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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Project Managers and Designers - Meet up at DH 2017!
3 August 2017
Do you design and manage digital projects?Congratulations to Valedictorian Jin Yun Chow '17 and Salutatorian Grant Storey '17
7 June 2017
Congrats are in order for two stellar digital humanists: Jin Yun Chow, the valedictorian of Princeton University’s Class of 2017 and comparative literature concentrator, also worked at the Center for Digital Humanities, on both our Mapping Expatriate Paris and Derrida's Margins projects. She will delivered the valedictory address at the University’s Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, June 6. After graduation, Chow will pursue a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Stanford University, where she plans to study digital humanities and European-Chinese literary relations. Read more here!Announcing the CDH's 2017-2018 Sponsored Projects
5 April 2017
The CDH is delighted to announce our project slate for 2017-18! Our team has more than doubled since this time last year and with new programmers, developers, designers, we are enormously excited about the additional support we are able to offer our returning projects. Our four sponsored projects are all returning from previous grant years and we look forward to seeing them through to completion. In addition, we welcome our individual project grants from graduate students and postdocs in Civil Engineering, English, History, and Near Eastern Studies who will also meet together as a cohort dedicated to database design. You can read more about each project in more detail via our “Research” page.Derrida's Margins: Creating new insights
1 March 2017
An exciting and creative phase of development on Derrida’s Margins: wireframing the different portions of its future home on the Internet.
Spring course descriptions
19 February 2017
During Add-Drop period, take a look at the undergraduate course offerings related to digital humanities. Some of these courses offer the opportunity to develop technical skill sets applicable to digital humanities research in computer science and linguistics, while others probe into the media-dominated era we live in that allowed for the rise of digital humanities as a discipline. All of the following courses are eligible as electives for the digital track of the Humanities certificate program (https://humstudies.princeton.edu/certificate/#plan).Open for postdoc applications
13 February 2017
Postdoctoral Fellowships Every two years the Center for Digital Humanities seeks a two-year postdoctoral research associate. The successful candidate will collaborate with current Center staff, Princeton faculty, library staff, and graduate students while working on their own project, to be completed within the term of the fellowship. We seek innovative scholars who will bring theoretical, methodological, and technical expertise and research questions to the Center. Scholars in all disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will be required to teach one introduction to digital humanities course each year, subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, and will carry the title of lecturer when teaching.Course offerings in Spring 2017
20 January 2017
Digitally inflected courses on offer for Spring 2017Seed Grant proposals deadline extended to Monday, November 7
12 October 2016
Once per semester, the Center for Digital Humanities invites proposals from members of the Princeton faculty, Princeton post-doctoral fellows, and Princeton graduate students for Seed Grants to support individual or collaborative research projects.After lives; or, the true history of Samuel Johnson in a digital archive
1 May 2016
When the Princeton Prosody Archive received its original data from the HathiTrust Digital Library, this data included over three hundred entries attributed to Samuel Johnson. Such a high volume of entries (not to mention the peculiar breadth and range of topics covered in Johnson’s writing), posed a peculiar problem: How to organize these texts in a manner that acknowledges Johnson’s contribution to prosody, but which is also navigable, representative, and curated?One hundred million million poems
1 April 2016
The last time I wrote, I had just begun to learn how to program in Python, creating a simple programmed version of Raymond Queneau’s Cent mille milliards de poèmes for my Annex 3. This program, along with my Annexes 2 (S+7) and 4 (Queneau’s Un conte à votre façon) would be the most important part of my project, as the Oulipo had made its own digital versions of these texts at several key moments in its history. However, the Cent mille milliards de poèmes program was relatively simple compared to the programming skills I needed for the other projects, so I spent the month of January going through a more difficult introduction to Python.Reconstructing Dunkirk's fortifications, and multiple networks of communication
15 March 2016
Digital humanities is a remarkable method of identifying historical connections hidden in traditional, analogue historical analysis. As I wrote in November 2015, "Historians soon learn that not all that is present is easily visible." Even relatively small networks, such as the Dunkirk urban intelligence network, profit immensely from digital humanities tools such as Cytoscape, Mindnode, and Palladio.