Blog

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

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Toward an Affordances Approach to DH Literacy

8 August 2022

CDH Postdoctoral Research Associate Kavita Kulkarni gave a paper on media literacy pedagogy at the recent Digital Humanities 2022 conference.

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Spring Event Recap: FLAME Project Conference

10 June 2022

Ilia Curto Pelle ’22 presents the main highlights and conclusions from the FLAME Project’s March conference, “Networks in Transition: Monetary Exchange from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.”

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What Makes Music “Wintery”?

20 April 2022

Megan Lavengood (George Mason University) joined the Musicology Colloquium to unpack how specific combinations of musical characteristics can be combined to cue associations of winter within video game music.

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AI off the Rails

15 April 2022

CDH Faculty Director Meredith Martin responds to Emily M. Bender’s presentation on the paper “AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark” at recent Rutgers-ANU Data Ontologies workshop.

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bitKlavier 3.0: An Interview with Professor Dan Trueman

17 March 2022

The bitKlavier is a digital musical instrument that uses a variety of software tools that respond to how the player plays. This means that every time the bitKlavier is played, the sound is different.

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Call for Letters of Intent: Research Software Engineers

21 January 2022

Princeton faculty, submit a letter of intent explaining how your team would benefit from increased expertise in research software engineering. The deadline is February 1.

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