140 Strong Hall
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
734.487.0218
Common places, buildings, people and landscapes at the intersection of historic preservation, cultural geography and digital cultural heritage. Current research integrates GIS, 3D modeling and serious games to produce and examine knowledge about the physical spaces of nineteenth century American dwellings, explore cultual landscape contexts and experience sensuous and emotional aspects of place.
Dan Bonenberger. 2020. Historical GIS for vernacular architecture surveys and virtual reconstruction of urban cultural landscapes: A case study in 1850s Wheeling, (West)Virginia. Material Culture 52:1.
_____. 2020. The National Road scandal of 1818: Routing America’s first Interstate to the Ohio Valley. Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review.
_____. 2019. Early Dwellings of North Wheeling, Phase 2: Intensive survey of Wheeling, West Virginia. Charleston: West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office.
_____. 2019. Reconciling the dissonance between Historic Preservation and Virtual Reality through a place-based Virtual Heritage system. Ph.D. dissertation. Morgantown: West Virginia University.
Dan Bonenberger, Melissa Milton Pung, and Jessica Flores. 2018. Early Dwellings of North Wheeling: An intensive survey from 3rd Street to Walnut Alley, Wheeling, West Virginia. Charleston: West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office.
Dan Bonenberger. 2016. Not quite a house? A preliminary evaluation of side passage townhouses in the Historic American Buildings Survey. Past 39: 19-37.
Trevor M. Harris, H. Frank Lefone, and Dan Bonenberger. 2016. Beyond mapping text in space to experiencing text in place: exploring literary virtual geographies. in Literary Mapping in the Digital Age, ed. David Cooper, Christopher Donaldson and Patricia Murrieta-Flores, 221-39. London: Routledge.
Dan Bonenberger and Trevor M. Harris. 2013. Placing Virtual Heritage: Reconciling virtual and cultural heritage with the spatial turn. Proceedings of the First Digital Heritage International Congress. Vol 2. IEEE Press.