Blog
Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
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.
Paper Journals, Digital Models: New Frontiers in Slavic DH
17 December 2020
Like scholars across all of academia, Slavic digital humanists have been forced to transition into a virtual space over the past few months. Perhaps appropriately, much of our work has been devoted to digitizing a slate of Russian periodicals.
Revisiting the CDH Project Charter
14 December 2020
CDH project management have evolved to meet new challenges, including a new research partnership chartered fully remotely and an experimental, genre-defying internal project.
Collections as Data Series Moves Community Online
10 December 2020
“Preserving Black Histories, Cultivating Black Futures” featured Jennifer Garcon (UPenn), along with Synatra Smith (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Amanda Henley (UNC-Chapel Hill), both of whom presented projects related to Black history and culture.
Spring Courses Combine Digital Methods and the Humanities
3 December 2020
Students registering for spring courses this week can choose from a wide variety of offerings exploring how digital and computational methods illuminate the humanities.
Registration Is Here: Browse Our Curated Course List!
25 November 2020
The list includes 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.