Steffi de Jong

Steffi de Jong is Associate Professor of Public History and History Didactics at NTNU's Department of Historical and Classical Studies. She holds a PhD from NTNU and previously held positions at Maastricht University and University of Cologne.

Research encompasses:

• Museum representation of historical testimony
• Digital memory of the Holocaust
• Re-enactment as historical practice
• Sensory dimensions of public history
• Virtual reality in memorial culture

Her publications critically examine how technologies like VR transform Holocaust commemoration, arguing that simulated experiences create new forms of 'post-witnessing'. Recent projects include Gerda Henkel Foundation-funded research on historical re-enactment origins and analyses of digital Holocaust memory.

Monographs include 'The Witness as Object' (Berghahn, 2018), which analyzes video testimony in memorial museums, and edited volumes on choreomusicology and women's musical leadership.