Author: Kira Zimmerman
I'm a Brooklyn-based digital humanist working with cultural heritage collections. I come to my professional work through my interests in historical maps and manuscripts, material networks, and the development of digital spaces, as well as an interest in the ethics and politics of data visualization. I draw inspiration and guidance from a range of disciplinary studies and methods, but I primarily approach my projects and research as a public historian.
Using Interactive Maps to Visualize the Relationship between Food and Empire in the Early Modern Era
This engaging digital exhibit combines custom interactive maps with 17th-century cookbooks to communicate the concrete relationship between food and empire that fueled the rapid expansion of global trade, expansion, exploration, and extraction in the early modern era.