Projects

Academic Projects

Ongoing Work

• M.A. Major Research Project, supervised by Shawn Graham
  • featured in FASS’ video series for the Department of History at Carleton - Youtube, FASS website, History Department website.
• Garth Wilson Fellowship 2021-2022, Ingenium
  • using sound and Twine as a way to engage with the XL Artifacts collection from the Museum of Science and Technology, under supervision by Emily Gann
• 2022 Underhill Colloquium Co-Chair, Underhill 2022 website
• Trans Metadata Committee, Ethical Recommendations team
• American Alliance of Museums, Trans Inclusion Taskforce member

Published Papers

• Graham, S, and Simons, J. 2021 Listening to Dura Europos: An Experiment in Archaeological Image Sonification, Internet Archaeology 56. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.8.
• Simons, J. 2021. Shipwrecks of the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal, The Historical Society of Ottawa. https://www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications/features/shipwrecks-of-the-ottawa-river-and-rideau-canal-1823-1949.
• Huffer, D., Simons, J., Brughmans, T., and Graham, S. ‘Alleen voor studiedoeleinden’ (For study purposes only): The human remains trade on Marktplaats.nl. Anthropologica et Praehistorica, 131(2022): 37-53.
• Graham, S., Huffer, D., and Simons, J. When TikTok Discovered the Human Remains Trade: A Case Study, Open Archaeology, (forthcoming)
• McKenney, C., Simons, J., Lane, A., Graham, S., and Huffer, D. Digital Folklore and Memes of Archaeology: Tiktok, Instagram, and the Human Remains Trade, Routledge Handbook of Digital Archaeology, (forthcoming)

Completed Projects

• Archaeology and Virtual Reality: A Critical Appraisal of Google Expeditions: My undergraduate honours thesis
  • presented at the 2021 Ontario Archaeology Society conference as part of Session 1: Archaeological Knowledge Production in the Age of Zoom
  • will appear in forthcoming publication by the Ottawa Chapter of the OAS
• Shipwrecks of the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal: A gazetteer of shipwrecks in the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal from 1835-1987.
  • Featured in the DHCU Irregular Newsletter,
  • FASS Newsletter,
  • Carleton Website,
  • Presentation at the 22nd Underhill Colloquium,
  • Bytown Museum Facebook,
  • Internet Scout Archives,
  • Awarded the Colonel John By Award in History, by the Historical Society of Ottawa: project available here.

• Shipwrecks and Sessional Papers: Using the Parliamentary Sessional Papers to search for records of steamboat wrecks on the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal; A final project for HIST 5003, on using the Sessional Papers and New Mills List to find shipwreck information.

• Crossing out Queers; A final project for HIST 5705, to discuss the history of the Purge in Canada.

• History and DH Roundtable; a website for a roundtable discussion on our uses of Digital Humanities within our historical research, presented at the 2021 Carleton Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium

• Jamming with our MRE/MRPs; a project created for the 2021 Heritage Jam at Carleton University

• Shipwrecks of Ottawa Walking Tour; a walking tour of shipwrecks and wrecksites within the Ottawa area

• Long Distance Quilting: Performing Chosen Fammily; a performance project about quilting chosen families

Research Interests

Archaeology, public history, memory, environmental history, maritime archaeology, industrialization, augmented reality (aural), soundscapes, museums, interpretation, digital storytelling, and queer and trans history