Professional Preparation
Published Work
Research Projects
Major Papers and Projects
Conference Papers
Teaching and Academic Experience
Lectures
Professional Development
Committee Involvement
Awards
Reviews
Professional Preparation
September 2005
Completed Comprehensive Examinations and am a qualified candidate for Ph.D. in the Department of History, McMaster University.
2004 – Present
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
Forthcoming
David Wright, Shawn Day, Jessica Smith and Nathan Fliss, A Janus-like Asylum: The City and the Institutional Confinement of the Mentally Ill in Victorian Ontario, Urban History Review.
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.
June 2006
TAPoR Training, "Digitisation with Shawn Day" DVD Training Product.
October 2004
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.
April 2004
Douglas McCalla and Shawn Day “Economic History in Canada: A Survey,” in Canadian Historical Association Bulletin, 30:1 (2004), 21-2.
2004
Barnhart, Steve, Shawn Day and N. H. Perkins. Scenic Solutions: A Case Study of Redhill Creek. Denver, CO: United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation and Scenic Solutions.
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 Projects
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
September – November 2006 Coordination of iMatter SSHRC Cluster Grant proposal forText Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR)
January – June 2006 For 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
March 2005 – Widowhood Survival Strategies in Nineteenth Century GuelphPaper for the Guelph Historical Society presented March 2005.
2004
November 2004 – History Students’ Graduate Society at McMaster University,” Construction of Website, McMaster University, Hamilton.
2004 April-September, “Rural History at the University of Guelph,” Construction of Website with Dr. Douglas McCalla, University of Guelph, Guelph.
April 2004 – The Keepers’ Trade: Skills, Attributes and the Pursuit of the Hotel Trade in late Nineteenth-Century GuelphM.A. Thesis, University of Guelph, Guelph.
2003
December 2003 – The Hotel Keepers’ Trade: One Family’s Experience in Victorian Guelph, Awarded Essay Prize in Verne McIlwraith Award Contest, Guelph Historical Society.
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
2007 10 August- Liberty, Morality and the Right to Drink: Liquor Licensing, Trade Organization and Political Patronage in Late Nineteenth Century Canada. presented at Global Approaches: Fourth International Conference on the History of Drugs and Alcohol.
2006
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
2004 November 4 – with Josh MacFadyen, Geographic Information Systems and the Historian: Studies in the Hotel and Flax Industriespaper 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. < br />
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
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
Fall 2007 – 2T03 Canadian History to 1885 for Dr. Ken Cruikshank, McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
2007 – Digital Archival and Deposit Manager, MCRI Globalization Compendium, McMaster University.
Winter 2007 – 2TT3 Canadian History from 1885 for Dr. Ruth Frager, McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
2006
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
Winter 2006 – 2TT3 Canadian History from 1885 for Dr. Dan Azoulay,’ McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
2005
Fall 2005 – 2T03 Canadian History to 1885 for Dr. Dan Azoulay,’ McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
Winter 2005 – 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
2004-2005 – Research Assistant to Dr. Douglas McCalla, Canada Research Chair in Rural History, University of Guelph
Fall 2004 – 2T03 Canadian History to 1885 for Dr. Ken Cruikshank,’ McMaster University, Teaching Assistant.
June-August 2004 – Graduate Research Assistant, to Dr. Douglas McCalla, Canada Research Chair in Rural History, University of Guelph
2003
Fall 2003 – Pre-Confederation Canadian History for Dr. Alan Gordon, University of Guelph, Teaching Assistant.
Summer 2003 – Graduate Research Assistant to Douglas McCalla, Canada Research Chair in Rural History, University of Guelph.
Winter 2003 – Introduction to Canadian History,’ for Dr. David Bright, University of Guelph, Teaching Assistant.
2002
Fall 2002 – 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
Drinkin’ in Town: Brewers, Drinkers and Publicans in 19thCentury Guelph,” Lecture for Guelph Museums 11 October 2007.
The History of Fencing" for McMaster Athletics and Recreation, 23 September 2007
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.
2003 – Present Webmaster for Canadian network for Economic History
Awards
2007 United Empire Loyalists Scholarship
2007 Ontario Graduate Fellowship
2007 The James Robertson Carruthers Memorial Award
2007 Marauder Scholar Award for Varsity Participation and Scholarly Achievement
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
Reviews
Reviews of TAPoR Recipes:
UCSB English Department January 2008
“Particularly impressive is the “recipes” page, which in step-by-step fashion suggests ways that tools can be combined for particular purposes–e.g., identify themes, analyse colloquial word use, visualize text, explore changes in language use by a writer, create an online interactive bibliography, build a social network map from text, create a chronological timeline from bibliographical text, etc.”