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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
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
Call for Applications: Humanities Data Teaching Fellows
13 January 2021
Announcing the Humanities Data Teaching Fellowship, a new opportunity for Princeton Ph.D. students, supported by the Humanities Council Magic Grants for Innovation!
Princeton Prosody Archive's Year in Review
4 January 2021
In 2020, PPA worked to expand the collection of eighteenth-century materials in the Archive, responded to the COVID-19 crisis by creating internship and assistantship opportunities for students, and pushed key updates to the site.
Happy Holidays from the CDH!
24 December 2020
Wishing you a restful, joyful, and healthy holiday season and 2021!
PEMM Illuminates East African Manuscripts, Digitally
22 December 2020
Six months after the Center for Digital Humanities wrapped up our collaboration with the Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Project (PEMM)—or የፕሪንስተን የኢትዮጵያ ተዓምራተ ማርያም ፕሮጀክት, in Amharic—the PEMM team is hard at work building this critical resource.