Timur Mitrofanov

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Education

Heidelberg University
- Weiterbildung “Digital Humanities”, 2020 - 2023
- Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019 - 2023, Ph.D. student in Russian history

Kazan University
- Russian History, 2016 - 2019, Postgraduate student
- International and European law, 2009 - 2014, Graduate

Work

Centrum für Soziale Investitionen und Innovationen (Forschungsstelle des Max-Weber-Instituts für Soziologie)
Position: Research assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskräft). April 2022 – June 2024.
Duties: literature search and review, assistance in writing articles and applying for grants, site management, web scraping

Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Digitale Forschungs- und Informationsinfrastrukturen
Position: Research assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskräft). September 2023 – June 2024.
Duties: literature search and review, working with various OCR (optical character recognition) tools and testing them, writing Python scripts

Research interests

Eastern European history, Russian history, legal history, rural societies, customary law, local self-government, social history, sociology, digital humanities, digital methods in history, OCR, computer vision, data visualization

Skills

Python (Tesseract, Pandas, NumPy, Seaborn), R (ggplot2), Quarto, GIT, TEI, XML, CSS, Optical Character Recognition (Transkribus, eScriptorium, Google Vision API, OpenCV, spaCy, Nopaque, recognAIze). Software (MS Office, Visual Studio Code, RStudio, Jupyter Notebook, Docker)

Grants and scholarships

  • Graduate School Scholarship Programme 2018, provided by DAAD for funding a Ph.D. research project at the Heidelberg Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Heidelberg University (2019 – 2023);
  • Research grant for doctoral students, provided by Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau (February 2019 - March 2019);
  • Travel grant provided by 4EU+ Alliance and Erasmus+ programme (July 2022).

Courses

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften:
- Applied Data Visualization (9 - 12.05 2023)
- Advanced R Programming” (31.05 - 2.06 2023)
- Automated Reports & Co with Quarto and Markdown (19 - 20.06 2023)

The European University at Saint Petersburg:
- “Nations and Nationalisms - Concepts, Models, Conceptions”. Lecturer: Prof. Dr. A. I. Miller (21.09.2021 - 10.01.2022).

Workshops, seminars and summer schools

  • The thesis presentation at the colloquium at the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Münster. 15.04.2024;
  • “In Search of Lost Universalism” organized by the Association of Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe with support from Heinrich-Böll Stiftung. Berlin, 6-7.12.2023;
  • C-CAMP Project: AI, Digitalization, Data and Creativity. 11-13 July 2022, Prague;
  • The research project presentation at the HGGS Research Colloquium, Heidelberg Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 10.12.19;
  • “21st Century Risks and Opportunities – The Politics of Withdrawal”, organized by Heidelberg Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Heidelberg, 11.10.2019;
  • Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2018: The World and the Village. The Global and the Local in Legal History. Frankfurt am Main, 16 July - 27 July 2018;
  • EU Study Week in Volgograd organized by EU Delegation to Russia, 24 - 26 March 2018;
  • “From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean: A Shared History of Northern Eurasia”. (KRES Poliskola and Ab Imperio journal) 17.07.17 - 29.07.17, Riga;
  • “Sapere Aude: Freedom and Responsibility”, organized by the Association of Schools of Political Studies, in collaboration with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics. Stockholm, 23.04.2018 - 28.04.2018..

Conferences

  • “Governing and Governance in the Russian Empire in the 18th - early 20th centuries”. The European University at Saint Petersburg, 25-27.11.2021;
  • “The history of civilizations and cultures: trends and regional originality”. Kazan Federal University, 30.01.2019;
  • International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists “Lomonosov-2018”. Moscow State University, 13.04.2018 (Diploma for the best presentation);
  • “Annual Scientific Conference 2017”. Kazan Federal University, 30.01.2018.

Research Internship

  • Justus Liebig University Giessen, Department of Eastern European history (16.10.17 - 26.10.17).

Peer-reviewed publications

  • Mitrofanov T.S. The Volost’ Courts of Kazan province: legal consciousness, law and customs. IN: Echo of Centuries, 2019, no. 1, pp. 170 - 180. Link;
  • Mitrofanov T.S. The correlation of the law and customs in volost’ courts of post-reform Russia (the historiography of the issue). IN: Proceedings of Kazan University. Humanities Series, 2018, vol. 160, no. 3, pp. 643–655. Link;
  • Litvin A.A., Mitrofanov T.S. Volost’ local government in Kazan Province during the first year following the implementation of the Emancipation Reform of 1861. IN: Proceedings of Kazan University. Humanities Series, 2020, vol. 162, no. 1, pp. 35–43. Link.

Languages

  • Russian - native;
  • English - advanced;
  • German - intermediate.

Social and cultural projects, volunteering

  • Volunteer in “Kind Hearts” – a social project organized by the Law Department of the Kazan Federal University in the Kazan Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Special Needs “Solnechny” (Kazan, 2010 – 2014);
  • Volunteer in the Kazan Federal University’s legal clinic (free legal help for people who qualify as low-income (Kazan, 2012-2014);
  • Organizer of lectures, master classes and exhibitions on contemporary art at the Artists and Designers Club “Kineticmax” and in the National Art Gallery “Hazine” (Kazan, 2013 - 2014);
  • Helping Ukrainian refugees in Germany (Heidelberg and Mannheim, 2022-2023). 

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