Kim Martin

• serendipity in the historical research process
• digital history | digital humanities
• the impact of technology on research and teaching in the humanities
• intersectional analyses of technology
• linked open data for cultural heritage
• local, rural, oral history
• representations of gender in early modern England
• interdisciplinarity

Books

Graham, Shawn, Milligan, Ian, Weingart, Scott, and Kim Martin. The Historian's Macroscope, 2nd edition. World Scientific, 2022. 

Book Chapters

Martin, Kim, and Rashmeet Kaur. "Making, Conversation: An Experiment in Public Digital Humanities." Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities. Ed. Paul Barrett and Sarah Roger. University of Ottawa Press (2023).

Brown, Susan, Kim Martin, and Asen Ivanov. "Linking Out: The Long Now of Digital Humanities Infrastructures." Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities. Ed. Paul Barrett and Sarah Roger. University of Ottawa Press (2023).

Canning, Erin, Susan Brown, Sarah Roger, and Kim Martin. "The power to structure: making meaning from metadata through ontologies." KULA 6, no. 3 (2022): 1-15.

Martin, Kim, Beth Compton, and Ryan Hunt. "Disrupting dichotomies: Mobilizing digital humanities with the MakerBus." Making things and drawing boundaries: Experiments in the digital humanities (2017).

Quan-Haase, Anabel, and Kim Martin. "La Fiesta de Santo Tomás as a Technology of Culture: Memory, Carnival, and Syncretism in the Modern Guatemalan Identity." In The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque, pp. 291-306. Routledge, 2016.

Articles

Canning, Erin, Susan Brown, Sarah Roger, and Kimberley Martin. "The power to structure: making meaning from metadata through ontologies." KULA 6, no. 3 (2022): 1-15.

Martin, Kim. "Clio, Rewired: Propositions for the Future of Digital History Pedagogy in Canada." Canadian Historical Review 101, no. 4 (2020): 622-640.

Schreurs, Kathleen, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Kim Martin. "Problematizing the digital literacy paradox in the context of older adults’ ICT use: Aging, media discourse, and self-determination." Canadian journal of communication 42, no. 2 (2017): 359-377.

Martin, Kim, Brian Greenspan, and Anabel Quan-Haase. "STAK–Serendipitous tool for augmenting knowledge: A conceptual tool for bridging digital and physical resources." Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 7, no. 1 (2017).

Compton, Mary E., Kim Martin, and Ryan Hunt. "Where do we go from here? Innovative technologies and heritage engagement with the MakerBus." Digital applications in archaeology and cultural heritage 6 (2017): 49-53.

Martin, Kim, and Anabel Quan-Haase. "The role of agency in historians’ experiences of serendipity in physical and digital information environments." Journal of Documentation 72, no. 6 (2016): 1008-1026.

Schreurs, Kathleen, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Kim Martin. "Problematizing the digital literacy paradox in the context of older adults’ ICT use: Aging, media discourse, and self-determination." Canadian journal of communication 42, no. 2 (2017): 359-377.

Desrochers, Nadine, Audrey Laplante, Kim Martin, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Louise Spiteri. "Illusions of a “Bond”: tagging cultural products across online platforms." Journal of Documentation 72, no. 6 (2016): 1027-1051.

Quan-Haase, Anabel, Kim Martin, and Kathleen Schreurs. "Not all on the same page: e-book adoption and technology exploration by seniors." Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 19, no. 2 (2014): n2.

Quan-Haase, Anabel, and Kim Martin. "Digital curation and the networked audience of urban events: Expanding La Fiesta de Santo Tomás from the physical to the virtual environment." International Communication Gazette 75, no. 5-6 (2013): 521-537.

Martin, Kim, and Anabel Quan‐Haase. "Are e‐books replacing print books? Tradition, serendipity, and opportunity in the adoption and use of e‐books for historical research and teaching." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64, no. 5 (2013): 1016-1028.

Other

Alpert-Abrams, Hannah, Heather Froehlich, Amanda Henrichs, Jim McGrath, and Kim Martin. "Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights." Humanities Commons (2019).

Public History Projects

• On the Record: A Community History of Guelph (Oral history project with senior citizens who resided at Norfolk House in 2017)
• ArtApart (Blog of local art projects started during COVID, collected by URAs Rashmeet Kaur, Michaela Rye, Margarita Wilson, and Sophia Lago)
• Connecting Generations (COA-funded project to connect seniors to students aged 8-12 to exchange art journals. URAs Rashmeet Kaur, Michaela Rye, Margarita Wilson, and Sophia Lago)
• Hear, Here Arboretum (Place-based oral history project)
• Contextualizing COVID 19 (Student experiences of the pandemic)
• Your Old Barn Study (Experiential Learning Project with the Ontario Barn Preservation) 

I love teaching, both inside and out in the world. I have the privilege of teaching in both the History Department and the Culture & Technology Studies interdisciplinary program here at Guelph. In 2025 I was honoured to receive both the COA Teaching Award and the UGFA Distinguished Professor Teaching Award and Kate Tschirhart kindly wrote this short article about my teaching.

You can read about my teaching philosophy at this link. 

I am on research leave in F25/W26, but look forward to returning to the classroom in Fall of 2026.