Current position
Gerben Zaagsma is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary and Digital History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg. He is also a member of the university’s Ethics Review Panel.
Research
Dr. Zaagsma has a background in modern Jewish/Yiddish history. His current research focuses on the history of digital history, as well as the ethics and politics of digitisation and digitised cultural heritage, seen from a global perspective. For more information see: https://gerbenzaagsma.org.
Teaching
Dr. Zaagsma offers course in the fields of digital and public history, Holocaust and genocide studies, as well as music history.
Work experience
Zaagsma was a researcher in the Public History Research and Consultancy Center, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London and subsequently worked as editor & web developer at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). Before joining the University of Luxembourg he was a Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg, The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study, University of Göttingen.
Educational background
Dr. Zaagsma has an MA in Modern History from the University of Groningen and an MA in Yiddish Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
