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Dr. Ian Kisil Marino

Research associate


Ian Marino joined the Leibniz-IEG in 2024 as part of the LivArch project. He holds a PhD in History from the State University of Campinas (Brazil). His work focused on the emergence of digital archives regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America, with strong connections to the fields of Digital History, Global History, Theory of History, and Memory Studies. Ian is also a collaborator at the Center for Digital Humanities-Unicamp (Brazil) since 2020, where he held a leading position in the Coronarchive project – an Open Science initiative that systematized data about over a hundred digitally born archives regarding the pandemic in Latin America.

  • Digital transformation within archives and historical sources
  • Crowdsourced and community-driven digital archives
  • Interfaces of memory and history within digital transformation on a transnational scale
  • Theoretical reflections on archiving, historical time, and sensitive pasts

  • Promises and pitfalls of crowdsourcing based on COVID-19 digital archives in Latin America | in: Althage, Melanie et al: Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen: Konferenzbeiträge der Digital History 2023 (Chapter), https://zenodo.org/record/8319680
  • COVID-19 and Digital Memory in Latin America. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 [co-authored with Thiago Nicodemo], https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.1071
  • Digital Resources: Digital Informal Archives in Contemporary Brazil. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 [co-authored with Thiago Nicodemo and Pedro Silveira], https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.993