Silke Schwandt

Professor for Digital History

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Vera Breitner

Research Associate
History

Jil Dirschauer

Student Assistant

Art and Visual History

Patrick Jentsch

Research Associate
Computer Science

Inga Kirschnick

Research Software Engineer

Research project:

CRC 1288 "Practices of Comparing" – INF project

Research interests: 

(Platform) development for digital historical studies

Lennart Klar

Student Assistant
History

Christopher Kuhlmann

Research Associate
History

Research project:

The FLOW 

Research interests:

Social structures in the Middle Ages; medieval legal history; special legal remedies

Dana Meyer

Research Associate
History

Research project:

The Flow: From Deep-Learning to Digital Analysis and their Role in the Humanities Creating, Evaluating, and Critiquing Workflows for Historical Corpora

Research interests:

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing

Anna Maria Neubert

Academic Coordinator Digital History & Managing Director Center for Uncertainty Studies
Digital Humanities

Research project:

Towards Mapping the Field. A feminist perspective on the establishment of digital humanities in Germany through third-party funded projects

Research interests:

Digital Humanities, Digital Cultural Heritage, Cultural Analytics, History of Science and Disciplines, (Interdisciplinary) Science Management

Recent publications:

Cremer, Fabian, Dogunke, Swantje, Neubert, Anna Maria, and Wübbena, Thorsten, eds. 2024. Projektmanagement und Digital Humanities. Zur klugen Gestaltung der Zusammenarbeit. Vol. 9. Digital Humanities Research. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press.

Neubert, Anna Maria. 2024. “Verantwortungsvolles Projektmanagement - schönes Beiwerk oder nötige Erweiterung?”. In Projektmanagement und Digital Humanities. Zur klugen Gestaltung der Zusammenarbeit, ed. Fabian Cremer, Swantje Dogunke, Anna Maria Neubert, and Thorsten Wübbena, 281-308. Digital Humanities Research. Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag.

Neubert, Anna Maria. 2023. “What’s in a Project? Disciplinary Differences in Addressing Temporality and Collaborative Rhythms”. IDEAH 3 (3).

Sophie Spliethoff

Research Associate
History

Research project:

Sustainable Life-Cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems (SAIL) 

Research interests:

Historical Linguistics & Historical Pragmatics, Machine Learning in the Humanities, Protestant Reformation(s), England in the Early Modern Period

Recent publications:

Hoeken, Sanne / Spliethoff, Sophie / Schwandt, Silke / Zarrieß, Sina / Alaçam, Özge, Towards Detecting Lexical Semantic Change of Historical Hate Speech, in: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, S. 100-111. PUB-ID: 2986803.

Christian Wachter

Research Associate
History

Research project:

Capturing discourses digitally. Scalable reading methods for analysing the political culture of the Weimar Republic

Research interests:

Digital history and digital humanities, visuality and multimodality in historical studies, theories and methods of historical studies, political discourse history of Germany (early 20th century), anti-Semitism and nationalism research

Recent publications:

2021. Geschichte digital schreiben. Hypertext als non-lineare Wissensrepräsentation in der Digital History. 1. Aufl. Geschichtstheorie 2. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839458013.

2023. „Capturing Discourse through the Digital Lens: Towards a Framework for the Analysis of Pro-democratic Discourse in the Weimar Republic“. In Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities, herausgegeben von Florentina Armaselu und Andreas Fickers, 43–75. Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics, 7. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111317779-003.

With Silke Schwandt. 2024. „Visualization as irritation: Producing Knowledge about Medieval Courts through Uncertainty“. Frontiers in Big Data 7 (1188620): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2024.1188620.

Melvin Wilde

Student Assistant
History

Research project:

The FLOW

Research interests (within the project): Network formation and social security in the court system of the English Middle Ages, use of AI for the automated transcription of historical documents, development and linking of Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Latin languages in the High Middle Ages

Additional research interests:
Medieval masculinities and their discourse in European societies