About

Research Interests

Historian. Researching, learning, teaching, and writing about information technology, computational methods, digital objects and culture, digital forensics, colonialism, guerrilla war, population control, decolonization.

Bio

Moritz Feichtinger studied History, History of Science and Technology, and Philosophy in Berlin from 2002 to 2009. In 2016, he earned his PhD in contemporary history from the University of Bern with a thesis on the effects and commemoration of forced relocation of civilians during the wars of decolonization in Kenya and Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s. Between 2016 and 2021, he worked as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Bern, Zürich, Basel, and Lausanne. Since the beginning of 2022, Moritz Feichtinger is Principal Investigator of a research project on the use of computers and database technology for population control in the Vietnam War, which is funded by an Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Affiliations

• SHOT Society for the History of Technology
• EASST European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
• DHd Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum
• VHD Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
• GI Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
• SI Swiss Informatics Society
• G&I Geschichte & Informatik e.V.