Thomas Smits

Hi there! 👋 I am an Assistant Professor of Digital History & AI at the University of Amsterdam. I'm a historian of modern visual (news) culture. Most of my work is located at the intersection of media history, media studies, and digital humanities. I apply digital methods to study large collections of historical illustrations, photographs and other images.

news

Nov 19, 2024	New article on ChatGPT and memory in Memory Studies Review
Nov 19, 2024	New article on 'imagined geography' of the magic lantern published in the Journal of Historical Geography
Oct 16, 2024	New article on color and visual orientalism published in Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Aug 25, 2024	New article on historical color photography and multimodal ML published in Visual Studies
Jun 10, 2024	An open-access and fully searchable dataset of the Illustrated London News (1842-1889)