About Me

Dr. Cate Cleo Alexander is a recent graduate of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation, “Digital History Content Creation: Platformed Precarity and Affective Innovations” examines the work of digital history content creators within the context of platform logics that simultaneously enable and restrict access to historical content. Cate employs a wide variety of methodologies in her research, including autoethnography, digital ethnography, media historiographies, sampling/scraping, qualitative coding, and artistic autoethnographic experiments with genAI. In other words, she spends a lot of time looking at history on the Internet.

Cate's research was generously supported by SSHRC in both her Masters' and her PhD. She is the coordinator for the GLAM Incubator and a member of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures research cluster. When she is not studying cultural heritage, digital humanities, or media theory, Cate can be found contra dancing or watching old movies at The Revue.