Summary
John Woitkowitz is Head of Stabi Lab at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Digital Editor at the New England Journal of History, combining a decade of academic research in transatlantic and polar histories with hands-on web development for cultural heritage. He builds data-driven services, publishes collections-as-data and APIs, and designs platforms—like the Citizen Historian Sourcebook—that bridge digital humanities, citizen science and the arts. His background includes an ERC-funded postdoc at Cambridge and research across archives in North America and Europe, informing a practical approach to linked open data, geospatial visualizations and semantic web technologies. Equally at home teaching and shipping TypeScript/React/Node.js solutions, he translates complex historical research into accessible, reusable digital resources and international partnerships. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to blend rigorous archival methods with product-oriented engineering, enabling reproducible scholarship at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., M.A. at Freie Universität Berlin
PhD, PhD at The University of Calgary
M.A., M.A. at The Ohio State University
Code Academy Berlin
English, Spanish, German, French