Substitute Head of Department Professorship Digital Humanities
Dr. Vera Chiquet
Lecturer (Digital Humanities Lab)
Office
Digital Humanities Lab
Bernoullistrasse 32
4056
Basel
Schweiz
Research associate (Digital Humanities Lab)
Office
Spalenberg 65
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Profile
Substitute Head of Department Professorship Digital Humanities
Profile
Vera Chiquet is currently Deputy Head of the Digital Humanities Professorship at the University of Basel. With a PhD in art history and sociology, she focuses on new methodologies in the humanities, in particular on computational and experimental methods for the study of visual and social practices as well as the critical reflection of digital transitions..
Research
Vera Chiquet supports a variety of digital research projects as the SNSF-Sinergia project "Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives", the initiation of the DHCH network and part of the Swiss DARIAH consortium. Since her book publication "Fake Fotos" she is doing visual, cultural, critical studies and supports a variety of digital research projects with her start-up Virtual Culture such as the Schnitzelbank Web Archive or the digital museum of learning.