Tetiana Shyshkina is a PhD candidate in History at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Her work combines Soviet and East European Jewish history with Digital Humanities methods, including historical network analysis, metadata modeling, and OCR/HTR workflows. She has worked with Transkribus in projects involving Yiddish periodicals and historical census materials, focusing on how digitization and structured data can make complex multilingual archival sources more accessible for research.