Gerben Zaagsma
Assistant Professor in Contemporary History
Assistant Professor at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
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Career: 13
Assistant Professor
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Aug 2018 - Present
Assistant Professor
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Senior Researcher
University of Luxembourg
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Senior Researcher
University of Luxembourg
Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Sep 2013 - Dec 2016
Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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
Web developer/ researcher
Huygens ING (KNAW)
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
Freelance (web) editor, copywriter, content management specialist & researcher
Freelance
Honorary Research Associate at Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department
University College London
Oct 2008 - Sep 2011
Honorary Research Associate at Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department
University College London
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
Content Management Specialist
European University Institute
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 researcher
European University Institute
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 Representative
Transcom
Customer service and financial department of telephone company
Researcher
History Research and Consultancy Center, University of Groningen
Nov 1998 - Sep 2000
Researcher
History Research and Consultancy Center, University of Groningen
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
General affairs manager
Folkingestraat Synagogue Foundation
Organisation of exhibitions, public relations, guided tours.
Lecturer
Senior Academy
Apr 1997 - May 1997
Lecturer
Senior Academy
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
Freelanc editor/ organiser
Stichting Historie Joods Groningen
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
European University Institute
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
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
School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London
MA
MA in Yiddish Studies
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
MA
1989 - 1996
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
MA
MA in Modern History
Activities / Societies: G.H.D. Ubbo Emmius
Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium
Education
1984 - 1989
Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium
Education
Projects: 4
The Diaries of Anne Frank. Research – Translations – Critical Edition
uni-goettingen.de/de/418200.html
Sep 2014 - Present
The Diaries of Anne Frank. Research – Translations – Critical Edition
uni-goettingen.de/de/418200.html
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
primary-sources.eui.eu
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
Digital Web Centre for the History of Science
dwc.knaw.nl/?lang=en
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
yiddish-sources.com
Yiddish Sources is a portal for anyone who is interested in Yiddish and Yiddish Studies.