The Atmosphere in Spatial History
I am currently working on a monograph that combines digital and archival evidence in an effort to develop the study of climate and weather in spatial history. A first article on the subject is forthcoming in Past & Present.
Distant Reading of Dissertations
I am interested in how digital distant reading approaches can support conceptual and intellectual history. Recently, I studied thematic and methodological trends in several tens of thousands of dissertations defended at early modern German universities. A first article offers an overview over legal dissertations of the seventeenth century and another employs a novel visualisation approach to retrace the role of different age cohorts. I am also contributing to developing a large-scale computational study of the language of early capitalism.


New Maps for the Old Regime
At Stanford, I led the digital mapping project “New Maps for the Old Regime” within the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, using GIS to create new maps of old-regime Europe. Several of these maps have been published in my first book, in an article on the use of polygons in spatial history, and in a forthcoming study on the visual representation of shared dominion.


New Work in Digital Humanities
I initiated and co-host a podcast series, New Work in Digital Humanities, that offers a platform for some of the best recent work in the field.
Early Modern Mobility
Supported with over 150,000 $ from the UPS Endowment Fund and Stanford’s Program in History and Philosophy of Science, this collaborative project investigates the history of postal systems, roads, transportation, and communication infrastructure in early modern Europe. With Paula Findlen (Stanford), Katherine McDonough (London), Leo Barleta (Stanford), Rachel Midura (Stanford), Suzanne Sutherland (Murfreesboro), and Iva Lelková (Prague).