About

Welcome to the website of Gerben Zaagsma. I am an Assistant Professor in Contemporary and Digital History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) of the University of Luxemburg. With a background in modern Jewish/Yiddish history, my current research and teaching is mostly in the fields of digital and public history, Holocaust and genocide studies, as well as music history.

Before joining C²DH in August 2017, I worked in a number of different places and settings, see my CV for more information. My current research focuses on the history of digital history, as well as the politics of digitisation and digitised cultural heritage, seen from a global perspective. You can also check my talks and list of publications. Several recent papers and lectures can be found on Zenodo.

Latest updates:

• The first ever conference on Tracing the History of Digital History will take place in Paris between 23-25 Ocober 2024. The program is now online here.
• My new long article, Facing the History Machine: Towards Histories of Digital History will appear in the upcoming issue of History of Humanities.
• A new short article ‘Between Online and Offline: Doing Archival Research in the Digital Age’ was published in a special issue of the German archival journal ARCHIV. theorie & praxis on Originalerhalt und Digitalisierung. ^PDF.

Image: Vicki Bennett - Those Who Do Not.