Professor Dr. Monika Barget

Biography

Monika Barget is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Maastricht University, specializing in early modern history and digital research methods. Her current research interests encompass geohumanities and island studies. As a co-coordinator of the DigiKAR spatial history project, she focuses on modeling and visualizing mobility and borders within the Holy Roman Empire. Monika is also involved in a DFG-funded Island Studies Network, collaborating with archaeologists, social scientists, and linguists to conduct interdisciplinary analyses of insular spaces and their evolving roles in a globalized world. The overarching theme of her projects is the exchange of data and knowledge among memory institutions and society at large. Her expertise includes spatial analysis, digital mapping, historic maps, text analysis, distant reading, revolts, revolutions, political violence, mobility, cultural exchanges in early modern Europe, visual culture studies, media history—including the impact of digital transformation—and the role of digital infrastructures in religious history and public humanities.

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