CDH @ Princeton

advancing computational and data-intensive humanities to create a more just future

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The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is a collaborative research community that welcomes scholars from all disciplines and all levels. We work on projects, programs, and outreach activities aligned with our core belief that humanistic engagement with technology will deepen our understanding of the past, illuminate our present, and create a better future.

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Applications open for AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows

28 May 2026

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CDH announces inaugural Affiliate Labs

15 May 2026

Carrie Ruddick

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Graduate research transcends disciplines at annual joint colloquium

6 May 2026

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Upcoming events

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DH Leadership @ DHSI 2026

Jun 8–12
Grant Wythoff
Workshop
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Embed and Seek: Tracking Quotations Across Sources @ C²DH

Jun 15 10:30AM–11:30AM
Jeri Wieringa
Conference Talk
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Measuring Futurity; the Future of Modeling; and the Risks of Synthetic Data in SF Studies @ SFRA 2026

Jun 17–21
Grant Wythoff
Conference Talk
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Evolution of the Poetic Canon in the Princeton Prosody Archive (1532-1929); Turnover and Continuity

Jun 18–19
Wouter Haverals
Talk
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Prokofiev's Letters as Data: A DH Workshop for Music Studies @ Prokofiev in Paris 2026 Symposium

Jun 18 3:30PM–4:30PM
Natalia Ermolaev
Antonina Puchkovskaya
Talk
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Building Critical AI Futures: The Role of DH Research Infrastructures @ KCL The Digital Conference 2026

Jun 23 11:30AM–1:30PM
Natalia Ermolaev
Panel
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Latest stories

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Introducing MuSE: Linking Music-Theoretical Concepts Across Languages

13 April 2026

Carrie Ruddick

Research Partnership
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Revisiting the 2025 Vienna HTR Winter School for Medievalists

18 February 2026

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From Philadelphia to Luxembourg: RSE Team at Fall Conferences

18 February 2026

Mary Naydan

RSE
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Current projects

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The Ends of Prosody

Discovering patterns in poetry’s data with machine learning

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African_UD: Universal Dependencies Treebank for African Languages

Increasing the representation of African languages in NLP by creating quality datasets for eleven African languages

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Segmenting Paratextual Material in Arabic Scientific Manuscripts

Computational methods for classifying and analyzing visual aspects of the manuscript folio

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Citing Marx

Identifying Marx citations within Die Neue Zeit

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Exercises in Literary Style

Investigating the capacity of LLMs to discern and classify literary styles through a series of controlled experiments

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MuSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings)

Linking concepts in music-theoretical texts across languages

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The CDH is always looking for talented individuals to join our team.

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