SHAWN GRAHAM

Associate Professor & Expert Researcher, Carleton University

Shawn Graham is a professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. He teaches classes on digital history and its methodologies, and ancient history. He received his PhD in Archaeology from the School of Human and Environmental Sciences at the University of Reading in 2002. In the intervening years, he worked professionally as a heritage consultant, a teacher, and entrepreneur. Shawn won the 2019 Archaeological Institute of America Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology.

Along with Damien Huffer, he researches the online trade in anatomical, ethnographic and archaeological human remains at The Bone Trade.

Read his reports:

A Protocol for When Social Media Goes Private: Studying archaeological or heritage discourses in closed Facebook groups

Behind Closed Doors: The Human Remains Trade within Private Facebook Groups

Fleshing Out the Bones: Studying the Human Remains Trade with Tensorflow and Inception

Towards a Method for Discerning Sources of Supply within the Human Remains Trade via Patterns of Visual Dissimilarity and Computer Vision