We are delighted to introduce the candidates standing for election to the EADH Executive Committee for the 2026–2029 term!

Below, you can read their statements and learn more about their backgrounds, experience, and ideas for contributing to the future of EADH and the wider European Digital Humanities community.

Luca Giovannini

My name is Luca Giovannini, and I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam, where I have coordinated the Network for Digital Humanities for the past two years. My research centres on computational drama analysis and cultural evolution, with a particular focus on early modern drama.

My career is marked by a strong pan-European dimension: I studied in three European countries and earned a joint PhD between Germany and Italy. I work routinely across German, Italian, English, French, and Spanish, and I belong to both the German and Italian DH associations. The relaunch of EADH activities strikes me as the ideal moment to engage more actively with the community and help the association grow.

If elected to the Executive Committee, I would particularly like to help early-career scholars find their way into our community, e.g., by facilitating conference participation through travel funding, connecting them to experienced mentors, and giving them space at EADH events to present their work.

I am also committed to strengthening the ties among DH centres across Europe. As our field's most visible research hubs, they should be better connected, sharing expertise, infrastructure, and opportunities that too often remain confined to a single institution.

Łukasz Grabowski

I am writing to nominate myself for the EADH Executive Committee for the 2026–2029 term. As a professor of linguistics working at the intersection of corpus linguistics, translation studies, and digital humanities, I have long been committed to promoting open, transparent, and reproducible research. My collaboration with the CLARIN-PL research infrastructure, postgraduate studies in Data Science, and my role as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Czech National Corpus (ČNK) research infrastructure, among others, have further strengthened my interest in research data management and sustainable development of digital research infrastructures.

If elected, I would particularly like to contribute to EADH's activities related to research data management. I believe that the Digital Humanities community can play a leading role in developing and promoting best practices for the creation, documentation, sharing, interoperability, and long-term preservation of research data in line with the FAIR principles and broader Open Science initiatives. I am also keen to contribute to the development of standards and good practices for the responsible use of large language models (LLMs) in humanities research, particularly in corpus linguistics, with a strong emphasis on transparency, reproducibility, and research integrity.

Patrick Helling

I have been working as a data manager and coordinator at the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH), a domain-specific research data management (RDM) institution for the Humanities, since 2017. As a candidate for the EADH Executive Board, I would like to strengthen RDM within the European Digital Humanities community. Research data extends beyond institutional and national boundaries, and I am convinced that the EADH can play an important role in fostering collaboration on domain-specific strategies and best practices to ensure the long-term findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of DH research data and results. This includes developing standards in the context of EADH activities, such as improving the management of EADH conference outputs, and supporting the development of international RDM practices tailored to the needs of the field. As a long-time Data Steward for the association „Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum“, an active member of several consortia of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany, and coordinator of multiple national RDM working groups and networks, I aim to contribute my expertise to the EADH community and work together with the association and its members to advance research data management in a sustainable and demand-oriented manner across European Digital Humanities.
 

Christopher Nunn

My name is Christopher Nunn, and I am a postdoctoral researcher in Church History at Heidelberg University and an associate member of its Interdisciplinary Center for Scien-tific Computing (IWR). Alongside my research, I have many years of experience in university administration and committee work.

My engagement with Digital Humanities combines interdisciplinary research, community building and supporting early-career scholars. I co-founded the Interdisciplinary Forum for Digital Textual Studies (InFoDiTex) and co-lead TheoLab, a network at the intersection of theology and DH. Through TheoLab, I edited two multilingual (German and English) volumes of the Compendium Computational Theology. I was also part of the DARIAH OpenMethods editorial team, co-edited the Melusina volume “From Global to Local. Digi-tale Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ein Tripty-chon”, and participated in DHd conferences as both contributor and reviewer since 2013.

I currently serve on the EADH Programme Committee and, together with David M. Berry, am preparing the volume “Reshaping the Digital Humanities: Disciplinary Transfor-mations in an Age of Artificial Intelligence”. If elected, I would like to help strengthen EADH as an open and inclusive forum for debating and shaping the scope, intellectual profile, and future direction of DH.

Marija Đokić Petrović

I am pleased to stand for election to the EADH Executive Committee for the 2026-2029 term.

I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Kragujevac, Serbia, 2020), specializing in Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing. My research interests lie in Computational Humanities, particularly in applying Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models and Semantic Web technologies to historical and low-resource language corpora. A central focus of my work is improving the digital visibility and accessibility of the cultural heritage of Southeastern Europe.

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Union University in Belgrade, a University Lecturer at FH Joanneum, University of Applied Sciences in Graz, and a contractor at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

If elected, I would promote the cultural heritage of Southeastern Europe within EADH, support collaboration between research institutions across Europe, and advocate for increased funding from the European Commission. I am ready to contribute actively and help strengthen EADH as a more connected and influential voice within the European research and cultural heritage landscape.

Artjoms Šeļa

This letter expresses my willingness to stand for election for the role of EADH Executive Committee member. I am Artjoms Šeļa, a researcher in computational literary studies and computational poetics at the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences.

My own path through DH (a PhD in Tartu, a postdoc in Kraków, no single home in national or regional organization) showed me how much a pan-European organisation matters for people whose work and career crosses borders and slips through the cracks of national associations. European networks and communities have been that connective tissue for me, and I want to help sustain it for others, especially underserved and multilingual communities in the field.

As curator of PoeTree, a multilingual poetry corpora collection, I want to push EADH’s multilingual priorities further, building infrastructure and visibility for comparative work. I currently chair the Steering Committee of European Summer University in Digital Humanities, and would bring that experience to the Committee, continuing to strengthen the existing ties between the institutions that have shaped transnational DH communities in Europe.

I’d be glad to bring this cross-regional perspective to the Executive Committee.

We are grateful to all our candidates for their willingness to contribute their time, experience, and ideas to EADH.

We encourage all EADH members to take part in the election and help shape the next chapter of our community.

Best of luck to all our candidates!