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Professional Preparation
Published Work
Research Project
Major Papers and Projects
Conference Papers
Teaching and Academic Experience
Lectures
Professional Development
Committee Involvement
Awards

Professional Preparation
September 2005 - Completed Comprehensive Examinations and am a qualified candidate for Ph.D. in the Department of History, McMaster University.
2004 - Doctoral Student, Department of History, McMaster University, Hamilton.
M.A. 2004, Department of History, University of Guelph, Guelph.
B.A. 1988, Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph.

Published Work
June 2007: Chris Smith, David Wright and Shawn Day, "Distancing the Mad: Jarvis's Law and the Spatial Distribution of Admissions to the Hamilton (Canada) Lunatic Asylum, 1876-1902," Social Science & Medicine, 64:11, 2362-77.

2006 June, TAPoR Training, "Digitisation with Shawn Day" DVD Training Product.

2004 October, Shawn Day, “The Hotel Keepers’ Trade: One Family’s Experience in Victorian Guelph,” Historic Guelph The Journal of the Guelph Historical Society, XXX (October 2004), 15-34.

2004 Douglas McCalla and Shawn Day “Economic History in Canada: A Survey,” in Canadian Historical Association Bulletin, 30:1 (2004), 21-2.

2001 Shawn Day, Steve Barnhart and Nathan H. Perkins, "Enabling Community Involvement in the Design Process through Web-Enabled Technologies: Hamilton, Red Hill Creek Project," School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph.

2000 Shawn Day, Steve Barnhart and Nathan H. Perkins, "Enabling End-User Participation in community decision-making," School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph.

1999 Mountjoy, Max, ed. Portraits of Peel, (Peel Township: Peel History Committee, 1999). Source Materials were drawn from a digital archive that I designed and implemented.

Research Project                                                                                       
2007 - Automated Linkage of Manuscript Census records between 1901 Canadian Census and Canadian WWI Enlistment Records
2004 - Webs of Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Communities

Major Papers and Projects                                                                        
2007, Digitisation of Thésaurus du motif merveilleux for Dr. Stéfan Sinclair and thePolyBase littéraire PBLit project.

2006, Coordination of iMatter SSHRC Cluster Grant proposal

2006, Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR)
A series of recipes (user case models) to help new and experienced users of the portal gain familiarity with the ways in which the portal can be employed in their research.

2005, “Widowhood Survival Strategies in Nineteenth Century Guelph,” Paper for the Guelph Historical Society presented March 2005.

2004 November, “History Students' Graduate Society at McMaster University,” Construction of Website, McMaster University, Hamilton.

2004 April, “The Keepers' Trade: Skills, Attributes and the Pursuit of the Hotel Trade in late Nineteenth-Century Guelph,” M.A. Thesis, University of Guelph, Guelph.

2003 December, “‘The Hotel Keepers’ Trade: One Family’s Experience in Victorian Guelph,” Awarded Essay Prize in Verne McIlwraith Award Contest, Guelph Historical Society.

2004 April-September, “Rural History at the University of Guelph,” Construction of Website with Dr. Douglas McCalla, University of Guelph, Guelph.

2003 - 2004 "A Virtual Tour of Nineteenth Century Guelph: GIS-enabled recreation of the City of Guelph." with Dr. Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, Guelph.

Conference Papers                                                                                     
2007 10 Ausgust, "Liberty, Morality and the Right to Drink: Liquor Licensing, Trade Organization and Political Patronage in Late Nineteenth Century Canada." Global Approaches, the 4th International conference on the History of Drugs and Alcohol.

2006 14 October, "The Use of the Recipe as a Guiding Metaphor for Flexible and Efficient Self-Guided Computing Instruction," presented at Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA 2006)

2006 March 17, "The Battle for the Bar: Licensed Victuallers Associations and the Ethical Struggle Against Prohibition, 1858-1900." presented at McGill/Queen's Graduate Conference, Montreal.

2004 November 4, with Josh MacFadyen, “Geographic Information Systems and the Historian: Studies in the Hotel and Flax Industries,” paper presented at GIS Day, University of Guelph, Guelph.

2004 May, “Rascals and Respectability: The Prism of Private documents and Public Respectability,” presented at Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods, and Interdisciplinarity, University of Ottawa, Ottawa.

2004 March, “Keepers and the Kept: The Personality of the 19 th Century Hotel Keeper,” presented at Queen’s/McGill Graduate Conference, Montreal.

