Susanne Shatanawi

Programme manager

Programme management

Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

 and Associate Professor of Early Modern Cultural History. He specializes in the history of knowledge. He supervises a large research ERC Consolidator project about 

Profile: intellectual history of (early) modern Europa, History of Knowledge, science, universities, education, scholarship, philology, biblical scholarship, gender relations in the world of learning, humanism, and the long social history of the Republic of Letters (Respublica litteraria or Respublica litterarum/République des Lettres/Gelehrtenrepublik).

Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources

 (Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities).

Dirk van Miert

Principal Investigator

Director

Associate Professor 

Board - Research

Sebastiaan Fluitsma

Programme Manager Marketing & Communications

Board - Communication, Dissemination & Education / Press

Thomas Vermaut

WP2 Leader

Team Lead Geo

WP2 Technology

Gijsbert Rutten

WP3 Leader

Professor of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch

Director of Education, Centre of Linguistics

WP3 Linguïstiek

Rick Mourits is a historical demographer and data engineer. He is the WP4 lead for CLARIAH and the database manager of the HSN databases, such as the Historical Sample of the Netherlands and LINKS, a countrywide reconstruction of persons and families living in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1967. His areas of expertise are historical databases, quantitative research methodology, and historical inequalities in mortality.

Rick studied sociology and religious studies at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. From 2014 to 2019, he wrote his PhD thesis on familial clustering of longevity in the 19th and early-20th centuries at the department of economic, social, and demographic history of the Radboud University. During this time, Rick was also a guest researcher at the Utah Population Database division. From 2019 to 2020, he was employed by the Universiteit Utrecht as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of economic and social history of the Utrecht University. From 2021 to 2022 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and data engineer for the Historical Databases Suriname and Curacao at the Radboud University.

Rick Mourits

WP4 Leider

Data & Collections Engineer

Database manager HSNDB

WP4 Socio-economic History 

Operational Workpackage Leader CLARIAH WP5 "Media Studies and Audiovisual Data", 

Coordinator intensive course package "Television and Media Culture", BA Media and Culture

I obtained a PhD in Social Sciences (University of Antwerp, 2008) with a dissertation on Post-Soviet Russian Film Policy, for which I conducted research at the 

 in Moscow. One of the main results of this research was a framework for national cinema analysis, published 

In 2009, I started working as a postdoctoral researcher on media and migration, and conducted a visual methods study on photography, as part of the media and diaspora research line of Utrecht University. The methodological framework for photograph analysis is published 

From 2010 onwards, I work within the field of 

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

 a tool for mapping historical film distribution and programming (NWO-KIEM). In 2014, I also worked within the 

 at the media studies department of UvA. Since 2015, I am part of the Core Team WP5 Audiovisual Data and Media Studies of the national infrastructural project CLARIAH (NWO), aimed at developing the national research infrastructure for audiovisual data 

, and as from January 2019 I am its Operational Workpackage Leader.

In addition, I was visiting scholar at the 

 and member of the first cohort of fellows of MIT's digital humanities lab 

SCMS SIG "Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism"

 that links the international community of film and television scholars working within the dynamic field of video essays and digital humanities. Currently, I am co-editing with Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold and Stef Scagliola a special issue on 

Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities Quarterly

, planned to be published in Winter 2020.

In the area of teaching, my research interests involve 

. Central to this is the development of a model for 

 in a joint venture with Marijn Koolen (KNAW Humanities Cluster) and Jacco van Ossenbruggen (VU Amsterdam), published 

. I am developing new courses in the area of audiovisual data and interactive storytelling, such as 

 (from 2018 onwards). Currently, I am working with Christian Olesen (UU/UvA) on the educational platform CLARIAH 

, and with Willemien Sanders and Mari Wigham (NISV) on the CLARIAH 

As part of practice-as-research, I have done internships for 

 in Tallinn. During my Phd and postdoctoral research, I co-produced two 

 (shot in Ukraine). Currently, I am working on a small analogue photography project, see 

Jasmijn van Gorp

WP5 Co-leader

Assistant professor of Audiovisual Data Studies

WP5 Media Studies

Karina van Dalen-Oskam studied Dutch Linguistics and Literary studies at the University of Utrecht and in 1997 gained her PhD from Leiden University with the thesis 

Studies over Jacob van Maerlants Rijmbijbel

. From 1988 to 2001 she worked at the Institute for Dutch Lexicology in Leiden. In 2002, she started at the Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschappelijke Informatiediensten (NIWI-KNAW, Netherlands Institute for Scientiﬁc Information Services) as head of the department of Dutch Linguistics and Literary Studies and as senior researcher.
Since June 2005 she has been working at Huygens ING, where she started as research leader of the department of ICT & Texts. Since 1 July 2011 she is head of the department of Literary Studies.

From March 2012 onward she is also professor of Computational Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she delivered her inaugural lecture on 1 February 2013, 

. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) from 2011-2014 and president of EADH from 2014-2015. In November 2015 she became chair of the international digital humanities organization ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations).

Her research focuses on computational literary studies and she is engaged in the development of methods and techniques for the stylistic analysis of modern Dutch (and English) novels. Her aim is to develop comparative methods that can be applied to analyze stylistic differences in texts, oeuvres, genres, time periods, and cultures or languages.

 and currently leads, among other things, the 

project: Textual scholarship and the challenge of digital literary writing and (at the University of Wolverhamptom with Bas Groes) 

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