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Christian Wachter is a Researcher at the Department of History, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Bielefeld University (since 2022). He previously served as a Research Associate at the Chair of Theory and Methods of History, University of Göttingen (2020-2022), and held multiple research positions at University of Göttingen and other institutions. His work bridges Digital History, Hypertext Theory, and Political Discourse Analysis of the Weimar Republic.
- Education
- PhD in History (2020), University of Göttingen
- MA in History (2014), University of Göttingen
- BA in History (2010), University of Hamburg
Key research areas include:
- Digital Humanities and Hypertext as non-linear knowledge representation
- Visuality and multimodality in historical publications
- Political discourse analysis of early 20th century Germany
- Antisemitism and nationalism studies
- Epistemology of digital research methods
His recent publications focus on digital frameworks for analyzing Weimar Republic discourses, multimodal publication formats, and hypertext theory. He has received funding from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation for his doctoral research.
Notable contributions include:
- Developing LLM-supported workflows for OCR processing
- Advancing hypertext as a scholarly communication tool
- Conceptualizing uncertainty in digital historical research
- Analyzing media extensions in historiography
