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 main research and teaching interests in modern Jewish, digital, public, and 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:

• A new short article ‘Between Online and Offline: Doing Archival Research in the Digital Age’ has been published in a special issue of the German archival journal ARCHIV. theorie & praxis on Originalerhalt und Digitalisierung. ^PDF.
• I am delighted to give a keynote lecture at Digital History Switzerland 2024 in September 2024.
• A lengthy new article, Facing the History Machine: Towards Histories of Digital History has been conditionally accepted for publication in History of Humanities, pending revisions.

Image: Vicki Bennett - Those Who Do Not.