Slootweg. Dr T. (Tom)
Tom Slootweg
Areas of expertise
Digital humanities, digital history, media history
Biography
Tom Slootweg (Voorburg, 1983) studied history and media studies at the University of Groningen. He also received his PhD at this university with a dissertation on amateur videography in the Netherlands between the 1960s and 1990s. Before joining the Fryske Akademy as an information specialist, he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University and assistant professor at the contemporary history department in Groningen. From 2020 to 2025, Slootweg was the editor-in-chief of TMG-Journal for Media History.
At the Fryske Akademy, Slootweg is the contact person for the Pure registration system and works on digitization questions for the institute's academic research.