Blog

Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.

"DH is a way of learning rather than a subject or a discipline": An interview with Jianing Zhao '20

28 May 2020

We caught up with Jianing Zhao '20 to hear more about her experiences in DH at Princeton.
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On the release of the Shakespeare and Company Project 1.0

22 May 2020

Reflections on the 1.0 release of the Shakespeare and Company Project.

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Call for Applications: Summer Fellows in Digital Humanities

20 May 2020

Summer Fellows in DH receive a $500 stipend to support small-scale projects (or components of larger projects) that engage DH approaches, tools, or methodologies.

CDH Senior Thesis Prize Honors Outstanding Undergraduate Work

19 May 2020

Even with in-person commencement activities canceled, the staff at the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is gearing up to celebrate Princeton’s undergraduate class of 2020.
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The Shakespeare and Company Project: Check It Out

14 May 2020

The Project’s newest features, available on May 15, facilitate engagement with the lending library’s holdings. Users can track how often and when a book circulated among lending library members, and see which books circulated the most.
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CDH Co-Hosts Day of DH Hangout

30 April 2020

When Digital Humanists around the world celebrated centerNet’s Day of DH 2020 on April 29, the Center for Digital Humanities did our part to spread the (virtual) DH enthusiasm.
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While our offices may be closed...

29 April 2020

The CDH is still open, working together while hunkered down at home. We can be contacted via email (dhi-info@princeton.edu) or our consult form. Reach out if you're looking for input on a project, thinking about the coming academic year, or just want to talk.
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April 29 is Day of DH!

28 April 2020

Join us at 2 pm EDT on April 29 for a Zoom hangout, co-hosted by CDH and our friends at Haverford, Rutgers, and Swarthmore, to recognize Day of DH, an international celebration of the work digital humanists do.
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Our New Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Perkins Fellow!

20 April 2020

We are very excited to announce that Sierra Eckert will be joining us next year as the new Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Perkins Fellow in the Council of the Humanities! Sierra joins us from the Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature, where she is finishing her dissertation, The Research Aesthetic: Information and the Form of the Victorian Novel. Stay tuned for a full announcement in the months to come. We're all looking forward to collaborating with her soon!

2018 Dissertation Prize Honoree Reflects on Research, Community

13 April 2020

Editor's Note:  The deadline for the 2019 CDH Dissertation Prize has been extended to May 4, 2020.
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Meet our new Research Software Developer, Kevin McElwee

13 April 2020

Hello there! My name is Kevin, and I'll be working for the CDH and Princeton University Libraries as a research software developer.

Building Online Archives in African American History—Together

2 April 2020

From left, Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow Jim Casey and CDH University Administrative Fellows Elena M'Bouroukounda and Julia Grummitt pose with a birthday cake during Princeton's Douglass Day event. Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass did not know his birthday, so he chose February 14 to celebrate.  
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