Amy Larner Giroux is a former Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research. Her UCF publications include articles in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Current Research in Digital History, ImageTexT, and Florida Studies.
She completed her doctorate in Texts and Technology from the University of Central Florida in summer 2014. Her dissertation, “Kaleidoscopic Community History: Theories of Databased Rhetorical History-Making,” included a digital history project about navigating the historical contact zones between whites, blacks, and mixed-race Creoles in early nineteenth-century Pensacola, Florida, and the contact zone with present-day users of the project. She additionally received an MA in Anthropology and a B.S.E.T. (Computer Technology), and also has over 40 years’ experience in software development and project management.
She also worked as a professional genealogical researcher, lecturer and writer. She has articles published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, and The Genealogist (American Society of Genealogists).
Her research interests include historical, cultural, and genealogical research; digital ethnography; digital archives; cemetery burial iconography; and GIS analysis.
