Blog
Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
We’re Hiring a Humanities Computing Curriculum Specialist!
19 May 2021
The Humanities Computing Curriculum Committee (HC3) seeks to hire a scholar and educator to grow a pathbreaking curriculum development initiative to integrate humanistic methods with computer and data science.
Meredith Martin Wins Graduate Mentoring Award
17 May 2021
CDH Faculty Director Meredith Martin, associate professor of English, has been awarded the 2021 Graduate Mentoring Award from Princeton’s McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.
Working Groups Build Community Around DH Research
10 May 2021
Four CDH-affiliated groups represent a broad range of languages and geographies: the Slavic DH Working Group, the East Asian DH Working Group, the South Asia DH Working Group, and the Indigenous Studies DH Working Group.
Presenting the 2021–22 CDH Data Fellows
4 May 2021
CDH Data Fellows become affiliates of the CDH during the 12-month course of the program, attending an orientation session and participating in quarterly formal data reviews with CDH staff and selected campus partners.
Meet the Inaugural Cohort of Humanities Data Teaching Fellows
3 May 2021
Three Princeton PhD students—Akrish Adhikari (G3, French and Italian), Gyoonho Kong (G4, German), and Daniel Persia (G1, Spanish and Portuguese)—have been chosen as Humanities Data Teaching Fellows.
Join us Thursday for Day of DH!
23 April 2021
The annual event, a project of centerNet, invites DH experts and enthusiasts around the world to share how they work and what they're working on.
Rebecca Munson Appointed Assistant Director of the CDH
21 April 2021
Rebecca’s new role at the CDH both builds on her past work with Princeton graduate students and draws from her expertise in project management.
Event Recap: Ethical Stewardship of Indigenous Material Culture
13 April 2021
On March 26, 2021, the CDH Indigenous Studies Digital Humanities Working Group and Princeton University Library hosted Dr. Trevor James Bond, the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and the Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at Washington State University Libraries.
Registration Is Here: Browse Our Curated Course List!
9 April 2021
The following are Fall 2021 course offerings that deal with topics at the intersection of technology and culture, provide hands-on computational instruction, and/or give students the opportunity to consider the value of digital humanities methods.
“New Languages for NLP” Scholars Will Bring Global Perspectives to Text Analysis
26 March 2021
Announcing ten language teams selected to participate in The New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities series of workshops, held at CDH and funded by the NEH.
Mistakes to avoid when using Twitter data for the first time
19 March 2021
I just finished putting a lot of time into collecting, cleaning, and analyzing Fortune 100 tweets from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. After a few thousand tweets, I hit plenty of hurdles and corner cases. Below I’ve listed some mistakes that I’ve encountered while working with the Twitter API.
Douglass Day Events Explore Education and Advocacy
23 February 2021
CDH hosted two events on February 13 to recognize Douglass Day, an annual celebration of Black history in honor of Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday.