Drew Thomas

Drew Thomas is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of History at University College Dublin. He works on a digital humanities applying machine learning and image recognition software to woodcut illustrations and ornamentation in books from the early modern Holy Roman Empire. He received his bachelor’s degree from Saint Louis University, master’s from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in history from the University of St Andrews in Scotland with a dissertation focusing on the printing industry in Wittenberg during Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation. His research at the Pitts Theology Library investigates contemporary counterfeits of Luther’s writings and their later reception by libraries and book collectors. You can follow him on Twitter at @DrewBThomas.