This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
Our Team
Staff
Leonardo Barleta
Graduate Assistant
Leonardo Barleta is a Ph.D. Candidate in History (Latin America) and Graduate Assistant for the Spatial History Project. His dissertation examines the interiorization of Portuguese colonial enterprise in South America during
the first half of the eighteenth century through the mapping the movement people
and information in the backlands of Brazil.
Erik Steiner
Co-Director, Spatial History Project
Erik Steiner helped found the Lab in 2007 and served as the first Lab Director until 2010. He now serves as the Co-Director of the Spatial History Project. Before coming to Stanford, Erik worked at the InfoGraphics Lab in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. Erik has fifteen years' experience in leading the design and development of print and interactive information visualizations, including CD-ROMs, atlases, websites, and museum kiosks. He is also a former president of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). A designer at heart, Erik is passionate about building deep creative partnerships that cut across disciplines and expertise.
