Dr. Eric Kaltman is an Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies and History at the University of Alberta. He has a B.A. from the University of Michigan in History and Asian Studies, an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Asian Studies (Chinese) from the University of California Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Expressive Intelligence Studio at the University of California Santa Cruz. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at California State University Channel Islands.

While gathering up his degrees, he worked as a project archivist at Stanford University Libraries, a web developer for Aclima, and a contract game and UI developer for the Berkeley Institute of Design. Previous to CI, he was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation in the Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.

For information on his work outside of SHFT visit his professional site.