DIGITAL HISTORY CONSULTING - Key Persons

Justus Hillebrand, Ph.D., is an independent scholar and the director of Digital History Consulting, Inc. I received my doctorate in History from the University of Maine in co-tutelage with the University of Cologne in 2021. In my graduate work, I received formal training in database management and geographic information systems (GIS) and applied these skills in several historical research projects. For my dissertation "To Know the Land with Hands and Minds: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge in Late-Nineteenth-Century New England and Westphalia", I used digital mapping and visualization of historical data to learn more about farm families who did not leave written historical sources. In my work with the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, I have developed relational database designs, written rules for data entry, trained team members, and mapped data in GIS since 2016. I have co-published with Dr. Anne Knowles and other Collaborative members in the International Journal for Humanities and Arts Computing. Since 2019, I have been working as a contractor with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Applied Research Division on the development of a large-scale relational database for the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Volume VII: Camps for Foreign Forced Laborers.