Marcie Woehl: Project Manager, Art Director, and Writing Team member
Marcie is a second-year English PhD student at the University of Rochester. Her doctoral studies, at the moment, focus on new media and the public humanities. When she’s not demanding professors to accept digital projects in lieu of seminar papers, she can be found practicing her French, reading Hunter S. Thompson, or researching Richard Nixon.
Ben McGowan: Sound Director, Programming Team member, and Art Team member
Ben is a senior majoring in History at the University of Rochester. His senior thesis is about the crises in the court system of 14th century England. Ben is known for studying in the stacks of Rush Rhees, jamming to metal, and grumbling in German.
Elise Lia: Marketing Director and Writing Team member
Elise is a senior majoring in History and Classics and minoring in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Rochester. Currently, she is in the process of applying for graduate school for a Masters in History with a focus on Archiving. Everything is Greek to her whether she’s doing her duties as an officer in her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, or working on her translations for class. Any other time Elise can be found looking for the true meaning of “Meliora” in her Latin class and playing video games for inspiration.
Muhammed El-sayed: Programming Director
Muhammed is a sophomore majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester. Hailing from Cairo, Egypt, he has maintained a constant interest in the theoretical and technical aspects of game development throughout his studies. Additionally, his fascination with Ancient History, specifically for the Romans, is just as vast, and he enjoys seeing where his two interests can potentially collide.
Andrew Levin: Historical Adviser, Assistant Sound Director, Writing Team member, and Marketing Team member
Andrew is a first-year majoring in Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures and Geological Sciences. He wants to be a Paleobotanist and believes that answers to solving problems of the future might be found in the past. He has been called the “king of obscure information” and can generally be heard somewhere on campus spouting random facts. Did you know that there is an actual basketball court above the United States Supreme Court? Or that in Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they get lonely?
Meaghan Green: Artist
Meaghan is a second-year English PhD student at the University of Rochester. Her doctoral studies focus on Romanticism, particularly in regards to the role of text, image, and religion. Though not formally enrolled in Digital History, Meaghan has contributed significantly to the development and design of Sea Ventures.
Dr. Michael Jarvis: Course Instructor, Historical Director, and Sound Assistant
Dr. Jarvis studies Atlantic World colonization and connections using historical archaeology, architectural, material culture, environmental, archival evidence, and digital visualizations to better understand the past. A specialist in 17th- and 18th-century Bermuda, commercial and migration networks and maritime culture, he has since 2014 jumped into exploring 3D reality capture of historic buildings in Africa and the Caribbean and the mashup of videogames and traditional history. He enjoys digging old castles, diving wrecks, playing with drones, building fast computers, reading primary sources, and wandering around past places within Unity, on screen or in VR.