MARTIN GRANDJEAN

I’m a senior researcher and a lecturer in contemporary history and digital humanities at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. I hold a PhD from the University of Lausanne and am specialized in network analysis and data visualization. My research focuses on the history of international organizations, the League of Nations and the history of intellectual cooperation. I’m developing methods for the structural analysis of large bodies of international archives and am particularly interested in the graphic and synthetic representation of these massive data. I recently joined the Impresso project where I’m continuing this research, combining it with an analysis of the press and radio.

This website shows, however, that my activity goes beyond these strict categories: I like to experiment with ways to play with data, be it historical, statistical or from social networks. I like to share around these practices of research and experimentation, considering that the digital humanities are a kind of craft, both exciting and imperfect. This site has been a very active blog in the past, it is now mainly a way to talk about my research and centralize my scientific productions, but nothing prevents it from becoming so again one day.

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SOCIETIES

2017-today | HNR, the Historical Network Research Community (member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Historical Network Research, member of the Committee)

2016-today | ADHO, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (member of the Steering Committee, member of the Constituent Organizations Board, currently co-chair of the Admissions Committee)

2016-2018 | OpenData Switzerland (member of the Committee)

2014-2020 | Humanistica, French-speaking association for Digital Humanities (Founding member, member of the Committee and Spokesperson)

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