About

Dr. L.K. Bertram is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and head of the AI and Humanities Lab at the University of Toronto. In addition to teaching courses on history, capital, and colonial migration in the 19th century “Wild” West, Bertram’s work explores how historical knowledge can play a critical role in building modern solutions, with a focus on responsible AI policy and practice.

In addition to award-winning research on 19th-century North American history, Bertram’s curatorial practice focuses on disinformation defence, critical data packaging,  and how algorithmic technologies can be harnessed to secure public access to quality historical information. As the anonymous curator of a larger-scale open history class (55m views) Bertram’s focuses on bringing the lessons of the past into conversation with the technologies of the present to ask “how do we make good information go viral in the disinformation age?”