Brief Biography

Doris Gruber studied history and art history at the University of Graz, at Sciences Po Paris, and at the University of Vienna. In 2018, she completed her PhD with honours at the University of Graz. The Gerda Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf) as well as well as the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Berlin) supported the creation of the thesis, for which Doris Gruber received the Jubiläumspreis des Böhlau Verlages Wien and the Francis Stephen Award. Together with her colleagues from the Travelogues-project she received the Lee Dirks Award for Best Full Research Paper at the iConference 2020 in Borås (Sweden).

Since completing her doctorate, Doris Gruber held a scholarship at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (spring 2022), was a senior researcher at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (2020–2022), part of the Travelogues-project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG), as well as the project Ottoman Nature in Travelogues, 1501–1850: A Digital Analysis (ONiT) supported by the FWF (2022–2025) at the research unit Digital Historiography and Editions. During her undergraduate and graduate studies, she had various part-time jobs and internships, including at the House of History Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, the Belvedere in Vienna and the Styrian State Archives in Graz.

In 2024, she was elected into the leadership of COST Action Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe, 1500–1800 (PCPSce) and appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief for Digital and Computational History of the journal Histories. Since 2020, she has been teaching at the University of Vienna, the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, and the University of Innsbruck.

Research Interests

Period: early modern era
Area: Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire
Topics: printmaking, text–image relations, digital humanities, artificial intelligence, history of knowledge and science, media and book history, travel literature, comets

Selected Publications

• Frühneuzeitlicher Wissenswandel. Kometenerscheinungen in der Druckpublizistik des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, Bremen: edition lumière 2020 (= Presse und Geschichte – Neue Beiträge 127), 860 pp.
• With Arno Strohmeyer (ed.): On the Way to the (Un)known? The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450–1900), Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2022 (= Studies on Modern Orient 36)
• The Cometary Apparition of 1743/44 and the Role of Periodical Journals in the Holy Roman Empire, in: Ann-Marie Hansen, Arthur der Weduwen (ed.): Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750, Leiden/Boston: Brill (= Library of the Written Word – The Handpress World 126), 44–67
• Die Zweite Osmanische Belagerung Wiens von 1683. Verflechtungen der europäischen Publizistik, in: Frühneuzeit-Info 34 (2023), 83–97 (= Sandra Witz, Florian Zeilinger, Sabine Miesgang (ed.): Reich – Recht – Religion – Mediale Repräsentationen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Eine Festgabe für Gabriele Haug-Moritz zum 65. Geburtstag)
• Michela Vignoli, Doris Gruber, Rainer Simon, Axel Weißenfeld: Impact of AI: Gamechanger for Image Classification in Historical Research?, in: Melanie Althage, Martin Dröge, Torsten Hiltmann, Claudia Prinz (ed.): Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen: Konferenzbeiträge der Digital History 2023, Berlin, 23.–26.5.2023, Berlin: Zenodo 2023, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8319631

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