Melvin Wevers

Since 2020, I am an Assistant Professor in Digital History at the University of Amsterdam. My research focuses on the application of computational methods to model historical processes. I do this by combining insights from the philosophy of history with the affordances of modeling techniques, such as time series analysis, bayesian statistics, deep/machine learning, and information theory.

Thomas Smits

Thomas Smits is an assistant professor of digital history and artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. A historian of visual culture with an interest in digital methodologies, especially multimodal AI techniques, he is author of the prize-winning The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842-1870 (2020). Recent work focusses on the visual representation of war, (iconic) protest images, and early color photography and was published in New Media and Society, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Visual Studies, and the Journal of Historical Geography.

Tim Verlaan

Vincent Kuitenbrouwer

Piera Riccio

Working in the Visual Imaginaries of Gender Project

Ruben Ros

Technocratic reasoning in parliamentary debates.
until 2025

Loren Verreyen

PhD candidate at the UvA and the University of Antwerp. Distant Listening: fictionality in true crime podcasts.

Holden Carroll

PhD in the Sound Affairs project.

Aijia Zhang

PhD candidate at Heidelberg University, on the computational investigation of lianhuanhua.

Ibrahim Atilgan

Digital analysis of historical maps.
2026

Jan Kostkan

Visiting from Aarhus University.
2023

Phillip Stenman Baun

Visiting from Aarhus University.
2023

Fan Xu

Multimodal deep learning for historical datasets.
2024