HNR Bibliography

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Network Analysis in the Historical Sciences

By date of publication (descending)

Schisani, Maria Carmela, and Giancarlo Ragozini. 2026. “Financial Globalization and Peripheral Integration: Business Groups, Relational Infrastructures and Networked Intermediation in the South of Italy (1820–1903).” Financial History Review, April 14, 1–48. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565026100158.
Mazzamurro, Matteo, Tom Brughmans, Albert Diaz-Guilera, et al. 2026. “Network Science Education for the Humanities: The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School.” 2026 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), April, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON67543.2026.11574492.
Prell, Martin. 2026. “Forschungsdaten und Skripte der historischen Netzwerkanalyse zur sozioreligiösen Verortung der pietistischen Gräfin Erdmuthe Benignas von Reuß-Ebersdorf (1670–1732) anhand ihres Briefnetzwerkes.” Dataset. Philipps-Universität Marburg, March 31. https://doi.org/10.17192/openumr/587.
Jiménez-Puerto, Joaquín. 2026. “Towards a Relational Egyptology: The Emergence of Social Network Analysis in Egyptian Studies.” Heritage 9 (4): 136. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage9040136.
Pikkanen, Ilona, Matti La Mela, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, and Jouni Tuominen. 2026. “A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 019 (4).
Grandjean, Martin. 2026. “The Digital Historian’s Craft.” In Handbook of Digital and Computational Research Methods, edited by Anders Koed Madsen and Anders Kristian Munk. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802208993.00009.
Grandjean, Martin. 2026. La coopération intellectuelle: Relations scientifiques et diplomatie culturelle à la Société des Nations (1919-1939). Alphil Presses Universitaires Suisses. https://doi.org/10.33055/ALPHIL.00695.
Tambs, Lena. 2026. “Unnamed Actors and Groups in Select Papyri from the Zenon Archive (3rd Cent. BCE): Implications for Historical Network Approaches.” Journal of Historical Network Research 13: 6–56. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v13i1.117.
Tambs, Lena. 2026. “Unnamed Actors and Groups (Supplementary Material).” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14190908.
Crymble, Adam, Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith. 2026. The King’s Dinner. UCL Press. https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kings-dinner/.
Grandjean, Martin. 2026. “Studying News Coverage through Embeddings Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Historical Research.” Paper presented at Historical Network Researh. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21513723.
Georgiou, Ion. 2026. “Networked Lives: The Emergence of Art as a Social System.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science 43 (3): 1095–115. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.70001.
Berchum, Marnix Johannes van. 2026. “Linked Sources: Network Perspectives on the Polyphonic Te Deum Laudamus in the Sixteenth Century.” Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.33540/1072.
Daniel, Johanna, and Martin Grandjean. 2026. “Circulation Des Spectacles Marginaux : Réseaux Sociaux et Interurbains En France (1792-1860).” In Actes de La Conférence Humanistica, edited by Serena Crespi, Simon Gabay, Martin Grandjean, Ariane Pinche, Marie Puren, and Léa Saint-Raymond, vol. 4. Anthology of Computers and the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.63744/QYIv8j3loHxs.
Daniel, Johanna, and Martin Grandjean. 2026. “A Spatial Network Study of Itinerant Performers’ Passports in 18th- and 19th-Century France.” Paper presented at Historical Network Research Conference 2026.
Prell, Martin. 2025. “Sozioreligiöse Nähe ermitteln: Eine historische Netzwerkanalyse zur Verortung der pietistischen Gräfin Erdmuthe Benigna von Reuß-Ebersdorf (1670–1732).” Universität Marburg. https://doi.org/10.17192/openumr/588.
Cousins, Peter. 2025. “Rev. Earl M. Smith: The ‘Grandfather’ of Contemporary, Organized Latin American Nonviolence.” Historical Research, July 18, htaf013. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaf013.
Styler, Ian. 2025. “Using Social Networking Analysis to Identify and Understand the Relationships Present in the Liber Eliensis.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-009/html.
Välimäki, Reima, and David Zbíral. 2025. “Uncovering Patterns in Dissident Interactions Among Late Medieval German Waldensians Using Social Network Analysis.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-013/html.
Ruffini-Ronzani, Nicolas. 2025. “Social Networks in the Gregorian Era: Some Methodological Remarks on the Case of the Investiture Controversy in the Diocese of Cambrai-Arras.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-011/html.
Valeriola, Sébastien De. 2025. “Personal Guarantees and Credit Networks in Ypres, Tournai, and Douai in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-018/html.
Hammond, Matthew. 2025. “Network Science Meets Medieval History Approaches and Methods in an Emergent Field.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-004/html.
Gramsch-Stehfest, Robert, and Clemens Beck. 2025. “Network Analysis of German Clerical Careers in the Late Middle Ages.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-014/html.
Chick, Joe. 2025. “Monks, Merchants, and Matrices: Quantifying Social Interactions in Reading, 1350-1600.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-017/html.
