Amy Larner Giroux, PhD

 I am an Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) at the University of Central Florida assisting faculty and graduate students with their digital humanities projects. My UCF publications include articles in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Current Research in Digital History, ImageTexT, and Florida Studies. More....

My personal research involves the identification of the unknowns buried in St. Augustine National Cemetery. To date, I have identified 108 Union Soldiers as dying during the war and its immediate aftermath, and 60 who remain in the cemetery with incorrect headstones. I have identified 140 Second Seminole War soldiers entombed in the Dade Pyramids, correcting the inaccurate count of 1,468. I have also identified nine Plains Indian prisoners of war who were buried between 1875 and 1877 and the movement of six of those to a common grave. 

I am currently working with tribal descendants, the National Park Service, Flagler College, and other partners to honor the 72 Chiefs and warriors brought to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, and the ten who died and are buried in Florida.  

I am co-PI on this NHPRC grant funded project. I am responsible for the metadata pipeline with image processing for Zooniverse and ultimately the creation of MARC records to add our project data to UCF's library catalog.

I was a co-PI and the technical lead on this collaborative project and worked with faculty and staff in UCF’s History Department. I designed and implemented the website and implemented augmented reality in the cemeteries. This work is part of the National Cemetery Administration’s educational outreach efforts to join university research with K-12 students. 

I was a co-PI on this NEH grant funded project. I was responsible for all of the dictionary imaging processes and supervised computer science undergraduates that worked to create computer vision programs to parse the dictionary page images into word level images.

My dissertation project focused on how factors, such as rhetor/audience perspective, influence cross-cultural historical interpretation, and how a community history database can be designed to illuminate and affect these factors. The Google Earth browser plugin was discontinued and therefore the digital project is no longer functional. However, the electronic version of my dissertation contains images and animations.

 For my thesis, I statistically analyzed grave marker attributes using Excel and SPSS and spatially analyzed the burials using ArcGIS. For my poster on this research, I was awarded Best in Category, Social Science, at the 2010 University of Central Florida Graduate Research Forum.