Visting Scientists

Former Visiting Scientists

Dr. Ian Milligan

June–July 2019

Dr. Ian Milligan, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo (Canada), was a visiting scholar at the Chair of Digital Humanities from 24 June to 16 July 2019.

His research focuses primarily on how historians can make use of web archives for historical research. He also teaches courses on historical methods, digital history, and post-war Canadian history.

During his visit, he gave a lecture entitled Working with Cultural Heritage at Scale: Enabling Historical Research in the Age of Digital Abundance.

Dr. Saeedeh Momtazi

January 2019

Dr. Saeedeh Momtazi, Assistant Professor at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, visited the Chair of Digital Humanities in January 2019.

Her research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval and extraction, question answering, opinion mining, and social data analysis.

Dr. Timur Valetov

November 2017

An Associate Professor of Historical Information Science at Moscow State University visited the Chair of Digital Humanities in November 2017.

His research focuses on Russia’s and the USSR’s foreign trade from 1802 to 1991, economic and social statistics in Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, historical information science, and the use of GIS in historical research.

During his visit, he gave a lecture entitled: From peasant to Putin. Occupational change in the Soviet century, 1897-2002. Period of the "two-waves" of Russian industrialization.

Paulo Teodoro de Matos

[Translate to Englisch:] Teodoro de Matos

Winter Semester 2016/2017

A Research Fellow in the FCT Programme at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), NOVA University Lisbon, served as a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Digital Humanities during the winter semester of 2016/2017.

During his visit, he taught the course 43161 Wissenschaftl. Übung: European colonial populations. Portugal, Spain, England and Germany in a comparative perspective, 18-19th centuries

Mag. Florian Windhager

[Translate to Englisch:] Florian Windhager

Summer Semester 2016

A Research Associate at the Centre for Cognition, Information and Management, Danube University Krems (Krems an der Donau, Austria), served as a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Digital Humanities during the summer semester of 2016.

During his visit, he taught the course41643 Wissenschaftl. Übung: Die Anordnung der Dinge. Informationsvisualisierung für Human- und GeisteswissenschaftlerInnen

Dr. Ronan Crowley

Visiting Lecturer, 2014–2016

An Alexander von Humboldt Fellow served as a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Digital Humanities from 2014 to 2016.

His research project was entitled A Genetic Edition of the Circe Episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Prof. Dr. Gerald Steinacher

Summer Semester 2016

An Associate Professor of History and Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Lincoln, USA) served as a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Digital Humanities during the summer semester of 2016.

Dr. Andrej Gogora

Winter Semester 2015/2016

A scholar from the Department of General and Applied Ethics at the Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovak Republic, served as a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Digital Humanities during the winter semester of 2015/2016.

Dr. Ryan Cordell

December 2014

An Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University (Boston, USA) visited the Chair of Digital Humanities in December 2014.

Prof. Dr. Ray Siemens

May 2014

Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing
University of Victoria (Victoria, Kanada)

"My stay at the University of Passau was an excellent chance not only to build on work with colleagues and collaborators at Passau but, further, to understand the rich intellectual context and culture that they and their students work within; we’ve already begun work on a further collaboration, based on what we accomplished on-campus this past May. A few of the things that struck me most during my visit include the interdisciplinary engagement across areas of inquiry, departments, and faculties that my Passau colleagues enjoyed on a daily basis, as well as the integration of the academic institution and its concerns with the institutions and bodies of the city itself. When I think back to my stay at the University of Passau, I recall the energy, the insights, and the accomplishment of the institutions — and the natural beauty of its environs."