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Education
1999 – Ph.D., Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
1994 – Master of Arts in History, Queen’s University
1992 – Bachelor of Arts in History with Highest Honours, Queen’s University
Work Experience
Present – Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Associate Professor, Department of History, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario
2004/05 – Director of Undergraduate Programs, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University
2002-05 – Assistant Professor, Department of History, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University
2001/02 – Project Director, Contemporary Canada, 1945-today/Le Canada contemporain, 1945 à aujourd’hui Web site, National Film Board of Canada, Montréal
2001/02 – Assistant Project Manager, Mediasphere: A World of Learning/Médiasphère: un monde de savoir Web site, National Film Board of Canada
2000/01 – Director, the Cyber-terrorism Crisis/La crise du cyberterrorisme Web site, National Film Board of Canada
1999/00 – Senior Manager of Content, History of Canada Web site, National Film Board of Canada
Publications
Books:
Revivalists: Marketing the Gospel in English Canada, 1884-1957 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).
Edited Collections:
John Bonnett and Kevin Kee (eds.), Digital Studies 1:2 (2009): “The Computer and Canadian Scholarship: Recent Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences”.
Articles:
Kevin Kee, Nicki Darbyson, “Creating and Using Virtual Environments to Promote Historical Thinking”, in Penney Clark (ed.), History Teaching and Learning in Canada: A State of the Art Look (Vancouver: UBC Press, in press (expected June 2011)).
Kevin Kee, Tamara Vaughn, Shawn Graham, “’Sometimes, graphics get in the way’ – an Exploration of Interactive Fiction in the Classroom”, Young Kyun Baek, ed., Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning, Hershey, Penn: IGI Global, 2010.
John Bonnett and Kevin Kee, “Transitions: A Prologue, Program and Preview for Digital Humanities Research in Canada (Introduction to edited collection),” Digital Studies 1:2 (2009): “The Computer and Canadian Scholarship: Recent Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences”.
Kevin Kee, John Bachynski, “Outbreak: Lessons Learned from Developing a “History Game”, Loading (The Canadian Game Studies Association) 3:4 (2009).
Kevin Kee et al, “Towards a Theory of Good History Through Gaming”, Canadian Historical Review 90:2 (June 2009).
“Computerized history games: Options for narratives”. Simulation & Gaming (December 2008).
“H.T. Crossley,” Religion Past and Present, Volume III: From Claude, Jean to Deutschmann, Johann (Brill: Leiden, 2007) (translation of article in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4.
“Liberty vs. Security in the Shadow of 9/11: Facilitating the Debate in the Classroom,” in Tony Dipetta, ed., The Emperor’s New Computer: ICT, Teachers and Teaching (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2008).
Kevin Kee, Jamshid Beheshti, Andrew Large, Charles Cole, “`A Journey to the Past: A Quebec Village in 1890′: A Test Case for Best Practices for History Simulations”. Proceedings of the 2006 Future Play Conference.
Jamshid Beheshti, Andrew Large, Kevin Kee, Charles Cole, “Designing Virtual Environments in an Educational Context”. Proceedings of the 2006 Canadian Association for Information Science/L’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information Conference.
“Bobby-sox to Bach: Charles Templeton and the Commodification of Popular Protestantism in Post-World War II Canada,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 15:1 (2004).
“Towards a New World History and Citizenship Course in Quebec” in Canadian Social Studies, 38:2 (Winter 2004), www.quasar.ualberta.ca/css.
“Marketing the Gospel: Music in English-Canadian Protestant Revivalism, 1884-1957,” in Mark Noll and Richard Mouw, eds. “Wonderful Words of Life”:Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2004).
“H.T. Crossley,” Hans Dieter Betz et al, eds., Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4 (Tubingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr, 1999).
“`A Providential Coincidence’: The Canadian Evangelistic Teaming of Crossley and Hunter,” Touchstone: Heritage and Theology in a New Age 16:1 (January 1998).
