Blog
Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Fulbright scholar Paavo Van der Eecken reflects on time at CDH
26 March 2025
Paavo Van der Eecken is a PhD Fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders - FWO. He was a visiting graduate researcher at the CDH from August 2024 to January 2025. He shares his experience below.
Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
17 February 2025
Featured on the Princeton.edu Homepage: CDH Postdoc Happy Buzaaba has devised a new Freshman Seminar based on his research focused on introducing more African languages into LLMs.
Advancing Medieval Manuscript Transcription: Insights from the Vienna HTR Winter School
2 February 2025
CDH/MARBAS Postdoctoral Research Associate Christine Roughan shared her experience at the Winter School on Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) of Medieval Documents in Vienna, Austria.
Read-Only: A New Phase for Derrida's Margins
13 January 2025
Assistant Director Jeri Wieringa interviews Lead RSE Rebecca Koeser on the decision, and process, of transforming Derrida’s Margins into a “read-only” version.
Reimaging Princeton’s Historical African American Community Through Virtual Reality
23 November 2024
Being at Home in Princeton, co-sponsored by the CDH, is on view at the James S. Hall Memorial Gallery in Butler College until December 3, 2024.
AI and Ways of Seeing: Q&A with Lauren Tilton
12 November 2024
In a Q&A after her recent lecture for the CDH, Lauren Tilton remarks on the humanities' role in shaping AI, her work with the Distant Viewing Lab, and her concerns and hopes for AI.
CDH Faculty Director discusses the evolution of the humanities engagement with data at the DARIAH annual conference
8 October 2024
Meredith Martin, CDH Faculty Director, reflects on her keynote at the 2024 DARIAH Annual Event.
Senior Thesis Prize winner developed a Python program to explore “secretive sentence structure” in Gothic fiction
2 October 2024
CDH Senior Thesis Prize winner Teddy Leane ’24 (English) told us about his project.
Act I for Steven Feng ’27 🎭
6 August 2024
Steven explored Greek tragedy at the DH for Hellenic Studies Institute.
Project Management and the Rise of RSEs
6 August 2024
At this year’s DARIAH Annual Event, CDH Project Manager Mary Naydan and Assistant Director Jeri Wieringa discussed the importance of project charters in an era of RSEs.
Early-Career Hellenic Studies Scholars Learn Digital Humanities Tools at the Princeton Athens Center
21 July 2024
This summer, Princeton graduate student Megan Coates, Art & Archaeology, learned the latest technological tools to help advance her dissertation research in manuscript studies.
Senior Thesis Spotlight: Fernando Avilés-García used artificial intelligence to analyze Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’
13 July 2024
Fernando Avilés-García tackled 700-year-old literature with an innovative approach: building an artificially intelligent tool to analyze the language of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”
