Erik Steiner

Erik Steiner is the Co-Director and co-founder of the Spatial History Project at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University. Erik has degrees in Geography, French, and International Studies and is a former President of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). His diverse work spans a range of academic disciplines in the humanities, social and environmental sciences and sits at the intersection of technology, creative arts, and academic scholarship. He is a cartographer and an interaction designer who has led the design and development of dozens of interactive and information design projects through major grants from the Getty, Kress, and Mellon Foundations, NEH, NSF, and ACLS on projects such as Geographies of the Holocaust, LandTalk.org and MappingRome.com.