teaching
I have been teaching various courses at the universities of Freiburg i. Br. (D) and Basel (CH) at all levels and in different formats, covering medieval and early modern history as well as digital humanities/history. An overview over my more recent teaching can be found here.
Since 2020, I have been focusing more and more on teaching computational methods to (PhD) students at the history department in Basel. In theses hands-on courses, methodical and technical skills are tought and applied to historical sources/data sets. The courses are open for students of all levels, and no prior knowledge is required, only a genuine interest in learning new things and an openness towards collaborative work. While some courses are more centered around the use of specific software, others start with learning a programming language (R or Python) as a basis for the creation of a (collaborative) semester project, focusing on a historical research question.
Here is a selection of some of the projects:
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Abdallah Hamed, Anna Nevina Gisiger, Gabor Kaibjanov, Arthur Stern: Philipp Hainhofer: Reiseberichte & Sammlungsbeschreibungen 1594-1636, 2025, https://github.com/SternArthur1/Hainhofer. (course “(De-)Coding History: Einführung in die computergestützte Analyse historischer Quellen”)
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Gianna Coletti, Wanja Gerber, Davide Miotto, Phoebe Misiuk: Charles Burney digital. Digitale Anreicherung und Geovisualisierung eines frühneuzeitlichen Reiseberichts, 2024, https://github.com/WanjaGe/Charles-Burney-digital. (course “Grand Tour gone digital. Computergestützte Analyse frühneuzeitlicher Reiseberichte”)
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Sven Staub, Linking voices. Master thesis, 2025, https://dhlab-mmma.dhlab.unibas.ch/ (access with Uni Basel VPn)/https://github.com/Sveburk/masterarbeit. This thesis builts on the course “Von Bücherschätzen zu Datensätzen. Digitalisierung, Aufbereitung und Auswertung historischer Quellen” in fall 2022.