Nabias, Laurent. 2025. “Marriage Strategies, Clientelism, and Factions in the Social Networks of the Nobility of the îLe-De-France Region From Philippe Auguste to Charles VII (1180–1437).” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-012/html.
Koepke, Carson. 2025. “Graphing Networks of Latin Hagiography in Early Medieval England.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-008/html.
Croci, Cassidy. 2025. “‘Frá Birni Er Nær Allt Stórmenni Komit á Íslandi’: A Social Network Analysis of Bjǫrn Buna’s Descendants in Landnámabók.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-010/html.
Hammond, Matthew. 2025. “Change Over Time in Charter Co-Witnessing Networks: The Case of the Scottish Royal Household, 1124 to 1371.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-016/html.
Rosé, Isabelle. 2025. “Biography and Network Analysis in the Early Middle Ages: Methodological Issues Around the ‘Networked Life-Course.’” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-015/html.
Gramsch-Stehfest, Robert. 2025. “‘Big Data’ in History? The Use of Social Network Analysis in Medieval Studies—Challenges and Perspective.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-006/html.
Maccarron, Máirín. 2025. “Bede, Network Analysis, and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.” In Social Network Analysis and Medieval History. ARC Humanities Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781802703566-007/html.
Fischer, Liz. 2025. Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques. ARC Humanities Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802703474.
Ruschena, Nicola. 2025. “ToPNA_RoM Dataset - Doctoral Dissertations, Supervisions and Institutional Affiliations in Philosophy in the US and Canada: 1956 - 2017.” Journal of Open Humanities Data 11 (1). https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.291.
Colmenar, Sara Arribas. 2025. “Constelaciones de artistas: análisis y teoría de redes aplicado a la danza y el teatro español (1914-1934).” Revista de Humanidades Digitales 10 (May): 73–97. https://doi.org/10.5944/rhd.vol.10.2025.42787.
Natal, David. 2025. “Brokerage, Compromise and Metropolitan Authority in Ambrose of Milan.” Journal of Historical Network Research 11 (1). https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v11i1.102.
Henriot, Christian. 2025. Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation. Transformations of Modern China. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437.
Armand, Cécile. 2025. “Bonding Minds, Bridging Nations: Sino-American Alumni Networks in the Era of Exclusion (1882–1936).” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-006.
Larkin, Thomas M. 2025. “The Hong Kong Branch: A Spatial-Microhistory of Augustine Heard & Co., 1856–1876.” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-002.
Lien, Ling-ling, and Wei-chun Yeh. 2025. “Reimagining Elite Women’s Culture in Late Imperial China: Social Networks, Literary Legacies, and the Transition to Modernity.” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-003.
Pelzer, Thorben. 2025. “Technocracy and Technostructure in Nationalist China: Expert Rule or Rule over Experts?” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-004.
Jen-shu, Wu, and Wei-chun Yeh. 2025. “Agricultural Technocrats in Modern China: A Network-Based Study of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-005.
Bosch, Nora Van den. 2025. “Chinese Students in Belgium (1919–1939): An Exploratory Analysis with the Liubi Xuesheng-Dataset.” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-007.
Huei-min, Sun. 2025. “Unleashing the Power of Knowledge and Networks: Raising Capital for Publishing Companies in Shanghai (1928–1937).” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-008.
Henriot, Christian. 2025. “Forging Bonds and Building Factories: The Networked World of Shanghai’s Industrial Elite.” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-009.
Dluhošová, Táňa. 2025. “Social Stability and Mobility in Taiwan Across the 1945 Divide: The Habitus of Political Elites.” In Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation, edited by Christian Henriot. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111374437-010.
Katz, Nathan. 2025. “Federal Election Commission Records as Qualitative Data: A Historical Network Analysis Approach.” Interest Groups & Advocacy 14 (1): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41309-024-00219-5.
Deicke, Aline. 2025. “‘Slow’ Network Research? A Mixed-Methods Approach Towards Funeral Status Representation in the Late Urnfield Period.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 32 (1): 33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09698-5.
McKean, Callum, and Cameron Randall. 2025. “Data Analysis and Network Visualisation as Tools for Curating Hybrid Correspondence Archives.” AI & SOCIETY, ahead of print, February 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02200-5.
Luoto, Lauri. 2025. “Identifying Prominent Actors in Historical Networks: The Case of the New Education Movement.” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 58 (1): 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2431487.
Bazzan, Ana Lucia Cetertich. 2025. Uma visão em rede dos primórdios da comunidade acadêmica em informática e computação no Brasil : uma proposta de elaboração. https://lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/300612.

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This bibliography is not the work of an individual, but of a collective. It is currently maintained by:

  • Marten Düring
  • Martin Grandjean

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  • Tom Brughmans
  • Matt Peeples
  • Christian Rollinger
  • Martin Skoeries
  • Maximilian Kaiser
  • Christian Marx