Combining History With Data Science
PhD historian specializing in Russia. Former Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center.
About
I am a historian exploring how data science can unlock new perspectives on Russia’s past and present. I am currently interested in the ways history is used as a tool of politics and propaganda. By combining historical inquiry with methods such as text mining and computational analysis in R and Python, I examine how the past shapes power and influence. My latest project applies data science to study Russia’s politics of memory toward Poland and Ukraine (1999–2022).
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You can check my Data Science & History portfolio on my blog.
I currently work at the Mieroszewski Centre and reside in Brussels.
Mieroszewski Centre
Senior Research Fellow
Polihistor 2.0 - YT Program
Co-host with Dr. Ernest Wyciszkiewicz
Volhynia, the AK and the UPA. Why is the historical dispute with Ukraine so difficult?
In a conversation on Marcin Strzyżewski's channel, I explain why the Polish-Ukrainian dispute over the past, although it essentially concerns only the years 1939-1947, stirs such enormous emotions. I clarify the structural difference between the Home Army and the UPA, why I call the UPA's anti-Polish campaign a genocide, and how contemporary "presentism" makes us experience the past as part of the present.
Poland and Russia can't stop fighting over history. What next for the Soviet monuments?
In a conversation with The Moscow Times, I comment on the dispute over Soviet monuments in Poland from a security perspective rather than a purely historical one.
"In Russia they looked at me as a curiosity: a young Pole who speaks Russian."
I gave an extensive interview for Gazeta Wyborcza, where I described how Russian elites shaped in the late Brezhnev era view history today, and why their memory of World War II is irreconcilable with the European one.
What’s in the Label? Measuring Imperial and Nationalist Logics in Today’s Russia
What is Russia – an empire, a nation-state, or something else entirely? In this lecture at Maastricht University, I trace five centuries of Russian identity from Ivan the Terrible to Putin's war in Ukraine.