What does it mean to be a digital scholar? The answers to this seemingly simple question are probably as diverse as the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities itself. To learn more about the ins and outs of the emerging research area, we invited Prof. Valérie Schafer from the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) for an interview.

Valérie Schafer has been a Professor in Contemporary European History at the C2DH since 2018, where she does research on the history of the Internet and the Web, the history of European digital cultures and infrastructures, and born-digital heritage. Previously, she worked at The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is furthermore one of the co-editors of the book series “Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics”.

With De Gruyter acquisitions editor Rabea Rittgerodt, she talked about her own path in the digital humanities, shared passions among digital scholars, cultural changes as well as the importance of preserving our digital heritage in times of crises.

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Book series “Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics” ➡️  https://www.degruyter.com/serial/sdhh-b/html

You might also be interested in our new Open Access “Journal of Digital History”, a joint initiative of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and De Gruyter ➡️  https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jdh/html