Ruben Ros
PhD candidate
- Name
- R.S. Ros
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5633
- r.s.ros@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Ruben Ros is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Center for Digital Humanities and the Institute for History.
More information about Ruben Ros
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Fields of interest
- Political History
- Conceptual History
- Computational Text Analysis
- Digital Humanities
- Text Mining
Research
My research focusses on the history of twentieth-century Dutch political thought and culture. In my dissertation project I study technocratic reasoning in parliamentary debate. Using computational methods, I aim to find and explain the employment of expertise in political language.
CV
Ruben Ros completed the Research Master's in History at Utrecht University with distinction in 2019. He wrote his thesis on the conceptual history of "the foreign" in nineteenth-century Dutch periodicals. During and after the MA, Ruben specialized in computational text analysis and conceptual history. After internships at the Helsinki Computational History Group and the KNAW DH Lab and a research project on visual cultural memory, he started his dissertation project in 2020.
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Nederlandse geschiedenis
- Ros R.S. (5 August 2024), Historici, stop met zoeken!. Over de Muur. [blog entry].
- Lassche A.W., Ros R.S. & Veerbeek J. (2023), (De)constructing binarism in journalism: automatic antonym detection in Dutch newspaper articles. Šeļa A. Jannidis F. Romanowska I. (Ed.). Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR2023) 6 December 2023 - 8 December 2023 63-77.
- Ros R.S. (2023), Tijd van Beleid: een anatomie van de parlementaire beleidstaal, 1945-1986. In: Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis (Ed.), Een kwestie van tijd: jaarboek parlementaire geschiedenis 2023: Boom geschiedenis.
- Smits T. & Ros R.S. (2023), Distant reading 940,000 online circulations of 26 iconic photographs, New Media & Society 25(12): 3543-3572.
- Smits T. & Ros R.S. (2023), Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests, Social Movement Studies 22(1): 23-45.
- Marjanen J. & Ros R.S. (2022), From legal to civic discourse and beyond in the nineteenth century. In: Ihalainen P. & Holmina A. (Eds.), Nationalism and internationalism intertwined: a European history of concepts beyond the nation state. European Conceptual History no. 7. New York: Berghahn Books. 60-85.
- Ros R.S. (2022), Between cows and capitalism: measuring the abstractness of historical parliamentary speeches: digital parliamentary data in action 2022. In: La Mela M., Norén F. & Hyvönen E. (Eds.) Proceedings of the digital parliamentary data in action (DiPaDA 2022) workshop.: CEUR.
- Hengchen S., Ros R.S., Marjanen J. & Tolonen M. (2021), A data-driven approach to studying changing vocabularies in historical newspaper collections, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36(Suppl_2): ii109-ii126.
- Ros R.S. (2021), De opkomst van de 'nationale ramp': een begripsgeschiedenis. In: Jensen L. (Ed.), Crisis en catastrofe: de Nederlandse omgang met rampen in de lange negentiende eeuw. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 25-46.
- Ros R.S. (2021), Conceptualizing an Outside World: The Case of “Foreign” in Dutch Newspapers 1815–1914, Contributions to the History of Concepts 16(2): 27-51.
- Romein C.A., Kemman M., Birkholz J.M., Baker J., Gruijter M. de, Merono-Penuela A., Ries T., Ros R.S. & Scagliola S. (2020), State of the field: digital history, History 105(365): 291-312.
- Eijnatten J. van & Ros R.S. (2019), The Eurocentric fallacy: a digital-historical approach to the concepts of ‘modernity’, ‘civilization’ and ‘Europe’ (1840–1990), International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 7(1): 686–736.