2004 February, “The Keeper’s Trade: The Pursuit of the Hotel Trade in Nineteenth Century Ontario,” presented at the York University Graduate Conference, Toronto.

2003 November, “Skills, Character, Ingenuity and the Pursuit of the Hotel Trade in Late Nineteenth Century Guelph,” presented at the Tri-University History Conference, Guelph.

2003 October with Douglas McCalla, "Economic History in Canadian Universities: A Survey," presented at The Future of Economic History: A Canadian Conference, Guelph.

Teaching and Academic Experience                                                        
2007, Winter, 2TT3 Canadian History from 1885 for Dr. Ruth Frager, McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant to Dr. H.V. Nelles, 2T03 Canadian History to 1885
September 2006, Delivered Workshop "Facing Your First Tutorial." TA Day 2006, McMaster University.
June 2006, Created and Delivered One Day Workshop "A Hand-on workshop on Digitisation " McMaster University.
2006, Research Assistant to Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, Director Text Analysis Portal for Research
2006, Winter 2TT3 Canadian History from 1885 for Dr. Dan Azoulay,’ McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
2005, Fall, 2T03 Canadian History to 1885 for Dr. Dan Azoulay,’ McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
2005, Winter, 2TT3 Canadian History from 1885 for Dr. Ruth Frager, McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
2005, Research Assistant to Dr. H.V. Nelles, Wilson Chair in Canadian History, McMaster University
2004-2005, Research Assistant to Dr. Douglas McCalla, University of Guelph
2004, Fall, 2T03 Canadian History to 1885 for Dr. Ken Cruikshank,’ McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
2004, June-August, Graduate Research Assistant, to Dr. Douglas McCalla, Canada Research Chair in Rural History, University of Guelph
2003, Fall, ‘Pre-Confederation Canadian History ,’ for Dr. Alan Gordon, University of Guelph, Teaching Assistant.
2003, Summer- Fall, ‘Graduate Research Assistant,’ to Douglas McCalla, Canada Research Chair in Rural History, University of Guelph.
2003, Winter, ‘Introduction to Canadian History,’ for Dr. David Bright, University of Guelph, Teaching Assistant.
2002, Fall, ‘Pre-Confederation Canadian History,’ for Dr. David Bright, University of Guelph, Teaching Assistant..
2002-2004, Research Assistant, 1891 Census Project, University of Guelph, Guelph.

Lectures
"Matching Records for Fun and Profit" to the TAPoR Research Group, 7 February 2007
"Confederation" Lecture for Dr. Viv Nelles, History 2T03, November 2006
“Was Guelph a Drinkin' Town: The Moral Geography of a Nineteenth Century Ontario Town,” Lecture to Guelph Historical Society 1 March 2005.
“Victorian Business Practices Demonstrated by the 19thC Hotel,” to Business History 431 for Dr. Andrew Thompson, Wilfrid Laurier University, 19 April 2004.

Professional Development                                                                       
2006 Centre for Leadership in Learning - Instructional Design Course
2005 January/February, Graduate Student Coordinator, History of Science and Technology Candidate Search,
2004 Learning Technology Symposium, McMaster University, Hamilton.
2004 TA Day, McMaster University, Hamilton.
2003 Technology in Teaching Symposium, University of Guelph, Guelph.

Community Service                                                                                
2006 - Present Web Editor for H-Canada, Online Discussion Community
2006 - Present McMaster University Representative to Graduate Committee of the Canadian Historical Association
2006 - 2007 PhD Representative on the Graduate Studies Committee
2005-2006 Graduate Representative on Faculty of Humanities.
2004 - Present Webmaster for History of Health and Medine Unit
2004-Present Webmaster for History Graduate Students' Society
2003 History Department Representative, College of Arts Communications Committee.

Awards                                                                                                     
2007 The James Robertson Carruthers Memorial Award
2006 CaSTA Student Travel Grant
2006 Richard Rempel Graduate Award in History
2006 Marauder Scholar Award for Varsity Participation and Scholarly Achievement
2006 McMaster M Award for Varsity Fencing
2005 Marauder Scholar Award for Varsity Participation and Scholarly Achievement
2005 Nominated for GSA TA Teaching Excellence Award
2004  Best MA Thesis, University of Guelph
2004  Essay Prize Verne McIlwraith Essay Contest, Guelph Historical Society