Dr. Sarah Oberbichler
Member of the academic staff
Room: 03-03, Diether-von-Isenburg-Str. 9-11, 55116 Mainz (Besucheranschrift)Phone: +496131 39 39384
Personal Details:
Studies in History, German Language and Literature at the University of Innsbruck (2008-2013) and the University of Gothenburg (2012). 2014-2019 doctoral studies at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Minnesota (2017-2018). PhD in the field of Migration History and Digital Media in 2019. From 2014 to 2023, research assistant in various international and interdisciplinary projects focusing on media, migration, discourse, and digital methods at the Department of Contemporary History and the Institute of Media, Communication, and Society at the University of Innsbruck. Since April 2024: research assistant at the IEG in the DH Lab.
Research Interests_
• European Migration and Return Migration
• Multilingual Corpus Analysis
• Media Discourses and Transnational Flows of News
• Corpus Building and Text Mining
• Multilingual Corpus Analysis
• Media Discourses and Transnational Flows of News
• Corpus Building and Text Mining
Selected Publications:
• Return and circular migration in contemporary European history, edited by Pfanzelter, Eva; Oberbichler, Sarah; Valerio Larcher, De Gruyter Oldenbourg (= Migrations in History), (2024).
• Integrated interdisciplinary workflows for research on historical newspapers: Perspectives from humanities scholars, computer scientists, and librarians, Oberbichler, Sarah; Boros, Emanuela; Doucet, Antoine; Marjanan, Jani; Pfanzelter, Eva; Rautiainen, Juha; Toivonen, Hannu; Tolonen, Mikko, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 73/2, pp. 225–239, (2022).
• Generous and inviting interfaces revisited: Examples of designing visual structures for digital archives, Oberbichler, Sarah; Gallner-Holzmann, Katharina; Hug, Theo, Information Design Journal 26/2, pp. 157–174 (2021).
• Topic-specific corpus building: A step towards a representative newspaper corpus on the topic of return migration using text mining methods, Oberbichler, Sarah; Pfanzelter, Eva, Journal of Digital History, jdh001 (2021).
• Autochthone Minderheiten und Migrant*innen. Mediale Argumentationsstrategien von 1990 bis 2015 am Beispiel Südtirols. Innsbruck, Oberbichler, Sarah, Wien u.a.: Studienverlag. (= Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, 29), (2020). [Monograph]
• Integrated interdisciplinary workflows for research on historical newspapers: Perspectives from humanities scholars, computer scientists, and librarians, Oberbichler, Sarah; Boros, Emanuela; Doucet, Antoine; Marjanan, Jani; Pfanzelter, Eva; Rautiainen, Juha; Toivonen, Hannu; Tolonen, Mikko, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 73/2, pp. 225–239, (2022).
• Generous and inviting interfaces revisited: Examples of designing visual structures for digital archives, Oberbichler, Sarah; Gallner-Holzmann, Katharina; Hug, Theo, Information Design Journal 26/2, pp. 157–174 (2021).
• Topic-specific corpus building: A step towards a representative newspaper corpus on the topic of return migration using text mining methods, Oberbichler, Sarah; Pfanzelter, Eva, Journal of Digital History, jdh001 (2021).
• Autochthone Minderheiten und Migrant*innen. Mediale Argumentationsstrategien von 1990 bis 2015 am Beispiel Südtirols. Innsbruck, Oberbichler, Sarah, Wien u.a.: Studienverlag. (= Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, 29), (2020). [Monograph]
Research projects:
Transnational Flows of News: Analysis and Visualization of Historical News across Languages and Countries through Case Studies on (Return) Migration and Environmental/Natural Disasters, 1850–1950
The project examines transnational news flows in Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland from 1850-1950, focusing on news about (re)migration and environmental/natural disasters. The aim is to find out how these news items circulated in Europe, what narratives they constructed and what reprint networks emerged. The study of multilingual news corpora will provide new insights into the creation and manipulation of narratives across languages and time.