About HNR
The Historical Network Research Community
This website is a platform for scholars to present their work, enable collaboration and provide those new to network analysis with some helpful first information.
The roots of HNR go back to the year 2009 when Ulrich Eumann, Martin Stark, Linda von Keyserlingk-Rehbein and Marten Düring decided to organise a workshop for historians interested in social network analysis. Over the years, the HNR community grew from a small workshop series for German-speaking historians to a more internationally oriented community of scholars from different academic disciplines who are linked by their shared interest in the analysis of historical networks. Today, the HNR community organises workshops, conferences, lectures, an open access journal, a newsletter, a Slack group and a research bibliography.
Over the years, many scholars have volunteered their time, energy and ideas to make HNR events happen and to support the services we provide. We welcome anyone who is motivated to play an active part in this community – get in touch!
Board and Contacts
The work for the HNR Community is a collaborative effort. For specific inquiries, however, we encourage you to reach out to the respective contact points.
HNR Co-chairs
Demival Vasques Filho, Research scientist at the C2DH – University of Luxembourg.
Demival holds a PhD in Physics, specializing in the area of complex systems and network theory, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His thesis explored the structure and evolution of large-scale two-mode social networks. His research interests focus on developing new methods and expanding the application of complex systems concepts in the study of social sciences and humanities.
Cindarella Petz, Postdoctoral Researcher at the DH Lab of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Mainz.
Cindarella’s research focuses on the application of trans- and interdisciplinary approaches for historical inquiry, namely historical network research, text mining, and large language models. She is active in the Historical Network Research community as editor at Journal of Historical Network Research, as convenor of the Graphs and Networks in the Humanities working group of the DHd and in the organization of various workshop formats such as the Barcelona Past Networks Summer School. Her research was published among others at Journal of Historical Network Research, Social Networks Journal, and Springer.
Martin Grandjean, Senior Researcher in Contemporary History and Digital Humanities at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
His research focuses on the history of international organizations and on the development of methods for the study of large bodies of archives using network analysis and visualization.
You can email them here.
HNR Communication
Coordinator:
Giulia Clarizia, Research Fellow at Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Napoli.
Giulia holds a PhD in International History from Roma Tre University in Rome. Her research interests focus on transatlantic relations during WWII and the Cold War. She is currently working on the role of financial and business élites in transatlantic cultural associationism after WWII.
Vice-Coordinator:
Marija Blašković, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Her current project “FEMIber” uses digital methods and tools to explore representations of women in 14th-century Iberian historiography.
You can email them here.
HNR Events
Coordinator:
Demival Vasques Filho, Research Scientist at the C2DH – University of Luxembourg. (See bio above)
Vice-Coordinator:
Marcella Tambuscio, Researcher at the University of Graz’s Department of Digital Humanities.
Marcella has a background in Mathematics and Computer Science. Her PhD focused on the theoretical aspects of misinformation spread in social networks. Since 2020, she has applied network and data science to analyze historical and contemporary archives. Her main research interest is developing interdisciplinary approaches to address the complexity of research in the humanities.
You can email them here.
Seminar Series
Coordinator:
Caitlin Burge, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Galway.
Having completed her AHRC-funded PhD at Queen Mary, University of London in 2022, she is currently involved with the ERC-project ‘STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700’ and working on her first monograph using network analysis to consider the career of Thomas Cromwell and epistolary networks at the Tudor court, as well as a digital edition of Privy Council registers from the reign of Henry VIII. Recent articles can be found in Huntington Library Quarterly, Journal of Historical Network Research, and International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing.
Vice-Coordinator:
Zef Segal, Senior Lecturer at the School of Media Studies at the College of Management Academic Studies.
His research centers on 19th-century mobility, space, and communication, with a particular focus on the historical analysis of journals and maps. His most recent publications include Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion (2020, Amsterdam University Press), and The Political Fragmentation of Germany (2019, Palgrave Macmillan). His forthcoming book, Culture in the Age of the Enlightenment: Reshaping the Private Sphere, will be published in Hebrew by the Open University of Israel.
You can email them here.
JHNR – The Journal of Historical Network Research
JHNR Representative:
Clemens Beck, Research Fellow at the Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
He is in the final stages of his doctoral thesis, which focuses on noble networks in the 12th-century Holy Roman Empire. Since 2021, he has been part of the JHNR editorial board as Managing Editor.
You can email him here.