Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2013. ''Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry''. University of Chicago Press. * Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (2008), edited Knowles, digital supplement edited by Amy Hillier. Redlands, Cal.: ESRI Press. * Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2005. ''Emerging Trends in Historical GIS. In Historical Geography'', Baton Rouge, LA: Geoscience Publications. * Knowles, Anne Kelly, 2002. ''Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History''. ESRI press * Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2000. ''Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History'', Social Science History 24 (3). * Knowles, Anne Kelly. 1997. ''Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier''.

External links

Faculty page at University of Maine
* References to Anne K. Knowle
in Google Scholar
* References to Anne K. Knowles work in popular media

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