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Doris Gruber

doris.gruber(at)oeaw.ac.at
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Doris Gruber is Principal Researcher and Head of Research Unit Art History.

Brief biography

Doris Gruber studied History and Art History at the University of Graz, at Sciences Po Paris, and at the University of Vienna. She completed her PhD with honours at the University of Graz in 2018. Her dissertation was supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf) and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Berlin). It was awarded 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, she has held a research scholarship at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (spring 2022) and worked as a senior researcher at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (2020–2022). She was 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 held various part-time positions and internships, including at the House of History Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart), the Belvedere Museum (Vienna), and the Styrian State Archives (Graz).

In 2024, she was elected to the leadership of the COST Action Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe, 1500–1800 (PCPSce) and appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for Digital and Computational History of the journal Histories. Since 2020, she has taught 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

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Publications

Presentations

Books

Editions and Collections

Articles

  • Osmanische Natur in neuzeitlichen Reiseberichten. Eine Projektvorstellung. / Gruber, Doris.
    Der Rezipient ist im Werk. Differenzerfahrung und Adressatenbezug in Reisedarstellungen des 15.–18. Jahrhunderts . ed. / Susanne Friedrich; Monika Müller. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2026. p. 243–251 (Gothaer Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit; Vol. 25).
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  • Revolution or evolution? AI-driven retrieval of nature representations in historical prints. / Gruber, Doris; Vignoli, Michela; Seidl, Michael.
    In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 2025, No. DSH 2023 Conference Supplement, 07.09.2025, p. s.p.
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  • Travelogues – Perceptions of the Other 1500–1876. A Computerized Analysis. / Gruber, Doris; Lobenwein, Elisabeth; Strohmeyer, Arno et al.
    Achtzehntes Jahrhundert digital: zentraleuropäische Perspektive. Digital Eighteenth Century: Central European Perspectives. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2019. p. 129-131 (Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert und Österreich. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts).
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Other Publications

  • Elisabeth Dietrich: Selbstzeugnisse vom Rhein. Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zur Schreib- und Reisekultur in der Romantik (Selbstzeugnisse der Neuzeit 28), Vienna/Köln: Böhlau Verlag 2022, 391 S. ISBN: 978-3-412-52515-6. / Gruber, Doris.
    In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter., Vol. 2025, No. 89, 24.09.2025, p. 268-269.
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  • Alena Martin-Ruland, Zwischen Gott, Mensch und Teufel: Beobachtungskonstellationen in der deutschen Flugpublizistik der frühen Neuzeit, Berlin-Boston (De Gruyter) 2024 (= Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance 11), 148 S., Abb., ISBN 9783111320687, € 29,95. / Gruber, Doris.
    In: Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, Vol. 2025, No. 105, 09.2025, p. 621.
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  • Kamele, Ratten, Tauben: Tierische Begegnungen einer Pilgerin. / Gruber, Doris.
    In: Der Standard, 17.04.2025.
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Projects

ONiT (completed)

TRAVELOGUES (completed)

Publications

with Arno Strohmeyer (ed.): On the Way to the (Un)known? The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450–1900)

Frühneuzeitlicher Wissenswandel

(with J. Rörden, M. Krickl and B. Haslhofer), Identifying Historical Travelogues in Large Text Corpora Using Machine Learning, pp. 801–815