“`The Heavenly Railroad’: An Introduction to Crossley-Hunter Revivalism,” in George Rawlyk ed., Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience (Kingston and Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997).
“Stuart Robinson: A Pro-Slavery Presbyterian in Canada West,” Historical Papers 1996: Canadian Society of Church History (Canadian Society of Church History, 1996).
Book Reviews:
Review of Bob Hesketh and Chris Hackett. Canada: Confederation to Present CD-ROM. Edmonton: Chinook Multimedia, 2001 for Histoire sociale-Social History Vol. 38, no. 75, May – mai 2005
Review of Livy Visano and Lisa Jakubowski, Teaching Controversy (Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2002) for Canadian Social Studies 39:1 (Fall 2004) http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/css/Css_39_1/BRkee_teaching_controversy.htm.
Review of John N. Vardalas, The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence for the Journal of the Association for History and Computing 5:1 (May 2002), http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCV1/p-resources/kee.html.
History Digital Media:
Outbreak (St. Catharines and Montreal, 6843212 Canada Inc. and PMA Productions), 2009.
A Journey to the Past: A Quebec Village in 1890/ Un voyage dans le passé: Un village québécois à la fin du 19ième siècle (Montreal: Virtuel Age, 2006) http://www.envi-iven.com/
The Cyber-Terrorism Crisis/La crise du cyberterrorisme (Montréal: National Film Board of Canada, 2002), http://www.nfb.ca/enclasse/wma/. (Director)
Contemporary Canada, 1945-Today/Le Canada contemporain, 1945 à aujourd’hui (Montréal: National Film Board of Canada, 2002), http://mediasphere.nfb.ca/E/history/contemporary_canada.epl (Project Director)
Canada’s Industrial Age/L’ère industrielle du Canada (Montréal: National Film Board of Canada, 2004), http://mediasphere.nfb.ca/E/history/industrial_age.epl. (Wrote the texts and consulted on project development)
The Cyber-Terrorism Crisis Teacher’s Centre/La crise du cyberterrorisme : le centre des enseignants (Montréal: National Film Board of Canada, 2002), http://mediasphere.onf.ca/E/webProjects/cyber/index.epl. (Project Director)
Contemporary Canada, 1945-Today Teacher’s Centre/Le Canada contemporain, 1945 à aujourd’hui : le centre des enseignants (Montréal: National Film Board of Canada, 2002), http://mediasphere.onf.ca/E/webProjects/history/index.epl. (Project Director)
Mediasphere: A World of Learning/Médiasphère : un monde de savoir (Montréal: National Film Board of Canada, 2002), www.nfb.ca/mediasphere. (Aided project development)
History Curriculum Resources:
Passages (Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2009) – written for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
The Dark Years (Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2008) – written for the NFB.
Zoom on Intercultural Encounters in Canadian History/Rencontres interculturelles dans l’histoire en vue (Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2004) – authored with the National Film Board of Canada
`History of Modern Canada, 1945-Present’ at the National Film Board of Canada/`L’histoire du Canada moderne, de 1945 à aujourd’hui’ à l’office national du film du Canada (Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2003) – authored with the National Film Board of Canada.
Zoom on Montreal/Montréal en vue (Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2003) – authored with the National Film Board of Canada.
Selected Paper Presentations and Workshops
“It’s the end of serious games as we know them, and I feel fine.” Toronto Digital City Lab Speakers Series, York University, April 2009.
“Interactive Media at Brock, for Niagara,” Mapping the New Knowledges: Research for a Changing World”, Brock University, November 2009.
“Outbreak: Best Practices and Potential for the Development of Games for Archaeology and
History,” Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 2009.
“Teaching history in an age of pervasive computing: the case for games”, Canadian Game Studies Association Workshop, Vancouver, September 2008.
“Designing Serious Games for African History Learning”, AFI: Africa Futures Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, May 2008.
