Christopher Johanson

About

Christopher Johanson is an Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Classics, where he is also a founding faculty member and former chair of the UCLA Digital Humanities Program. He serves as Faculty Director of Innovative Applications and Creative Activity for UCLA DataX. His research explores the ancient Graeco-Roman world through the analysis of extant literature, texts of all kinds, and the material record, utilizing data visualization, network analysis, 2D and 3D representation, and real-time interaction. He directs RomeLab, a multidisciplinary research group that uses the physical and virtual city of Rome to study the interrelationship between historical phenomena and the spaces and places of the ancient city. Johanson has collaborated on mapping and visualization projects across various countries including Bolivia, Peru, Albania, Iceland, Spain, Turkey, and Italy. His work has been supported by funding from prominent organizations such as the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ahmanson Foundation, and Google.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Medicine
• Pharmacology
• Anesthesia
• Chemistry

Selected publications

• Death in Motion: Funeral Processions in the Roman Forum

  Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians · 2010-03-01 · 160 citations

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  Scientifically accurate, three-dimensional digital representations of historical environments allow architectural historians to explore viewsheds, movement, sequencing, and other factors. Using real-time interactive simulations of the Roman Forum during the mid-Republic and the early third century CE, Diane Favro and Christopher Johanson examine the visual and sequential interrelationships among audience, actors, and monuments during funeral rituals. Death in Motion: Funeral Processions in the R…

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• The influence of exchange delays on cigarette versus money choice: A laboratory analog of voucher-based reinforcement therapy.

  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · 2000-01-01 · 64 citations

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  Contingency-management interventions that provide reinforcement in the form of exchangeable vouchers, contingent on drug abstinence, are among the most effective substance abuse treatment strategies available. Factors known to contribute to the efficacy of these interventions include voucher magnitude and the schedule with which vouchers are made available. Another potential factor may be the delay between earning a voucher and exchanging it for a desired good or service. The authors adapted a l…

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• Visualizing History: Modeling in the Eternal City

  Visual Resources · 2009-12-01 · 25 citations

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  Using Rome as its case study, this article explores the interrelationship between modeling, maps, representation, and digital reconstruction. Discussions of digital cultural heritage often devolve into questions surrounding realism and visual seduction. While worthy topics for serious thought, such a line of inquiry overlooks the fundamental strength of reconstructing in the digital world: the freedom to create models and bend representational boundaries. Reconstructions and endeavors that attem…

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• PROCEDURAL MODELING FOR RAPID-PROTOTYPING OF MULTIPLE BUILDING PHASES

  ˜The œinternational archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences · 2013-02-13 · 19 citations

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  Abstract. RomeLab is a multidisciplinary working group at UCLA that uses the city of Rome as a laboratory for the exploration of research approaches and dissemination practices centered on the intersection of space and time in antiquity. In this paper we present a multiplatform workflow for the rapid-prototyping of historical cityscapes through the use of geographic information systems, procedural modeling, and interactive game development. Our workflow begins by aggregating archaeological data…

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• A Walk with the Dead: A Funerary Cityscape of Ancient Rome

  2010-12-17 · 8 citations

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  This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Aristocratic Funeral of the Middle Republic (169 BCE) Funerary Symbols in the Imperial City (211 CE) A City of the Living and the Dead Further Reading

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01DA006030

  NIH · $420k · 1993

• NIH Grant R01DA010239

  NIH · $594k · 2000

• NIH Grant R01DA003517

  NIH · $2.2M · 2001

Frequent coauthors

• E. H. Uhlenhuth

  22 shared

• Charles R. Schuster

  18 shared

• Harriet de Wit

  University of Chicago

  15 shared

• Suzette M. Evans

  12 shared

• L. D. Chait

  12 shared

• René de la Garza

  8 shared

• C. R. Schuster

  6 shared

• William L. Woolverton

  5 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Classics

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2008

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