Trevor Owens

Biography

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Trevor Owens is the community lead for the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. His work focuses on games and online learning communities, with a particular focus on history and science. He received a bachelor’s degree in the history of science form the University of Wisconsin, and a master’s degree in American history and digital history from George Mason University. Trevor has published research on the historical discourses of Modders, analysis of children’s books about Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, and a book on the history of Fairfax County Virginia as it is preserved in postcards. Trevor has given invited talks about digital research tools and methodology at the Library of Congress, the National Institutes of Health, the National Archives, and a wide range of research institutions and institutions of higher learning. In 2009, Read Write Web recognized him as one of the 50+ Semantic Web Pros to Follow on Twitter. For his work on developing PlayingHistory.org, an open collaborative directory of digital historical games and interactives, he won the 2009 CW Bright Pixel Prize for Digital History.

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