Zack Batist

Web: zackbatist.info | ORCID: 0000-0003-0435-508X | GitHub: zackbatist | Mastodon: zackbatist@archaeo.social | Twitter: @mtl_zack

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Education

2023 PhD - Information Studies
University of Toronto

2014 MA - Anthropology
McMaster University

2012 BA - Directed Interdisciplinary Studies, High Honours
Carleton University

2009 DEC - Social Sciences
Dawson College

Grants & Fellowships

2019 - 2021 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Archaeological data curation as continuous and collaborative practice. Award ID: 752-2019-2233.

Research Positions

2018 - 2023 Research Assistant

2016 - 2021 Database Manager

2009 Research Assistant

2007 - 2009 Research Assistant

Publications

Journal Articles

In review Z. Batist. The value of formal and situated representations in archaeological data work. Open Archaeology.


In review Z. Batist & J. Roe. Open archaeology, open source? Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers. Internet Archaeology.

zackbatist/openarchaeo-collaboration

zackbatist.info/openarchaeo-collaboration (draft pre-print)


2023 Z. Batist & J. Roe. open-archaeo: a resource for documenting archaeological software development practices. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 11(9):1-7.

10.5334/joad.111


2021 Z. Batist, V. Masters, T.C. Torma, N. Ferris, I. Huvila, S. Ross, M. Carter & C. Dallas. Figurations of Digital Archaeological Practice in Two Mediterranean Fieldwork Projects. Open Archaeology (Special Issue on Archaeological Practice on Shifting Grounds) 7(1):1731-1755.

10.1515/opar-2020-0217


2021 D. Contreras, Z. Batist, C. Zogheib & T. Carter. Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interface. Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(4):299-311.

10.1017/aap.2021.11

zackbatist/QuARI


2017 T. Carter, Z. Batist, K. Campeau, Y. Garfinkel & K. Streit. Investigating Pottery Neolithic Socio-Economic “Regression” in the Southern Levant: Characterising Obsidian Consumption at Sha’ar Hagolan (N. Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15:305-317.

10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.016


2014 K.P. Freund & Z. Batist. Sardinian Obsidian Circulation and Early Maritime Navigation in the Neolithic as Shown through Social Network Analysis. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 9(3):364-380.

10.1080/15564894.2014.881937


2009 M. Loignon, W. Miao, L. Hu, A. Bouchard, T.A. Bismar, P.J. Scrivens, K. Mann, M. Basik, P. Fiset, Z. Batist & G. Batist. Frequent Nrf2 depletion due to Cul3 overexpression in breast cancer is associated with sensitivity to carcinogens, oxidative stress and chemotherapy. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 8(8):2432-2440.

10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-08-1186

Book Contributions

2018 S. Graham, N. Gupta, J. Smith, A. Angourakis, A. Reinhard, L. Richardson, K. Ellenberger, Z. Batist, J. Rivard, B. Marwick, M. Carter, & B. Compton. The Open Digital Archaeology Textbook Environment. eCampus Ontario.

o-date.github.io

Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America

Open Source Software

2020 - 2021 Queryable Artefact Record Interface (QuARI)

Open Datasets

2018 - Present open-archaeo

2014 - 2017 The Database of Obsidian Sourcing Studies (DObsiSS)

Conference Presentations

2023 Z. Batist. Does not compute! Accounting for social and situated experiences while integrating and analyzing obsidian sourcing data. Paper presented at ArcheoFOSS XVII -- Open Science and Archaeology: Archiving the Knowledge. Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin. Turin, Italy, 12-13 December 2023.


2023 Z. Batist. Documenting the collaborative commitments that support data sharing within archaeological project collectives. Paper presented at Digital Archaeology Bern 2023. Bern Computational and Digital Archaeology lab, University of Bern. Bern, Switzerland, 1-3 February 2023.

zackbatist/DAB23


2021 Z. Batist & J. Roe. Open archaeology: a survey of collaborative software engineering in archaeological research. Paper presented at the 49th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA 2021). Limassol, Cyprus (Virtual), 14-18 June 2021.

zackbatist/caa2021-openarchaeo


2019 Z. Batist. Untangling and extending the discursive relations mediated by archaeological data through grounded research. Paper presented at On shifting grounds – the study of archaeological practices in a changing world. COST-Arkwork & the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, October 2019.


2018 Z. Batist. Documenting archaeological knowledge construction as socially-embedded information practices. Paper presented at PhD Research Days 2018. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, April 2018.


2018 Z. Batist. Documenting archaeological knowledge construction as distributed information practices. Paper presented at the 46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA 2018). Tübingen, Germany, March 2018.

