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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.
Introducing How We Work
23 February 2021
Next month, the CDH kicks off How We Work, a new series for graduate students on the theme of work. How do you pursue “traditional” careers in a changing educational landscape? Is there anything truly “alternative” about alt-ac? What do university employees do on a daily basis?Is a spreadsheet a database?
11 February 2021
What does it look like to use Google Sheets as a lightweight relational database? Read about an experiment with this on the Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project.
Join Us for Douglass Day, February 13!
7 February 2021
We are celebrating Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday with two events focusing on the relationship between education and activism. You are invited!
Shakespeare and Company Project Publishes Updated Datasets
1 February 2021
On Monday, the Shakespeare and Company Project team reached an important milestone: we published updated data exports.
CDH Becomes DARIAH’s First U.S. Cooperating Partner
31 January 2021
DARIAH, formed in 2014 as as European Research Infrastructure Consortium, facilitates arts and humanities research by coordinating working groups, assembling educational materials, collaborating with research organizations, and connecting scholars across Europe and beyond.
Maps Reveal Intersection of Race and Philly Parish Closures
28 January 2021
As a graduate fellow at the CDH, Madeline Gambino worked on GIS mapping to supplement the more familiar archival and ethnographic research methods of her field, religious studies.
How We Manage: Grad PMs Play Critical Role on Project Teams
25 January 2021
Wonder what’s new with one of our large-scale research partnerships? Ask the graduate student project manager.Rolling into 2021 at the CDH
14 January 2021
Before we move ahead, we're taking this moment to celebrate all that the CDH did accomplish in 2020, even as our staff and project management meetings moved to Zoom