“Platforms for Virtual Environments: How can the academy compete? Should it?” Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Annual Meeting, Budapest, April 2008.
“Educational Serious Games,” Serious Games Symposium 2007, Montreal International Games Summit 07, November 2007.
“Digital Publics: Towards a theory of history gaming,” Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 2007.
“Best Practices and Potential for History Virtual Reality Environments: `A Journey to the Past’ as a Test Case,” Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Annual Meeting, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany, April 2007.
“`A Journey to the Past: A Quebec Village in 1890′: A Test Case for Best Practices for History Simulations”, Future Play 2006 Conference, University of Western Ontario, October 2006.
“History games for learning: from promise to reality” (roundtable), Future Play 2006 Conference, University of Western Ontario, October 2006.
“Simulations and Games for Learning,” Brock Review Of Current Knowledge, Faculty of Education, Brock University, September 2006.
“Digital Publics: A Research Project on Closed and Open Games for History Education,” Canadian Games Studies Association Conference, York University, September, 2006.
“Digital Publics: A Research Project on Role-Playing Games and Virtual Museums for History Education,” Games, Learning and Society Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 2006.
“Charles Templeton and the Marketing of Religion in Post-war Canada,” Department of History Seminar Series, March 2006
“History for the Twenty-first Century: The Promise (and Perils?) of Computer Simulations and Games,” Simcoe County Historical Society Heritage Week Keynote Presentation, Barrie, Ontario, February 2006
“Bobby-sox to Bach: Charles Templeton and the Commodification of Popular Protestantism in Post-World War II Canada,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 2004.
“‘History and Citizenship Education’: A Response,” Provincial Association of Social Studies Teachers (Québec), Montréal, November 2003.
“The Internet, History and Citizenship Education in the Shadow of 9/11,” Presence of the Past: A National Conference on Teaching, Learning and Communicating the History of Canada (Association of Canadian Studies), Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, October 2003.
“`Zoom on Montreal/Montréal en vue’: History Videos in the Classroom” Historica 2003 Summer Institute: “Canada’s Common People, Society and the Metropolis: New Strategies and Perspectives in Teaching Canadian History,” Montréal, July 2003.
“Re-Presenting Canadian History On-line: `The Cyberterrorism Crisis’ Web Site as a Test Case of Secondary School History on the Web,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Dalhousie University, Halifax, May 2003.
“Teaching Engaged Citizenship to Secondary School Students Following September 11,” September 11th, 2001: The Impact and Aftermath for Canada and Canadians Conference (Association of Canadian Studies), Ottawa, September 2002.
“Using The Cyberterrorism Crisis and the Contemporary Canada Web sites in the Classroom,” Institute for the Teaching of the History of Canada in Secondary Schools, Université de Montréal, Montréal, July 2002.
“History Web sites in the Classroom,” Institute for the Teaching of the History of Canada, Lower Canada College, Montréal, July 2001.
“New Medium, New Awareness: Reflections on Creating Social History Web sites for Secondary School Students,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Laval University, Québec, May 2001.
“The Big Picture: Living the Digital Transition,” Cutting Truths: Convergence, Interactivity and the Future of Documentary (Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Film Festival) Toronto, April 2001.
“Hymns and Gospel Songs in Canadian Evangelism,” Hymnody in American Protestantism Conference, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Chicago, IL, May 2000.
