Blog
Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Recognizing Outstanding Undergraduate Work
2 July 2023
The nominees for the CDH Senior Thesis Prize explored fashion technology, fragmentary Old English Period objects, and more.
CDH Data Fellowship Reflections: Caitlin Karyadi
11 June 2023
“Through the process, I have experienced how a well-curated dataset forms an argument in and of itself,” writes 2022–23 Data Fellow Caitlin Karyadi (Art & Archaeology).
Literature as Data as a Trans-Disciplinary Experiment
3 May 2023
Team taught by Meredith Martin and Brian Kernighan, HUM 307 emerged as an idea for a truly cross-disciplinary course that sought to explore the intersection of humanities and computational methods.
Creating an Argument from Data
1 May 2023
Keeping the original curiosity as central to a data driven project ensures that the tool is working in service of the question, instead of the other way around.
Pursuing Digital Humanities After Graduation
11 March 2023
Former CDH Undergraduate Communications Assistant Matthew Choi Taitano ’20 is pursuing an M.A. in English and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at Northeastern University.
Curious About ChatGPT? Learn More With Us!
11 February 2023
Media coverage of ChatGPT presents an opportunity for all of us to commit to better understanding the methods and technologies that impact our daily lives.
Machine Learning & the Future of Philology: A Student Perspective
10 January 2023
Kurt Lemai ’25 participated in the recent symposium, presenting as part of a panel called “Reading an Unreadable Sermon: AI Text Recognition in the Early Colonial Period.”
Digital Media and Literature in Cuba
15 November 2022
CDH Dissertation Prize co-winner Lizabel Mónica *22 analyzed how writers used digital media in publishing their works, but also how digital media influenced authors and Cuban literature.
Networking Connections in Victorian Novels
6 November 2022
CDH Dissertation Prize co-winner Kristen Starkowski *21 used social network analysis to learn more about novels by Charles Dickens and Victorian penny serialists.
Honoring Exceptional Doctoral Work
1 November 2022
Lizabel Mónica *22 (Spanish and Portuguese) and Kristen Starkowski *21 (English) are the winners of the 2021 CDH Dissertation Prize.
DH at Princeton and Beyond: An Interview with Kent Cao *19
20 September 2022
Kent is a Princeton Ph.D. alum in Art and Archaeology who is now an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Duke Kunshan University and Duke University.
Outstanding Undergrads in Digital Humanities: Nobline Yoo ’23
17 August 2022
Nobline’s project, “Building a Tool for Chronicling America,” won the Independent Work Award at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning poster session.