Vi er glade for at kunne byde velkommen til Jonathan Lanz på afdelingen pr. 1. februar 2026, hvor han skal arbejde i Helle Strandgaard Jensens forskningsgruppe i projektet "Web Child"

Jonathan Lanz comes to Aarhus from Indiana University, USA, where he received a PhD in Modern European History in 2025. Trained as a historian of childhood during the Holocaust, much of his previous research examined how Jewish children experienced and later remembered life in Nazi concentration camps. Well versed in digital sources and archives, Jonathan is an advocate of digital literacy for both students and researchers at Arts. He has published widely, with recent articles found in Contemporary European History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Jonathan's current book project examines the lives of the "Birkenau Boys," a group of eighty-nine Jewish boys who survived Auschwitz and formed a global network of knowledge exchange in the post-Holocaust era. 

Jonathan joins the Department of History and Classical Studies as an assistant professor of digital history. He is the American-lead on the European Research Council-funded WEB CHILD project, directed by PI Helle Strandgaard Jensen. WEB CHILD seeks to write the first history of children's web usage on a comparative scale from 1995-2005. Over the next three and a half years, Jonathan will join an international team of researchers based in Aarhus seeking to understand the early web's crucial influence on childhood at the turn of the millenium.