Combining History With Data Science
PhD historian specializing in Russia. Former Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center.
About
I am a historian exploring how data science can unlock new perspectives on Russia’s past and present. I am currently interested in the ways history is used as a tool of politics and propaganda. By combining historical inquiry with methods such as text mining and computational analysis in R and Python, I examine how the past shapes power and influence. My latest project applies data science to study Russia’s politics of memory toward Poland and Ukraine (1999–2022).
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You can check my Data Science & History portfolio on my blog.
I currently work at the Mieroszewski Centre and reside in Brussels.
Mieroszewski Centre
Senior Research Fellow
Polihistor 2.0 - YT Program
Co-host with Dr. Ernest Wyciszkiewicz
Continuity or Rupture? What Data Science Reveals about Russia’s Politics of Memory - Lecture at Harvard
Using data science methods, I demonstrated the evolution of the Kremlin’s historical narrative – from retrospective commemoration to real-time myth-making.
Talk at Elliott School - Can Russia Change? A Case for Historical Mindfulness
I take the view that Russia is not doomed to eternal oppression, violence and aggression. But I also know that any transformation requires time, experience and a catalyst. This is why it is worth returning to history to see where and how such catalysts have appeared before – because it is precisely there that we find both clues and warnings for the future, something I refer to as historical mindfulness.