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Alexandra Wiemann is a Research Associate and Doctoral Student at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), affiliated with the Center for Religious Studies (CERES), the Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion (GSMR), and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1475 "Metaphors of Religion", where she contributes to Subproject B01.
Her research lies at the intersection of religious studies and digital humanities, focusing on metaphor analysis through computational methods such as data science, text mining, and natural language processing. She applies techniques like bag-of-words modeling, lemmatization, and clustering (e.g., Doc2Vec, UMAP, HDBSCAN) to analyze discourse in academic communities, such as the Yggdrasill mailing list, to uncover thematic trends and structural shifts in the field of religious studies over time.
Her work emphasizes methodological rigor in data collection, transformation, and ethical considerations when handling digital textual data. She is proficient in Python and tools like spaCy for NLP tasks and Jupyter Notebooks for reproducible research. Her interests include the self-reflection of the discipline, interreligious discourse, historical development of religious studies, and the application of data science to humanistic inquiry.
She has not been mentioned in relation to advising students or receiving scientific awards in the provided text.
Her primary contact is via email: alexandra.wiemann@rub.de.