10.15496/publikation-87754


2017 Z. Batist & C. Dallas. A view from the bridge: human- and thing-centred approaches to research practice, disciplinary discourse and local engagement with the archaeological record. Paper presented at TAG (North America) 2017 - The Medium is the Message: Media and Mediation in Archaeology. Toronto, Ontario, May 2017.


2017 T. Carter, K. Campeau, Z. Batist, Y. Garfinkel, D. Rosenberg, Y. Rowan & K. Streit Social Interaction at Distance Over the Long Term: Obsidian Sourcing from the Southern Levant (9th – 4th millennia cal BC). Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting. Vancouver, British Columbia, March – April 2017.


2017 Z. Batist. Identifying Obsidian Procurement Habits during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Levant using Network Analysis. Poster presented at the Archaeological Institute of America 118th Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario, January 2017. [PDF]


2015 Z. Batist. The Database of Obsidian Sourcing Studies (DObsiSS): Using Git for Collaborative Management of Archaeological Data. Poster presented at the American Archaeological Institute 116th Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2015. [PDF]


2014 Z. Batist. An Examination of Obsidian Circulation Patterns in Terms of Relational and Geographical Distance in Southwest Asia and Anatolia from the Epi-Palaeolithic to Chalcolithic Periods (14000 – 5700 B.P.). Paper presented at Archaeological Sciences and the Ancient Mediterranean Environment. The Archaeological Centre, University of Toronto, March 2014.


2014 Z. Batist. Using Network Analysis to Examine Relative Resource Procurement Strategies in Anatolia and Southwest Asia from the Epipaleolithic to Chalcolithic Periods (14,000 – 5700 BP). Paper presented at the American Archaeological Institute 115th Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, January 2014.


2013 K. Freund & Z. Batist. Tracking the Circulation of Sardinian Obsidian using Network Analysis: Lithic Procurement, Cultural Interaction, and Early Maritime Navigation in the Neolithic. Paper presented at Networks of maritime connectivity in the ancient Mediterranean: Structure, continuity, and change over the longue durée. The Archaeology Centre, University of Toronto, November 2013.


2013 Z. Batist. Using network analysis to examine obsidian assemblage variability in Anatolia and Southwest Asia from the Epi-Palaeolithic to Chalcolithic periods (14000 – 5700 BP). Paper presented at The Future of Historical Network Research Conference. Historical Network Research, University of Hamburg, September 2013.


2012 Z. Batist. Eat, Drink and Be Networked: Feasting and Bronze Age Networks. Invited panelist at the Colloquium on Digital History and the Transnational History of Nursing. Department of History, Carleton University, March 2012.


Awards & Honours

2019 Research Travel Grant ($500)

2017 Joseph and Maria Shaw Graduate Student Travel Award ($500)

2015 McMaster University Travel Scholarship for OpenCon 2015 ($2500)

2015 Edith M. Wightman Travel Scholarship ($1000)

2015 Travel Assistance Grant ($500)

2015 Graduate Student Travel Award ($120)

2014 Robert P. Wolff Thesis Prize

2014 McMaster University Travel Scholarship for OpenCon 2014 ($2500, declined)

2012 Dean’s Honour List

2015 Michael Kelway Oliver Scholarship ($2000)

2015 Full Tuition Scholarship (declined)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

2020 Curatorial Practice (MSL 2000)

2017 - 2020 Representing, Documenting, and Accessing the Cultural Record (INF 1321)

2017 Information Policy, Regulation and Law (INF 2181)

2016 Archaeology and Popular Culture (ANTH 2PC3)

2014, 2015 World Archaeology (ANTH 2WA3E)

2012, 2015 Introduction to Anthropology: Identity, Race and Power (ANTH 1AB3E)

2013 Introduction to Anthropology: Sex, Food and Death (ANTH 1AA3)

Workshops & Short Courses

2022 Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software

2018 Designing and Implementing Relational Databases

Academic Service

Community Leadership

2018 - Present Founder and Maintainer, open-archaeo

2022 - Present Community Moderator, archaeo.social

2022 Peer Mentor, UofT Coders Peer Mentorship Program

2017 - 2021 Founder and Coordinator, Archaeological Information Interest Group

2013 - 2014 Webmaster, Nexus: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology

Committees

2019 - 2020 Graduate Student Union Faculty Representative

2016 - 2019 Tech Fund Committee Member and Coordinator

2013 - 2014 Graduate Student Association Faculty Representative

Conference & Panel Organizer

2023 archaeo.social: archaeology in the Fediverse and the future of scholarly social media


2012 Second Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium


Interest Groups

2018 - Present Scientific Scripting Languages in Archaeology Special Interest Group

2020 - 2022 UofT Coders

2018 - 2019 Digitality Reading Group

2017 - 2019 Archaeological Theory Interest Group


Certifications

Reviewer

Languages