Blog

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

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!
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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.
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Happy Holidays from the CDH!

24 December 2020

Wishing you a restful, joyful, and healthy holiday season and 2021!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dating Problems? Ask the Princeton Geniza Project Team

18 November 2020

Dates and temporality are complicated. Historians intuitively handle them in complex ways, but articulating that complexity can be challenging.

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Learn More About Data, Design, and Tech at Wintersession!

16 November 2020

Registration is open for Wintersession offerings relevant to the work we do at CDH, including sessions on design, data visualization and databases, innovative research strategies, coding, and digital activism.
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Dissertation Prize Winner Sean Fraga Shares Advice, Experiences

12 November 2020

Fraga's work shows how historians can use DH to gain big-picture insights from archival materials.
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