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

Humanists and Technologists Join Forces to Advance Historical Text Recognition and Research

11 August 2025

Kirstin Ohrt, Carrie Ruddick

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Everything Project Management with Mary Naydan: A Workshop with the Academic Deans

8 August 2025

Mary Naydan

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Meet our new RSE, Hao Tan!

8 August 2025

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Meet the 2025 CDH Thesis Prize Honorees: Samantha Chen and Caroline Coen

16 July 2025

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Award-Winning Project Explores Optical Document Recognition (ODR) in Princeton Prosody Archive

16 July 2025

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Grad Fellows advance research with AI, other digital and computational tools

4 June 2025

Grad Fellows
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First-Year Students Explore AI Through the Lens of Speculative Fiction—Featuring Visits from Sci-Fi’s Literary Superstars

13 May 2025

Carrie Ruddick

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Fulbright scholar Paavo Van der Eecken reflects on time at CDH

26 March 2025

Paavo Van der Eecken

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Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

17 February 2025

Jamie Saxon, Happy Buzaaba

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Advancing Medieval Manuscript Transcription: Insights from the Vienna HTR Winter School

2 February 2025

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Read-Only: A New Phase for Derrida's Margins

13 January 2025

Jeri Wieringa, Rebecca Sutton Koeser

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Reimaging Princeton’s Historical African American Community Through Virtual Reality

23 November 2024

Mengge Cao, Michael W. Zhang

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