Nadezhda Povroznik

Nadezhda Povroznik is a Research Associate at the Department of Humanities Data Science and Methodology (HDSM) at the Institute for History at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany). She teaches and researches across interdisciplinary areas of Digital Humanities, Digital History, and Virtual Museology.

Nadezhda received her doctoral degree in history in 2009 at Perm State University (Russia) with a thesis on the Deputies of provincial Zemstvo assemblies in the Russian Empire in 1864-1890. Since 2015, she has actively developed the field of Virtual Museology, analysing the museums’ presence on the web through historical lenses, and initiated a project on the Digital History of Virtual Museums.

Before joining HDSM, Nadezhda was an Associate Professor at Perm State University and headed the Center for Digital Humanities there. She was involved in research and educational projects, including developing the Master Program on Digital Technologies for Creative Industries, supported by EU Programm Erasmus+.

During her fellowship at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, Nadezhda will deepen her study of the history of museums on the web. The project aims to identify the factors that differentiate virtual museums as specific resources and trace the implications of these factors from a historical perspective. The research is based on the mixed method approach and combines the implementation of qualitative and data-driven methodologies. One of the identified factors, information and knowledge production and dissemination, will be considered based on a case study of the British Museum. 

The fellowship continues from March to July 2025.