About Me.
Cate Cleo Alexander (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Prior to U of T, Cate obtained a BA Combined Honours in History and Classics and a MA in Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta. Her lifelong passion for history has taken her from archaeological field digs in Greece and Italy to the digital realms of online archives. Cate's doctoral research examines digital public history through feminist new-materialist and political economic theory in order to establish a better understanding of how platforms influence the production, distribution, and consumption of public history. Cate's research was generously supported by SSHRC in both her Masters' and her PhD, and she is the coordinator for the GLAM Incubator at the University of Toronto.
When she is not studying cultural heritage, digital humanities, or media theory, Cate can be found reading trashy murder mysteries, watching long video essays on YouTube, or dancing (Lindy Hop, blues, fusion, balfolk, contra, west coast, etc.).
Education
2020 - Expected 2024
University of Toronto
Doctor of Philosophy in Information
Cultural Heritage Concentration, Faculty of Information
Supervisor: Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka
Thesis: “Palimpsestuous: Affective Mediation/Remediation Practices in Digital History Content Creation”
2018 - 2020
University of Alberta
Master of Arts in Digital Humanities
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Harvey Quamen
Thesis: “Enabling Access to the Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives: A Case Study in Digital Archive Design”
2013 - 2017
University of Alberta
Bachelor of Arts with Combined Honours in History and Classics
Faculty of Arts
Supervisor: Dr. Susan Smith
Thesis: “Rachel Bross, A Canadian Slave, and Judicial Emancipation in 1790s Nova Scotia: The Court Cases of R. v. Hecht and Hecht v. Moody”