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Project team
Larissa Schmid
Larissa Schmid has a background in History, Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science. She was a research fellow in the project "Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict: Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War" at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. She previously worked as a project coordinator at the SBB in the DFG project "SoNAR (IdH)" and conducted a usability-study. Currently, she is project coordinator in the DFG project "Orient-Digital" and a subject specialist for political science. Since 2023, she is leading the project "IN_CONTEXT: Colonial Histories and Digital Collections“.
Dr. Lars Müller
Lars Müller studied history and politics in Braunschweig, Vienna and Cardiff. At the Leibniz-Institute. Georg Eckert Institute, he worked on the DFG project "Knowledge about Africa. Discourses and Practices of Textbook Development in Germany and England, 1945-1995"; in this context he also completed his phD. From 2019 to 2022, he was the academic project coordinator of the PAESE Project. In 2022, he conducted a provenance research project on Hans Schomburgk for the Museumsverband Sachsen-Anhalt. Since 2023, he has been a research fellow in the project “IN_CONTEXT. Colonial Histories and Digital Collections” at the State Library Berlin (SPK). He also researches transnational Debates on (postcolonial) Restitution and questions of postcolonial provenance research.
Dr. John Woitkowitz
John Woitkowitz is a historian of science, knowledge transfer, and diplomacy with regional expertise in the history of North America and the circumpolar world. After his studies in Germany and the United States, John earned his PhD at the University of Calgary in Canada with a study on the cultural history of Canadian-American foreign relations in the Arctic. He continued his research at the University of Cambridge in England where he examined the history of science and knowledge transfer of German geographers and international polar science during the long nineteenth century. John’s interests bring together historical research with digital methods and questions related to the wider field of the digital humanities. He is Digital Editor at the New England Journal of History.
You can get in touch with us by contacting in_context@sbb.spk-berlin.de
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