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Assistant Professor in Contemporary History

Assistant Professor at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)

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Historian working on the history & politics of digital history and heritage, with a background in Jewish/Yiddish history and interests in genocide studies, public & music history.

For more information, please visit: https://gerbenzaagsma.org.

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Career: 13

Assistant Professor

Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)

Aug 2018 - Present

Senior Researcher

University of Luxembourg

Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Sep 2013 - Dec 2016

I worked as a research fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg in the project The diaries of Anne Frank. Research—Translations—Critical Edition. This project is a collaboration between the Lichtenberg Kolleg at the Georg August Universität Göttingen and the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt. It involves a new historical-critical edition of the diaries in Dutch, English and German as well as an accompanying multi-author research monograph. I am responsible for the annotations of the new edition as well as involved in planning the monograph for which I will contribute a chapter on wartime Yiddish diaries. For more information on the project visit this page: http://annefrank-researchproject.eu/

Web developer/ researcher

Huygens ING (KNAW)

Sep 2011 - Aug 2013

I was the developer of the new version of the Dutch history portal Historici.nl. In addition I organised a workshop on digital history and edited a special issue of BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review on digital history (to be published in december 2013). I also developed and taught a course on digital history for Huygens ING and NIOD employees (with my NIOD colleague Hinke Piersma).

Freelance (web) editor, copywriter, content management specialist & researcher

Freelance

Sep 2010 - Sep 2011

Honorary Research Associate at Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department

University College London

Oct 2008 - Sep 2011

Research project "Migration and politics in Jewish history. A comparison of Jewish migrant responses to anti-Semitism in Paris and London in the late 1930s".

Content Management Specialist

European University Institute

Apr 2008 - Sep 2011

I built and maintain the internet portal European History Primary Sources at http://primary-sources.eui.eu/.

PhD researcher

European University Institute

Sep 2003 - Sep 2008

PhD thesis in the Department of History and Civilization of the EUI on Jewish volunteers who fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.

Customer Service Representative

Transcom

Apr 2002 - Aug 2003

Customer service and financial department of telephone company

Researcher

History Research and Consultancy Center, University of Groningen

Nov 1998 - Sep 2000

Various projects involving archival research, editorial work, cataloguing, multimedia in museal presentations, general project management & coördination.

General affairs manager

Folkingestraat Synagogue Foundation

Jan 1998 - Sep 2000

Organisation of exhibitions, public relations, guided tours.

Lecturer

Senior Academy

Apr 1997 - May 1997

Coördination, development and teaching of 2-month course about the Jewish community in Groningen at the Adult Education Academy of the University of Groningen.

Freelanc editor/ organiser

Stichting Historie Joods Groningen

Sep 1996 - Mar 1997

Freelance work for the Foundation for the History of Jews in Groningen: co-editor of book 'The Folkingestraat; history of the Jewish community in Groningen'; co-organiser of exhibition of the same name.

Education: 4

European University Institute

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

2003 - 2008

PhD in Modern (Jewish) History

Activities / Societies: Researchers Representative in Department of History and Civilisation

School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London

MA

2000 - 2001

MA in Yiddish Studies

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

MA

1989 - 1996

MA in Modern History

Activities / Societies: G.H.D. Ubbo Emmius

Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium

Education

1984 - 1989

Projects: 4

The Diaries of Anne Frank. Research – Translations – Critical Edition

uni-goettingen.de/de/418200.html

Sep 2014 - Present

The project aims to open up a range of additional and new perspectives, exploring the history of Anne Frank and her diaries within the framework of more comparative European, if not global cultural, intellectual, literary and political history.

European History Primary Sources

primary-sources.eui.eu

Jun 2009 - Present

European History Primary Sources (EHPS) provides an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe. EHPS is a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Digital Web Centre for the History of Science

dwc.knaw.nl/?lang=en

Sep 2007 - Present

Online reference for the history of science in the Netherlands and its (former) colonies. Contains news, a system of biographies, historical sources, etc.

Yiddish Sources

yiddish-sources.com

Mar 2005 - Present

Yiddish Sources is a portal for anyone who is interested in Yiddish and Yiddish Studies.

Languages: 6

Dutch(Native or bilingual)
English(Native or bilingual)
French(Professional working)
German(Professional working)
Yiddish(Professional working)
Italian(Limited working)

Skills: 47

Technical

CSSDrupalHTMLMicrosoft OfficeWeb DevelopmentWordpress

Business

CMSContent ManagementManagementProject ManagementSocial MediaWeb Content ManagementWriting

Creative

CopywritingWeb Design

Interpersonal

EducationEnglishFrenchGermanLecturingPresentationsPublic SpeakingResearch
Teaching

Other

Academic WritingAnalysisBooksDigital HistoryDigital HumanitiesDutchEditingEuropean History
Higher EducationHistoryInformation ManagementJewish HistoryLiteraturePoliticsPublic HistoryPublicationsPublishingTranslationUniversity TeachingWeb EditingWebsite DevelopmentWordYiddish

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