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
Co-applicant, with Peter F. Biehl et al, Serious Play and the Cravens Collection: Designing an Educational Video Game for the Outreach Program of the Cravens Collection of the College of Arts and Sciences”, Digital Humanities Institute, University of Buffalo (February 2010), $3,200USD
Principal Investigator, “Niagara 1812”, Ontario Trillium Foundation, (September 2009), $54,300
Co-applicant, with Jeff Chesebrough and Niagara Interactive Media Generator (nGen) – “nGen Application to the Community Adjustment Fund”, (September 2009), $3.3 million
Co-applicant – “History at Play: Augmented Reality Gaming and the Ubiquitous Past” – Image, Text, Sound and Technology Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (January 2009), $49, 560
Co-applicant – “The History Education Network/Histoire et Éducation en Réseau” (Penney Clark and Peter Seixas, Principal Investigators) – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Strategic Cluster Grant (2008), $2.1 million
Principal Investigator – “Simulating History Research Assistant” – Brock University, Experience Works Program (April 2008), $8363.04
Co-applicant – “Interactive Niagara Media Cluster” – Ontario Media Development Corporation (January 2008), $245,000
Producer – “Outbreak” – Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Development Program Grant (November 2007), $50,000
Primary Investigator – “The Simulating History Research Lab” – Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund, (November 2007), $46,400
Primary Investigator – “The Simulating History Research Lab” – Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, Ontario Innovation Trust (November 2007), $46,400
Primary Investigator – “Simulating History Research Assistant” – Brock University, Experience Works Program (April 2007), $3,360.15
Conference Chair – “Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference” – Brock University Advancement Fund Special Purpose Grant – Subvention for Scholarly Conferences and Workshops (April 2007), $2,500
Primary Investigator – “Simulating History Programmer” – Brock University, Experience Works Program (January 2007), $7,134.12
Conference Chair – “Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference” – Brock University, Humanities Research Institute, Conference Grant (January 2007), $2,500
Primary Investigator – “Simulating History: The Poetics of History Simulations” – Image, Text, Sound and Technology Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (January 2007), $49, 891
Primary Investigator – “Best Practices for Computer Simulations in History” – Ontario Early Researcher Award, Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario (November 2006), $150, 000
Primary Investigator – “Simulating History Research Assistant” – Brock University, Experience Works Program (August 2006), ~$3,600
Primary Investigator – “Simulating History: The Best Practices for History Simulations Project” – Image, Text, Sound and Technology Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (January 2006), $49, 996
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) (2005), $500, 000
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Prize (2005)
Primary Investigator – “Best Practices for Serious Games and Simulations” – Brock University (2005), $32, 095
Primary Investigator – “Digital Humanities: Infrastructure for Advanced Pedagogy and “Serious Gaming” – Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, Ontario Innovation Trust (2005), $32, 095
Primary Investigator – “Digital Humanities: Infrastructure for Advanced Pedagogy and “Serious Gaming” – Canada Foundation for Innovation (2005), $32, 095
Primary Investigator – Kevin Kee, Jamshid Baheshti, Andrew Large (P.I.s), “Intelligent Virtual Environments: Paintings as Virtual Gateways to Canadian Social and Cultural History” – Canadian Culture Online Programs, Partnerships Fund (2005), $403, 000
Collaborator – Paul Yachnin (P.I.), “Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700″ – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Major Collaborative Research Initiative (2005), $2, 500, 000
Collaborator – Ruth Sandwell, Peter Gossage, John Lutz, “The History Education Network (T.H.E.N.)” S.S.H.R.C. Research Cluster Design Grant (2004), $30, 000
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Aid to Scholarly Publications Program Grant (2004), $8, 000
McGill Conference Travel Grant (2004), $500.
McGill Conference Travel Grant (2003), $1, 000.
