Working with Spatial Data and its Visualizations. Imaginations, Media, and Transfer

Antje Dietze (SFB 1199), Julius Wilm (SFB 1199) & Ninja Steinbach-Hüther (SFB 1199 & IfL)

Biographical Note

Dr. Antje Dietze (SFB 1199, Leipzig University, Germany)

Antje Dietze studied cultural studies in Leipzig and Paris, earning her PhD in 2012 from Leipzig University for a work on the role of cultural organizations and artistic practice during the post-socialist transition in Germany. As part of her current research she spent 2014/15 as a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) P.R.I.M.E. research fellow at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Montreal (Canada). Her research interests include entertainment and the arts, cultural industries, and cultural change within the study of culture and transnational history, focusing particularly on Europe and North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Dr. Julius Wilm (SFB 1199, Leipzig University, Germany)

Julius Wilm is a postdoctoral researcher at Leipzig University’s Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition.” He obtained his PhD in Anglo-American History from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on free land colonization schemes in the antebellum United States and has taught at the universities of Copenhagen and Lucerne. In 2019–2020 he was the Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History at the German Historical Institute Washington and George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, where he began work on a digital mapping project on the Homestead Act with a particular emphasis on the law’s impact on Native nations throughout the US West between 1863 and 1912.

Dr. Ninja Steinbach-Hüther (SFB 1199, Leipzig University & Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig, Germany)

Ninja Steinbach-Hüther earned a PhD in Global studies from Leipzig University and the École normale supérieure, Paris, with a study on the “Circulation of African knowledge. Presence and reception of African academic literature in France and Germany”. Before, she studied French culture studies and Intercultural communication, English literature (Transcultural anglophone studies) and German as a foreign language at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, as well as European studies during a semester abroad at Cardiff University, Wales. For several years, she worked as a research assistant, then as the project coordinator of a German-Greek bilateral research project at the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University. Her academic interests include the circulation of knowledge in a globalizing world, cultural transfers, the theoretical and methodological approaches for the investigation of spatial formats and spatial orders and the actors within these processes. She particularly interested in Digital Humanities-driven approaches combined with conventional research perspectives to these topics and their applicability in an interdisciplinary research environment.

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