Substitute Head of Department Professorship Digital Humanities

Vera Chiquet

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

Vera Chiquet

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.