Honorable Mention, 2002 International New Media Awards (2002)
National Film Board of Canada Major Production Grant (2001-2002), $300, 000
National Film Board of Canada Major Production Grant (2000-2001), $350, 000
Joseph Leslie Engler Dissertation Prize (1998)
Lily Award, I.S.A.E. Hymnody in American Protestantism Project (1998)
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (1994-98)
Graduate Dean’s Travel Grant for Doctoral Field Research (1997)
Dean’s Award (1996)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1992; 93)
Frederick W. Gibson Prize for highest standing in Canadian History (1992)
Grattan O’Leary Prize for highest standing in Modern Canadian Political History (1992)
Susan Near Prize for highest standing in History (1991)
Dean’s Special Award for academic excellence (1991)
Arthur and Evelyn Lower Scholarship for a senior thesis in History (1991)
Courses Taught
• “History Computing”
• “Imagining Immersive Worlds”
• “Survey of Humanities Computing”
• “Media and Technology in Education”
• “Canada from the Conquest to 1896″
• “Canada from the Conquest to the Present”
• “Canada: 1870-1914″
• “Canada: 1914-1945″
• “20th-Century Canada”
• “Canadian Military History”
• “Religion and Canadian Society in Historical Perspective”
• “America to the Civil War”
• “Nineteenth-Century American Thought and Culture”
• “Travelling with de Tocqueville: A Historical Journey in Antebellum America”
• “Issues in Secondary Social Studies”
Service
Manuscript Reviewer:
• Social History/Histoire sociale
• Canadian Social Studies
• International Journal of Inclusive Education
• McGill Journal of Education
• Loading (Canadian Game Studies Association)
• Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
• Digital Games Research Association
Academic and University Boards, Associations, Societies and Committees:
• Executive Board Member, History Education Network (THEN)/Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (HiER) Research Network (Present)
• Founding Member, nGen Advisory Council (Present)
• Member, Centre for Digital Humanities Advisory Council, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University (Present)
• Chair, Web Site Committee, Department of History, Brock University (Present)
• Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, Brock University (Present)
• Member, Striking Committee, Department of History, Brock University (Present)
• Member, Brock University’s 1812 Bicentenary Committee (Present)
• Chair, Organizing Committee, Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference 2009 (2008-09)
• Member, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Scientific Committee (2008-09)
• Chair, Canada Foundation for Innovation Leading Edge Fun Competition Experts Committee (December, 2008)
• Chair, President’s Committee on the St. Catharines Cluster (2008)
• Chair, Organizing Committee, “Interacting with Immersive Worlds: An International Conference presented by the Interactive Arts and Science Program, Brock University,” June 4-5, 2007 (2006-07)
• Organizer, “Simulating History: the Best Practices for History Simulations Project” Meeting II, April 28-May 1, 2007 (2007)
• Member, Interactive Arts and Science Major Program Development Committee, Brock University (2006-07)
• Organizer, “Simulating History: the Best Practices for History Simulations Project” Meeting I, August 20-22, 2006 (2006)
• Member, Niagara Interactive Media Generator Project Committee, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University (2006-2008)
• Member, East Asia Candidate Search Committee, Department of History, Brock University (September-December 2006)
• Member, Science and Technology Candidate Search Committee, Department of History, Brock University (January-March, 2006)
• Member, Interactive Arts and Science Minor Program Development Committee, Brock University (2005-2006)
• Board Member, Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion (2002-2005)
• Treasurer, Canadian Society of Church History (1997-2005)
• Secretary, Canadian Committee on History and Computing (1999-Present)
• Member, American Association of History and Computing (1999-Present)
• Member, Canadian Historical Association (1999-Present)
• Member, Canadian Society of Church History (1997-Present)
• Faculty of Education Technology Committee, McGill University (2002-2005)
• Member, “History and World Citizenship” Curriculum Evaluation Committee, Faculty of Education, McGill University (2002-2003)
Foundations, Councils, Boards:
• Member, Historica Foundation Advisory Council (2002-09)
• Member, Historica Foundation Content and New Media Committee (2005-09)
• Program Director, Historica Foundation 2005 Teachers’ Institute – “The Narrative in History” (2005)
• Program Director, Historica Foundation 2004 Teachers’ Institute – “History All Around Us: Strategies and Perspectives in Teaching Canadian History” (2004)
• Member, Historica Foundation School Programs Committee (2004-05)
• Founding Member, Board of Directors, Institute for the Teaching of the History of Canada (2001-2003)
Policy-Making Bodies:
• McGill University Representative, Comité-conseil pour Histoire et civilisation – Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec (2002-2005)
• McGill University Representative, History and Geography Task Force – Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec (2002-2004)