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I am an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg.

My main research and teaching interests are modern Jewish history, digital history, and music history. Within the context of digital history I am particularly interested in the methodological and epistemological implications of using new technologies in historical research and writing. I currently work on two related projects that investigate the politics of digitisation and the history of digital history.

I hold a Ph.D. in modern history from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Previously, I worked as a researcher at the Public History Research and Consultancy Center of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. I then studied Yiddish at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, before embarking upon my PhD research project at the EUI.

I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London and an editor, web developer & researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 2013-2017, I worked as a research fellow in the project The diaries of Anne Frank. Research—Translations— Critical Edition at the Lichtenberg Kolleg, the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen, where I was responsible for the annotations of a new critical scholarly edition of the diaries and conducted research on Jews in hiding in the Netherlands.

My first book Jewish volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War was published with Bloomsbury Academic in April 2017.

I joined the C²DH in August 2017 and was Head of the Research Area Digital History & Historiography until December 2020, when it merged with the center’s DHARPA team.

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Modern European history; Jewish history; the Holocaust; digital humanities; digital history; music history; public history; comparative history; history of transfers; transnational history; migration studies; Yiddish Studies.

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Gerben Zaagsma
Gerben Zaagsma

I am an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg.

My main research and teaching interests are modern Jewish history, digital history, and music history. Within the context of digital history I am particularly interested in the methodological and epistemological implications of using new technologies in historical research and writing. I currently work on two related projects that investigate the politics of digitisation and the history of digital history.

I hold a Ph.D. in modern history from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Previously, I worked as a researcher at the Public History Research and Consultancy Center of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. I then studied Yiddish at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, before embarking upon my PhD research project at the EUI.

I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London and an editor, web developer & researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 2013-2017, I worked as a research fellow in the project The diaries of Anne Frank. Research—Translations— Critical Edition at the Lichtenberg Kolleg, the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen, where I was responsible for the annotations of a new critical scholarly edition of the diaries and conducted research on Jews in hiding in the Netherlands.

My first book Jewish volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War was published with Bloomsbury Academic in April 2017.

I joined the C²DH in August 2017 and was Head of the Research Area Digital History & Historiography until December 2020, when it merged with the center’s DHARPA team.