Elodie EL-Hossaini Sacher
Elodie Sacher is a cultural researcher with a special interest in visual culture. She studied Cultural and Media Studies in Hildesheim and Casablanca, as well as Art History and Film Studies in Jena. She is currently working on the 'MetaHeritage' project at the Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities.
Research focus
- Orientalist photography in WANA (West Asia and North Africa)
- History of photography in Morocco
- Representation of rulers and regency in Morocco
- Retrieval and analysis of digital museum data (Python)
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Curriculum Vitae
Professional
2024-present: Research associate (Project: MetaHeritage)
2022-2024: Research assistant (Project: Digital4Humanities)
2021–present: Program curator and project management for projects of A.MAL Art + ResearchExternal link
2022–2023: Science coordinator for the Arts & Science residency Künstlerische Tatsachen (TRAFO Jena)External link
2019–2020: Project assistance, communication, and archive for the Arts & Research residency of L’Atelier de l’Observatoire External link(Casablanca)
Studies
2021–2024: MA Art History and Film Studies, FSU Jena
2023–2024: Honours Grant for MA research project, FSU Jena
2021–2022: Collaboration on the DAAD program “Berlin – Marrakech: Kunst vermitteln” [Art mediation] (Dr. Sarah Dornhof, HU Berlin), in cooperation with ESAV Marrakech
2016–2020: BA Plus Cultural studies and aesthetics – Cultural policy in a global context (Major: Media studies, Minor: Art studies), Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
2020: Promos scholarship for BA research project in Morocco
2018–2019: Study abroad at the Université Hassan II de Casablanca,
Courses of: MA Ingénierie culturelle et artistique, MA Moroccan American Studies
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Teaching
Courses held (SoSe2023, WiSe23/24):
Programming for scholars in the humanities: Querying museum data and developing research questions. An introduction to API queries with Python in Jupyter Notebook
The seminar is based on the teaching concept of the following video tutorial series by PD Dr. Angela Dreßen: Dreßen, A., 2023. Querying Museum and Art History Data on the Web. https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00055798External link
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Publications
Dreßen, A., Sacher, E., 2023. Querying Art History Data on the Web (4): Practical example: Developing research questions with API query and Jupyter Notebook, Querying Museum and Art History Data on the Web. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.55803