Katrina Keefer is an Adjunct Professor at Trent University, Ontario for both the History undergraduate and Cultural Studies graduate programs. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at Walk With Web Inc. She is a digital humanities scholar who specializes in identity, body marking, slavery, and cultural history in West Africa. She leads two large scale digital humanities projects funded by SSHRC on using permanent body marks to better discern origins and birthplace among enslaved Africans. She has previously published on scarification, African representation in games, and cultural identity in Sierra Leone."