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Research

Publications, Conference Papers and Presentations  

Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

C. Alexander. Review of Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive edited by Nezih Erdogan and Ebru Kayaalp. Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies. Forthcoming.

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C. Alexander and C. Intson, “Bimbos and Bombs: The Barbenheimer Phenomenon,” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, March 11, 2024. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29701 

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Peer-Reviewed Abstracts for Conferences – Sole Authorship

 

C. Alexander. “Content, Context, and Conspiracies: (Mis)representations of Public History on YouTube.” Australian Historians’ Association Conference, July 2024, Sydney, Australia.

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C. Alexander. “Bringing History to Life”: Animating Historical Portraits through AI.” Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Conference, June 2024, Reading, England.

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C. Alexander. “Palimpsestuous: Affective Mediation/Remediation Practices in Digital History Content Creation.” Association of Internet Researchers Doctoral Colloquium, October 2022, Dublin, Ireland.

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C. Alexander. “The Ethics of Neutrality in Digital Archives: A Case Study of the Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives.” Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Conference, October 2021, Virtual.

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C. Alexander. “Enabling Access to the Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives: Intersectionality in Digital Archive Design.” Western Association of Women Historians Conference, April 2020, Costa Mesa, CA. Postponed due to COVID-19.

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C. Alexander. “Enabling Access to the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives: A Case Study of Intersectionality in Digital Archive Design.” ACCESS, October 2019, Edmonton, AB.

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C. Alexander. “Rachel Bross, A Canadian Slave, and Judicial Emancipation in 1790s Nova Scotia: The Court Cases of R. v. Hecht and Hecht v. Moody.” History and Classics Department Lunch Lectures, April 2018, Edmonton, AB.

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C. Alexander. “Designing a Database: Enabling Access to Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project.” University of Alberta Humanities Computing Conference, March 2018, Edmonton, AB.

 

Peer-Reviewed Abstracts for Conferences – Conference Presenter, Member of Research Team

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C. Alexander, A. Borynec, Y. Chen, J. Elmergreen, K. Gordon, S. Gouglas, E. Kuznetsov, Z. Liu, A. Owino, A. Phelps, L. Salvador Dias, “The Work of Play: A survey of graduates from higher education programs in video games.” Canadian Game Studies Association Conference, June 2019, Vancouver, BC.

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C. Alexander, A. Borynec, Y. Chen, K. Gordon, E. Kuznetsov, A. Owino, L. Salvador Dias, S. Gouglas, “Formal Education Update: So much data, so little time.” Refiguring Innovation in Games Conference, October 2018, Vancouver, BC.

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Peer-Reviewed Abstracts for Conferences – Member of Research Team

 

C. Alexander, Y. Chen, K. Gordon, S. Gouglas, Z. Liu, A. Owino, L. Salvador Dias, “The State of Video Game Education: Canadian, American, and Californian Post- Secondary Programs.” Refiguring Innovation in Games Conference, October 2019, Toronto, ON.

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C. Alexander, A. Borynec, A. Budac, Y. Chen, K. Gordon, S. Gouglas, E. Kuznetsov, A. Owino, L. Salvador Dias, “Maybe 3 more menu bars will solve the problem: Methodological challenges in data collection from post-secondary websites.” Refiguring Innovation in Games Conference, October 2018, Vancouver, BC.

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C. Alexander, J. Beyer, A. Borynec, A. Budac, Y. Chen, L. Salvador Dias, K. Gordon, S. Gouglas, Z. Kane, E. Kuznetsov, A. Owino, “California Gamin’: The State of Californian Formal Education in Video Games,” Canadian Game Studies Association Conference, May 2018, Regina, SK.

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Public Facing Publications

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C. Alexander. “‘Bringing History to Life’: Animating Historical Portraits with Artificial Intelligence.” University of Reading Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Blog Series, September 20, 2024, https://research.reading.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/bringing-history-to-life-animating-historical-portraits- with-artificial-intelligence/. 

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C. Alexander. “Too soon? Titan or Titanic, people always make weird jokes about rich people’s tragedies.” The Conversation, June 16, 2024, https://theconversation.com/too-soon-titan-or-titanic-people-always- make-weird-jokes-about-rich-peoples-tragedies-227521.

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Ellen Schoeck, Taking Charge: A History of the SU and GSA, 1908–2021. University of Alberta Press: 2021. Editorial Assistant and Contributing Writer.

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Ellen Schoeck, Taking Care: Alumni Stories about Life in the Original Residences and Lister Hall, 1911-2020. University of Alberta Press: 2020. Editorial Assistant and Contributing Writer.

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HEVGA, “2019 Survey of Program Graduates”, Report for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA), May 2019. Editorial Assistant and Contributing Researcher.

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Ellen Schoeck, Born to Build: Peoples’ History of the Faculty of Engineering, 1906-2018. University of Alberta Press: 2018. Editorial Assistant and Contributing Writer.

Research Positions 

GLAM Incubator

2023 – present

  • Coordinating a research and support hub that connects galleries, libraries, archives, and museums with industry partners, researchers, and students

  • Facilitating communications between organizations, assisting GLAM organizations in executing projects, organizing the hiring of research assistants, coordinating applications

 

Center for Culture and Technology Writing Workshop

2023 – present

  • Co-convening a writing workshop for graduate students

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Critical Digital Methods Institute

2022 – present

  • Organized post-conference event on Artificial Intelligence

 

History Publications on University of Alberta

2018 – present

  • Performing archival research, conducting interviews, writing sections, editing drafts, and supervising final copy to book design, including all citations and footnotes.

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Archives in Action Workshops and Symposiu

2024

  • Co-coordinator of a symposium that brought together academics, cultural workers, and community practitioners to generate a National Action Plan concerning key policy issues affecting marginalized audiovisual archives in Canada at local, regional, and national levels

 

Creative Hubs and Networks

2021 – 22

  • Refined tagging system and controlled vocabulary for Project Dictionary

  • Worked on publicly available Zotero, which will be published through the library

 

ReFiguring Innovation in Games Project

2017 – 20

  • SSHRC-funded, international multi-institution project promoting diversity and equity in video game industry and culture

  • Designed and conducted interviews, developed and distributed surveys, translated surveys and interview questions from English to French

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