Working on

• Text mining approaches to conceptual history, the circulation of knowledge and memory culture
• Digital analysis of large digitized collections of newspapers and periodicals
• The consequences of datafication for historical scholarship, particularly concerning replication/reproduction and internet culture as a source for and form of history

Relevant other positions

• Co-coordinator (with colleagues from the Social Sciences) SIG Text mining [Focus Area Applied Data Science]
• Coordinator Digital History Group [Department of History and Art History]
• Member of the advisory committee of Digitised Newspaper Portal of the German Digital Library DDB

Teaching

• Coordinator implementation leerlijn Digital Literacy BA & MA’s History
• Teaching:
  • RMA History (Coordinator Methods of Historical Research)
  • MA Cultural History (Coordinator Tutorial Digital History, Digital Cultural Heritage)
  • BA History (Coordinator Theory of History)

Three relevant publications

• (2021) Joris van Eijnatten, Pim Huijnen, ‘Something happened to the future. Reconstructing Dutch parliamentary time, 1814-2018’, Contributions to the History of Concepts [in press]
• (2019) Pim Huijnen, ‘Digital History and the Study of Modernity’, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 7.
• (2015) Pim Huijnen, Melvin Wevers, ‘Digital deconstruction. The Digital Turn and the use of news media as sources for historical research’, Officina della Storia 13